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4 out of every 10 Turkish women experience domestic violence, academic study says

By Turkish Minute – May 1, 2021 574 shared with thanks..Illustrations added.

Four out of every 10 Turkish women experience domestic violence during their lifetime, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported citing BBC Turkish service.

A demonstrator wearing a protective face masks holds up a placard reading ‘Stand up against violence towards women’ during a demonstration for a better implementation of the Istanbul Convention and the Turkish Law 6284 for the protection of the family and prevention of violence against women, in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 5, 2020. – Thousands of women in Turkey took to the streets to demand that the government does not withdraw from a landmark treaty on preventing domestic violence. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

According to the report, citing a study by the Ankara-based Hacettepe University Population Studies Institute, 75 percent of women who are divorced or separated from their spouses are victims of physical abuse. Nine percent of women suffer from sexual abuse during their childhood.

The results of the study, which was conducted in 2008 and 2014, were presented to the Parliamentary Investigation Committee on Violence Against Women.

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“Ban Glyphosate to protect public health!”- peer-reviewed studies

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Campaigners: “Ban Glyphosate to protect public health!” Open letter to politicians calls for controversial chemical to be banned, cites peer-reviewed studies

On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason wrote to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA).

She wanted to draw the agency’s attention to the findings that indicate the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes high levels of mortality following contact exposure in bumblebees (glyphosate-formulated herbicides are the most widely used weedicides in agriculture across the globe).

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Catalan alternative unionism unites against precariousness on an Anti-Capitalist May Day Eng/Esp


Alternative trade unionism and social movements blocked the Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona on May 1 with a concentration denouncing the capitalist system as “irrational” and the cause of social crises and ecological catastrophes, underlining the “absolute failure” of the capitalism to solve the crisis derived from the pandemic.
By Kaos. Class Struggle Posted on May 1, 2021/ Source: ANC, CGT and Kaos

The trade union organizations that are alternatives to bureaucratic trade unionism organized in the Taula Sindical de Catalunya (CGT, IAC, CNT, COS, Co.bas) together with anti-capitalist political organizations and social groups have denounced that the pandemic has highlighted the precariousness it causes… the current capitalist economic model.

The action consisted of cutting Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona with a concentration of activists against the current economic model. Participants denounce the capitalist system as “irrational” and the cause of social crises and ecological catastrophes, pointing to the “absolute failure” of capitalism to resolve the crisis derived from the pandemic.

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In 2018 the US Was at War With Uyghur Terrorists. Now It Claims They Don’t Even Exist

Cultivated by the US government as human rights activists, Uyghur American Association leaders partner with far-right lawmakers and operate a militia-style gun club that trains with ex-US special forces

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By Alan Macleod

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With China now in the U.S. crosshairs, the ETIM has moved from being an adversary to being a potential asset.

WASHINGTON —In the dying months of his administration, President Donald Trump removed from the United States terrorist list a little-known paramilitary organization called ETIM, an acronym that stands for either the East Turkestan Independence Movement or the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, depending on whom one asks. The group is also sometimes known as the [East] Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP or ETIP).

Explaining the decision, the State Department said that “ETIM was removed from the list because, for more than a decade, there has been no credible evidence that ETIM continues to exist.” The move was hailed by a wide range of Uyghur groups in the United States, who saw it as a step towards blocking China’s actions against Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province.

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International Anarchist Statement on May Day — anarchistnews.org

From zabalaza dot net The ZACF is pleased to co-sign this statement along with anarchist groups around the world to commemorate May Day.
May 1st, 1886, a wide-ranging strike started in the United States demanding an eight-hour working day. The journey’s slogan was “Eight hours’ labour, Eight hours’ recreation, Eight hours’ rest”, propagandised since the mid-19th…

International Anarchist Statement on May Day — anarchistnews.org

Germany-the new criminal works with patenting of monkeys

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Monkeys, demented by genetic engineering, should help in the search for Alzheimer’s drugs!!

The notifying parties argue that the number of patients is increasing rapidly. But patent critics do not want to condone such practices.

Munich

A patent on monkeys and other animals in which symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are triggered by genetic engineering causes protests among patent opponents.
It protects rodents, primates, and great apes, which are specifically made demented for research in the pharmaceutical industry and then used as laboratory animals.
The organization Testbiotech announced that opposition has now been filed against the patent.
The European Patent Office (EPO) confirmed receipt of the opposition.

“The patented process is associated with considerable suffering for the animals – the specific medical benefit, on the other hand, seems questionable”, said Christoph Then from Testbiotech.

There are ethical concerns.

Last but not least, such patents could create economic incentives for unnecessary animal…

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Colombian General Strike Day 5 .. Up to 20 dead as police and army attack.. Bloodbath in curfewed Cali.. Duque backing down! Eng/Esp

Plan for sales levy on public services and food sparked a renewal of a General Uprising with huge demonstrations resisting police violence.,
The Dictator Duque ordered massive deployment of the right wing police and army with up to 20 now dead and suspect death squad killings.

Thousands of Colombians took to the streets for International Workers’ Day marches and protests against a government tax reform proposal, in a fourth day of demonstrations that have resulted in at least six deaths.

video translation: How beautiful to see the people united in one voice

”Unions and other groups kicked off marches on Wednesday to demand the government of president Ivan Duque withdraw the proposal, which originally imposed sales tax on public services and some food..

Cali, the country’s third-largest city, has seen the most vociferous marches, some looting and the burning of multiple city buses.

”Death counts were inconsistent. National human rights ombudsman Carlos Camargo said that three protesters died in Cali and another three deaths there were being investigated.

The rights organization Human Rights Watch said it had received reports of possible police abuse in Cali, and local human rights groups alleged up to 14 deaths occurred. Right wing US sponsored death squads are cooperating with the police..

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”One death each occurred in Bogotá and the city of Neiva, Camargo said. A police officer in the city of Soacha died of injuries sustained on Wednesday. A further 179 civilians and 216 police officers have been injured nationally.

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