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Twenty-One Things That Caught My Eye Today: Jimmy Lai, the Olympics, Genocide, China, & More

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Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van, in Hong Kong, China, February 1, 2021. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

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6. BuzzFeed News: Was This Shirt Made With Forced Labor? Hugo Boss Quietly Cut Ties With The Supplier.

Hugo Boss has quietly removed subsidiaries of a Chinese textile giant from its supplier list days after BuzzFeed News raised questions about the Chinese company’s deep ties to the Xinjiang region, where forced labor is rampant.

Last month BuzzFeed News reported that Hugo Boss and several other major clothing brands were continuing to ship clothes made by Esquel Group, a company that gins and spins cotton at facilities in Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is carrying out a campaign of mass imprisonment and forced labor targeting Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities.

7. USA Today: 82 lawmakers call on White House to evacuate more Afghans who helped US

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9. Yasmeen Serhan: The Muslim World

The return of the Olympics to China, which is counting on these Games to bolster its global image and validate its authoritarian system, accentuates the silence of governments in the Muslim world. Although these countries are certainly not the only ones that have excused or even abetted China’s human-rights abuses, they have essentially given the Muslim world’s tacit blessing for China to continue its mass atrocities.

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11. Danielle Pletka: The World Shrugs and the Games Go On

Last Thursday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. Pegged to the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, the anniversary was duly commemorated around the world (with some predictable exceptions). In truth, however, it was a little odd—all those pious self-congratulatory vows of “never again” coming within days of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. It’s been 86 years since the Olympics were exploited by a genocidal tyrant bent on delivering greater glory to his own government. But at least at that moment Hitler was only planning the Final Solution to exterminate the Jews; he didn’t have active concentration camps as the Communist Party of China does in Xinjiang, bent on the extermination of its Muslim Uyghur population. 

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13.  Removal of Christian hymn from India’s Republic Day ‘hurtful,’ archbishop says

14. In the slums of Argentina, priests deal with gangs, drug culture

15. Daniel Lipinski: The Invest in Kids Act gives minority children access to top-tier schools

While Catholic school educators and supporters work hard to keep tuition costs down and provide as much financial aid as possible, many low-income parents who desire to send their children to these schools still cannot afford to. Fortunately, the Illinois General Assembly passed the bipartisan Invest in Kids Act in 2017 to reform the public school funding formula and create a tax credit scholarship program that provides up to a full scholarship for families that qualify based on financial need. These scholarships are funded through private donations that are eligible for a 75% state income tax credit. The average scholarship recipient comes from a family of four making about $38,000.

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17. Institute for Family Studies: The Surprisingly Simple Ways to Incentivize Marriage

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20. She was born at just 22 weeks. Now she’s home with her family

21. Mom shares emotional video of return to work days after birth of preemie

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