01/10/2016
By Catherine Shakdam*
30 September (RT) – If George Orwell is watching from above, he must be impressed. In his novel 1984, what was meant as a cautionary tale against government control and intellectual obscurantism, seems to have come to pass without our full knowledge.
Banner instructing residents not to ‘like’ or ‘share’ non-mainstream views (that ‘insult the institution’, i.e. the monarchy) on social networks under direct threat of prison observed near Chit Lom, Bangkok, Thailand on 2014-06-30. The woman in the picture on the right is Chatwadee Amornpat, known as ‘London Rose’. | Author: Pratyeka | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Where have our media taken us?
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01/10/2016
Kashmiri journalists at a rare protest against a government clampdown on freedom of expression in 2012. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPS
Though the UNHRC has adopted resolutions on the safety of journalists in the past, some note that this year’s resolution is more comprehensive in protecting the rights of freedom of expression and the press.
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01/10/2016
With current armed conflicts and humanitarian crises driving massive population movements – and not just in Europe, though the continent has been heavily challenged – an upcoming United Nations report will confirm the troubling fact that human trafficking generally follows the overall migratory flows, a senior UN anti-crime official on 29 September 2016 said, urging States to back the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and other international tools to address the evolving and complex situation.
At the Bandeu checkpoint in Nepal, inspectors and a police constable approach a bus to look for potential victims of child trafficking onboard. Photo: OCHA/Tilak Pokharel.
John Brandolino, Director of the Division for Treaty Affairs at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), spotlighted the importance of international treaties and agreements in tackling human trafficking in his address to a Headquarters event co-hosted with the European Union (EU) following up last week’s first-ever UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants.
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01/10/2016
By India Thorogood*
Aerial view of fires at the forest and palm oil plantation in peatland area of Pangkalan Terap, Teluk Meranti, Pelalawan regency, Riau. | Greenpeace
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01/10/2016
And – if you live in the West, in particular: Did we really have to end in this situation given Russia’s significant weakness over 25 years?
This article argues that the superior West could have played its cards differently and it’s time for self-critical soul-searching and just a little living yourself into the shoes of the other.
If peace rather than war is your true aim.
There was a beginning and a framework
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01/10/2016
By Johan Galtung*
26 September 2016- TRANSCEND Media Service – Peace is not only a great idea, but something sacred, holy.
Johan Galtung
The number of pointers to peace has to reflect this as a holy number, like 10 for the Ten Commandments.
But in Christianity 3 is also holy, for the Trinity.
And in Islam 1 stands for the only One God.
In Buddhism 4 stands for the Truths, and 8 for the Ways.
And we find 5 and 7 in many places.
So let us use them all, bestowing multiple sacredness on peace. Starting with 1-3 for the most basic, adding two more for 4-5, two more for 6-7, with three concrete pointers for 8-10. Here we go:
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 