10/02/2018
10 February 2018 (Wall Street International)* — In this era of “post-truth” – and even much earlier – it has become more evident than ever that one thing is to preach transparency, rights, fairness, the rule of law, etc., and quite a different thing is to apply these principles to oneself. See what’s on.
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A new study by Tax Justice Network has revealed that Switzerland is the world’s most-corrupt country, with a high secrecy score of 76. The US ranks second, while several European countries hold high positions in the list, ahead of many poor, developing nations.
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26/01/2018
Maids prepare a room for a guest in a wealthy Kenyan household, 2011. Ph Guillaume Bonn | Photo from Wall Street International.
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See what is at stake.
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25/01/2018
Some unavoidable, pressing questions, however, impose themselves while the world’s business pundits meet (23-26 January 2018) in the icy resort of Davos in Switzerland, pronouncing thousands of ‘politically correct’ words about inequality, gender and the future of the youth.
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11/01/2018
In fact, in May 2014 around 1.000 Greenpeace volunteers and activists in 110 cities across Europe participated in the European day of action to spotlight the crucial role of bees and other pollinators for our food and agriculture.
Honeybees and wild pollinators play a crucial role in agriculture and food production… however, the current chemical-intensive agriculture model is threatening both, and thereby putting food supply at risk, Greenpeace had already warned a year earlier to the European Day.
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05/01/2018
6 January 2018 (Wall Street International) – They are as many as one billion human beings, often geographically isolated, living on the political and economic margins of their countries, and thus more prone to hunger and poverty.
On top of this, they are increasingly affected by climate change and climate-induced disasters. As a logic, understandable consequence, the mountain people become more vulnerable. And so they migrate to urban areas and even abroad.
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01/01/2018
(Wall Street International) Apologising again! While the previous article Once Upon a Time a Planet… may have disturbed you by presenting a sharp panoramic picture showing how dangerous human-made pollution is now, this Part II might probably molest with you another situation in which most of us are involved… hopefully inadvertently!
It is simply about the growing voracious consumption in particular in rich societies, and the never-stoppable commercial greed dominating worldwide. See what happens:
When you go to the supermarket, you will be challenged with tremendously attractive, almost irresistible “bargains” such as, “Pay 2, Take 3”! “Special Offer,” or simply “Save”!
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21/12/2017
MADRID, Dec 20 2017 (IPS) – If you are in Madrid and have some spare time, just go to an area which residents consider a “high class” neighbourhood situated in a district bordering Barrio de Salamanca, one of the richest areas in the Spanish capital.
In a main street between Plaza del Ecuador and Plaza de la República Domenicana, in Barrio de Hispanoamérica” neighbourhood, Madrid. Credit: IPS/Baher Kamal
There you will see relatively modern buildings next to old houses constructed under Francisco Franco’s rule (1939-1975) and sold to military officials at token prices.
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20/12/2017
ROME, Dec 18 2017 (IPS) –
While the media may be attracted by images of migrants drowning or sold as slaves, another flagrant but lesser-known drama is that of care workers, who are overwhelmingly women, often migrants, and who make a very large contribution to global public health, but are exposed to great health risks themselves with little or no protection, let alone basic labour rights.
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Migrant women care workers buttress health systems in countries where there are shortfalls in health-care provision, while their own rights to health and well-being can be eroded and their health-care needs unfulfilled, the UN leading health agency reminded on the occasion of the World Migrants Day on 18 December.
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14/12/2017
ROME, Dec 13 2017 (IPS) – “European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya,” Amnesty International charged in the wake of global outrage over the sale of migrants in Libya.
In Libya, dozens of migrants sleep alongside one another in a cramped cell in Tripoli’s Tariq al-Sikka detention facility. Credit: UNHCR/Iason Foounten
In its new report, ‘Libya’s dark web of collusion’, Amnesty International (AI) details how European governments are actively supporting a sophisticated system of abuse and exploitation of refugees and migrants by the Libyan Coast Guard, detention authorities and smugglers in order to prevent people from crossing the Mediterranean.
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13/12/2017
… But the reality is there and we cannot turn a blind eye on it, at least not always. And the reality says that we are seven billion inhabitants plus of the only Planet we actually know and live in—Mother Earth.
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And that we are all involved –either as perpetrators or victims, either actively or passively- in an amazing, unstopped process of self-destruction.
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