You are trying hard to probe the behavior of the colonized settler. Look at the faces and hear the loud voices as you walk through the old town of Jerusalem and ask yourself: Who are these, and why are they behaving as if this is their country?
Walid Salem
First of all, to the founding myths of the State of Israel (legends according to Roger Garaudy, superstitions according to Ilan Pappe, and inventions according to Shlomo Sand), you understand from these writings that these myths and superstitions are only what is invented in order to form a “people”.
But there are two parts of the question that remain afterwards, the first of which relates to how this people consists, “and the second relates to the evolution of the mentality and behavior of this” people. ”
The country has a history, a language and a culture of the indigenous population inherited from the fathers and grandfathers?
The move is another pushback against Indigenous people’s rights by Brazil’s new president, who has said they should be “integrated” into society.
One week into his presidency, Bolsonaro has begun to undo protections for Indigenous communities. | Photo: Reuters | Photo fromteleSUR.
8 January 2019 (teleSUR)* — In another blow to Brazil’s Indigenous people just one week after taking office, the newly-elected President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration has blocked an initiative of the previous government that would create a cryptocurrency intended to facilitate transactions between Indigenous communities.
In the last few months, the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) like so many other civil society groups in various parts of the world has been inundated with videos and articles from different sources alleging cruel persecution and harsh oppression of the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang province in the Western part of China.
Re-education camps in China’s ‘no-rights zone’ for Muslims. | Xinjiang Explainer | SupChina
It is alleged that the Chinese government views the Uighur and also some other Muslim groups such as the Kazakhs and Kyrgyzas as threats to national security given their purported links to terrorism and separatist insurgency.
Berlin, 8 January 2019 (IOM)*– For the fifth consecutive year more than 4,000 people are believed to have died or gone missing on migratory routes across the globe, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project (MMP) reports.
Photo: IOM Archive.
While final data collection for 2018 is still being compiled from several jurisdictions, at least 4,592 migrants reportedly died or disappeared during their journeys, down 20 per cent from the previous year, and over 8,000 in 2016.
ROME, 8 January 2019 (Other News)* – The person most qualified to write the foreword for this latest work by Riccardo Petrella, In the Name of Humanity, would actually be Pope Francis, who, using other words but speaking of values and making denouncements, has often argued what the reader will find in the following pages.
Roberto Savio
I quote him, because words like “solidarity”, “equality”, “social justice” or “participation” – now used only by Pope Francis I – have now disappeared from today’s political vocabulary.
I was called to this task because I have spent my life in favour of information that would give citizens the tools to be conscious actors.
But the reason why from a “professional” I have become an “activist” in the campaign for world governance is precisely because I see information as directly responsible for the drift in which we find ourselves.
Riccardo Petrella is a central point of reference for those who have not yet given up on seeing the governance of globalisation in terms of values and ideals.
Alfas, New Year 2019: If 2018 was the Year of Migration, as key theme, then 2019 shapes up as the Year of Health. Many leaders say so, including the former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (former South Korean foreign minister).
Johan Galtung
And more important in this little spot on our vast Planet Earth: the remarkable Alfas mayor, Vicente Arques, says so. He wants Alfas to be L’Alfàs, Living LAB Saludable, Alfas, Live Health Laboratory.
Arques wants health as a key factor among other concerns, “in the framework of a complex, global and interrelated municipality, finding equilibrium between the aspects of a competitive, cohesive economy, social development and a sustainable environment and culture”.
8 January 2019 (UN Environment)* — In the 1980s, the hilly Qianyanzhou region in Jiangxi Province, southern China, faced severe soil erosion due to deforestation and unsustainable farming practices. Fertile red soil was being washed away causing crop yields to tumble.
Tim Christophersen with forest officials. Photo by Xiaoqiong Li | Photo from UN Environment.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on 8 January 2019 announced a new global campaign calling on people all over the world to cover the distance travelled by refugees each year.| Français | عربي
The 1 Billion Milesto Safety campaign will encourage people to support refugees by championing individual acts of solidarity. These acts, when taken together, acknowledge the resilience and strength of refugees.
A new UN report published on Monday [7 January 2019] shows that human trafficking is on the rise and taking on “horrific dimensions”, with sexual exploitation of victims the main driver. Children now account for 30 per cent of those being trafficked, and far more girls are detected than boys.
The study from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC, draws on information from 142 countries, examining trafficking trends and patterns.
Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UNODC, said that “human trafficking has taken on horrific dimensions as armed groups and terrorists use it to spread fear and gain victims to offer as incentives to recruit new fighters,” citing child soldiers, forced labour and sexual slavery as examples.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Monday [7 January 2019] that 18-year-old Saudi national Rahaf Mohammed Al-qunun, who had been stranded at Bangkok airport after fleeing her family in Kuwait, saying that she would be killed if forced to return, was “now in a secure place”.
Rahaf Mohammed Al-qunun | The Saudi Arabian national, Rahaf Mohammed Al-qunun, has been communicating through Twitter from her hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand.
In a statement earlier in the day, UNHCR said it had been following developments over the past 48 hours closely and immediately sought access from the Thai authorities to meet with her.
The young Saudi told human rights groups and the media over the weekend that she had been stopped at Bangkok airport in transit from Kuwait, where her passport was taken from her. She claims she was fleeing her family and was planning to head to Australia and seek asylum there.
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