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**Photo: Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro (as well as in Brazil and the second largest in Latin America). | Author: chensiyuan | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
Marielle was a child of the slums of Rio de Janeiro. She was black, beautiful, young and charismatic. She studied sociology and had an MA in public administration. She was a feminist, LGBT+, Black and human rights activist.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, 20 March 2018 (ILO)* – Punam Rana, 22, is a freed Kamaiya woman training to be a carpenter. The Kamaiya system was a form of bonded labour in which a worker and their family entered into an informal contract with a landlord to do agricultural work in return for payment-in-kind, such as a small percentage of the harvest.
27 March 2018 — Some 60,000 people displaced by ongoing hostilities in Nigeria’s crisis-torn Borno state will receive life-saving aid thanks to an allocation from the United Nations-managed country-based humanitarian assistance fund.
**John Bolton. | Author: Kenneth C. Zirkel | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The following is not meant to sound complacent, but the inclusion of arch war-hawk Bolton in Trump’s inner circle may actually turn out to be a good thing. For it will hasten America’s reckless foreign policies and its decline as a world power.
Admittedly, such an outlook is proffered against a very grim background.
John Bolton has been described not so much as “America First” as “Military First”. He is credited as being the chief architect of the Iraq War under the GW Bush administration.
He remains bumptiously unapologetic about promoting that war, which was based on lies and resulted in as many as one million deaths.
More than 1,700 people have reportedly been killed in military operations and airstrikes on Eastern Ghouta since late February, the United Nations aid chief on 27 March 2018 said, describing the past few months of relentless bloodshed as “some of the worst yet” for civilians inside war-torn Syria.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 