Archive for December 10th, 2024

10/12/2024

Racism

Human Wrongs Watch

By Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service

2 Dec 2024 – Racism is at the core of Western societies complicity in Israeli’s genocide against the Arab Palestinians. That is self-evident.

The United States and Britain are more than accomplices; they are co-belligerents. The behavior of all has been constant over 14 months of graphic depiction day-by-day of atrocities of the most heinous kinds.

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Racism, though, is a multifaceted phenomenon. It encompasses a wide range of attitudes and actions.

They should be parsed as a precondition for analyzing which have been operative in this case, how they shaped policies and interventions, how reconciled with the values of liberal democracies, and how sustained in the face of such glaring criminal abuses of humanity.

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10/12/2024

Haiti Gang Massacre

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — At least 184 people, including 127 elderly men and women, were killed in Haiti’s Wharf Jérémie neighbourhood of Cité Soleil over the weekend, prompting strong condemnation from Secretary-General António Guterres.

Gangs control the majority of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
© UNOCHA/Giles Clarke |Gangs control the majority of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
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According to local reports, the elderly victims were massacred under the orders of a gang leader in the area who consulted a voodoo priest after his son fell ill and died, who pinned the blame for the mystery illness on elders using witchcraft.
10/12/2024

Latin America’s Poor Are More Urban and More Vulnerable

Human Wrongs Watch

CARACAS, Dec 9 2024 (IPS)* Poverty, while declining in Latin America and the Caribbean so far this century, shows a new face, that of the looming vulnerability of the poor as they become less rural and more urban, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says in a new analysis. | En español 
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The Altos de Florida neighbourhood in southwest Bogotá shows the shift from rural to urban landscapes. Credit: UNDP

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