Secularism is a Women’s IssueWhat will likely happen is the U.S. will give millions of dollars to these re-gimes, not to the impoverished farmers and workers, under the ludicrous claim that such funds will address the issues, and not just line their pockets.
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USA: United States: Biden Continues Trump’s Policies on Refugees
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Almost Forgotten: Cambodia’s Anti-Colonial Nationalists
22 July, by siawi3Today, Con Dao prison in southern Vietnam is a museum dedicated to the Vietnamese who fought for independence from the French. But Cambodian nationalists were also locked up in that brutal space, and their story has been largely overlooked over the years.
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USA: Why Human Rights in China and Tigray, But Not in Haiti, Palestine or Colombia?
22 July, by siawi3The double standard in place: The pretense of democracy and the rule of law for them and colonial fascism for the nations and peoples of the global South.
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South Africa: INEQUALITY AND THE POLITICS OF DIVISION
22 July, by siawi3Violence was institutionalised during the years of apartheid. In the post-apartheid years, it has rarely been far from the surface – police violence, gangster violence, the violence of protest. What is being exposed now, however, is just how far the social contract that has held the nation together since the end of apartheid has eroded. More than half the population lives in poverty, a quarter in extreme poverty. Unemployment stands at more than 32%. Among youth, three out of four are jobless.
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U.S.-funded African clinics offer secret anti-gay ‘conversion therapy’
20 July, by siawi3None of the health facilities investigated publicly advertise ‘conversion therapy’, but workers offered it to undercover reporters on the ground.
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USA: Biden Acknowledges ‘Over the Horizon’ Air Attacks Planned Against Taliban
20 July, by siawi3Even though U.S. ground forces have largely left Afghanistan, it is clear that the Biden administration considers Afghanistan a legitimate battlefield for U.S. air forces. Certainly, continued U.S. air assaults in Afghanistan will generate money for U.S. military contractors. With continuing U.S. air and commando attacks, Afghanistan can turn into a Libya, a divided, stalemated, suffering, bleeding country, where Turkey, Russia and China test their weapons and seek advantage.
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U.S. Military Training Document Says Socialists Represent “Terrorist” Ideology
19 July, by siawi3A section of the training document subtitled “Study Questions” includes the following: “Anarchists, socialists and neo-nazis represent which terrorist ideological category?” The correct answer is “political terrorists,” a military source briefed on the training told me. The U.S. Navy has now removed the training document.
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Erdogan gets out of the Istanbul convention – For women in Turkey, the struggle continues
19 July, by siawi3On March 20th, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, issued a midnight decree, annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. Turkey the first signatory and, indeed, the first country to ratify it in 2012 in the national parliament, supported by aligned legislation, law no. 6284. There were at least 300 femicides, as well as 171 suspicious female deaths, in 2020 alone.
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Turquie : « Pour les femmes le combat continue »
19 juillet, par siawi3Le 20 mars, le président turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a publié un décret annulant la ratification par la Turquie de la Convention du Conseil de l’Europe sur la prévention et la lutte contre la violence à l’égard des femmes et la violence domestique. La Turquie a été non seulement l’hôte enthousiaste des négociations de la Convention il y a dix ans, mais aussi le premier signataire et, en fait, le premier pays à la ratifier par son parlement national. Il y a eu au moins 300 féminicides, ainsi que 171 décès suspects de femmes, rien qu’en 2020.
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Les travailleurs et travailleuses iraniennes de l’industrie pétrochimique se mettent en grève
19 juillet, par siawi3Les travailleurs iraniens du secteur pétrolier ont initié un mouvement de grève depuis le 19 juin 2021. Les revendications portent sur les retards de salaires, l’augmentation des salaires, les conditions de travail en termes de sécurité et de santé.
