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La Guerra Civile Etiope tra il governo federale e i ribelli di tigrè è stata una macchinazione del primo ministro Abiy Ahmed Ali e del suo alleato eritreo? 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Two million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded two weeks ago.  The UN's high commissioner for refugees has praised the response from Poland, Romania, and Hungary where Ukrainians have fled in search of safety from the relentless attacks. But he acknowledged the horror of what the people themselves are experiencing.  Many global humanitarian organizations in neighboring countries have tried to aid those still in Ukraine, but they're struggling to employ the normal channels as ports are blocked and roads compromised by bombings.  The Kremlin offered to create so-called humanitarian corridors for civilians to safely leave Ukraine, but mainly allowed pathways leading to Russia and their ally Bela-roos. And as of today, both Ukrainian officials and the Red Cross have cited danger, including mines, along the only routes that led to other parts of Ukraine. According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, more than four hundred civilians have been killed in Ukraine and over 800 injured since the Russian invasion began.  For more on this, The Takeaway spoke with  Adam Keehn, Director of Complex Emergencies at the global non-profit Americares. 

Two million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded two weeks ago.  The UN's high commissioner for refugees has praised the response from Poland, Romania, and Hungary where Ukrainians have fled in search of safety from the relentless attacks. But he acknowledged the horror of what the people themselves are experiencing.  Many global humanitarian organizations in neighboring countries have tried to aid those still in Ukraine, but they're struggling to employ the normal channels as ports are blocked and roads compromised by bombings.  The Kremlin offered to create so-called humanitarian corridors for civilians to safely leave Ukraine, but mainly allowed pathways leading to Russia and their ally Bela-roos. And as of today, both Ukrainian officials and the Red Cross have cited danger, including mines, along the only routes that led to other parts of Ukraine. According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, more than four hundred civilians have been killed in Ukraine and over 800 injured since the Russian invasion began.  For more on this, The Takeaway spoke with  Adam Keehn, Director of Complex Emergencies at the global non-profit Americares. 

Let's talk about what's happening in Colombia right now. On April 28th, country-wide protests began in response to a wildly unpopular tax reform proposed by President Iván Duque's government due to the country's economic crisis. Sources of information for this episode are listed below. Don't forget to use the coupon code TONOPODCAST for 10% off in our store Follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/tono.latino/ Support me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/tonolatino Get some cool swag at https://store.tonolatino.com/ ------------ Sources: NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992142575/protesters-march-in-colombia-against-plan-to-raise-taxes-in-pandemic-wracked-eco CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colombia-anti-government-protests-j-balvin/ The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/world/americas/colombia-covid-protests-duque.html BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56986821 BBC: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-56932013 BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56967209 France24: https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20210506-thousands-return-to-colombia-s-streets-after-week-of-deadly-anti-govt-protests UN Human Rights Press Release: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27054&LangID=E The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/05/colombia-protests-repression-duque-tax-reform-police-esmad/

Natasha Kassam of the Lowy Institute joins the podcast this week, to join Darren in facing interrogation from Allan arising from their co-authored essay, published this week in Australian Foreign Affairs (Issue 11) entitled “Future Shock: How to Prepare for a China-led World”. The questions the essay tries to answer are: what would China’s leadership of the international order look like, what does this mean for Australia, and what (if anything) can Australia do to protect its interests? What follows is a genuinely substantive and complex discussion about the nature of China’s intentions for the global order and the consequences of its actions. Does China—or more accurately the Chinese Community Party—really need the liberal dimensions of the order “suppressed or eliminated”, as Natasha and Darren argue? If so, which parts? The issue of transparency is central to their argument, and the domains of public health and human rights are key examples. Nevertheless, is China’s challenge to the order that different from that of any other rising power, or Donald Trump for that matter? And which actions represent genuine challenges, versus a more traditional assertion of interests, such as Joe Biden’s recent claim that America’s democratic values are “the grounding wire of… our global power”? And finally, what can Australia do? The China debate in Australia has become increasingly fraught and acrimonious in recent years and, as always, this episode represents an effort to hash out complex and truly difficult issues by providing all three participants the time and space to contextualise (and caveat) their views. We thank AIIA intern Mitchell McIntosh for his help with audio editing today and, as he departs, more generally for outstanding work during his time with us, as well as Rory Stenning for composing our theme music. Relevant Links Australian Foreign Affairs, Issue 11, “The march of autocracy” (2021): https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/essay/2021/02/the-march-of-autocracy Natasha Kassam and Darren Lim “How China is remaking the world in its vision”, The Conversation, 22 February 2021 (extract of AFA essay): https://theconversation.com/how-china-is-remaking-the-world-in-its-vision-155377 Kai Kupferschmidt, “ ‘Politics was always in the room.’ WHO mission chief reflects on China trip seeking COVID-19’s origin” Science, 14 February 2021: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/politics-was-always-room-who-mission-chief-reflects-china-trip-seeking-covid-19-s Mara Hvistendahl, “How Oracle sells repression in China”, The Intercept, 18 February 2021: https://theintercept.com/2021/02/18/oracle-china-police-surveillance/ Marise Payne, “Australia and the world in the time of Covid-19” Speech at the National Security College, ANU, 16 June 2020: https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/marise-payne/speech/australia-and-world-time-covid-19 António Guterres, “Secretary-General Guterres calls for a global reset, ‘to recover better, guided by human rights’”, Speech to the Human Rights Council, 22 February 2021: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26769 Jon Emont, “How China Persuaded One Muslim Nation to Keep Silent on Xinjiang Camps”, Wall Street Journal, 11 December 2019: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-persuaded-one-muslim-nation-to-keep-silent-on-xinjiang-camps-11576090976 Joe Biden, “Remarks on America’s place in the world” US State Department HQ, 4 February 2021: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/04/remarks-by-president-biden-on-americas-place-in-the-world/

