Archive for March, 2017

03/03/2017

Resisting Donald Trump’s Violence Strategically

Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert J. Burrowes*

DAYLESFORD, Australia, 1 March, 2017 – It is already clearly apparent, as many predicted, that Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would signal the start of what might be the final monumental assault on much of what is good in our world.

Preview YouTube video Chris Hedges: Trump Will Crush Dissent With Even Greater Violence and Savagery | Video provided by RJ Burrowes

Whatever our collective gains to date to create a world in which peace, social justice and environmental sustainability ultimately prevail for all of Earth’s inhabitants, we stand to lose it all in the catastrophic sequence of events that Trump is now initiating with those who share his delusional worldview.

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03/03/2017

Seven Scaring Facts About Widening Gender Gap

Human Wrongs Watch

ROME, 3 March 2017 (IPS)* – Women across the globe are facing new threats, which risk dismantling decades of hard-won rights and derailing the effort to end extreme poverty, an international confederation of civil society organisations has revealed ahead of International Women’s Day pm March 8.

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Rural women: a driving force against hunger, malnutrition and poverty | Photo: FAO

The renewal of the global gag rule restricting US funding for family planning services is the latest of a number of new threats that will have a huge effect on the world’s poorest women, OXFAM international on March 2 warned in its new report ‘An economy that works for women’.

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