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The human race is a resilient one. Comprising equal parts scepticism and optimism dependent on the day or situation we always manage to see ourselves through trying times despite the obstacles that lie ahead.

It's what has carried us through a modern pandemic and, despite all manner of losses, we have generally emerged more resilient than before, with lessons learned and a reframed sense of normality set to thrive once more.

One of those learnings is that human interaction is essential to our survival because it causes a spark that can't be replicated during a Teams call held over an intermittent internet connection.

Great ideas are often sparked by casual interactions or as a result of people gathering around a challenge or opportunity in person. This human energy, which can't be digitised, is the catalyst.

Historian and author Theodore Zeldin understood this in the last century, saying that "all invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met". It's in that meeting of ideas that we make progress as humanity.

Seeing people facing the challenges of working from home or struggling with isolation or loss has made us understand each other as human beings in far more profound ways not just as employees or clients.

If we can maintain that level of empathy as we come together again, it can only be better for all our relationships; and it will reflect in our work.

There was a flurry of creativity (as there always is in a moment of crisis or where there's a tension) when the pandemic struck. Then, as the days blurred into one and we wandered through the fog of uncertainty, a certain monotony crept in because we were denied new experiences and the creative spirit suffered.

In the creative industry, there was initially a lot of extremely relevant work that held up a mirror to society. But as we all experienced this 'Groundhog Day', all the work started to look the same because it reflected an experience that was so universally shared.

Whether it was for a car brand, bank or retailer, if you removed the branding, it would be difficult to determine which brand or sector it was for. That's why we need to shift to work that is resonant, rather than relevant, by returning to that human insight around empathy. And to do that, we need to come together again.

M&C Saatchi Abel was one of the first agencies to get its teams back on our campuses full-time. It actually opened campuses as early as April 2020 under Level 4 of lockdown, because it understood that many members of the team needed the campus environment.

Whether home wasn't a workspace conducive to concentration and creativity, or they struggled with poor Internet connectivity and load shedding, the campuses became a refuge for many of its team members. It was important to re-introduce that human connection.

Building a relationship with and between employees is a core business strategy and the right thing to do. Those organisations that have invested the time, care and commitement needed to building a strong relationship with their teams will continue to succeed and reap the benefits of an engaged and supportive workforce.

If you, as an organisation, are experiencing resistance or hesitation, look back at the fundamental values and trust within your culture and organisation because you may have a bit of work to do.

The last two years have definitely shown the benefit of flexibility and need for agility. With teams now having experienced both remote and on-campus working, teams need to be given the choice to work from wherever they feel they can do their best work.

This is while also allowing for the other demands on their time. But it's all about a mutually beneficial relationship underpinned by shared values, respect and accountability. Establishing employee buy-in, instilling trust in the roles they each play and clearly and consistently communicating the underpinning policies are all key.

Embracing this sense of freedom and flexibility is born from the understanding that we're in the ideas business and ideas don't come from machines, but from people. People with empathy.

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The Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the U.S., has rejected racism accusations presented by its former president Alphonso David, The Washington Post reported.

In a court filing on Monday, HRC attorneys argued that Davids claims are mostly false including an allegation from a senior HRC executive that Davids support for racial justice was viewed as a risk; which could alienate white donors, specifically White gay men.

The advocacy group also denied Davids claims that he was paid less than his predecessor and an HRC chairman told him that he received a low paycheck due to his race, adding an accusation that the organization wasnt ready to be led by a Black person.

David was fired by HRC last September after an internal investigation found that David aided former New York Gov. Andrew CuomoAndrew CuomoHochul, Cuomo neck and neck in hypothetical governor primary: poll Jeff Zucker paid million bonus in CNN exit deal: report Human Rights Campaign rejects former president's accusations of racism MORE (D) during his sexual harassment scandal, according to the Post.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James' (D) report last August found that David helped Cuomo by seeking signatures for a letter that attempted to undermine Cuomo's accuser Lindsey Boylan.

The organization asked David to resign from his position at first, but he refused to do so, the Post reported.

Any employment actions taken by HRC with respect to Plaintiffs employment were based solely on legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons, and were in no way based on Plaintiffs race or any other protected characteristic, HRCs attorneys wrote in their court filing.

In a statement, David told the newspaper his former employer's response is yet another sign that HRCs leadership is out of touch with its organizational reality and woefully blind to the systemic inequities that continue to run rampant within it.

