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As African feminists, we face multiple systems of oppression including the effects of colonisation, neocolonisation, white supremacy, militarism, the globalisation of capitalism and neoliberalism. Yet our movements are more vibrant and radically political than ever before.
**Janissary procession trough the Brandenburger Tor at the “Türkischen Tag” (Turkish Day) in Berlin | Author: User:Danyalov | public domain.
Noting an 8.5 percent increase in the population with a first or second generation migrant background as compared to last year’s figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said it is the “highest [annual] increase since recording began in 2005.”
Describing the situation in Yemen as “very bleak,” with “no end in sight,” a senior United Nations official envoy on 1 August 2017 said the war-torn country, already reeling from malnutrition and dwindling health care, is plummeting into further distress amid a deadly cholera outbreak and looming famine.
A suspected cholera patient is rushed into Al Joumhouri Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen. Photo: Giles Clarke for UNOCHA
“Historically, Yemen has been one of the poorest Arab nations – if not the poorest– with [poverty] and corruption, poor governance and poor infrastructure. The war has simply made it much worse,” said Auke Lootsma, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Country Director, briefing journalists in New York via teleconference from the capital, Sana’a.
Kicking off World Breastfeeding Week, the United Nations on 1 August 2017 stressed that although breastfeeding has cognitive and health benefits for infants and mothers, investment shortcomings impede the practice.
Sumi Madhi, a volunteer on child feeding, nutrition and care interacts with mothers in Kudada, India. Photo: UNICEF/Vishwanathan
“Breastfeeding gives babies the best possible start in life,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
He added that breastmilk works like a baby’s first vaccine, protecting infants from potentially deadly diseases and giving them all the nourishment they need to survive and thrive.
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 14: Mahatma Gandhi. The others will follow successively.
Figure 14.1: Gandhi and Nehru at a meeting of the Congress Party. After India gained its independance, it was Nehru’s vision of an urbanized and in- dustrialized India that prevailed. Ghandi’s much more susteinable vision of India of villages” was lost. (Wikimedia Commons)
If humans are ever to achieve a stable global society in the future, they will have to become much more modest in their economic behavior and much more peaceful in their politics. For both modesty and peace, Gandhi is a useful source of ideas.
(Wall Street International)* — It should not be a mystery or come as a surprise to anyone with a faint knowledge of factual United States history as to why Mexicans and Mexican Americans are being targeted by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and deported to Mexico. Unlike other immigrant groups, Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans are a racially stigmatized group in the U.S.
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After the United States won the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ceded more than half of Mexican land to the U.S. Mexican citizens living on the ceded land were to retain full property rights and be granted U.S. citizenship.
However, Mexican Americans became victims of stereotyping, discrimination and exclusion in the United States.
31 July 2017 – A group of United Nations experts has urged the Government of the Philippines to immediately address reported human rights violations, including murder, threats against indigenous peoples and the summary execution of children.
Children play outside their home at a shelter in the Philippines. Photo: UNICEF/Joshua Estey
“Attacks are spiralling against many groups in society and we are making an urgent appeal for Government action,” said a joint statement issued by Agnes Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; and Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children.
Ma Jun, chief economist at the People’s Bank of China, together with Rubén Mercado, from the United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP) in Argentina. The high-ranking Chinese official promoted Beijing’s green finance while in Buenos Aires. Credit: UNDP
The PBOC, which as China’s central bank regulates the country’s financial activity and monitors its monetary activity, has been particularly interested in Argentina, because next year it will preside over the Group of 20 (G20) industrialised and emerging economies.
In Russia, the simultaneous increase in the total death rate, deaths due to external causes, and alcohol consumption were all driven by stress. Credit: Pavol Stracansky/IPS
The shock economic reforms in the former Soviet economies after 1991 precipitated this unprecedented increase in mortality, shortening life expectancy, especially among middle-aged males.
Credit: http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com. Public Domain.
Six months into the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, two speeches can serve as bookends to aid our understanding of what has been a tumultuous and deeply worrying time—his Inaugural address and his speech in Poland on July 6 2017.
What stand out from these two speeches are the images of “American carnage” from his opening statement to the nation, and the ominous warning he issued in Warsaw of a ‘clash of civilisations’—along with the corresponding need to act decisively to save ‘Western values.’
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