Green dreams of hope
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 20 May 2013
Recovery efforts continue one month after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan Province of china on 20 April 2013.... -
Photo: MSF doctor Claire Marie Loys introduces a young patient to his heartbeat in Aweil, South Sudan. Photo by Yann Libessart/MSF
Dr. Loys and...
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Burma: Telecoms Risk Complicity in Surveillance, Censorship
International telecommunications companies risk being linked to human rights...
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High Sierra Sanctuary by ~david richter photo
The 10,911 ft (3,326 m) Cathedral Peak towers over Upper Cathedral Lake and much of...
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Buddha Hands (von gamelaner)
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 20 May 2013
Recovery efforts continue one month after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan Province of china on 20 April 2013. The disaster killed 196 people and injured more than 12,000 while dismantling homes and major infrastructure.Pictured: A displaced woman and her daughter seek temporary shelter in Boaxing County. Home to 60,000 people, the county suffered damage to over 60 per cent of its buildings.
©UNICEF/Zhao Heting
To see more: www.unicef.org/photography
Benefits of hanging out with travelers by Lena Desmond.
If you find a love who travels the world, your life will change. Let yourself go with the flow!
Lena Desmond, inspirada en artículos como “Date a girl who reads” or “You should date an illiterate girl” ha descrito in “an overwhelming way” por qué salir con una persona que viaja.
Bella narrativa sobre cómo ven la vida las personas que viajan y por qué es bueno rodearse de ellas. Guiño especial al respeto a la libertad y el espacio personal del otro, valorando en particular la independencia y el entendimiento.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lena-desmond/date-a-boy-who-travels_b_3293815.html
After reading Adam Welz’s take down, “Bloodthirsty “factual” TV shows demonize wildlife,” of the Discovery Planet’s animal killing TV show, Yukon Men, I did a little bit of research. The City of Tanana, where the show is filmed, is absolutely not the secluded, dangerous place as the Discovery Channel advertizes. The town has never been “attacked” by bears, wolves, wolverines, lynx, etc., as the show will have you believe. Still, each type of these animals is gunned down for your viewing pleasure.
The City of Tanana (above) is small, no doubt. But it is not a remote outback full of danger.
Above, a TV show character uses an AK-15 semi-automatic (rather than a hunting rifle) to kill a wolf.
Local Alaskans posting in various wilderness and hunting forums are calling Discovery’s ‘Yukon Men’ a joke, full of lies and exploitation. They even make fun of the choices of guns that the characters in the show use (no local hunter, they say, uses an AK-15 to shoot animals in Alaska).
One man wrote that, unlike actual remote villages, the City of Tanana has a burger joint, functioning utilities, and cell phone, internet, and satellite services, making it far from “remote” and hardly dangerous.
I dug around and found other interesting facts that belie the Discovery Channel’s claim that the town is a dangerous remote outback. Tanana has schools, an agricultural extension of the University of Fairbanks, annual foot and dog-sled races, and even family and emergency services provided by the Tanana Chiefs Council (this is in addition to services provided by the State of Alaska).
Indeed, Tanana even has its own airport, with over 3,000 flights per year (see #516). The airport has a webcam, radio towers, and weather stations. This is not remote. Nor are provisions hard to obtain - twice daily a plane lands with food, fuel, mail, visitors, and materials.
Learning from and enjoying the wilderness is one of the greatest privileges we Americans enjoy. Creating a false myth that nature is scary is not what we need, especially now with so many people unhealthy from increasingly sedentary lifestyles. In my opinion, Discovery needs to set the record straight. They need to refocus on educating viewers of the deep importance of our dwindling natural resources. They need to do this rather than exploiting animals and creating fear all for a quick buck.
Burma: Telecoms Risk Complicity in Surveillance, Censorship
International telecommunications companies risk being linked to human rights abuses if they enter the Burmese market before adequate protections are in place. Burma’s human rights reforms thus far have been inadequate, including in the Internet and telecommunications sector, so companies entering the country should adopt robust safeguards to prevent and address any abuses linked to their operations.
Photo: A worker uses a mobile phone in Burma, where the government plans to increase mobile access to 50 percent in three years. © 2013 Reuters
Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. “I started labour in the morning on a Friday …. The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver safely. On Monday she said I was weak.
“The doctor decided to operate on me. (During the) operation they found the baby was dead. The doctor said the baby had died due to the long labour. After that, I found out that urine was coming out all the time,” she said.
Women and girls like Victoria in Kenya, South Africa and South Sudan also spoke to us about pregnancy and childbirth. Sadly, too many of their stories were not about the joy of having a child, but about abuse, neglect and pain.
