Archive for ‘Latin America & Caribbean’

29/07/2020

Is the United States a Failing State? A Failed State?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service*

To ask whether the United States, the world’s dominant military power, is ‘a failing state’ should cause worldwide anxiety. Such a state, analogous to a wounded animal, is a global menace of unprecedented proportions in the nuclear age.

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Richard Falk

Its political leadership is exhibiting a reckless tendency of combining incompetence with extremism. It is also crucial to ascertain at what point a failing state should be written off as ‘a failed state’ for which there is no longer a clear path to redemption.

The November elections will send a strong signal as to whether the United States is failing or has failed.

Even raising these issues suggests how far the United States has fallen during the Trump years, despite already being in sharp decline internationally ever since the Vietnam War, and continuing, despite a few redemptive moves (now renounced), during the Obama presidency.

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29/07/2020

‘Thousands of Refugees and Migrants Are Dying, Many Others Suffer Extreme Human Rights Abuses on Journeys to Africa’s Mediterranean Coast’

29/07/2020

‘Every Country in the World Is Affected by Human Trafficking’

Human Wrongs Watch

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Globally countries are detecting and reporting more victims and are convicting more traffickers. This can be the result of increased capacity to identify victims and/or an increased number of trafficked victims.
29/07/2020

Forced Labour, Prostitution and Child Marriages: Rescuing Victims of Human Trafficking in Malawi

Human Wrongs Watch

29 July 2020 (UN News)* — Human trafficking is a problem in Malawi, with teenage boys forced to work as farm labourers, and young women to sexual exploitation in nightclubs or bars. The UN is supporting the Malawian governments to end the practice and protect vulnerable people.

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28/07/2020

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

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Working on the frontline to end human trafficking

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28 July 2020 (United Nations)* — This year, we will focus on the first responders to human trafficking. These are the people who work in different sectors – identifying, supporting, counselling and seeking justice for victims of trafficking, and challenging the impunity of the traffickers.

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28/07/2020

The International Criminal Court’s Enormous Importance

Human Wrongs Watch

By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*

The Power to Make and Enforce Laws Acting on Individuals

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John Scales Avery

The history of the Federal Constitution of the United States is an interesting one. It was preceded by the Articles of Confederation, which were written by the Second Continental Congress between 1776 and 1777, but it soon became clear that Confederation was too weak a form of union for a collection of states.

George Mason, one of the drafters of the Federal Constitution, believed that “such a government was necessary as could directly operate on individuals, and would punish those only whose guilt required it’”, while another drafter, James Madison, wrote that the more he reflected on the use of force, the more he doubted “the practicality, the justice and the efficacy of it when applied to people collectively, and not individually.”

Finally, Alexander Hamilton, in his Federalist Papers, discussed the Articles of Confederation with the following words:

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28/07/2020

How Kenya’s Indigenous Ogiek Are Using Modern Technology to Validate Their Land Rights

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CHEPKITALE, Kenya , Jul 21 2020 (IPS)* – The Ogiek community, indigenous peoples from Kenya’s Chepkitale National Reserve, are in the process of implementing a modern tool to inform and guide the conservation and management of the natural forest. The community has inhabited this area for many generations, long before Kenya was a republic. Through this process, they hope to get the government to formally recognise their customary tenure in line with the Community Land Act.

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28/07/2020

Global Symposium to Consider Relationship between Weather, Climate and Environmental Factors and the Spread of COVID-19

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The coronavirus pandemic continues to spread globally, within a wide range of climates and seasonal and environmental settings.

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26/07/2020

COVID-19 Does Not Exist: The Global Elite’s Campaign of Terror Against Humanity

Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert J. Burrowes*

There is no COVID-19 virus. It does not exist. If you ask any doctor or scientist in the world to show you a scientifically-verified proof that it does exist, they will not be able to show you one.

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Robert J. Burrowes,

Given that it has not been scientifically established that the COVID-19 virus exists, it is therefore clear that everything being done supposedly in the effort to tackle the ‘virus’ is being done for another purpose and COVID-19 is being used to conceal this fact.

However, with the elite-driven narrative being endlessly promoted by the World Health Organisation, governments, the medical and pharmaceutical industries, along with the corporate media, the truth is being obliterated.

And the reason for this is obvious: Any serious consideration of the underlying evidence, as I have documented previously, clearly indicates that the global elite is conducting a coup against humanity and using the fear it generates around COVID-19 to distract people from paying attention to what is happening in the background.

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26/07/2020

UN Refugee Agency Stresses Urgent Need for States to End Unlawful Detention of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers, amidst Pandemic

DetnetionUNHCR calls for all arbitrary detainees to be released due to COVID-19.  © UNHCR/Kitty McKinsey

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