At least four former employees within the past month, including me, have highlighted issues of systemic racism within the organization, David told The Post. Rather than address the problem, HRC once again attempts to erase it but they cannot run away from evidence that shows their true colors and I look forward to unveiling it.

In an email to employees, HRC co-chairs restated its commitment to diversity, The Post noted.

It is extremely disappointing to have a former president of HRC attack our work, values and commitment to diversity, equity inclusion and belonging, of which he was a critical part for two years, the co-chairs wrote in their message.

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Key Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives have signed onto a bill that would bar the US government from funding international conservation groups that finance or support human rights violations.

The proposed law would require federal agencies to monitor international projects they support for abuses and, if any are discovered, to stop sending money. And every year, agencies would have to submit to Congress a report on human rights abuses that have occurred at US-funded projects.

The House Committee on Natural Resources has been looking into the issue in response to a 2019 BuzzFeed News investigation that found that the World Wide Fund for Nature, a beloved wildlife conservation charity and a longtime partner of the US government, had closely backed anti-poaching forces who tortured and killed people in national parks in Asia and Africa.

Villagers living near the parks had been whipped with belts, attacked with machetes, beaten unconscious with bamboo sticks, sexually assaulted, and shot, according to reports and documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. Rangers at WWF-supported parks committed several alleged unlawful killings.

In 2019, now-retired Republican member of Congress Rob Bishop of Utah, then the committees ranking member, proposed a law covering similar ground. Bishops bill stalled, but since then lawmakers in both parties have picked the issue back up.

This years bill has bipartisan support. Its sponsors are committee chair Rep. Ral M. Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, and ranking member Rep. Bruce Westerman, Republican of Arkansas. The rest of the committee will now debate the legislation, and if they approve it, it will be sent to the House floor for a full vote.

With this bill, we are sending a signal to the world that the United States demands the highest standards of respect for every human life; we will not tolerate human rights abuses in the name of conservation, Grijalva said. I hope that the renewed focus on human rights, accountability, and oversight in this bill will be a model for conservation programs both in the U.S. and abroad.

Westerman said the common sense legislation would increase government accountability. This bill is the culmination of bipartisan efforts, including an investigation and oversight hearing that exposed misuse of grant money, human rights violations, and a stunning lack of federal agency awareness.

The bill would introduce sweeping changes to how US agencies deal with human rights abuses at conservation projects. Conservation groups receiving government cash would have to provide human rights policies detailing what procedures they would follow if abuses occurred. They would also have to name anyone they partner with abroad, such as local police forces or park rangers who would then be vetted by the Fish and Wildlife Service and State Department.

The legislation would also increase the extent to which Indigenous peoples are protected in conservation projects that affect them. Donor recipients would have to show that they have a process for meaningful consultation with Indigenous people before their historic lands are used for conservation, and that they offer a grievance redress mechanism for Indigenous people to raise concerns.

When abuses are discovered, they would have to be reported to the federal government, and the group receiving taxpayer money would have 60 days to design a plan to resolve the issue. The US government would be able to halt funding for the project until the director of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Secretary of State confirm that those involved have taken effective steps to bring perpetrators to justice and prevent human rights violations.

Serious human rights abuses would also be referred to the Department of Interior inspector general, and the Fish and Wildlife Service would send to Congress each year a report summarizing investigations carried out under the act, including remedial actions taken.

John Knox, a former UN Special Rapporteur for human rights and the environment, called the bill a huge step forward in an area that really needs greater attention, and a potential model for other governments and international funders." After the WWF scandal broke, it became clear that many of the major sources of international conservation funding, including the United Nations and the United States, did not have effective standards in place to ensure that their funds wouldn't be used for human rights abuses, Knox said.

In a statement, WWF said it was in favor of the legislation. "Safeguarding the rights of communities is fundamental to the success of conservation. We support the goals of this bill to strengthen programs that conserve nature and wildlife by ensuring they also protect and promote the rights, wellbeing, and safety of local and Indigenous communities in the landscapes where the programs operate."

The charity conducted its own internal review into the allegations, and in 2020 expressed deep and unreserved sorrow for those who have suffered, saying that abuses by park rangers horrify us and go against all the values for which we stand.

