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Dumpling, Dim Sum…

Austin Tang — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:29:32 +0000

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GoodNewsLetter: Beijing, China 40th Anniversary of MBC, 27th of Good News Broadcast, A invitation to the UN and HEALTH Good News

Austin Tang — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:29:44 +0000

Some may know that our multicultural marketing and broadcasting company, Milestone Broadcast Corporation was established in 1985, with the inspiration of working with the Chinese and Asian community. MBC, celebrates our 40 Anniversary as a full service multicultural marketing and broadcasting company, with to many corporations, i.e., Citibank, Delta Airlines, IBM, Sprint, US Postal, Western Union…who have trusted us to assist them to make friends and do business with over 100 multicultural communities.

NOTE: You can travel to China with no VISA for 240 hours…also my hotel is $40 and Peking Duck Dinner for 2 is $20 on Westside of Beijing…

Also, on July 4th will be the 27th Anniversary of our www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast with 7,000 + Shows and www.goodnewsplanet.tv

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Here is an invitation to the UN, on June 9th, my birthday, hehe…for the International Day of for a Dialogue if it is still open.

Permanent Mission of China:

Celebration of the

International Day for

Dialogue among Civilizations

Here are some Health Stories

LEUKEMIA IS A TYPE OF

CANCER THAT AFFECTS THE

BLOOD OR BONE MARROW.

Rare Liver Disease –

biliary cholangitis

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He’s Got a Plan for Cities That Flood: Stop Fighting the Water

Austin Tang — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:29:01 +0000

A landscape architect in China has a surprising strategy to help manage surges of water from storms supercharged by climate change.

Kongjian Yu at his office in Beijing. “We’ve been using the conventional drainage infrastructure for 200 years and we haven’t solved the flooding problem,” he said.Credit…Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press

By Richard Schiffman
Published March 28, 2024
Updated April 3, 2024

Cities around the world face a daunting challenge in the era of climate change: Supercharged rainstorms are turning streets into rivers, flooding subway systems and inundating residential neighborhoods, often with deadly consequences.

Kongjian Yu, a landscape architect and professor at Peking University, is developing what might seem like a counterintuitive response: Let the water in.

“You cannot fight water,” he said. “You have to adapt to it.”

Instead of putting in more drainage pipes, building flood walls and channeling rivers between concrete embankments, which is the usual approach to managing water, Mr. Yu wants to dissipate the destructive force of floodwaters by slowing them and giving them room to spread out.

Mr. Yu calls the concept “sponge city” and says it’s like “doing tai chi with water,” a reference to the Chinese martial art in which an opponent’s energy and moves are redirected, not resisted.

“It’s a whole philosophy, a new way of dealing with water,” he said.

Through his Beijing-based company, Turenscape, one of the world’s largest landscape architecture firms, Mr. Yu has overseen the development of hundreds of landscaped urban water parks in China where runoff from flash floods is diverted to soak into the ground or be absorbed into constructed wetlands.

Mr. Yu said growing up in a village in Zhejiang Province toward the end of the Cultural Revolution showed him how earlier generations in rural China had “made friends with water.” Farmers in his region built terraces, berms and ponds to direct and to store excess water during the rainy season.

That stood in sharp contrast to the urban landscapes in modern China. Traditionally, cities in China would set aside areas capable of absorbing floodwaters. But such nature-friendly urban design largely ended with the Industrial Revolution, Mr. Yu said. More recently, millions of acres have been paved over to build cities, some of them rising up virtually overnight.

Shanghai Houtan Park in 2006.Credit…Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

The same area in 2018.Credit…Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

“We’ve been using the conventional drainage infrastructure for 200 years and we haven’t solved the flooding problem,” he said, noting that much of China has a monsoon climate subject to extremely heavy bursts of rain that pose an increasing hazard as climate change advances. That’s because warm air can hold more moisture, resulting in heavier rainstorms.

Currently, 65 percent of urban areas in China experience some degree of flooding each year, according to Mr. Yu. The country is currently the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases. The United States is the largest historical emitter .

“The concrete drainage systems that came here from the West just can’t handle it,” Mr. Yu said. “We need a new solution.”

The sponge city program was formally inaugurated by President Xi Jinping in 2015 with pilot projects in 16 Chinese cities and has since expanded to more than 640 sites in 250 municipalities around the country.

You can see the concept in Houtan Park, a mile-long strip of greenery along the Huangpu River in Shanghai that Mr. Yu designed on a former industrial site.

