On mobile, so bear with me. I (18M) live with my father and step-mother, along with my three sisters. And to say we are in bad terms is an understatement. It has reached a point where my father and step-mother have told me to leave the house by the 1st of January, or pay them approx. $550 in rent. The pressure they put on us is immense, and it's a miracle that I and my siblings have been able to stay sane through it. My eldest sister was diagnosed with severe depression, and was going through therapy, but my parents cancelled it and made fun of her for being so 'mentally weak. ' There is plenty more where this comes from, but I hope this gives the general idea of what I'm dealing with..... This is a problem because I have no way to have an income, and my current qualification is just a high-school diploma. Part-time jobs do not exist here, as they are illegal by the law, and civilians are only allowed to stay here if they're sponsored by somebody. And my sponsor is my father, through the company he works at.
Hello! I currently live with my mom, sister (12f) and my stepfather. This is going to take quite a bit of backstory so please hang on with me. I want to start this saying that due to issues my mom and dad had with their relationship, they seperated around when i was 5 and he moved to Japan. It was a dramatic sort of divorce, so i didnt see him for a while after that. and then we started meeting up once or twice a year starting from when i was 8. I dont remember much of my dad from that time. I continued to live with my mom until i was in seventh grade. We had moved from syria to turkey by this time and i had been living in turkey for a while. The reason i left in 7th grade was because my mom lost her job and was moving to qatar which i thought i would hate living in. During this time my dad offered to take me and my sister in. So we moved to japan and lived there for about half a year. I could not stand living there for any longer. I remember him being mentally abusive to me, and calling me fat, lazy (i was going through puberty).
Lebanese who wish to return after that time shall try contacting Lebanese embassies to coordinate. (Thanks for u/cTheDeezy for summarizing this in their post. ). I believe the travel ban was timed well in terms of the our current stage (cases still in clusters). Lebanese Media (+ social media) are not reliable: Journalists are not experts and therefore their opinions are invalid without backing them up with concrete evidence and reputable sources. Therefore, do your own research, double check facts, and look for the original source of ANY news. For instance, if you want to learn about the proper ways a country should respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, go to the WHO website that has all the necessary guidelines. Use this as a reference to gauge whether our government is reacting properly and not MTV or Al-Jadeed or some celebrity on twitter. Public Health Awareness is THE KEY: The only way to protect our community from a large outbreak is social distancing. That is, avoiding large gatherings, self-quarantine if you are symptomatic or have come in contact with a symptomatic person, and limit unnecessary outings.
Cotton farmers easily sneak their product across the Kazakh and Kyrgz borders to sell at more competitive prices determined by supply and demand. The responsibility of handling customs has recently been transferred to the National Guard. Repairing this leak in the Uzbek agricultural economy will be an easy task for the reorganized Customs Directorate. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is willing to fork over whatever cash is necessary to empower the shiny new border control agency to improve its operations. In 2006, Kazakhstan constructed 28 miles of fencing punctuated by guard towers on the 1, 516 mile Uzbek-Kazakh border. These fences were built in high population areas and intended to curb drug smuggling. The National Guard, with its recent influx in funding, will construct an additional ~100 miles of fencing and Customs Directorate guard posts. The new barriers will extend 5 miles in each direction from the eleven major Uzbek settlements on the border -- Karakalpakia, Gagarin, Guliston, Baxt, Sirdaryo, Chinaz, Yangiyul, Tashkent, Keles, Chirciq, and Gazalkent.
Having modern border security infrastructure managed by Uzbeks (as opposed to the Kazakh fences) will hopefully increase Customs Directorate's ability to do its job. The new fencing will be monitored from spotlight equipped guard towers 24-7, and all large, load carrying vehicles passing road crossings will be searched before they are allowed to pass. The National Guard's HQ Directorate will maintain a high level of oversight on customs workers to ensure they will stay true to their mission and do not accept bribes from cotton farmers trying to move their material to more profitable Kazakh and Kyrgz markets Commercializing Cattle Government fixed prices make it difficult for farmers to turn a profit on the parts of their fields that are mandatorily cropped as cotton or wheat. To supplement their artificially low income, farmers have turned to small vegetable gardens and 2-3 head cattle herds to sustain their families. The meat and milk these cows produce augment the farmer's diet and are sold in town markets for cash.
While the Republic of Uzbekistan is outwardly very anti-Soviet, in respects to its two cash crops -- cotton and wheat -- it still maintains the USSR era command economy system. The state instructs farmers on how much of their fields should be devoted to cotton or wheat agriculture. The products of these fields may then only be sold at artificially low prices fixed by the government to only the buyers they approve. This system has given the government great control over its agricultural affairs but resulted in Uzbek farmers making much less than their counterparts in other Central Asian nations and across the globe. In his effort to oil the engine of the Uzbek economic machine, President Mirziyoyev will not ditch this tried and true system, but rather take the steps necessary to make it run more smoothly. Preventing Smuggling The benefits presented by a command economy's government determined prices are naught if products can be smuggled and sold elsewhere for more. This, problematically, is common practice in Uzbekistan.
*what are the average gym subscription cost? (It's a major point for me haha) *are there available "healthy food subscription" services around? I am on a strict diet and I'm too lazy to make my own food. Thank you all in advance, and I hope this isn't a reoccurring question.
📷 Play Video IMF head Lagarde: Respect women and one another 04:11"Gender equality is a critical component of economic growth, " Georgieva wrote in the report. "Women are half of the world's population and we have our role to play in creating a more prosperous world. But we won't succeed in playing it if the laws are holding us back. ""Many laws and regulations continue to prevent women from entering the workforce or starting a business; discrimination that can have lasting effects on women's economic inclusion and labor force participation, " she wrote. "By making the economic case, we encourage governments to guarantee the full and equal participation of women. " EDIT: its bullshit that gets spewed out like this by major publications that made me an advocate of mens rights in the first place. How can they sit there and claim to want more maternal leave for women, then turn around and say they want to eliminate the "wage gap". How would that be possible, unless they want to afford rights to women that men don't have (longer PAID parental leave for women than men), which is exactly what they are advocating against (equality).