The UN Human Rights Council convened Monday for its 46th regular session to address what UN Secretary-General António Guterres called a “pandemic of human rights abuses” that has intensified amid the coronavirus.The HRC’s session runs through March 23, and it has a full agenda: It plans to discuss dire situations in Myanmar, Venezuela, Syria, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka, among others. More than 100 nongovernmental organizations are also calling on the council to establish a way to monitor and report human rights violations in Egypt.Related: Public art honoring Egyptian American Moustafa Kassem sends universal human rights messageIn addressing those issues, the HRC’s “biggest challenge is just its credibility on the international scene,” said David Kaye, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.The council is the sole international body entrusted with the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe. But Kaye said it’s also been widely criticized for not holding its own members accountable for human rights violations.That was one of the Trump administration’s criticisms when it withdrew US participation from the council in 2018. The US, under President Joe Biden, is now rejoining the council as an observer — which means it can speak in the council meetings, participate in negotiations and partner with others to introduce resolutions.Kaye said that the US left a vacuum that allowed China to increase its influence on the council. China was elected as a member of the HRC late last year.“China is committing some of the most serious human rights abuses in the world. While they're doing that, they are also seeking to play a pretty active role on the council itself, taking aggressive positions.”David Kaye, University of California, Irvine“China is committing some of the most serious human rights abuses in the world,” Kaye said. “While they're doing that, they are also seeking to play a pretty active role on the council itself, taking aggressive positions.”To push back against that, and to help restore the council’s credibility, overall, Kaye said the US needs to support actions that hold even its allies accountable — from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to Poland, Hungary, and Israel. And, he said the US needs to account for its own human rights abuses — something he thinks it’s not prepared to do.Related: French report reignites debate about colonialism in Algeria“Historically, the United States has simply not implemented its human rights obligations in the United States,” Kaye said. “There's no human rights culture and infrastructure in the United States.”Kaye said that was highlighted last year when Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, and protests spread across the US and the world. African countries asked the council to establish an independent commission of inquiry to investigate police brutality in the US.The council didn’t agree to that, but it “adopted a watered-down resolution due to the enormous diplomatic pressure from the United States and other allied countries,” said Salma El Hosseiny of the International Service for Human Rights.The US successfully lobbied to limit the investigation to a less extensive report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and also to widen the scope to focus on all countries. An update on that report is due next month, and many groups will be closely watching how the US reacts, Hosseiny said.“We look forward to seeing the United States constructively engage in good faith with this process, with the report, and with genuine self-reflection and commitment toward change,” she said, adding that it will be one of the early tests of the US’s renewed commitment to the Human Rights Council.Related: Civil rights groups oppose expanding laws to target domestic terroristsMeanwhile, the HRC’s failure to rein in human rights abusers in recent years, in part because of the US’s departure, has endangered the lives of on-the-ground human rights workers who report to the council, according to Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu, executive director of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development in Bangkok.“Without their participation, it would be impossible for diplomats sitting in Geneva or New York to make an informed decision about what is happening, say, for example, in Myanmar or Sri Lanka.”Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development“Without their participation, it would be impossible for diplomats sitting in Geneva or New York to make an informed decision about what is happening, say, for example, in Myanmar or Sri Lanka,” Kaliemuthu said.She said human rights workers on the ground are facing increasing reprisals, including death threats, jail time and confiscation of passports.Related: The US draws a red line, saying China cannot name Tibetan Buddhism’s next leader“Many defenders are constantly under state surveillance,” Kaliemuthu said. “Some have been labeled as ‘terrorists.’ They face trumped-up criminal charges under draconian terrorism and other laws. Many are in detention.”Kaliemuthu said atrocities in some parts of the world are going unaddressed because it's too dangerous for human rights workers to report back. But she doesn’t think countries committing violations should just be kicked off the council.“Even if states are complicit to attacks and reprisals against human rights defenders, we think that they should still have a seat at the table because it’s peer pressure, right?” Kaliemuthu said.