Terraces planted with bamboo and native forbs and grasses are bisected by wooden walkways that zigzag between ponds and constructed wetlands. The wetlands filter water, slow the river’s flow and provide habitat for waterfowl and spawning fish.

The goal, at least on paper, is that by 2030, 70 percent of the rain that falls on China’s sponge cities during extreme weather events should be absorbed locally rather than accumulate in the streets.

Whether enough land can be converted is a key question.

Mr. Yu, who studied landscape architecture in China and at Harvard, with hand-drawn landscape designs. Credit…Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press

Edmund Penning-Rowsell, a research associate at the University of Oxford who focuses on water security, said the scale of the sponge city projects would have to be huge to cope with flooding on their own. “Take New York City,” he said. “How many Central Parks would you need to absorb this kind of problem? You’d probably need half of Manhattan.”

Zhengzhou, in northeastern China on the banks of the Yellow River, was an enthusiastic early adopter of the sponge city concept, spending hundreds of millions of dollars building related projects from 2016 to 2021. But torrential rains inundated much of the city in July 2021, creating scenes of destruction and killing hundreds, including at least 14 in a subway tunnel.

Why were the floods so disastrous in Zhengzhou? Mr. Yu said some of the money earmarked for sponge projects was diverted to other programs and that the land set aside for them was insufficient. If permeable surfaces or green spaces make up 20 to 40 percent of a city’s area, he said, “you can virtually solve the problem of urban inundation.”

Niall Kirkwood, a professor of landscape architecture at Harvard who has known Mr. Yu for years, acknowledged that it can be difficult, and sometimes impossible, to convert land in city centers that have already been densely built. Still, he said, Mr. Yu’s impact as a innovator has been incalculable.

“He’s created a clear and elegant idea of enhancing nature, of partnership with nature that everyone, the man on the street, the mayor of a city, an engineer, even a child, can understand,” Professor Kirkwood said.

Where large tracts of land are not available, sponge city projects are replacing concrete and asphalt with permeable pavement, installing green roofs and creating trenches called bioswales that channel storm-water runoff and use vegetation to filter out debris and pollution.

The sponge city concept is not unique to China. One of Mr. Yu’s projects abroad is the Benjakitti Forest Park, a maze of ponds, trees and miniature islands in Bangkok that was opened to the public in 2022 and occupies more than hundred acres on the site of a former tobacco factory.

Separately, in 2007 the Dutch government began a program called Room for the River that consists of more than 30 projects around four rivers, including the Rhine. The idea is to restore natural floodplains in key areas around sites that need protection. The Danish capital, Copenhagen, is using “floodable parks” that turn into temporary ponds during heavy rains. Philadelphia and Malmo, Sweden, also have projects.

The site of Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok in 2020.Credit…Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

The park, which was rehabilitated by Mr. Yu’s firm, in 2022.Credit…Lauren DeCicca for The New York Times

In addition to flood control, these projects have the advantage of being an inexpensive way to recharge local aquifers and a low-tech adaptation to help overheated city neighborhoods, because evaporating water has a cooling effect.

John Beardsley, the curator of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, which was awarded to Mr. Yu last year, echoed Professor Kirkwood, saying Mr. Yu’s impact on policy in China, a country that has been more likely to imprison environmental activists than take their messages to heart, has been astonishing.

Mr. Beardsley attributes this to Mr. Yu’s adroit political skills and infectious enthusiasm, as well as the Chinese government’s powerful incentive to appear to be addressing the problem of urban flooding, which has grown alarmingly in recent years.

“Kongjian has managed to be very critical of the government’s environmental policies while still maintaining his practice and his academic appointments,” he said. “He’s both brave and deft in this regard, threading a very narrow needle.”

“Sponge cities isn’t a total solution, but it makes a significant impact,” Mr. Beardsley said. “I mean, we need to start doing something.”

Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

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It marks the first event in the Eastern United States to integrate Chinese culinary culture into the celebration of the Spring Festival.

Austin Tang — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:52:54 +0000

Through savoring Chinese delicacies, we aim to experience the richness of Chinese culture. This time, we will delve into introducing the distinctive local cuisine of Hubei, highlighting the uniqueness of Jingchu culinary traditions.

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After seeing the secretly photographed Chinese children 39 years ago, I understand why 1 in 5 children today is prone to depression.

Austin Tang — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:17:00 +0000

Appreciation of famous calligraphy and painting artists Beijing Muzi Art Studio

Remember what I said before
Japanese photographer Akiyama Ryoji?

He came to China and gave Chinese children in the 1980s

I took a photo album “Hello Little Friend”.

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At that time Mr. Ryoji Akiyama

These photography works about Chinese children,

It brings back many people’s childhood memories.

