A voting session. PHOTO:©International Cooperative Alliance
3 July 2021 (United Nations)* — This July 3rd, the International Day of Cooperatives (#CoopsDay) will be celebrated as “Rebuild better together”.
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03/07/2021
Culture as Combat: Palestinian Voices
Human Wrongs Watch
By Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Festivals, Museums and Awards
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Richard Falk
In stirring opening remarks at the international 2021 mega-conference, Palestine Writes, Susan Abulhawa asserts that “… this festival is meant to expand Palestine’s cultural imprint in the world.”
Such an imprint is being achieved by Palestinian cultural creativity, inscribing the Palestinian struggle and the distinctive spirit of the Palestinian people at the center of the moral and political imagination of persons of conscience around the world.
By so doing, Israel’s concerted attempt to remove the Palestinian struggle from the global agenda is being thwarted, discredited, and increasingly likely, reversed.
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03/07/2021
Small Family Farms Make Up 85% of All Farms Worldwide; Yet the People Who Live on Them Constitute the Majority of the Rural Poor
03/07/2021
If “A Nuclear War Must Never Be Fought,” Then …
Human Wrongs Watch
A UN meeting on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, 26 September. Credit: UN Photo/Kim Haughton
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03/07/2021
Some 4.4 Million Nigerians Facing ‘Catastrophic Food Conditions’
Human Wrongs Watch
2 July 2021 (UN News)* — Some 4.4 million people in Nigeria are facing what the UN humanitarian office, OCHA, is describing as “catastrophic food conditions”.
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03/07/2021
Ethiopia: 400,000 in Tigray Cross ‘Threshold into Famine’, with Nearly 2 Million on the Brink
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Senior UN officials on 2 July 2021 appealed for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Tigray – and for an end to deadly attacks on aid workers – as the Security Council held its first open meeting on the conflict in the restive northern Ethiopian region.
Painting a grim picture, Ramesh Rajasingham, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that 400,000 people have “crossed the threshold into famine” – with another 1.8 million on the brink of following them.
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02/07/2021
Dalit and Muslim Indian Women Leading Change in South Sudan
Human Wrongs Watch
– Two Indian women, one Muslim and the other Dalit (former untouchables), separated by culture and geography, have found common ground in leading change in conflict-torn South Sudan.
Rama Hansraj
Rama Hansraj, a Dalit, grew up in a humble railway colony in Secunderabad. Huma Khan, a Muslim, born and raised in the controversial north Indian city of Faizabad, now Ayodhya, home to the demolished Babri Masjid.
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02/07/2021
Indigenous Communities in Danger of Being Erased from the Map in Brazil
02/07/2021
Why Boosting Nature-Positive Food Production Makes Economic Sense
2 July 2021 (UNEP)* — The world’s first-ever international Food Systems Summit is slated for September 2021 and seeks to galvanize a global commitment and action to transform our food systems.
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©FAO/Maxim Zmeyev
With almost 690 million people going hungry in 2019, and most current farming practices driving biodiversity loss and global heating, there is an urgent need to take stock and change direction.
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02/07/2021
Ethiopians Go to the Polls Even After the US Tells Them Not to
Human Wrongs Watch
By Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia are now alarming US political and military elites by forming an alliance and threatening to chart an independent path in the Horn of Africa. Many Ethiopians expressed enthusiasm for what they consider the country’s first real, competitive election.
On Monday, June 21st, Ethiopians went to the polls to select a parliament, which will elect a prime minister, even though US officials told them not to, warning of chaos and violence. Maybe they think it’s arrogant of the United States to presume to be the global arbiter of peace, justice, and democracy.
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