Archive for July 17th, 2017

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17/07/2017

Not Just Numbers: Migrants Tell Their Stories

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal* 

ROME, Jul 17 2017 (IPS) – Every single day, print and online media and TV broadcasters show images and footage of migrants and refugees adrift, salvage teams rescuing their corpses–alive or dead, from fragile boats that are often deliberately sunk by human traffickers near the coasts of a given country. Their dramas are counted –and told– quasi exclusively in cold figures.

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Every now and then a reporter talks to a couple of them or interviews some of the tens of humanitarian organisations and groups, mostly to get information about their life conditions in the numerous so called “reception centres” that are often considered rather as “detention centres” installed on both shores of the Mediterranean sea.

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17/07/2017

The Mouse that Roared: How Saudi Arabia Underestimated Qatar

Human Wrongs Watch

By Catherine Shakdam*

9 July 2017 (RT)* — There is a certain irony to the crisis that ails the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), now that Qatar has been labelled a pariah by Saudi Arabia. Terror aside, this stand-off has potential to reshape the region into a completely new geopolitical entity.
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**Doha, Qatar | Author: Spetsnaz 1991 | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

How fast yesterday’s allies become today’s enemies, and those we long held as foes sit together as reliable partners in a time of crisis. I don’t think that many political analysts can claim to have predicted Saudi Arabia’s fall from grace. Yet the writing was on the wall for all to see. Crude, pragmatic and as inevitable as man’s greed before the alluring calls of power.

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17/07/2017

What Is ‘Femonationalism’?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Niki Seth-Smith*

13 July 2017 – openDemocracy* — Academic Sara Farris talks about the ‘instrumentalisation’ of migrant women in Europe by right-wing nationalists – and neoliberals.
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**Marine Le Pen | Author: Kenji-Baptiste OIKAWA | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Sara Farris recently published a provocative book entitled In the name of women’s rights: the rise of femonationalism.

In it, she examines how right-wing nationalists, neoliberals, and some feminists and women’s equality agencies, all invoke women’s rights to stigmatise Muslim men and advance their own political objectives.

She argues that there is an important political-economic dimension to this seemingly paradoxical intersection.

It’s a timely – but complex – book including case studies from France, Italy and the Netherlands.

I called Farris, who is currently senior lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, to dig further into some of the questions that her book raises.

This is an edited transcript of our conversation.

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17/07/2017

Winning on the World’s Largest Tuna Company and What It Means for the Oceans

Human Wrongs Watch

By Sarah King* 

11 July, 2017 (Greenpeace) — It took two years of relentless campaigning and nearly 700,000 concerned people from around the world, but today we are sharing the good news that together we convinced the world’s largest tuna company to clean up its act!

Greenpeace volunteers label John West tuna cans with "THIS IS NOT JUST TUNA" in a Tesco store to raise awareness of the #JustTuna campaign.Greenpeace volunteers label John West tuna cans with “THIS IS NOT JUST TUNA” in a Tesco store to raise awareness of the #JustTuna campaign.

Tuna giant Thai Union, which owns brands such as John West, Chicken of the Sea, Petit Navire, Mareblu, and Sealect, has committed to a series of changes to its business that will help to protect seafood workers, reduce destructive fishing practices, and increase support for more sustainable fishing.

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17/07/2017

Digitizing Family Planning: The Way of the Future

Human Wrongs Watch

By Stella Paul*

LONDON, Jul 17 2017 (IPS) – Online shopping may have its pros and cons, but when it comes to buying products that have an invisible morality tag, it’s the safest possible option, believes Franklin Paul.

Digitizing SRHR communication: some of the popular mobile phone apps currently used in India by the government and an NGO. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS

Digitizing SRHR communication: some of the popular mobile phone apps currently used in India by the government and an NGO. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS

 

One of India’s most vocal advocates for youth rights to sexual health, education and products, Paul has spent over two years studying and introducing digital technologies to India’s rural youths.

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