Even after watching it many times, I still never get tired of it.

In 2020, Mr. Akiyama reorganized the remaining

Nearly 8,000 negatives, a selection of which have never been released to the public

122 photos, then published by Qingchitang as

“Dear Old Days” sequel “It’s Like Yesterday”.

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“The scene is like yesterday”

at the same time,

He also released his third photography collection “Past Memories”.

“The Past Becomes Memories” does not deliberately express the children’s

Joyful and innocent posture,

But to those around the child

Fill in the daily status of people and things,

The image style tends to be bland.

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“The Past Becomes Memories”

Today, I will experience with you the beauty of the era that was unique to that year.

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看到39年前偷拍的中国孩子，才明白为什么如今每5个孩子就有1个抑郁倾向

书画名家鉴赏北京木子艺术工作室

还记得此前说过的

日本摄影师秋山亮二吗？

他来到中国，给80年代的中国儿童

拍了一本摄影集《你好小朋友》。

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当时秋山亮二先生

拍摄的这些有关中国儿童的摄影作品，

勾起很多人童年的回忆，

即使看过很多次，也依然百看不厌。

2020年，秋山先生重新整理余下

近8000张底片，选编未曾公开面世的

122张照片，再由青艸堂出版为

「Dear Old Days」续篇《光景宛如昨》。

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《光景宛如昨》

与此同时，

还出了第三部摄影集《往事成追憶》，

《往事成追憶》没有着意表现孩子们的

欢乐天真之姿，

而是对围绕在孩子身边的

人事物进行日常状态补白，

影像风格趋于平淡。

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《往事成追憶》

今天和各位一起感受独属于当年的时代美感。

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A celebration – The story is inspired by Ms Ma Xiaoqiu…

Austin Tang — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:44:00 +0000

The story is inspired by Ms Ma Xiaoqiu- a then 28 year old Little Autumn and her experience in a Beijing blue jazz bar in summer 1997 when Hong Kong returns to china. In the midst of euphoria and confusion, Little Xiaoqiu found among her singing friends her life force and guidances: Book of virtue and the power of Music. It helps her to become who she is today.

Dr Ma Xiaoqiu, a self made billionaire wearing three titles of three outstanding Hong Kong listed companies, is first and foremost a humanitarian and a dreamer. She believes that people are equal and that the future belongs to a collective world, where China and the United States and all countries co-exist in peace, with respect to each other’s cultures and identities. MXQ Lifewater product- “better cells better health” is what she had in mind, a plant based treatment to enhance immunity through modern technology, and she found it in the NutraNaNoSphere technology that sends the nutrients directly to blood cells; while family films and family values are what she pursues and holds above everything else. Without a family, what do we have? If world pandemic has taught us anything, that is we must care for one another. But who will tell these stories? Who will support those acts? This is one of the reasons why Dr. Ma Xiaoqiu insists on investing in American technology and American films, especially the writers, directors and the talented youths who have dreams but without means to fulfill these dreams. China’s reform and opening up in the past four decades have provided Ms Ma enough materials to share with the world. Both as a witness and participant, Ms Ma knew how the Chinese people adhere to their dream of living a decent life to swallow pains and sacrifices. It’s her wish that through heartwarming stories and a woman, a mother’s sensitivity, Ms Ma invites the world into the heart of China and see and feel…

We choose Dirt Merchant Film Production is precisely for the above reasons. Dirt Merchant shares the same creative concept and the founder Henning Morales is consistent with our belief that people do get second chance. Who doesn’t go astray once or twice? Talent alone is not enough, Ms Ma doesn’t wish to see these talented youths will have to put their dreams on hold for 40 years, like her!

We hope that through the inaugural collaboration of DYF Entertainment and Dirt Merchants, our first co-production – X Tao will find a way to China and to our further co-productions to come, movies, more sophisticated and feature length. And to find the road to the unknown – XTao aided by the power of music and dream for a better life and a better world.

Lastly, to Ms Ma, music connects the world. In those years of working 14-16 hours a day and being displaced from ones’ homes through massive urbanization, what gave Ms Ma and her generation hope and solace was none other than the music that soothes the soul and caress the wounds. Blues, Jazz are among them. In the midst of hard work and the dream to get rid of poverty, Ms Ma and her friends found their own songs. They put them on stage when that moment comes, 25 years overdue…

Although only 45 minutes in length, Ma Xiaoqiu’s story has “Marvel moment”, heroines who don’t give up in front of adversity. In ordinary mundane life is a strife for an extraordinary moment that defines who we are.