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Grimess first record was a Dune-inspired concept album called Geidi Primes, a reference to the militaristic planet ruled in the recent movie by an enormous Stellan Skarsgrd. (She dubbed herself Grimes because MySpace allowed her to associate herself with three musical genres, and she liked the name grime, then a nascent British music scene.) Her father read Frank Herberts book to her when she was four. She loved it. At one Met gala, she cornered Sting, who starred in David Lynchs much-derided adaptation, and freaked him out with a heavy dose of Dune fangirling.

For years Grimes harbored a dream of directing her own adaptation of Dune, with the more problematic colonialist elements scrubbed out, but when she heard about Denis Villeneuves two-part blockbuster, she fangirled all over again and signed on to help with the rollout, originally scheduled for November 2020. (I was basically an influencer.) And then, she adds, she got canceled from Dune because of the Communist Manifesto thing. She was crestfallen, but she understood. There are things that are deeply not woke in the Dune universe, she says, so the studio had to be extra-cautious, and she was far from indispensable.

When she finally saw the movie, she realized to her astonishment that this story shed adored since she was far too young for it, that she knew almost by heart, that inspired her first albumthis story was now her story. Specifically Lady Jessicas story. This goes by fast onscreen, but Jessica (played by Rebecca Ferguson) is not a wife but a concubine. Grimes saw herself in Jessica, and she saw X in Jessicas son, Paul Atreides (Timothe Chalamet). Paul is more than a dukes son. Hes a chosen one, tasked with becoming a great leader. When I see X, she says, like, I just know X is going to have to go through all this really fucked-up shit that sort of mirrors Paul-type stuff. Watching it wrecked her. I was just crying my eyes out the whole movie.

She knows this might sound absurd. Grandiose. She wishes it felt that way to her too.

I feel like theres very few people in the world who could have similar sentiments about their son than Claire with X, Mac says when I relay this to him. I ask if its surreal to watch his sister live this life. Yes, he says, laughing. But Im also not really surprised? Because she somehow always gets into the most insane possible scenarios.

By the summer of 2019, Grimes was in the early days of her romance with Musk and getting canceled online for it, and she was also finishing Miss Anthropocene, her long (long) awaited follow-up to Art Angels, all while her longtime manager and closest daily confidant was dying of cancer. Her life, she says, has always been level-10 chaos. This was level 11. Shed been making everything by herself for a decade, and she was sick of it.

She needed to figure out a new way to be an artist, which meant figuring out a new way to make money being an artist. I hate touring, and I hate selling merch, she told her new manager, Daouda Leonard, during their first FaceTime call. He laughs at the memory. If you know anything about being a manager in the music industry. At this point most managers would have hung up. Instead he said, Cool, youre going to tour in the metaverse and youre gonna sell digital assets, digital goods. Okay. Problem solved.

They got to work creating an avatar of her body, dubbed WarNymph, and in February 2021 Grimes became among the first musicians to sell an NFT collection of digital artwork, some with accompanying music. Macs idea. She generated $6 million from that one dropmore than shes ever made from any of her albums. They engineered a deepfake of her voice that she plans to release with other IP inside metaverse experiences and gaming platforms like The Sandbox, a sort of open-source creative experiment. Look at fan fic, she says. So much inventive stuff is happening there if you know where to look. She has similar plans for an A.I. girl group shes designing named NPC, which is gamer speak for nonplayer character. She puts the A.I. girl group out into the world, you go make something with it.

Personally, I dont think manic pixie dream girl is an insult. I exactly identify with all of those terms. I understand its supposed to be a critique of certain things, but then I challenge that critique.

The NFT project was so lucrative that if it had happened two weeks earlier, Grimes says, she might not have signed her first major-label deal with Columbia Records. No shots at Columbia, she addstheyve been greatbut she only did it to pay for the ambitious videos she had in mind. The one for Shinigami Eyes, a futuristic dance-pop phantasmagoria, was among the first music videos filmed on an extended reality (xR) stage similar to what was used to make The Mandalorian.

Of course, signing with a major label was considered yet another betrayal by the Grimes purists, but where they see a sellout, she sees creative liberation. You sign with a labelany label, of any sizefor money, which you can either put into your pocket or plow back into the mission.

The foot traffic is heavier the next afternoon when I return to Grimess house, including little X. He arrives about 30 minutes after his mom and I have settled back into the anime nook, and as he charges through the door she leaps to her feet with a delighted yelp. He says a friendly hi to me and later makes a bid for her laptop so he can watch My Neighbor Totoro, Miyazakis classic with the giant Catbus.

