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28/04/2020
‘Protect Workers Both Now and After Lockdowns Ease’ – International Labour Organization on World Day for Safety and Health at Work
Human Wrongs Watch
The International Labour Organization warns that without adequate safeguards for returning workers there could be a second wave of the virus.
GENEVA, 28 April 2020 (ILO)* – As the pressure mounts on countries to ease their lockdown restrictions, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has urged Governments to take action to prevent and control COVID-19 in the workplace , with active involvement and dialogue with employers’ and workers’ organizations.
28/04/2020
‘Toxic Lockdown Culture’ of Repressive Coronavirus Measures Hits Most Vulnerable
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Disturbing details have emerged from dozens of countries that a “toxic lockdown culture” against the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted drastically on society’s most vulnerable members, the UN human rights Office (OHCHR) said on Monday [27 April 2020].
The development follows UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s call last week for States not to use the COVID crisis as a pretext for repressive measures, in which he urged Governments to recognize that the threat was the “virus, not people”.
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28/04/2020
How Refugees Are Helping European Overwhelmed Health Systems’ COVID-19 Response
Human Wrongs Watch
27 April 2020 (UN News)* — With many European health services struggling to deal with an influx of COVID-19 patients, many refugees and migrants with experience in the sector, are being drafted in to help respond to the crisis.
27/04/2020
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26/04/2020
Chernobyl Still Burns
(Greenpeace)* — The wildfires started on April 3rd, due to abnormally hot, dry and windy weather. They are now the biggest fires ever recorded in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. What is one of the largest wildlife areas in Europe will take years to recover.
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26/04/2020
The Persistent Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster
The memorial to the firefighters of Chernobyl, a monument that pays tribute to the first responders to the disaster in April 1986. Many of these firefighters were exposed to large doses of radiation in the minutes and hours following the accident. Photo: Dana Sacchetti/IAEA
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26 April 2020 (United Nations)* — An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 spread a radioactive cloud over large parts of the Soviet Union, now the territories of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
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Nearly 8.4 million people in the three countries were exposed to the radiation.
26/04/2020
The Psychology of the COVID-19 Coup: The Elite, their Victims and those who Resist
Human Wrongs Watch
By Robert J. Burrowes*
As the elite coup against humanity continues to gather pace – see ‘The Elite’s COVID-19 Coup Against a Terrified Humanity: Resisting Powerfully’ – it is invaluable to observe the way in which the dysfunctional and violent psychology of the global elite, including those of its members who have a significant public profile such as Bill Gates, is revealed more starkly.
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At the same time, it is interesting to observe the vast number of fearfully submissive people who are willing to accept, or even ask for, greater constraints on our rights, freedom and economic security, ostensibly to ‘protect’ them from a virus.
Sadly, too, the fear of these people plays a critical collaborative role in both advancing the elite coup and condemning millions of others to death as the economic consequences of the destruction of the global economy inflicts its devastating impacts on those least able to cope with it.
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26/04/2020
‘No Evidence’ that Recovered COVID-19 Patients Cannot Be Reinfected – World Health Organization
Human Wrongs Watch
25 April 2020 (UN News)* — The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that there is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.
In a scientific brief issued on Friday [24 April 2020], the UN health agency said there was no proof that one-time infection could lead to immunity, and “laboratory tests that detect antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 [the virus that causes COVID-19] in people…need further validation to determine their accuracy and reliability.
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