Archive for October 20th, 2018

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20/10/2018

Brazil Court Summons Bolsonaro on Electoral Crimes

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Brazil court summons far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro for electoral crimes, stemming from allegations that he created a fake news campaign.

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Bolsonaro discute violência contra mulheres na Câmara. | Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil | CC BY 3.0 br
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19 October 2018 (teleSUR)* – Jair Bolsonaro has five days to appear before the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and present his case, amid allegations of disseminating fake news. TSE Minister Jorge Mussi made the decision after an online petition — requesting Bolsonaro be disqualified in the race for the presidency in Brazil — was started.

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20/10/2018

The Bolsonaro Effect

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By Henrique Furtado*

It sounds like a distasteful joke, but Brazilians are on the verge of electing a far-right president (Jair Messias Bolsonaro) and it is difficult to estimate what this means to progressive forces in Brazil. Español Português

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18 October 2018 (openDemocracy)* – It sounds like a distasteful joke, but Brazilians are on the verge of electing a far-right president. After winning the first ballot on 7 October, candidate Jair Messias Bolsonaro (Social Liberal Party) now leads the polls for the second ballot enjoying 58% of voting intentions (considering only the valid votes). It is difficult to estimate what this means to progressive forces in Brazil.

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20/10/2018

Children Separated at Border, Suffering Alarming and Prolonged Effects – Independent Human Rights Experts

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Separating children from their undocumented parents is a traumatic violation of their rights, UN independent experts said on 19 October 2018.

Johnathan Levinson : Children play at the Todos por Ellos family shelter in Tapachula, near Mexico’s border with Guatemala. 

The group of experts said in a statement that the treatment of migrants as criminals, provokes intolerance and xenophobia, in addition to posing a danger to their well-being.

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20/10/2018

UN Human Rights Experts Stand with Businesses Protesting Saudi Journalist Khashoggi’s Disappearance

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Independent UN human rights experts are praising business leaders who have decided to pull out of a high-level investment conference taking place next week in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, over concern for the fate of dissident Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.

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UN/Elma Okic Edit | The Human Rights Council chamber in Geneva. UN Photo/Elma Okic
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20/10/2018

Khashoggi Case Highlights ‘Very Worrying Practice’ of Overseas Abductions – UN Human Rights Expert

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18 October 2018 — The case of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is just the latest example of a “new and very worrying practice” of States abducting individuals beyond their own borders, said the Chair of the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances, addressing the UN General Assembly on 9 October 2018.

UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Bernard Duhaime, Chair of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, at a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York on 18 October 2018.

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