In solidarity with all the new moms out there, Grimes is wearing the same outfit as yesterday. She hasnt touched her makeup. Respect. While she gets X on his way for a playdate, I take in the view of the Colorado River from the living room. I look down and see a neat pile of picture books, and at the bottom, Times Person of the Year issue with Xs father on the cover. The room is dominated by a massive red couch shaped like a giant Tootsie Roll, and it looks amazingly comfortable, but the kids have done a number on it, possibly both numbers, so Grimes sits cross-legged on the floor instead, and we discuss the Elephant of the Year in the room.

We live in this society right now where people expect everyone to behave right, and talk right, she begins. You have these manifestations of genius, but then you want them to behave normallybut the reason theyre like that is because theyre so disconnected from correct behavior. Humans are beautiful and toxic in equal supply, she says. Like, we fuck up. Were all gonna do bad things in our life. Were all gonna do stupid things. Shes talking about Musk, but once again she could be talking about herself. Theyre both such deeply original thinkers, says Liv Boeree, whom Grimes drafted to costar as her black swan in the video for a Book 1 track called 100% Tragedy. The lines blur with them about whether its even art versus engineering or science, because really were talking about creating something that does not exist.

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What was the internet created for? If you asked this question to a random person on the street, they might say something about the exchange of information, or the sharing of ideas.

This has more or less been true for the entire history of the internet. Its first users American researchers in the Department of Defense wanted a reliable way to share intelligence during the Cold War. Since then, this selective network of spies, soldiers and contracted academics has evolved into a tangled web of more than3.4 billion people.

Of course, these days people arent just using the internet to plan missile strikes or overthrow South American governments. Somehow, the world wide web has become something even more insidious.

You might think that expanding internet access to billions of people would diversify how people spend their time online. Instead, most interactions on the internet happen within just a handful of platforms like Facebook and TikTok.

Adding up the users from each of these companies,the message is clear: if you are on the internet, you are on social media. Almosthalf the people on Earthuse one of these platforms, and at this point, many of us wouldnt know how to live without them.

These days, social media is synonymous with the internet. But half of the entire world didnt get siloed onto a few websites by accident. These sites are gathering places for a reason: they knowinglyexploit human behaviorto drive engagement.

Even behind the scenes, corporations like Amazon Web Services havedominated the infrastructure for an internet of any kind. Without a doubt, online experiences have become monopolized by just a handful of company logos from the ground up.

What are we losing by inherently restricting the ways people can exist online?

Our limited channels for interacting with the internet push us to accept that our free time is being monetized. Content creators and communications experts are forced to emotionally invest in psychologically iffy platforms just to keep up with their jobs.

Our attention, opinions, identities, and entire social lives are inherently tied to cycles of dopamine and self-comparison. We are continuously polarized by increasingly inflammatory content, and most of our social movements have been hi-jacked and propelled exclusively by hot air from Twitter.

Why are we settling for an online lifestyle diversified by how many characters or seconds of video youre allowed to post? Human communication is the most nuanced thing in the universe, and were boiling down a chance to connect with every living person on earth to a bunch of rules accidentally made up by Mark Zuckerberg.

This will take some serious thinking outside-of-the-box, and a huge waste of time and money reversing the stifling patterns of monopolization already written into law. But we are still in the budding days of one of the weirdest, coolest things humanity has ever done, and it would be a pity to think well be stuck the way we are forever.

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KUCHING (March 11): The government needs to come up with more programmes or campaigns to create better public awareness against human trafficking, said Parti Bumi Kenyalang president Voon Lee Shan.

He added that without any campaigns, the public may not think human trafficking is a serious matter in the country.

Human trafficking is active in many parts of the world and Malaysia is not an exception where human trafficking could be active.

The United Nations is very concerned about human trafficking as human beings could be trafficked not only as slaves or forced labour, but also for prostitution and for human organs.

The United Nations has set July 30 every year as World Day Against Trafficking in Persons to tell the world the seriousness of human trafficking, he pointed out in a statement yesterday.

Voon referred to the two recent cases of missing children in the state which he said could be related to human trafficking because being young, children are easy prey for trafficking.

He said it was a great shock for him to learn that a four-year-old child, Eric Chang, had been reported missing on Mar 9 while under the care of a family caretaker.

That is not the first time that children have gone missing in Sarawak. The last one missing was a child, Nurardiana Damia Abdullah, six years old, in October, 2019, he said.

