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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
Your Guide to Bailout People, Not Corporations!
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.
Robert J. Burrowes,
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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25/04/2020
Stuck in a Foreign Land with No Passport or Work
Human Wrongs Watch
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I support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport – and my cleaning work has stopped with lockdown. #HumansofCOVID19
“My employers fear that I might infect them because I share an apartment with other people | Selam Abebe
24 April 2020 (openDemocracy)* — I am a domestic worker. I clean people’s houses. I am from Ethiopia but I came here to Lebanon nine years ago. I could only finish grade nine at home and then I had to start working. But I was earning a very low salary in a beauty salon back home in Ethiopia, so I came to Beirut.
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25/04/2020
Race against Time
A farmer in South Sudan’s Northern Bari Payam in Central Equatoria State holding seeds received at an FAO distribution. Between 3-4 April 2020, FAO distributed seeds and farming tools to 500 households in the area. ©FAO/Mayak Akuot
24 April 2020 (FAO)*— The coronavirus pandemic has triggered movement restrictions all over the world. In South Sudan, FAO has had to find new ways to work in order to get much-needed seeds to farmers in time for the coming planting season. Without these seeds, farming families could face a food crisis within the global health crisis.
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24/04/2020
Is Covid-19 Our New Religion, and the Face Mask Its Cross?
Human Wrongs Watch
By Helen Buyniski*
You don’t have to be near people – or even alive! – to wear a mask… © Reuters / Mike Blake / Sergio Moraes
23 Apr, 2020 (RT)* — As fear and uncertainty swirl around the Covid-19 epidemic, an invisible evil potentially lurking anywhere, protective measures like masks have taken on a talismanic quality, and a religion built on shaming ‘heretics’ is growing.
Unable to see the microscopic “enemy” and bereft of a scientifically proven cure, those seeking deliverance from the new coronavirus are left with only their faith that the measures prescribed by health experts –our scientific priest class– will work to keep it at bay. That’s all well and good until those who buck the new orthodoxy are scapegoated for the plague.
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24/04/2020
Escaping Death: Two Teenage Girls Journey to Safety
By Mennatallah Homaid, Media and Communications Assistant, IOM Yemen*
“Before I came to Yemen, I was full of hope about the life I would have in the Gulf,” said seventeen-year-old Almaz. “But nobody told me about the war.”
Close to six years of conflict in Yemen have had little impact on the number of people travelling on the Eastern Route from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Gulf. Many are not aware that they will enter a conflict zone by making the sea voyage across the Gulf of Aden.
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