In interviews and reporting across Africa, Human Rights Watch heard from girls who knew too little about sexuality and family planning when they were forced into marriage and pregnancy.
We spoke to girls who were married and conceived when their bodies were not mature enough to go safely through pregnancy and delivery. Women and girls also told of health centres that were poorly staffed and ill-equipped to handle obstetric complications.
They described not having enough money for transportation to government health facilities or to pay the high cost of giving birth there. Women described the shortage of ambulances to transport them when they needed specialised care, abuse and negligence by health workers, and the absence of a complaints process to notify the facilities of mistreatment and other problems.
Sadly, we spoke with the families of those women and girls who did not survive pregnancy and could not tell their own stories.
La fotografa estadounidense Jamie Moore y su hija Emma han realizado una sesión en la que la pequeña de 5 años rinde homenaje a algunas de las mujeres más influyentes de la historia y en especial de los movimientos progresistas y feministas.
Bellas composiciones y un guiño a la mujer lejos de clichés machistas y tradicionales impuestos desde la niñez.
Nada de fotografías con Barbies o personajes de Disney.
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Los productos con etiqueta Fair Trade/Comercio Justo están de moda. Su demanda en alza. ¿Se trata de una tendencia? ¿Una industria más?
On May 6, 2013, the death toll from the horrific collapse of the garment factory in Bangladesh was recorded at 600 workers, making it the deadliest accident in the history of the garment industry. In light of this tragedy, the media is calling national attention to unethical labor practices…
Human Rights not being respected in Russia.
An approach to Putin´s governance for the last year.
Putin as President, One Year On
One year ago today, Vladimir Putin was sworn in for the third time as Russia’s president. He placed his hand on a copy of Russia’s constitution, saying, “I swear to protect and guarantee the rights and freedoms of our citizens.”
But Putin has not lived up to that oath as the Russian government has unleashed a crackdown on rights that is unprecedented in the country’s post-Soviet history.
In the past year, Russia’s government has passed numerous laws – often at breakneck speed – designed to lock down civil society.Several of the new laws aim to limit, or even end, independent advocacy. One restricts foreign funding for groups that engage in “political activities.” The law goes so far as to label these groups “foreign agents” – synonymous with spy and traitor in Russia. Another law essentially bans funding that originates in the United States for “political” groups and bans all groups that work “against Russia’s interests.” More laws restrict Internet content and impose limits, as well as harsh fines, on public demonstrations. In late April, Human Rights Watch released a 78-page report, “Laws of Attrition: Crackdown on Russia’s Civil Society after Putin’s Return to the Presidency,” analyzing these changes.
Meanwhile, pro-government media runs propaganda depicting critics of the government as dangerous enemies.Russia’s government has also begun a nationwide campaign of invasive inspections of nongovernmental organizations. In recent months, inspections have targeted more than 250 organizations across Russia – including the Moscow offices of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Officials have harassed, intimidated, and even imprisoned political activists.
Little more than a week ago a court declared that the election-monitoring organization, Golos, ran afoul of the “foreign agents” law, slapping it with a 300,000 rubles (almost US$10,000) fine.
The run-up to the upcoming Winter Olympic Games taking place in Sochi, Russia, has also been marred by rights abuses against Sochi residents and workers toiling on Olympic construction. Only a week ago, police and private security forces injured demonstrators protesting against the proposed construction of a power plant in a residential neighborhood.
The new laws and government harassment are pushing civil society activists to the margins of the law. The government crackdown is hurting Russian society and harming Russia’s international standing.
Photo: People attend a protest rally in Moscow, May 6, 2013.© 2013 Reuters
Photo: A little girl waits against the gates of the camp registration center in Domeez. Iraq 2013 © Pierre-Yves Bernard/MSF
The conflict in Syria remains extremely intense. Frontlines continue to shift. The medical system is in shambles. An estimated 6.8 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, but whole enclaves are cut off from assistance of any kind.
Despite the very real challenges of operating in the country, MSF is now running four hospitals inside Syria and is increasing mobile clinic activities to the extent possible. Simultaneously, the organization is actively seeking to open new projects where it is safe to do so.
And, it should be noted, MSF is using only private donations for its work in Syria in order to remain entirely independent of all political positioning around the crisis.
MSF is also working in the neighboring countries of Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, where some 1.4 million Syrians have fled in search of sanctuary. These countries have been overwhelmed by the influx of refugees and returnees, and the humanitarian response has thus far been unable to meet their needs.
Importante labor de la médicos sin fronteras. Día a día, salvando vidas y aliviando el dolor humano fruto de la injusticia social.
(via humanrightswatch)