He thus opined that it is advisable that children of tender age should not be left in the care of maids alone, especially if the maids are foreigners, while parents bringing children in crowded places should not let their eyes off their children.

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Human Rights CouncilForty-ninth session28 February1 April 2022Agenda items 2 and 10Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-GeneralTechnical assistance and capacity-building

Summary

The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 46/29, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a comprehensive written report on technical assistance and capacity-building for South Sudan. The report, which covers the period from January to December 2021, is based on information received through the engagement of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with the Government of South Sudan and other national stakeholders, including civil society organizations, and on observations and information gathered and verified by the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.

I. Introduction

The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 46/29, requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in cooperation with the Government of South Sudan and relevant mechanisms of the African Union, to provide South Sudan with the required technical assistance and capacity-building to address human rights challenges in the post-conflict transition, and to present a comprehensive written report to the Council at its forty-ninth session. It also requested OHCHR to monitor and report on the situation of human rights in South Sudan and to make recommendations to prevent any deterioration in the situation with a view to improving it.

The present report, which covers the period from January to December 2021, presents the human rights situation in South Sudan and the main human rights challenges in the country, and outlines the technical assistance and capacity-building support provided by OHCHR to South Sudan. It also contains recommendations for the Government and other stakeholders aimed at strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights in the country.

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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for March 8th, 2022. In todays edition, weve got a few reviews for you to check out. Primordia, A Musical Story, and Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes are up for evaluation today. After that, weve got a new release to check out. Its not a super-exciting one, but that doesnt matter. We cover them all anyway. After that, we finish up with the usual lists of new and outgoing sales. Lets get to it!

Primordia is, somewhat unapologetically, a throwback to 1990s point-and-click adventure games. I want to say it leans more in the Lucasarts direction than anything else, but some parts of it feel very much like certain Sierra games. The setting is fascinating, presenting a post-human world where the machines we built continue to build themselves and revere their now-extinct creators as mythical gods of sorts. But things arent going well for the robots, either. Resources are drying up, things are breaking down, and many of them are just trying to survive day to day. The protagonist of this tale is one such robot, and hes just had his ships power core stolen by a mysterious robot.

Some of the puzzles in Primordia can be really hard to figure out logically, which is one of the bad ways it can feel old-school. Some people may not resonate with the setting or some elements of the story, and those are such a big factor in this genre that it always needs to be considered. Other than those things, Im hard-pressed to find too many things to complain about here. This Switch version handles the controls as you would expect. You can move the cursor around with the stick or use touch controls. Adventure game fans should enjoy it quite a bit, but be ready to get a little frustrated with some puzzles that feel borderline farcical in their design.

SwitchArcade Score: 4/5

Heres another one for the I wanted to like this a lot more than I did" pile. There are a few different components to this one, and some of them fare better than others. The music and overall presentation? Superb. Great stuff. I could listen to this soundtrack for hours, and the art is both stylish and beautiful. The story? Its up and down. When its going, its really interesting and has a lot of heart. But there are long stretches where almost nothing is happening, and theyre too frequent to ignore.

The biggest problem with A Musical Story comes in its gameplay mechanics, though. You play the tunes in sliced out sections, and you have to hit every note perfectly before the game will let you move on. And unless youre really good with audio cues, youre going to fail a lot. The worst thing is that once youve missed a note, you know you cant succeed but you still have to finish out the slice anyway. Its aggravating in the worst way. You never get that feeling of being one with the music that you get with better rhythm games. Great music, an uneven story, and unpleasant gameplay make for a very rocky road trip indeed.

SwitchArcade Score: 3/5

Much as I enjoy a standard game of pinball, its always nice to see some attempts to work silverball into other gaming concepts. Its even better when they actually work out well. And that is indeed the case with Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes. Its pinball, but also a roguelite. You work your way around maps, picking and choosing the points of interest you want to visit. Some of them will send you into a pinball battle against hordes of zombies. After clearing one of these action stages, the zombie horde on the map will spread, making it harder to move about without taking damage. Each stage culminates in a boss battle against a monster with special skills. Worry not, as youve got some skills of your own and youll accumulate more over the course of each game.

Sure, you can probably find a better pure game of pinball, and all the roguelite caveats apply here. The procedural generation can swing for or against you, and things can get a little repetitive after a while. But broadly speaking, this bit of pinball with a purpose offers up plenty of fun zombie smashing and loot gathering to keep you whacking away for hours on end. Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes has its tongue in its cheek and its hand on someone or somethings heart, and thats good enough for me.

