By Rex Weyler*
“It all started with a lingering discontent,” explain Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, who post the on-line “Minimalists” podcasts.
23/10/2018
On Western Civilisation
Human Wrongs Watch
By Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service*
One of the best-known quotes about Western civilisation is the exchange attributed to the Mahatma Gandhi. What did he think of it? he was asked. The great man’s reply – “that would be a good idea” – has passed into legend.
Jake Lynch
Gandhi’s renown stems, of course, from his leadership role in a successful nonviolent movement to eject the British ruling class from India.
How to sum up the experience of the Indian peoples under colonial rule?
Westerners working in the subcontinent made some of the most important advances in modern medicine – establishing that malaria is spread by mosquitoes, for instance, or successfully vaccinating against cholera and bubonic plague.
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23/10/2018
‘Girls Sold into Forced Labour Are the Largest Group of Trafficking Victims Identified by UN Migration Agency in Bangladesh’s Rohingya Refugee Camps’
Human Wrongs Watch
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (IOM)* – Young girls sold into forced labour are the largest group of trafficking victims identified by the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps.
Rohingya refugees watch a street performance aimed at raising awareness of the risks of trafficking in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps. Photo: IOM 2018.
IOM counter-trafficking experts warn that more than a year into a crisis that has seen the number of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar soar to almost a million, more desperate families are sending their young daughters off into dangerous work situations because most households have no other way to earn money in the camps.
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22/10/2018
Macron Stresses Importance of [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty] INF Treaty for EU Security in Call With Trump
Human Wrongs Watch
Earlier, reacting to Trump’s statement, Russia called US accusations that it violated the INF Treaty unsubstantiated and warned Washington against unilaterally withdrawing from agreements.
Macron shakes hands with US President Donald Trump in September 2018 |
22 October 2018 (Sputnik)* – French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the important role the treaty plays in safeguarding European security and stability during his telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump on Monday [22 October 2018], the French president’s office announced.
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22/10/2018
Minimalism
Human Wrongs Watch
Yellow leaf next to a stone. © Markus Mauthe / Greenpeace
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22/10/2018
Brazil: Bolsonaro’s Son Threatens Electoral Court with Violence
Eduardo Bolsonaro warned TSE they would face dire consequences if they contested his father’s candidacy.
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21 October 2018 (teleSUR)* — A soldier and a corporal are enough to close Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of Brazilian Presidential Candidate Jair Bolsonaro, said Sunday [21 October 2018].
A controversial video surfaced this weekend showing Federal Member of Parliament Elect Bolsonaro warning the TSE they would face dire consequences if they contested his father’s candidacy.
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Allegations of electoral crimes, specifically the abuse of economic power and illegal use of social media, triggered calls for an investigation to bar the popular right-wing candidate from the presidential race and from politics for the next eight years.
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22/10/2018
Our Apparent Surrender – Immolation of Privacy in the Digital World
Human Wrongs Watch
(Wall Street International)* – The almighty god of technological progress demands countless sacrifices.
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Internet security | Photo from Wall Street International.
22/10/2018
Blue Awakening as Latin America and Caribbean States Say No to Plastic
22 October 2018 (UN Environment)* — From the remote Galápagos Islands to the humid depths of the Amazon forest, governments are cutting back on plastic, citizens are cleaning beaches, and innovators are seeking alternative products as part of a region-wide movement to turn the tide on plastic pollution.
Wembley/ Unsplash | Photo from UN Environment.
Awareness of the need to act is growing in a region that is particularly vulnerableto marine litter – the Caribbean is the second most polluted sea in the world – and to other environmental threats caused by our changing climate, such as increasingly powerful storms.
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21/10/2018
‘The Hungarian Government Shifts to High Gear in the Persecution of Vulnerable Groups’
Human Wrongs Watch
By The Hungarian Helsinki Committee*
The Punitive State: if you can’t solve it, ban it!
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee
Whenever there’s public dissent or the government finds no solution to a social problem, governments of the Fidesz party resorts to prohibition or punishment.
Harassment and discrimination of the homeless people has been ongoing for long, but this new level of persecution of homelessness began at the time of the second Fidesz government and has continuously been on Fidesz’s agenda ever since.
In summer 2018, the two third majority of the parliament banned homelessness in the whole country, making the lives of one of the most vulnerable social groups even harder.
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21/10/2018
‘Major Blow’ to Global Stability: Russian Lawmakers React to Trump’s INF [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty] Pullout
Human Wrongs Watch
MOSCOW, 21 October 2018 (Sputnik)* – The United States decision to leave INF under the pretext of alleged Russian violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was condemned by Russian Lawmakers.
A bundle of three Soviet RSD-10 missiles prepared for demolition at the Kapustin Yar launch site. The missiles were destroyed in accordance with the INF Treaty. © Sputnik / Vladimir Rodionov
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