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Her husband was 25 years her senior, and immediately abusive. He never missed an opportunity to remind her that she was “just a bargaining chip,” she said.
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28/03/2020
Former Child Bride, Once Sold to Pay Debts, Finds a New Start
Human Wrongs Watch
KURDISTAN, Iraq, 26 March 2020 (UNFPA)* – Intisar* was only 15 years old when her parents forced her into a marriage. She described it as an act of commerce: They sold her to another family to pay off a debt. “It is the worst feeling in the world to be traded off like that by the people who are supposed to protect you,” said the now-37-year-old Intisar, during a recent interview.
A woman in Iraq. © UNFPA Iraq/Seivan Salim
27/03/2020
Democracy in Brazil Would Not Be Normal, Bolsonaro Threatens
Human Wrongs Watch
The far-right president hints that a regime more authoritarian than Chile’s Augusto Pinochet dictatorship could be the “price to pay” due to the “chaos” that the “small flu” triggers.
President Jair Bolsonaro at a press conference in Brasilia, Brazil, March 23, 2020. | Photo: EFE (Photo posted here from teleSur’s article).
26 March 2020 (teleSUR)* — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro Wednesday [25 March 2020] affirmed that democracy runs the risk of “ending” if the crisis caused by the coronavirus leads to “chaos.”
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27/03/2020
Brazil: ‘Covid-19 Can Decimate Indigenous Peoples’ Doctor Warns
Respiratory diseases have been the leading cause of death among indigenous populations.
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Guarani Mbya Indigenous people near the Jaragua village, Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 10, 2020. | Photo: EFE (Photo posted here from teleSUR’s article).
25 March 2020 (teleSUR)* — The Sao Paulo Federal University (UNIFESP) researcher Sofia Mendonca Wednesday warned that Brazilian Indigenous peoples can be decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic if there are no forceful containment actions.
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26/03/2020
Linked Dangers to Civilization
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery
Many of the serious dangers that we face today can be addressed by reforming our economic systems
Reforming our economic systems | Image from Wall Street International.
25 March 2020 (Wall Street International)* — I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the most serious dangers which the world faces today. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link.
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26/03/2020
‘We Urgently Need to Raise Our Voices against All Expressions of Racism and Instances of Racist Behaviour’ – Int’l Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — In his message for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, observed on Wednesday [25 March 2020], the UN Secretary-General called for the dismantling of racist structures and institutions so that the world can move forward.
25/03/2020
The Coronavirus Is Not the Plague: The Plague Is US
Human Wrongs Watch
By Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service*
“Two categories of propaganda must be distinguished. The first strives to create a permanent disposition in its objects and constantly needs to be reinforced. Its goal is to make the masses ‘available,’ by working spells upon them and exercising a kind of fascination.
Edward Curtin
The second category involves the creation of a sort of temporary impulsiveness in its objects. It operates by simple pressure and is often contradictory (since contradictory mass movement are sometimes necessary).” – Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
The French-Algerian writer Albert Camus’ great 1947 novel, The Plague, is a warning to us today, but a warning in disguise.
When he died sixty years ago at the young age of forty-six, he had already written The Stranger, The Fall, and The Plague, and had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The outward story of The Plague revolves around a malignant disease that breaks out in a town that is quarantined when the authorities issue a state of emergency.
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25/03/2020
COVID-19: India Imposes a 21-Day Lockdown, in Line with WHO Guidance
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — India’s decision to impose a 21-day lockdown, which was announced on Tuesday [24 March 2020], comes after a call from the UN health agency, WHO, for the country to take “aggressive action”.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s order for the country’s 1.3 billion people to stay home, is an escalation of the 07:00 – 21:00 “Janata curfew” introduced on March 22, and it comes a day after the government grounded all domestic flights.
25/03/2020
Radical Missionaries in the Amazon Put Isolated Tribes at Risk
Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus could wipe out any of Brazil’s indigenous isolated tribes.
Around 100 isolated groups live in Brazil’s Amazon with 16 of them in the same reserve in the Javari Valley. | Photo: EFE (Photo posted here from teleSUR’s article).
24 March 2020 (teleSUR)* — Isolated tribes in the Brazilian Amazon are at high risk of contracting deadly diseases including the coronavirus because of missionaries who swore to convert all of them, a report from the Guardian published Monday revealed.
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24/03/2020
Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Human Wrongs Watch
By Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service*
A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
British scholars of the 19th century classified the peoples and races as Civilized, Barbarians and Savages, based on their respective “evolutions.” Such classification was based primarily on three factors:
- Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution;
- the Industrial Revolution in the beginning of industrial capitalism; and
- the Reformation of the Catholic Church, the schism from which Protestantism arose.
False premises that led to false conclusions.
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