SwitchArcade Score: 4/5

This is a fairly relaxed adventure game set in a remote village where the people are being terrorized by creatures from the surrounding forests. Normally a job for animal control, but these creatures are of a supernatural nature and thus you, a paranormal detective, have been called in to sort things out. The village is full of odd characters, and youll need to talk to all of them to figure out what they know and what they have seen. Some of them will be less than forthcoming unless you have something to offer them first. Be careful: if you head into the forest without properly preparing, youre liable to become another victim.

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Okay, no Mario games today. But there are some good ones in there. The Kingdom games are on sale, and so is the excellent Operencia: The Stolen Sun. Ratalaika has a bunch of its titles on sale for some of the lowest prices theyve seen yet. In the outbox, youve got a whole bunch of DOOM games. You should have most of those already, if not all of them. Provided you dont, theres your shopping list. Speaking of lists, you know what to do.

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Tank Battle Heroes ($1.99 from $3.99 until 3/28)InfiniteCorp Card Game ($3.99 from $7.99 until 3/28)Squareboy vs Bullies ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)Twin Robots Ultimate ($2.39 from $7.99 until 3/28)Super Destronaut DX ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)My Big Sister ($1.99 from $5.99 until 3/28)One More Dungeon ($2.39 from $799 until 3/28)Super Weekend Mode ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)Metagal ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)Vera Blanc: Full Moon ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/28)Vera Blanc: Ghost in the Castle ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/28)UltraGoodness 2 ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/28)Strike! Ten Pin Bowling ($7.49 from $9.99 until 3/28)Autumns Journey ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/28)Jet Set Knights ($3.99 from $9.99 until 3/28)

Freddy Spaghetti ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/28)SkyScrappers ($1.99 from $9.99 until 3/28)The Language of Love ($5.99 from $11.99 until 3/28)Zeroptian Invasion ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)Devious Dungeon ($2.39 from $7.99 until 3/28)Devious Dungeon 2 ($2.39 from $7.99 until 3/28)Devious Dungeon Collection ($5.19 from $12.99 until 3/28)Even the Ocean ($7.49 from $14.99 until 3/28)Roommates ($7.99 from $19.99 until 3/28)Loot Hero DX ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/28)Jet Kave Adventure ($1.99 from $19.99 until 3/28)Paw Paw Paw ($4.99 from $9.99 until 3/28)Balancelot ($3.99 from $7.99 until 3/28)More Dark ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/28)Golf Zero ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)

InkSplosion ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)How to Take Off Your Mask ($7.49 from $14.99 until 3/28)Reflection of Mine ($3.19 from $7.99 until 3/28)Ord ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/28)Micetopia ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/28)Two Parsecs From Earth ($3.19 from $7.99 until 3/28)A Hero and a Garden ($2.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)Bird Game + ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)Iron Snout ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)Jack N Jill DX ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)Daggerhood ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/28)Binaries ($2.07 from $12.99 until 3/28)Subsurface Circular ($2.99 from $5.99 until 3/28)Quarantine Circular ($2.99 from $5.99 until 3/28)

Sales Ending Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 9th

Back to Bed ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/9)Batu Ta Batu ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/9)BFF or Die ($2.99 from $7.99 until 3/9)Castle of Pixel Skulls ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/9)Clumsy Rush ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/9)Crashbots ($6.69 from $9.99 until 3/9)Cyber Protocol ($1.99 from $9.99 until 3/9)Deep Ones ($3.34 from $4.99 until 3/9)Die for Valhalla! ($2.39 from $11.99 until 3/9)Dimension Drive ($1.99 from $12.99 until 3/9)DOOM 1993 ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/9)DOOM 2016 ($9.99 from $39.99 until 3/9)DOOM 3 ($2.49 from $9.99 until 3/9)DOOM 64 ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/9)DOOM Eternal ($19.79 from $59.99 until 3/9)

DOOM Eternal Deluxe ($29.69 from $89.99 until 3/9)DOOM II Classic ($2.49 from $4.99 until 3/9)DOOM Slayers Collection ($17.49 from $49.99 until 3/9)Energy Balance ($2.00 from $2.99 until 3/9)Energy Cycle ($2.00 from $2.99 until 3/9)Energy Invasion ($2.00 from $2.99 until 3/9)Grass Cutter: Mutated Lawns ($4.68 from $6.99 until 3/9)Immortal Planet ($5.99 from $14.99 until 3/9)Inferno 2 ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/9)Kirakira Stars Idol Memories ($19.60 from $28.00 until 3/9)Lost Wing ($1.99 from $7.99 until 3/9)Luckslinger ($3.49 from $9.99 until 3/9)Lumini ($1.99 from $9.99 until 3/9)Metropolis: Lux Obscura ($5.35 from $7.99 until 3/9)Nirvana Pilot Yume ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/9)

