Beyond banning the bomb, new treaty recognizes its victims
By Kate Hudson
New treaties are not often greeted with the recognition and enthusiasm that they merit.
They can seem dry and legalistic, overladen with clauses and dusty formulations.
But the reality is that treaties are often the bringing into law of profoundly humanitarian principles, of significant advances in human rights, of steps towards peace and to protect all communities.
With Anti-IMF Candidate Surging in Polls, Ecuador’s Moreno Flies To DC Amid Talk of Suspending Election
Polls show socialist, anti-imperialist candidate Andrés Arauz to be the clear frontrunner in Ecuador’s presidential elections slated to take place this Sunday, February, 7. Some even suggest the 35-year-old might receive double the votes of his nearest competitor in the first round of voting. .
Yet it now appears that the greatest danger to Arauz is not his rival candidates, but the threat of authorities canceling the election to prevent his victory.
International groups are flying in to monitor the contest, scheduled for February 7, with some calling for increased involvement of regional bodies like the Organization of American States (OAS).
However, given its role in the far-right military coup in Bolivia in 2019, it is far from clear whether they would improve or hinder the process.
Husseyin is a Kurd from Turkey. He was forced to do his two years of military service. Once in Syria, he deserted and fought against the Islamic State organization with Kurdish forces. As a result, it has become a strong ally in the Western world and in France in particular.
The fighting ended, it was impossible for him to return to Turkey. There, desertion in wartime has the guaranteed death penalty. Therefore, Husseyin came to take refuge in the French state, where two of his sisters who have obtained French naturalization live. But not Husseyin.
He was arrested and imprisoned in the Perpignan detention center. He presented petitions for political refugee status before the Perpignan court. All were rejected. Until the express request of his expulsion signed by the prefect of the Pyrenees Orientales.
On December 8, Husseyin was accompanied by two French police officers to the airport, but refused to board the plane. He was jailed again. Then he hung a Kurdish flag from one of the windows.
He then cut his sheets into strips and tried to hang himself. The guards caught him in time and reported an escape attempt and the hanging of a flag in the window.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Turkey to pay 2,000 euros ($2,407) in non-pecuniary damages for violating the freedom of speech of Michael Dickinson, the late British academic and collage artist, by convicting him of “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan when he was prime minister, Agence-France Presse reported on Tuesday.
A BIT FUCKING LATE!.. MICK DICK COULD’VE HAD A WILD PARTY WITH THAT CASH
Dickinson, who had been living in Turkey for some 20 years when he took part in a 2006 protest against the government’s support for the US war in Iraq, reportedly showed a collage with Erdoğan’s head attached to the body of a dog held by a leash in the colors of the American flag.
This morning the London end of the ongoing direct action campaign against HS2 received some unwelcome visitors in the form of around a hundred cops, bailiffs and private security guards.
The HS2 rail project has to be the most unpopular project in the history of transport infrastructure. So far the planned high-speed rail link has managed to go over budget by a modest sixty-one billion pounds and scientific studies have concluded that its construction alone will ensure that it will eventually offer no net reduction in carbon emissions. But will increase noise pollution and decrease air quality for well over twenty-one thousand dwellings along its route.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation concluded its three-day nationwide campaign calling for the cancellation of rent and mortgages and to stop all foreclosures on January 31. The campaign started on January 29 with hundreds of people, along with housing rights movements and other groups in major cities, participating. The primary demand of the campaign was to seek government intervention in dealing with the ballooning housing crisis in the US.
While Athens is still on lockdown for the last 3 months, the right-wing greek government has used this time to act like a mafia organisation, settling scores with its perceived enemies, people, human rights and freedoms.
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In a violent legislative crescendo, the government aims to establish a junta-like police State when the pandemic lockdown eventually ends. From establishing police stations inside the greek universities to the banning of gatherings and protests above a certain number of people and the ban on the freedom of journalists to move freely and report the news, the ironically self-proclaimed “New Democracy” governing party has decided that hiring thousands of new policemen as the answer to everything, even the pandemic.
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