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11/06/2020

Thousands of people have taken to Europe’s streets not only to protest the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the US but to denounce police brutality and structural racism, which is an issue on this side of the Atlantic as well.

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A protester clenches her fist as she stands in front of German police officers following a Black Lives Matter vigil at Alexanderplatz square in Berlin, Germany 06 June 2020. [Omer Messinger/EPA]

Semira Adamu was suffocated by a police officer while she was being repatriated from Belgium, Adama Traoré died in custody hours after he was arrested in France, as did Ousman Sey in Germany. The list, unfortunately, goes on and on.

“It is absurd to consider that racism is an exclusively American scourge. It gangrenes all over the world and in Europe in particular,” French MEP and co-chair of the European Parliament Anti-Racism and Diversity Inter-Group Younous Omarjee (GUE/NGL) told EURACTIV. The issue is that Europe just is not talking about it as much.

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11/06/2020

US: Covid-19 Disparities Reflect Structural Racism, Abuses

Human Rights Watch Testimony to US House of Representatives Ways and Means CommitteeHealthcare workers at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital show their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement during the coronavirus pandemic, New York, June 4, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

Washington, DC – The United States government should take bold steps to end human rights violations and structural racism driving racial disparities in Covid-19 and spurring mass protests across the country, Human Rights Watch said today [10 June 2020] in written testimony to the Ways and Means Committee of the US House of Representatives.

Available data indicates that black and brown people in the United States are more likely to suffer severe illness and die from Covid-19.

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11/06/2020

Human Rights Experts Condemn Use of Force against Journalists Covering US Protests

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(UN News)* — Journalists covering ongoing protests denouncing systemic racism and police brutality in the United States must be able to do their job in peace, two experts on the right to freedom of expression said on Wednesday [10 June 2020].

Protesters in Brooklyn, New York, show the names of African Americans who have been killed in incidents involving the police.

UN News/Shirin Yaseen | Protesters in Brooklyn, New York, show the names of African Americans who have been killed in incidents involving the police.

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10/06/2020

Banking on the Sea

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9 June 2020 (UN Environment)* — Fishing is big business in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand. The industry supports millions of people in the region and accounts for some 10 per cent of total global fisheries production every year.

Photo by SEAFDEC

But the region’s success as a seafood exporter has come at a cost – the depletion of local fish stocks, environmental damage and, ultimately a decline in food security and livelihood opportunities for local communities.

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10/06/2020

‘The Climate Crisis Stretches Well Beyond Just Climate; Tackling It Requires Responses that Address the Links Between Gender, Climate and Security’

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9 June 2020 (UN News)* — Even as countries buckle under the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, they must consider the links between gender inequality and crisis, particularly in communities affected by climate change and conflict.

Esther next to a tent she lives in at a camp set up for displaced people at the Jehovas Witness Centre in Dondo, Mozambique. Cyclone Idai displaced thousands of people.

UNICEF/DE WET | Esther next to a tent she lives in at a camp set up for displaced people at the Jehovas Witness Centre in Dondo, Mozambique. Cyclone Idai displaced thousands of people.

That’s the premise of a new UN report which argues that understanding these connections can help policymakers and donors to mitigate risks of violence and support the building of resilient, inclusive and peaceful societies.

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10/06/2020

‘Forests and Trees, Critical for Promoting Pollination. There Is an Urgent Need to Stop Their Habitat Degradation and Safeguard Biodiversity’

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Urgent need to stop the impact of habitat degradation and climate change

Photo: ©FAO/Gabriela Wiederkehr Guerra Male Xylocopa frontalis pollinating a Moringa oleifera tree in Peru

ROME, 9 June 2020 (FAO)* – Forests and trees are critical for promoting pollination by bees, butterflies and other animals, and there is an urgent need to stop their habitat degradation and safeguard biodiversity, according to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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10/06/2020

COVID-19: World Bank Confirms Deepest Recession Since World War II, Triggering a Dramatic Rise in Extreme Poverty

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(UN News)* — The COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5.2 per cent this year, representing the deepest recession since World War Two, and triggering a dramatic rise in extreme poverty, the World Bank said Monday [8 June 2020] in its latest Global Economic Prospects report.

UNDP Eurasia/Karen Cirillo | The coronavirus outbreak has had a severe impact on economies across the world.

In rich countries, economic activity is expected to decline by seven per cent as the coronavirus outbreak severely disrupts domestic demand and supply, trade and finance activities, it said.

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10/06/2020

New York Protesters Jailed in Crowded, Filthy Conditions

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*By Ida Sawyer, Acting Crisis and Conflict Director |*** ida_sawyer*

Locked Up for Hours Without Covid-19 Protections

9 June 2020 (Human Rights Watch)* — Police conduct in the United States – including unprovoked beatings, excessive force, and arbitrary arrests – has come under intense scrutiny as protests erupted after the police killing of George Floyd.

Let’s add to this list the police’s actively endangering people’s health during a pandemic.

Across the country, protesters, journalists, and sometimes bystanders have been arrested in large groups – often for breaking curfews, blocking traffic, failure to disperse, or other minor offenses.

Many were detained for hours in crowded cells with no masks, no hand sanitizer, and no way to stay apart. Police have reportedly torn the masks off some protesters when they were arrested, and many police officers seen at protests have not been wearing masks themselves.

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10/06/2020

The Elite’s COVID-19 Coup to Destroy Humanity that Is also Fast-Tracking Four Paths to Human Extinction

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By Robert J. Burrowes*

10 June 2020 — The global elite is conducting a coup that is designed to destroy all of the key elements of human society. It is doing this by destroying the essence of what it means to be human, by destroying the nature of existing human relationships, and by destroying the political, economic and social institutions of nation states.

Robert J. Burrowes

Intentionally or otherwise, the elite coup is also fast-tracking four paths to human extinction.

If this coup succeeds, the human individual will have been reduced to a digitized identity who lives in a ‘techno tyranny’ serving the global elite or Homo Sapiens will be extinct.

There is no third option unless we can defeat the coup and stop key structures and processes being put into place.

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10/06/2020

UN Chiefs Silenced by Big Powers with Vetoes

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By Thalif Deen*

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 9 2020 (IPS)* – The massive protests in more than 120 US cities over racial injustice and police brutality went global last week– amidst presidential threats of military force on demonstrators in Washington DC.

Protests in cities across the United States including in New York city. Credit: UN News/Shirin Yaseen

At the same time, there were continued political demonstrations against the imposition of authoritarianism in Hong Kong by the current dominating military power there: China.

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