OMG Police Car Chase TV ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/9)One Eyed Kutkh ($3.34 from $4.99 until 3/9)OVIVO ($4.68 from $6.99 until 3/9)Planet RIX-13 ($3.34 from $4.99 until 3/9)Rainswept ($1.99 from $9.99 until 3/9)Runbow ($2.99 from $14.99 until 3/9)Sigi ($3.34 from $4.99 until 3/9)SkyTime ($2.00 from $2.99 until 3/9)Stab Stab Stab! ($3.99 from $9.99 until 3/9)State of Anarchy MoM ($5.35 from $7.99 until 3/9)Steamburg ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/9)Tetsumo Party ($1.99 from $4.99 until 3/9)The Bug Butcher ($1.99 from $7.99 until 3/9)Thea: The Awakening ($7.19 from $17.99 until 3/9)Urban Flow Extended ($1.99 from $16.99 until 3/9)Vasilis ($3.34 from $4.99 until 3/9)Wingspan ($13.39 from $19.99 until 3/9)

Thats all for today, friends. Well be back tomorrow with a couple more new releases, more sales, and potentially some news. Ive had a bit of a bad day today. I guess that means that statistically speaking tomorrow should be better. I hope so, anyway. May you all have a better Tuesday than I did, and as always, thanks for reading!

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has reiterated serious concern about the serious human rights violations and growing restrictions imposed by Algerian authorities on fundamental freedoms.

In Algeria, I am concerned about the growing restrictions on fundamental freedoms, including the increasing number of arrests and detentions of human rights defenders, members of civil society and political opponents, said Ms. Bachelet in her latest annual report on the situation of Human rights in the world.

In this report submitted Tuesday to the 49th session of the Human Rights Council, Ms. Bachelet has called on the Algerian government to change course and take all necessary steps to end its repression and guarantee its peoples rights to freedom of speech, association and peaceful assembly.

The systematic violations of human rights and the repression of Hirak activists in Algeria had been denounced by several regional and international organizations, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN special rapporteurs.

For its part, the European Parliament had adopted, in less than a year, two successive resolutions on the alarming human rights situation in Algeria, while several MEPs have condemned the continuing oppression, prosecution and harassment of the Hirak militants by the Algerian military regime.

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Russia will cease firing from 10am Moscow time (2am EST) to allow civilians to leave from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol, according to a Tass report

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OTTAWA Russian forces will stop firing from 10 a.m. Moscow time (0700 GMT, 2 AM EST) on Wednesday and are ready to provide humanitarian corridors so people can leave Kyiv and four other cities, Tass news agency cited a senior Russian official as saying on Tuesday.

Information about corridors from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol will be sent to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defence Control Centre.

Vereshchuk said earlier on Tuesday that authorities had once again not been able to evacuate civilians from Mariupol.

Given the deteriorating humanitarian situation and in order to ensure the safety of civilians and foreign citizens, Russia will observe a regime of silence from 10 am Moscow time on March 9 and is ready to provide humanitarian corridors, Tass cited Mizintsev as saying.

It was unclear if the proposed routes would pass through Russia or Belarus.

Mizintsev earlier said Ukrainian authorities had endorsed only one civilian evacuation route from areas affected by fighting out of 10 that were proposed, including five towards territory controlled by Kyiv.

The United Nations human rights office said it had verified 1,335 civilian casualties in Ukraine, including 474 killed and 861 injured, since the invasion began on Feb. 24. The real toll is likely higher, it said.

Moscow denies targeting civilians.

In Mariupol, hundreds of thousands of people have been sheltering under bombardment for more than a week. Many tried to leave on Tuesday along a safe corridor but Ukraines foreign ministry said Russian forces violated a ceasefire and shelled it.

International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman Ewan Watson said people in Mariupol were fast running out of electricity, heat, food, and drinking water.

The situation in Mariupol is apocalyptic, he said.

The number of refugees created by the biggest assault on a European country since the Second World War has now surpassed 2 million.

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