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Observed on a pedestrian traffic lights in Northampton Street, Cambridge.
BBC, December 13, 2007: "The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for immediate political action to contain the "deep crisis" in the West Bank and Gaza.
The statement was an unusual departure from its normally non-political stance. The ICRC said the measures imposed by Israel had denied the Palestinian population the right to live a normal and dignified life".
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Evening prayers at a Tsunami-affected mosque surrounded by the sea, mountains and construction materials.
Activists and bloggers gathering at el-Khalifa police station to support detained blogger Ramy Siam.
Photo by Nora Younis
Worst day ever for humanity and our whole planet. And too many people still don`t get it. it fucks me off.
Back in 2016 the Francophinie summit was held in Madagascar and the ministry of population just decided to clean up the street to hide the poverty from being seen. They loaded an entire truck of homeless each night. Those human have been treated like a herd of zebu before being taken into a hangar. They were not allowed to go out during certain day and they were not given food.
"...be thou so steadfast in My love that thy heart shall not waver, even if the swords of the enemies rain blows upon thee and all the heavens and the earth arise against thee."
A teenage boy collecting sea shells along with his other family members.......
The unknown story of the broken sea shells collectors
At Udaypur sea beach (Bay of Bengal, 3km from Digha at the Bengal-Orissa state border), hundreds of poor villagers (80% of them are women) gather on a particular time of the day at the peak of the low tide. They all carry a small net basket for collecting broken shells following the line of the waves. When the baskets are half-filled they empty their catch at the beach and go back to the waves again. Finally the shells are packed in bags for selling. After two hours of continuous hard work, two people together can fill only a 30-kg bag selling for INR Rs 30 (USD 50 cents) only.
The shells are rich source of calcium carbonate, use in feeder mainly at the India's growing poultry industry. Also, it has great demand in making the white (lime) paint. Traders and middlemen are always waiting to exploit these poor villagers. They make on-the-spot payment, collect the bags and transport them to the local market for a hefty profit of 300% by selling each bag for at least Rs 120 (USD $ 2).
I personally talked to the shell collectors and found no Govt. intervention to stop this exploitation. The state government can easily intervene by forming a cooperative and collecting the shells themselves by their nodal agencies with a reasonable price.
Udaypur Sea Beach, Bay of Bengal
Images of Bengal, India
I am allways amazed from the incredible moral and even physicl strenght of african women.
Women’s rights around the world are an important indicator of understanding global well-being.
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Since my dire situation in #Greece seems to be to the liking of the countries from which I have been asking for help so far; I decided to plea with other countries as well if not for anything at least for urgent humanitarian relief and mediation in resolving this ongoing hostage-taking and my complete deprivation in this country.
#Japan is one of those countries. But the treatment I was given at their embassy in Athens last Thursday was not so different from what I have been experiencing in particular at the U.S. and Australian Embassies for all these years.
Because they also called the Police and I was eventually taken to the district Police Station where they held me in Custody for nearly 3 hours before I was being let go again, without ever being able to see anyone from Japan’s Embassy.
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“Abbiamo bisogno di sviluppare
una nuova cultura politica basata sui diritti umani.”
"We have need to develop one new political culture based on the human rights."
N. Mandela
Kanyashree Prakalpa - a big step in the right direction
West Bengal Government’s flagship programme, Kanyashree Prakalpa is a conditional cash transfer scheme for the promotion of girl’s education and prevention of forced child marriages. It is a unique child sensitive social protection scheme launched in October 2013 with technical assistance from UNICEF.
The scheme includes an annual scholarship of INR ₹500 (£5) for girls between the ages of 13-18 years to continue with their studies from upper primary up to higher secondary levels, and provided they are not married off before the legal age of 18 years. A one-time grant of INR ₹25,000 (GBP £250) is also provided to the girl, once she reaches the age of 18, to pursue higher studies.
Between October 2013 and March 2015, 2.22 million girl students of the state have enrolled in the scheme with a budget of GBP £100 million. The scheme's enrolment pattern is in line with its equity focus - girls from Scheduled Castes are 23.55% of the total beneficiaries while religious minorities are 23.45%, other backward classes are 8.69%, the Scheduled Tribes are 5.71% and from general castes are 37.51%.
The Kanyashree Prakalpa is run by the Department of Women Development and Social Welfare as nodal agency with convergent support of over 13 departments of Govt. of West Bengal besides other partners including the state's leading banks. The project is becoming popular because of its 'simplicity of design, easy accessibility, targeted- communication strategy, convergent implementation and focus on raising the financial, social and self worth of the girls'.
West Bengal Govt. has been given international recognition for this scheme by DFID (Department for International Development, UK) and UNICEF in 2014. UNICEF has supported the state Govt. in the preparation of the scheme Guidelines, its implementation and monitoring framework, its communication strategy, the scheme MIS and has supported an all-district baseline survey on key indicators. It is also technically facilitating regular assessments of the scheme to strengthen its governance, implementation and coverage.
See more at: unicef.in
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Say NO to violence against women and girls! SPREAD THIS CAMPAIGN.
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India and other Asian countries. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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In Greece they have mercilessly forced me into a perpetual state of deprivation since 2020. Although I rely on online donations to survive, the support I have received so far hasn’t been enough to provide proper nutrition and prevent possible starvation.
