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24/02/2019

Origin, Beginning and Causality

Human Wrongs Watch

By Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos*

24 February 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Wassily Kandinsky used to say that everything starts from a dot. He simplified, or forgot, that a dot is an intersection of lines.

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Wassily Kandinsky’s dots | Image from Wall Street International.

Kandinsky’s statement emphasizes ideas of beginning, of origin, of causality. When one thinks of beginning, of start, one looks for origins, for causes of the existing.

Discovering the beginning is the great question of science, it embraces every idea of creator and creature, referring to an absolute, an explanatory cause of everything.

Where does the self begin? When does the world begin? What is the cause of great passions and unfulfilled, interrupted encounters? What is the abysmal instant that collapses perspectives, the point responsible for change, for the contingent continuity that creates intersection?

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24/02/2019

“Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change,” UN Women Urges World Leaders on International Women’s Day

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The United Nations’ gender equality entity puts spotlight on public services, income security, safe spaces and technology to advance progress for women and girls.

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International Women's Day 2019: Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change

 

New York (UN Women)* –  In celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March, UN Women is celebrating its 2019 theme of “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”, along with hosting hundreds of festivities around the world through the organization’s global network.

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24/02/2019

Women and Human Rights – Front and Centre at the Oscar Ceremony this Year

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23 February 2019 — Gender equality, the marginalization of indigenous languages, migration, the refugee crisis, the lives of domestic workers, poverty… All these issues which are at the heart of the United Nations’ work, are also front and centre in some of the films celebrated this year at the Academy Awards.*

© UNHCR/Tom Pilston | Cate Blanchett (right), a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, at “Capernaum” film screening with director Nadine Labaki (left), in London, UK.
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Two women, Yalitza Aparicio and Nadine Labaki, could make history during the 91st Oscar ceremony taking place this Sunday [24 February 2019] in Los Angeles, in the United States.
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23/02/2019

Global Assault on NGOs Reaches Crisis Point as New Laws Curb Vital Human Rights Work

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Governments across the world are increasingly attacking non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by creating laws that subject them and their staff to surveillance, nightmarish bureaucratic hurdles and the ever-present threat of imprisonment, Amnesty International said in a new report released on .

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Amnesty International / Photo: Henning Schacht

Laws Designed to Silence: The Global Crackdown on Civil Society Organizations reveals the startling number of countries that are using bullying techniques and repressive regulations to prevent NGOs from doing their vital work.

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23/02/2019

US Plans to Deliver Arms to Venezuelan Opposition, Russia Warns

‘The United States hidden actions against Venezuela could unleash an internal armed struggle.’

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova at a press conference in Moscow, Russia, Mar. 15, 2018.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova at a press conference in Moscow, Russia, Mar. 15, 2018. | Photo: EFE | Photo from teleSUR.

22 February 2019 (teleSUR)* —  The Russian government warned Friday that the United States and its allies from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of planning to deliver arms to the Venezuelan opposition.

“We have evidence that U.S. companies and their NATO allies are working on the issue of acquiring a large batch of weapons and ammunition in an Eastern European country for their subsequent transfer to Venezuelan opposition forces,” the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said.

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23/02/2019

Venezuelan Refugees Now number 3.4 Million; Humanitarian Implications Massive, UN Warns

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As the number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela continues to rise – hitting the 3.4 million mark this month – United Nations agencies sounded the alarm on Friday [22 February 2019] over the humanitarian needs these women, children and men face, and the strain this represents for communities hosting them.

© UNHCR/Siegfried Modola | Venezuelan refugees and migrants cross the Simon Bolivar Bridge into Colombia, one of seven legal entry points on the Colombia-Venezuela border.

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the UN migration agency (IOM) issued statements based on data from national immigration authorities and other sources, showing that, on average, in 2018, 5,000 people left Venezuela every day in search of protection or a better life.

The vast majority of them – 2.7 million – are hosted in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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23/02/2019

Migrant Crisis in Europe? Look at Yemen

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BY HELEN LACKNER*

Just to be clear, this means that more desperate people crossed the Red Sea into Yemen in 2018 than crossed the Mediterranean heading for Europe. 

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Euronews screenshot.Dozens of Somali refugees killed in Saudi airstrikes off Yemen, 2017. Youtube.| Image from openDemocracy.

19 February 2019 (openDemocracy)* — While Brexit is giving UK residents a break from media focus on desperate people attempting to reach wealthy Europe by crossing the Mediterranean by sea, a few figures should help to put things in perspective, as the issue will surely soon re-emerge in the headlines.

Xenophobia remains a fundamental rallying cry of the right throughout Europe, including the UK, and is all too frequently manifested through Islamophobic populism.

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23/02/2019

Stopping Fish Bombing

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February 2019 (UN Environment)* — Sabah, Malaysia: George Woodman’s first experience of fish bombing in Sabah—a Malaysian state in the northern part of the island of Borneo—was in 1994 during an underwater survey of the area’s renowned coral reefs.

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Photo by Scubazoo | Photo from UN Environment.

“It’s not so much something you hear, but something you feel,” said Woodman, a founding member of the Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization Stop Fish Bombing!.

“At a range of a few kilometres, a fish bomb going off feels like you’ve been kicked in the chest by a horse,” he said.

Over the course of the four-month survey carried out by divers, his team experienced this extremely destructive fishing practice a few times a week.

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22/02/2019

“I’m really proud of what she is doing”

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Challenging gender norms by providing equal opportunities for both men and women

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Calista Maguramhinga is a lead farmer in FAO’s Livelihoods and Food Security Programme in Zimbabwe. She is teaching other farmers to benefit from conservation agriculture. ©FAO

21 February 2019 (FAO)* — When Calista Maguramhinga shows visitors a section of her half-hectare farm, she keeps a small notebook clutched in her hands with details of how she is growing her food.

On her farm, the maize plants are tall with green leaves and chunky cobs nearly ready to harvest. She points to one section: “Maize variety 633,” she says. “Plot prepared with tine ripper plow, planted 20 December with organic compost; fertilizer applied on 3 January and again on 20 January.”

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22/02/2019

The Biodiversity that Is Crucial for Our Food and Agriculture Is ‘Disappearing by the Day’, Putting the Future of Our Livelihoods, Health and Environment under ‘Severe Threat’

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FAO launches the first-ever global report on the state of biodiversity that underpins our food systems

Photo: ©FAO/Zinyange Auntony

Many associated biodiversity species, such as bees, are under severe threat.

ROME, 22 February 2019 (FAO)*  – The first-ever report of its kind presents mounting and worrying evidence that the biodiversity that underpins our food systems is disappearing – putting the future of our food, livelihoods, health and environment under severe threat.

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