XTao- the road to the future is not completely unknown!

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The Race for 5G Supremacy: Why China Is Surging, Where Millennials Struggle & How America Can Prevail By Paul Schulte

Austin Tang — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 18:57:19 +0000

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“To get a clear picture of today’s winner in the tech space, this book is a must-read. It succinctly clarifies the differences in the current state of affairs in technology, social affairs and economic conditions between China and the US. It brings great case studies that will spark much-needed conversation.”

—Barbara Thole, Hong Kong, Founder, The Executive Forum “This book crackles with the familiar electricity of unspoken truths about China and its relationship with the US. Its many keen observations and insights surge forward at an irrepressible pace, as if mirroring the rapid change it is describing. It is a prophetic window into the future and a sound handbook for what to do when we get there.”

—Hu Maomao, Beijing, Partner, Eigen Capital
China is surging in the tech race — and will continue to outperform the United States. The rising power has done exceptionally in Super Apps, bullet trains, 5G, electric vehicles, digital currency, smart cities, blockchain applications, and quantum communications in space, among others. Its payment platforms are increasingly adopted along the entire Silk Road. The genesis of this book was to discover an “Apollo Program” for the US to catch up in these areas, but we discovered a much deeper need for a social/mental health Apollo Program for millennials who are bogged down by a host of under-appreciated and intertwined issues which cause anxiety and alienation and lead to massive losses in workplace productivity. This book proposes two Apollo programs — one for tech and one for millennials — by a millennial. Strategies for cracking the highly competitive Chinese Super App e-commerce market are also revealed.

“Paul looks at how technology is shaping our world through two defining lenses. The first is the generational shift in the adoption of technology and the second is the geo-political machinations between China and the US. How this plays out will define the world we live in!”
—Rob Jesudason, Hong Kong, CIO, Serendipity Capital (former President of Block.one)

“No person can tie the sociological, political, financial and technical issues at hand better than Paul. He once again tells of revolutionary and evolutionary changes that can only be ignored at one’s peril. If you don’t think that Paul is accurate in his assessments, then reread this book 18 months from now.”
—Frank Wang, Hong Kong, Former Co-CEO of OCBC Wing Hang Bank

“This book offers insight into today’s most important issue: the tech race, and why the West is losing. Schulte’s unique position at the intersection of tech, mental health, and where East meets West gives him an unparalleled understanding of why the West is losing the tech race, and what to do about it. As a Western millennial living in China, I witness the accuracy of Paul’s thesis every day. My only hope is that all Western business and political leaders read this before it’s too late.”
—Corentin Trebaol, Paris, CEO, Aconia Group

“Amazon is changing not only our buying lives but, also, our managing models. Brian Dumaine takes us inside the enterprise to see exactly how Jeff Bezos and his legions are doing it, sourcing anything in sight by overnight or less. A game-changer, the company has become one of America’s most omnivorous and disruptive start-ups ever. Buy Bezonomics today.”
—Michael Useem, Professor and Director of the Wharton Leadership Center, University of Pennsylvania

“Perhaps the most valuable aspect of Schulte and Groves’ research is not just the emphasis they place on powerful novel technologies, but the way in which this technology is placed in conversation with larger cultural and policy challenges that stifle US progress in the international community. Millennials have experienced America in the midst of one of her greatest failures, and the need to remedy and rebuild this divisive generational rift is paramount for the success of her future.”
—Jason Kang, Cambridge, Mass, Fellow, Narang Labs, Harvard University

“Few people can bridge the east and the west, the millennials and the older generations better than Paul Schulte. Well-written, brilliant and balanced, this book offers a timely insight into the frontiers of technology and the two leading countries: US and China in their quest for global leadership in the age of new technologies.”
—Ben Shenglin, Hangzhou, Professor & Dean, International Business School & Academy of Internet Finance, Zhejiang University

The Race for 5G Supremacy: Why China Is Surging, Where Millennials Struggle, & How America Can Prevail
By Paul Schulte
Hardcover : 260 pages
ISBN-10 : 9811218706
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.63 x 9 inches
ISBN-13 : 978-9811218705
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Co (June 15, 2020)

Paul Schulte first went to China as an equity analyst with Credit Suisse in 1992. He has analyzed seven five-year plans and has conducted research on Chinese equities for over 25 years having worked with Barings, Lehman, Nomura and China Construction Bank Intl. in Hong Kong. He has also been teaching millennial graduate students on five continents since 1999. He has written three books on China’s technological rise and has taught in China at Tsinghua, Fudan and Zhejiang universities. He also worked at the White House National Security Council, the House of Representatives, and the International Trade Commission. He was also an advisor to the Indonesian Minister of Finance in the 1980s.

