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The “original” Greenpeace crew on-board the Phyllis Cormack on their voyage to Amchitka Island
It started with just 12 of them. With a bold mission, this group of activists set sail to Amchitka island off Alaska to protest the detonation of an underground US nuclear test.
4 August 2017 – Even as the flow appears to have thinned, migrants crossing the United States-Mexico border are dying at a faster rate in 2017 than in past years, according to a new United Nations agency study.
A woman fleeing from El Salvador walks along the train tracks in Chiapas, Mexico. This stretch of her walk began on Arriaga, Chiapas. She is on her way to the United States. Mexico. Central American Refugees. Photo: UNHCR/ Markel Redondo
“Some 232 migrant fatalities have been recorded in the first seven months of 2017, an increase of 17 per cent compared with the 204 deaths recorded between January and July 2016,” said Julia Black, coordinator of the Berlin-based Missing Migrants Project (MMP) at the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Global Migration Data Analysis Centre.
– Domestic violence is alarmingly prevalent in Peru. Not only is it statistically more common than in other, more progressive cultures, but Peruvian women tend to accept it as simply a ‘part of marriage.’
Poor women from the Andes highlands queuing up for aid in a village in Peru’s Puno region. Credit: Milagros Salazar/IPS
4 August 2017 – Violence in the Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) appears to be taking on an increasingly disturbing ethnic dimension, a United Nations human rights wing has warned, citing testimonies that Government forces have led ethnicity-based attacks.
A former site for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was burned down when it was attacked by a militia group in early July. Credit: OCHA/Ivo Brandau
“Survivors have spoken of hearing the screams of people being burned alive, of seeing loved ones chased and cut down, of themselves fleeing in terror. Such bloodletting is all the more horrifying because we found indications that people are increasingly being targeted because of their ethnic group,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Rafad Al Hussein in a news release from his Office (OHCHR).
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 15: Martin Luther King Jr. The others will follow successively.
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Figure 15.1: Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in Washington. Source: American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, acluva.org
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The son of a southern Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, Jr received his Ph.D. in theology from Boston University in 1955.
During his studies, he had admired Thoreau’s essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” and he had also been greatly moved by the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
Unclean water is dangerous to both humans and the environment. It leads to numerous health issues – and even death. Reports have it that over a million die year after year from cholera and diarrhea.
Aside from these aforementioned diseases, people who drink unclean water can acquire hepatitis and schistosomiasis. Or, they could be infected with hookworm and other parasites. Unclean water is also devastating to the environment.
**(2017 Hamburg attack–Ambulances at the scene after the attack). | Messerattacke am 28. Juli 2017 im Hamburger Stadtteil Barmbek. | Author: TheAmerikaner | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The United Nations Security Council on 2 August 2017 unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at preventing terrorists from acquiring weapons, particularly small arms and light weapons, the “destabilizing accumulation and misuse” of which the 15-member body said “continue to pose threats to international peace and security and cause significant loss of life.”
The UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution on preventing terrorists from acquiring weapons. UN Photo/Kim Haughton
Delegates from 24 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean pose next to Argentine authorities, after the opening of the seventh meeting of the negotiating committee on a regional agreement that will enable access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters, held in Buenos Aires. Credit: Daniel Gutman/IPS
Nweti means “moon” in Changana, a Bantu language spoken in the southern Provinces of Gaza, Inhambane and Maputo, in Mozambique. It implies a light in the night, a sign of hope, something that can help bring people out of the darkness.
Nweti is also the name of a well-known organization working on gender-based and domestic violence and Sexual Rights and Reproductive Health.
Active since 2003 as a regional program from Soul City Institute and as a national organization since 2007, it targets the most vulnerable communities across the country. Its meaning could not fit better for many women facing violence at home, like Virginia.
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