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Colombians remain in the streets demanding that there should be no type of reform.
The organization Defender La Libertad reported that there were 21 homicides and more than 500 arbitrary detentions throughout the country.
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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.
Continue reading “4 out of every 10 Turkish women experience domestic violence, academic study says”
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).
Continue reading ““Ban Glyphosate to protect public health!”- peer-reviewed studies”
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.
By Alan Macleod
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.
Yet the decision…
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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
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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