14/08/2017
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IOM distributes hygiene kits in Damas, Syria last May 2017. File photo: UN Migration Agency (IOM) 2017
Findings indicate that the vast majority of people returning (84 per cent) had been displaced within Syria, the Geneva-based UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported.
The next highest number of people (16 per cent) returned from Turkey, followed by Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, it added. Those from Turkey and Jordan reportedly returned mainly to Aleppo and Al Hasakeh Governorates.
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14/08/2017
By John Dramani Mahama and Siddharth Chatterjee*
ACCRA, Ghana / NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 11 2017 (IPS) – Last month, Spanish charity workers rescued 167 migrants arriving from Africa aboard a small boat.
Refugees land at Lampedusa island in Italy. Credit: Ilaria Vechi/IPS.
2016 was the deadliest for migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, with at least 3800 deaths recorded. Most know the dangers they face on the route, yet still choose the possibility of death in overcrowded and unseaworthy vessels over the hopelessness of life in areas they reside.
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14/08/2017
By Uri Avery*
12/08/17
THE VULTURES are circling. They can see the wounded man on the ground, and are waiting for his end.
Uri Avnery
So are the human carnivores – the politicians.
They sing his praises, swear to defend him with all their heart – but in their heads they are already calculating who might be his successor. Each of them mutters to themself: Why not me?
Binyamin Netanyahu is facing the greatest crisis in his long career. The police are about to conclude their investigations.
The Attorney General is under huge pressure to issue official indictments. The large demonstrations near the Attorney General’s home are growing from week to week.
The Attorney General, the Inspector General of the Police and the Minister for Internal Security were all personally picked by Netanyahu (and his wife). Now even this does not help. The pressure is too strong.
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14/08/2017
The United Nations human rights office on 11 August 2017 expressed deep concern about the steadily deteriorating humanitarian and human rights conditions in Gaza, especially the restrictions on the enclave’s power supply.
Electrical power transmission lines in Gaza City. Photo: World Bank/Natalia Cieslik (file). Source: UN News Centre.
“At the height of summer, with soaring temperatures, electricity provision has not risen above six hours per day since the beginning of the current crisis in April, and has often been under four hours,” Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights(OHCHR), told the regular media briefing in Geneva.
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14/08/2017
By John Scales Avery*
John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 18: Edna St. Vincent Millay. The others will follow successively.
Figure 18.1: The American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, (public domain).
The beautiful red-haired American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), is known for her lyric poetry, but she also wrote some of the finest sonnets in the English language, combining classic form with modern imagery.
Many of these sonnets are based on the emotions that she experienced in her love affairs with both men and women.
However, my own favorite is a serious sequence of eighteen sonnets, “Epitaph for the Race of Man”, published in 1934, just as the catastrophe of World War II was about to engulf our planet.
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11/08/2017
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IOM staff assists Somali and Ethiopian migrants who were forced into the sea by smugglers. Credit: UN Migration Agency (IOM)
“The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them into the sea when he saw some ‘authority types’ near the coast,” said Laurent de Boeck, the Yemen Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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10/08/2017
ROME, Aug 10 2017 (IPS) – A third of global forests, crucial for curbing gas emissions, are primarily managed by indigenous peoples, families, smallholders and local communities, according to the United Nations.
Indigenous Peoples can provide answers to food insecurity and climate change challenges. Photo: FAO
Moreover, indigenous foods are also particularly nutritious, climate-resilient and well-adapted to their environment, making them a good source of nutrients in climate challenged areas, reports the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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09/08/2017
By John Scales Avery*
John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 17: Albert Einstein. The others will follow successively.
Figure 17.1: Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein (public domain). Their exchange of letters entitled “Why War?” deserves to be read by everyone concerned with the human future.
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09/08/2017
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 9 August, 2017 — A wonderful thing about observing and analyzing the human mind is that there is a seemingly infinite variety of phenomena to observe and analyze. I sometimes wonder if it is even remotely possible to master this subject but, even if it is not, at least it provides an unending source of ‘entertainment’.
Robert J. Burrowes
The phenomenon that I want to discuss in this article is what Anita McKone and I call the ‘magic rat’.
Before proceeding, let me emphasize that the ‘magic rat’ is an incredibly dangerous psychological disorder that afflicts most political and virtually all corporate leaders, notably including those in the United States, thus rendering them incapable of responding intelligently and appropriately to the ongoing crises in human affairs.
And, tragically, it afflicts most other people too, which is one reason why it is difficult to muster a strategic response to these crises, even at grassroots level.
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09/08/2017
By Johan Galtung*
7 August 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service — This column has advocated a 1-2-6-20 solution: 1 Palestine fully recognized by Israel; a 2-state solution with borders according to international law; in a 6-state Middle Eastern community of Israel and Arab neighbors, in a 20+-state community, also with their neighbors.
Johan Galtung
The 2-state solution could be a confederation with Israeli cantons on the West Bank, and Palestinian cantons in Israel’s northwest.
The above is acceptable to Palestine, the Arab League and Iran. Not to Israel. Netanyahu wants expansion, secure borders and recognition. Impossible. With Trump’s help he expands further, leaving UNESCO, defying UN.
Except that Netanyahu and Trump are not going to be around forever. They suffer from autism; Trump clinically, demanding total allegiance.
Not one critical word about their America First! Israel First! policies. Seeing the world from their bubbles, missing is reciprocity, the opposite of autism; taking in Other, not only taking Other on. Dialogue.
Yet, facts catch up with them and these are disturbing. Trump is not creating a great America, but an isolated America. Netanyahu is not recreating a Genesis 15:18 Israel, but a non-viable Israel.
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