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Giorgia Fumanti was born in the medieval village of Fivizzano in Tuscany, she shares her thought on the International Day of Conscience and performs

Austin Tang — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 20:57:24 +0000

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raised in the nearby small city of Aulla at the foot of the 13th century castle (Fortezza della Brunella) and in Monterosso al Mare, a small town in one of Italy’s most beautiful regions, the famed Cinque Terre. Giorgia studied voice at the highly esteemed Music Conservatory of Parma, Italy, (Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito) where her unique soprano voice and talent quickly came to the attention of the heads of Decca Music in the UK, Sony Music, Warner Music and EMI Music in New York with whom she signed her first international recording contract. Her first international release, “From My Heart”, with EMI reached the Billboard’s Top 20 Crossover Chart and peaked to No. 1 in Japan and South Africa. With successive albums that all achieved varied success in various parts of the world, including “Elysium” that also charted in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Classical Crossover Chart and her most recent album “Amour” which peaked to No. 1 in the sales charts in Canada, Giorgia has established herself as one of the top female Classical Crossover singers in the world.
The Universal Peace Foundation (www.upf.org) named Giorgia Fumanti, this past year, Ambassador for Peace. Giorgia received this lifetime distinction following her performance in Central Park, in New York City, for the International Day of Peace celebrations. Other achievements include being awarded the Public’s Choice Award at the Kremlin in Moscow at the AMA Music Awards, the prestigious Premio Lunezia Nel Mondo Award in Carrara, Italy and the Personality of the Year by the CIBPA Association in Montreal, Canada.
Very important invitations
Giorgia Fumanti has had the honor of being selected to sing the theme song “Better City, Better Life” for the Shanghai World International Expo. She was the special guest at the Beijing Olympics for CCTV, at the Closing Ceremony of the Shanghai Special Olympics and other important celebrations and sporting events such as singing the National Anthem at the NHL All Star Game in Dallas, Texas and at the Opening Ceremony of the International SportAccord Combat Games in Beijing alongside Jackie Chan. Giorgia also had the honor to perform for Vice President and Noble Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, for various US Governors, as well as for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion and many other personalities all over the world. She recently was asked to perform as special guest in New York City at both Central Park and the world-famous Times Square as part of the International Day of Peace celebrations decreed by the United Nations.
She participated in 3 PBS TV Specials in the USA, “Heavenly Voices”, “Sharing Christmas with John McDermott” and “Benise’s Spanish Guitars”. Yukari Nakano, the famous Japanese figure skating champion used Giorgia Fumanti’s song “Aria” in her Grand Prix Exhibition Programs.
She has performed all over the world with some of the most prestigious symphony orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London), the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the MBC Pops Orchestra and the Iksam Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan), the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra (Taiwan), the Guangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra (China), the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the RAI Symphony Orchestra (Rome) and many others.

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Equality Now!! A Just World for Women -n- Girls

Austin Tang — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:44:51 +0000

“If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women’s rights….And women’s rights are human rights.” – Hillary Clinton, at the 4th UN Conference on Women, Beijing 1995.

This conference was the birth of The Beijing Platform for Action, the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women’s rights. Our founders were in Beijing 25 years ago, and every day since we’ve continued to call for the recognition of the fundamental human rights of women.

25 years later and gender equality is far from being realized. Every five years since 2000, Equality Now has highlighted explicitly sex discriminatory laws that need to be reformed in our Words & Deeds report.

Today we’re releasing our 5th Words & Deeds report and we need your help.

YOUR WORDS & DEEDS TO DO LIST:

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? In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the law says the husband is head of the household.

Call on the President to amend the family code to ensure equality in marriage.

? Section 103 of Tunisia’s Personal Status Code limits daughters’ inheritance rights and provides that any sons inherit twice as much as daughters.

Call on the President of Tunisia to ensure equality in inheritance law.

? In Russia, the labor law automatically bars women from being employed in 456 types of work.

Call on the President of Russia to ensure equality in the workplace.

? In Paraguay, the law prescribes a lower penalty, a fine, for sexual offences against adolescent girls between the ages of 14 – 16 than for rape of a child or a woman.

Call on the President of Paraguay to protect adolescent girls from sexual violence.

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Your continued support allows us to make sure governments uphold their commitments they made to women 25 years ago. Thank you.

In solidarity,

Antonia Kirkland

Global Lead, Legal Equality & Access to Justice

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