28/05/2019
UNITED NATIONS, May 28 2019 (IPS)* – As it relentlessly pursues its strongly pro-Israeli policy – along with its disdain for multilateralism – the Trump administration continued to display its hostility towards the United Nations and its humanitarian agencies at a meeting of the UN Security Council focusing on the recent escalation of violence in Gaza.
The administration’s three hardline objectives were best reflected as they converged on a single political crossroad when the US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt told the Security Council May 22 it was time to dismantle the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which has supported Palestinian refugees since it began operations back in 1950.
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28/05/2019
27 May 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Human beings by nature are essentially territorial and emotionally sensitive. Depending on the person of course, under certain stress situations, or under the influence of certain behaviors of insecurity and paranoia, it is possible to develop very dangerous manners when dealing with interpersonal relationships, and wanting to control/manipulate others in the actual digital world can become something natural and overalls, frighteningly common.
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Of course, watching/spying implies a serious threat to privacy and individuality, but spy technologies today have ceased to be a Hollywood theme to become a reality within everyone’s scope.
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28/05/2019
Only immediate climate action can save the future. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world are on the horizon.
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A speech by Bill Moyers
At an April 30 conference entitled “Covering Climate Now”, co-sponsored by The Nation andColombia Journalism Review, Bill Moyers made a speech which included the following remarks:
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27/05/2019
Valdecir Nascimento has been part of the women’s rights movement in Brazil for 40 years. When asked what inspired her, she said, “being a black woman in Brazil”.*
Valdecir Nascimento. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
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“Right now, there is a lot of aggression in the daily lives of black women in Brazil—in public spaces, in banks, hospitals, everywhere.
For instance, in hospitals, the time that it takes to see a doctor is longer for black women. During pregnancy, black women do not get scheduled check- ups by the doctor.
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27/05/2019
One-in-three girls or women will experience physical or sexual violence in her lifetime, and “the risk multiplies” during a conflict or natural disaster, the Executive Director of UNICEF told delegates attending the first-ever “Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Humanitarian Crises Conference” on Friday [24 May 2019], in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
OCHA/Giles Clarke | Jehan, 17, fled her hometown of Marib for the Khamir IDP settlement in Yemen at the beginning of the war in 2015. She lost her eyesight in the right eye after her husband beat and abused her before abandoning her. She’s now living with other family members in a dilapidated shelter. (14 April 2017)
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27/05/2019
By Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs | CEPR-Center for Economic and Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Executive Summary
This paper looks at some of the most important impacts of the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US government since August of 2017. It finds that most of the impact of these sanctions has not been on the government but on the civilian population.
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27/05/2019
How long will the myth of white supremacy bind white Americans?
26 May 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Most of America’s wars have been fought by those without the money or power to avoid military service. The Civil War is a dark example of the influence of class and ultimately racism upon the outcome of the conflict.
The Civil War has been characterized as “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.” Poor farmers and just plain folks in the South were antagonistic toward the elite planters and the war itself.
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26/05/2019
Cox’s Bazar, 24 May 2019 (IOM)* – Bangladesh is boosting efforts to combat human trafficking with a 2018-2022 national plan of action to improve enforcement through better inter-agency coordination, improved training of officers and harmonization of existing laws.
Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar’s vast, impoverished camps are highly vulnerable to human trafficking. Photo: IOM/Muse Mohammed
The plan, developed with technical support from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), was presented to local officials and counter trafficking specialists at a conference in Cox’s Bazar this week. It follows legislation passed in 2012 to counter human trafficking in this South Asian country of 160 million.
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26/05/2019
24 April 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Kierkegaard explained the sense of being masked, the use of disguise as something closely linked to the awareness of original sin. The experience of shame, according to him, led to the desire to dress, to hide nakedness. In this sense, for him, the mask was the shame of sin extended to the face itself.
Not accepting sin, not accepting to have failed results from illusion, from pretending not to have failed, not to have fallen, not to have being corrupted by desires and temptations.
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25/05/2019
15 May 2019 (International Work Group for indigenous Affairs – IGWIA)* — The global rush for natural resources is one of the biggest threats against indigenous peoples’ as they often live in remote areas which are still rich on natural resources. Unfortunately, indigenous peoples are increasingly being criminalised – or even killed – when defending their rights.
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Photo: Putla was 65 years old when she risked everything to stop the invasion of her villages land
In Cambodia, a collective effort and a courageous act by a 75-year-old woman helped the Souy people defend their land against an invading company with ties to the President.
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 