Both sides of my big placard are now filled with marks indicating the number of days I have been forced to starve outside the UNHCR office since after the placement of my sixth shelter in front of their office on August 31st, 2021. There is no help available to me in Greece, be it from the purported Humanitarian and Human Rights Organizations in the country or the civil society.
Years of forced starvation in Greece have been taking a toll on my health and body every day. Despite being 37-years-old, currently, I weigh less than 30 kilos. The pictures captured on June 09th, 2023, depicting my emaciated body, are truly terrifying.
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“All Night, All Day, We Will Fight for Freddie Gray!”: Justice for Freddie Gray: Baltimore Rallies for Justice in the Death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore, Maryland, Saturday, April 25, 2015.
Salaam Kanaan (20) is Arafat Kanaan's sister, and like Arafat she is one of B’Tselems video volunteers and lives in Ni’lin. Salaam started filming in 2007, and that year she caught on camera the shooting of an unarmed Palestinian who had been arrested following a demonstration. The footage, which she gave to B’Tselem, is now being used in court to try and bring to justice the commanding officer who gave the order to shoot. Salaam says ‘I was so shocked when they shot him that I dropped the camera. I knew I had filmed something important though, and that I needed to carry on’
Christian Aid/Tom Pilston
Gaza suffers under Israeli blockade
The one-and-a-half million Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to cope amid power cuts as Israel continues its fuel blockade of the territory.
The shutdown of Gaza's only power plant has prompted fears of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
Moaiya Hassanain, a health ministry official, said: "We have the choice to either cut electricity on babies in the maternity ward or heart surgery patients or stop operating rooms."
Gaza City awoke on Monday to find bread shops and petrol stations closed.
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This, and the killings of other Palestinians during the week, plus the closures, "raise very serious questions about Israel's respect for international law and its Commitment to the peace process", Dugard said. He said it violates the strict prohibition on collective punishment contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention, and one of the basic principles of international humanitarian law: that military action must distinguish between military targets and civilian targets.
let us all be with gaza in its darkeness and suffer......till this have an end
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Miss Malak, Global Youth Ambassador of Plan International, speaks during the informal high‑level discussion held to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Human Rights Council.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin
19 June 2026
Geneva, Switzerland
Photo # UN71142407
A view of a participant ahead of a meeting during the 50th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin
30 June 2022
Geneva, Switzerland
Photo # UN7942773
ogni persona un nome;
ogni nome una storia;
ogni storia un dolore;
ogni dolore una vista strappata;
ogni vita strappata un abbandono;
ogni abbandono uno sguardo;
ogni sguardo una lacrima;
ogni lacrima una speranza;
ogni speranza un viaggio;
ogni viaggio un filo spinato!
Europa
The new Indian census(2011), which put the population at 1.2 billion, has revealed an alarming trend. Rising incomes only seem to accelerate gendercide – the evocative term for the selective abortion of girl foetuses. There were 945 girls per 1,000 boys in the 1991 census, 927 in 2001 and now 914. It's now a crisis and we need to move beyond just acknowledging the issue.The PC&PNDT Act 1994 prohibits any form of sex-determination practise and sex-selective abortion. It's important you know how to use this. Read more > www.actionaid.org/india/pndt/
Your voice matters. Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women and girls!
Up to 70 percent of women may be abused in their lifetime. Tell governments that you want them to make ending violence against women a top priority. More than 5 million people already signed on to Say NO.
Add your name to become part of the global Say NO–UNiTE Network: “here”.
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Photo by Firoz Ahmad at Room To Read (www.roomtoread.org/) programme
After being fired for missing a week of work while she was searching for her daughter Fátima, aged 17, who had gone missing, Nidia Ivonne Muñoz Gavaldón sits before Chihuahua’s State Attorney’s Office to claim truth and justice. USAID/Mexico’s Human Rights Activity (EnfoqueDH) has provided technical support to Chihuahua’s State Attorney’s Office to improve the investigation of gross human rights violations and supports the National Prosecutor General’s Office to review and update the Investigation Protocols for the Crime of Femicide and for Sexual Violence. It is expected that these protocols will contribute to more adequately investigate cases like those of Fátima and thousands of others who have disappeared or been murdered in the state of Chihuahua.
Photo Credit: United Forced for Our Disappeared in Coahuila
On Wednesday, July 05th, 2023, upon awakening, I discovered an envelope discarded at the distant corner of my Placard on the pavement with no prior notification. Fortunately, I noticed it before it blew away.
It contained a letter in Greek. I am unfamiliar with the language, and the Google translation of it was inaccurate. In the end, the only useful information gleaned from it was that I needed to be at the Evelpidon Court on July 13th for a deposition.
In the Court I was deliberately being kept waiting for several hours before I was eventually given an audience and it was only in the chamber of the Judge that the purpose of their subpoena was revealed to me. It was pertaining to the occurrences that transpired at the Syntagma Police Station on August 18th, 2021. I had been called in to testify again about those incidents.
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Following a 2nd Postponement of my 27th trial in the Evelpidon Court on November 26th, 2022, I had to appear in the Court again on December 08th, to attend the hearing.
Due to my request for legal aid, the Court has previously been postponed twice. Although in the Court I learned that they had considered my application in this regard, it turned out they didn’t include any contact information in their letter from the lawyer whom they alleged they had assigned to my case.
Through a very rude and ignorant interpreter, the Court told me that I should have looked the lawyer’s name up on Google to find his contact details and ignored my argument about search results for individuals with similar names.
However, this ultimately was the ground for the Court to be postponed again.
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