Archive for May 18th, 2023

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18/05/2023

Nothing Beats Bushmeat, Not Even the Risk of Disease

Human Wrongs Watch

By Busani Bafana

BULAWAYO, May 18 2023 (IPS)* – Meat from wild animals is relished across Africa and widely traded, but scientists are warning that eating bush meat is a potential health risk, especially in the wake of pandemics like COVID-19.
 
Freshly slaughtered bush meat is being consumed even though it may have health risks.

Freshly slaughtered bush meat is being consumed even though it may have health risks.

A study at the border settlements of Kenya and Tanzania has found that while people have been aware of the risks associated with eating bushmeat, especially after the COVID-19 outbreak, they don’t worry about hunting and eating wild animals that could transmit diseases.

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18/05/2023

More Support Urgently Needed for Latin American and Caribbean Countries, Which Host Most of the 20 Million Forcibly Displaced People in the Americas

Human Wrongs Watch

PANAMA CITY (UNHCR)* – UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Kelly T. Clements on 17 May 2023 appealed urgently for more support for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, which host most of the 20 million forcibly displaced people in the Americas.

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UN Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements during her visit to Panama’s Darien region, where over 150,000 refugees and migrants have arrived since the start of the year. © UNHCR/Melissa Pinel

“While the increase in the number of people approaching the United States border has attracted a lot of attention, it is important to remember that most forcibly displaced people stay in Latin America,” said Clements.

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18/05/2023

UN Human Rights Expert Exposes $1 Billion ‘Death Trade’ in Arms for Myanmar Military

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(UN NEWS)* — The Myanmar military has imported at least $1 billion in arms and raw materials to manufacture weapons since generals staged their coup in February 2021, according to a new report released on Wednesday [] by the UN-appointed independent expert monitoring and investigating human rights abuses in the country.

Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, briefs reporters at UN Headquarters.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, briefs reporters at UN Headquarters.

The report states that some “UN Member States are enabling this trade” through a combination of outright complicity, lax enforcement of existing bans, and easily circumvented sanctions, according to a news release from the UN rights office OHCHR.Access to advanced weaponry
“Despite overwhelming evidence of the Myanmar military’s atrocity crimes against the people of Myanmar, the generals continue to have access to advanced weapons systems, spare parts for fighter jets, raw materials and manufacturing equipment for domestic weapons production,” said UN Special Rapporteur, Tom Andrews.

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18/05/2023

War for Profit: A Very Short History

Human Wrongs Watch

By Brad Wolf | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service*

As they did over a century ago ahead of World War I, the Merchants of Death thrive behind a veil of duplicity and slick media campaigns.

Munition workers painting shells at the National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, UK in 1917. This was one of the largest shell factories in the country, circa 1917. (Photo by Horace Nicholls/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

8 May 2023 – The senseless slaughter of World War I began with the murder of a single man, a Crown Prince of a European empire whose name no one was particularly familiar with at the time. Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria was the presumptive heir to the Austrian-Hungarian empire in June of 1914.

His assassin was a young Bosnian Serb student and the murder of the Crown Prince set off a cataclysmic series of events resulting in the deaths of over 20 million people, half of whom were civilians. An additional 20 million people were wounded.

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