Archive for November 11th, 2012

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11/11/2012

“Israelis Practise Ten Eyes for an Eye and Ten Teeth for a Tooth”

Human Wrongs Watch

By Gilad Atzmon – TRANSCEND* — Peter Jenkins, Britain’s former representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency, has told the debating union at Warwick University that a ‘just war’ is not a Jewish notion. Jenkins was obviously telling the truth but the Zionist Jewish Chronicle is not happy.

**Dar al-Fadila Association for Orphans, consisting of a school, computer center and mosque in Rafah serving 500 children, were destroyed by the Israelis during Israel’s assault on Gaza. Photo by International Solidarity Movement | Wikimedia Commons

The retired Foreign Office diplomat, speaking in a debate on nuclear proliferation in Iran, said: “Israelis don’t practise an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, they practise ten eyes for an eye and ten teeth for a tooth.”

He also added that  “the idea that a just war requires the use of force to be proportionate seems to be a Christian notion and not a Jewish notion.”

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11/11/2012

Need Answers to ‘Insurmountable’ Challenges? Focus on Scientific Development!

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Marking the World Science Day for Peace and Development, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) called for a greater global focus on scientific development, noting that only through science would humanity find the answers to its seemingly “insurmountable” challenges.

World Science Day for Peace and Development 2012. Illustration: UNESCO

“Science is our best asset for supporting inclusive and equitable development, and for building global sustainability at a time of uncertainty, and faced with biophysical limits of the planet,” said UNESCO’s Director-General, Irina Bokova, in a message on 10 November 2012 to mark the Day, the theme for which this year is ‘Science for Global Sustainability Interconnectedness, Collaboration, Transformation.’

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11/11/2012

Fight Now the ‘Impunity that Abets Corruption in All Walks of Government, Business’

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By Transparency International, 10 November 2012 – The need to fight impunity was stressed at the closing session of the 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference, which called for the promotion of a culture of transparency leading to a participatory society in which leaders are accountable.

Photo: Transparency International conference in Brasilia

The 15th biennial International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) brought together in Brasilia more than 1900 representatives from the public, private and non-profit sectors from 140 countries.

With the theme Mobilising People: Connecting Agents of Change, the conference explored five key global challenges: ending impunity, clean climate governance, preventing illicit financial flows, political transitions leading to stable and transparent governments and clean sports.

Over 50 sessions looked for new ways to connect citizens to hold leaders of both the public and private sector to account, with special emphasis on using new technologies, social media, as well as supporting younger generations.

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11/11/2012

‘Practice of Enforced Disappearances Still Unabated Around the World’

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The practice of enforced disappearances perseveres in many countries, a group of independent United Nations experts warned today, following their review of more than 400 cases spanning 31 nations.

A mother tells her story about her son, one of the victims known as “desaparecidos” of the military government that ruled Argentina in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. UN Photo/E. Schneider

At the conclusion of its 98th session held in Geneva, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances expressed their “deepest concern” that 20 years since the adoption of the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the practice of vanishing people was still continuing unabated around the world.

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11/11/2012

‘Finland’s Biggest Chemical Catastrophe in History’ – Greenpeace

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By Brian Fitzgerald*, Greenpeace — Greenpeace Finland is bearing witness and taking samples at a toxic spill that began on Sunday [4 Nov.] in the north of the country. 

The Talvivaara metal mine, owned and operated by Talvivaara Mining Company plc, has been leaking water containing high concentrations of nickel and uranium at a rate of between 5000-6000 cubic metres an hour. It is believed that the leak took place when the mine’s waste-water pool was breached on Sunday.

Photo: Greenpeace

A friend in Finland writes:

At first, Talvivaara mine was like a dream. A new beginning. A source of employment and tax money for Northern Finland.

This was the level of excitement when the new mine opened in Kainuu, some 550 kilometers from Helsinki. Pekka Perä, an ex-employee of the Finnish mining company Outokumpu had bought the site from his former employer for the price of one Euro.

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