Archive for May 7th, 2022

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07/05/2022

Indigenous Peoples of Latin America in the Light of Drug Trafficking

Human Wrongs Watch

BY GILBERTO LÓPEZ Y RIVAS FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS*

(IWGIA – International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs)* — Organized crime pressures communities to grow poppy and marijuana. The strategy of “combating drug trafficking” militarizes territories and dispossesses Indigenous peoples of their natural resources.

Poppy cultivation in Mexico. Photo: Salvador Cisneros

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Posted in Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Migrants and Refugees, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples | Leave a Comment »

07/05/2022

Revealed: The Shocking Extent of Exploitative Baby Formula Milk Marketing

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal

MADRID, May 6 2022 (IPS)* – The world’s leading health and children specialised organisations have once again sounded the alarm bell about what they classify as “shocking, insidious, exploitative, aggressive, misleading and pervasive” marketing tricks used by the baby formula milk business with the sole aim of increasing, even more, their already high profits.

The global formula milk industry, valued at some 55 billion US dollars, is targeting new mothers with personalised social media content that is often not recognisable as advertising. Photo by Lucy Wolski on Unsplash

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Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples | Leave a Comment »

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