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(UN News)* — The Indian Government must urgently comply with a Supreme Court order to ensure the wellbeing of more than 100 million migrant workers, after coronavirus measures left them jobless, forcing them to travel long distances home, UN independent human rights experts said on Thursday [4 June 2020].
(UN News)* — A campaign to eradicate illegal drugs in the Philippines that began in 2016 has led to the killing of at least 8,600 people but the real figure could be three times that number, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Thursday [4 June 2020].
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In a report citing “near-impunity” for the killings, which have continued along with other alleged abuses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN office noted that the High Commissioner for Human Rights stood ready to assist “credible efforts towards accountability”, both nationally and internationally
3 June 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The Age of Reason, or the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas during the 17th to 19th centuries.
On 19 August 1982, at its emergency special session on the question of Palestine, the General Assembly, “appalled at the great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel’s acts of aggression”, decided to commemorate 4 June of each year as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
This country reached 18 consecutive days without having a regular health minister.
Image of Jair Bolsonaro against the background of mass graves in Brazil, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @ptbrasil
3 June 2020 (teleSUR)* — When asked for a word for the relatives of the COVID-19 victims, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro replied that death “is everyone’s destiny” on Tuesday [2 June 2020], a day in which his country recorded new records of infections and deaths.
“I regret all the dead but it is everyone’s destiny,” Bolsonaro told a supporter who, after mentioning passages from the Bible, asked him for a message for the mourners.
– Indonesia’s founding President Sukarno delivered his annual Independence or National Day address on 17 August 1964 anticipating the forthcoming year as Tahun vivere pericoloso, the ‘year of living dangerously’. 2020 may well be the world’s turn, and not only due to the obvious Covid-19 threat to the world.
US as number one
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the US became the world’s sole superpower.
Many argue that after abandoning its pre-Second World War isolationism to become the post-war hegemon, the US has needed threats to justify ever rising military spending for the US ‘military-industrial complex’, as President (General) Dwight D. Eisenhower warned.
This decision affects Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, and Xiamen Airlines.
Air China Airbus A330-300 | Photo: Twitter/ @NewsRadio1470
3 June 2020 (teleSUR)* — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that all regular flights by Chinese civilian airlines to and from the United States will be suspended beginning June 16.
(UN News)* — Voices calling for an end to “the endemic and structural racism that blights US society” must be heard and understood, for the country to move past its “tragic history of racism and violence”, the UN Human Rights chief said on Wednesday [3 June 2020].
(UN News)* — A dozen countries in the Asia-Pacific region have seen an alarming clampdown on freedom of expression during the COVID-19 crisis, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday [3 June 2020].
In her appeal to authorities that any action they take to stop the spread of false information should adhere to the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, Ms. Bachelet said that “in these times of great uncertainty”, citizens had a right to voice their concerns.
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