Housing activists marched up the empty highway arm-in-arm last month, heading to the São Paulo state governor’s palace to demand an end to the forced evictions that have risen sharply across Brazil during the pandemic. Military police in riot gear fired shots of rubber bullets and blocked the road ahead. Within minutes, the police pushed everyone back with tear gas, leaving many sprawled on the ground, gasping for breath.“We are marching to denounce the evictions that Governor João Doria has been pushing,” said Jussara Basso, the São Paulo coordinator of the movement, in a video from the march. “While he appears in the press telling people to stay home, not one housing policy has been created and not one home has been built.”A @jubasso_juntas explica porque os sem-teto estão agora em marcha para o Palácio dos Bandeirantes. pic.twitter.com/SEpnRYFqYy— Guilherme Boulos (@GuilhermeBoulos) July 30, 2020Related: Why is Brazil's Bolsonaro peddling hydroxychloroquine despite the science?“It’s a very sad moment in our history,” she told The World.Despite the pandemic — and rising unemployment — the number of forced evictions in Brazil has roughly doubled in recent months. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, more than 1,700 families have been thrown out of their homes just in the state of São Paulo, according to the Observatory of Forced Removals at the ABC Federal University. That number rises each week, with thousands more at risk of being forcibly removed.Activists are fighting back. Late last month, a coalition of more than 50 Brazilian social groups launched a campaign to end the evictions. They’re demanding judicial and legislative action.“To be evicted at this moment is a question of life or death. To have a home is a question of life or death. It’s not just the federal government, the mayors and local governments should be protecting people.”Dito Barbosa, housing and human rights lawyer“To be evicted at this moment is a question of life or death,” said Dito Barbosa, a housing and human rights lawyer and one of the lead organizers. “To have a home is a question of life or death. It’s not just the federal government, the mayors and local governments should be protecting people.”Related: Indigenous mothers in Brazil mourning children's deaths seek closureThe United Nations has also weighed in, twice calling on Brazilian authorities to suspend forced removals during the coronavirus pandemic.“Forced evictions should not be happening at all,” Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on adequate housing, told The World. “They are a grave violation of international human rights law and a serious affront to human dignity and development. I am also concerned about the impact of the evictions on the spread of the virus, which is already very widespread.”Rajagopal said many countries were unfortunately continuing evictions, despite the pandemic, but Brazil was “one of the most serious in the world in terms of intensity.”Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world, with a huge income concentration in the top 1% of the population. Even before the pandemic, poverty was on the rise for several years. There is a national housing deficit of 7.8 million homes. That means that millions of families cannot afford basic rent, and they’re forced to live in precarious housing — in favelas or slums — often without sanitation or even running water. And their numbers are increasing during the pandemic.Brazil’s economy is expected to tank by more than 9% this year, according to the International Monetary Fund. Unemployment is at 13% and climbing. According to a May poll, 80% of Brazilians said they had been financially impacted by the crisis.There is movement on legislation in the National Congress to suspend evictions during the pandemic.“This bill can move pretty fast, it just depends on political will,” said Natália Bonavides, a member of Congress from the Workers Party, who is sponsoring the bill. “The challenge is that we don’t have consensus on this issue because a large number of congressional members represent the financial elites. That’s why external pressure is going to be so important.”“Only with a lot of popular pressure are we going to be able to approve this project,” she said.But even if it passes, it will likely still face a veto from President Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly downplayed the virus and insisted on the need to reopen the economy. In June, he vetoed the section of another bill that would have suspended evictions of families unable to pay rent during the pandemic.Meanwhile, the numbers in the COVID-19 crisis continue to go up — the country hit 3 million infections and 100,000 deaths last weekend. The number of evictions is also rising with no clear path ahead.“The problem is going to get worse with the pandemic. What is being asked is the bare minimum. Proceeding with evictions during the pandemic is a violation of the right to life.”Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, University of Michigan Urban Planning, professor“The problem is going to get worse with the pandemic. What is being asked is the bare minimum,” said Brazilian-born University of Michigan Urban Planning professor Ana Paula Pimentel Walker. “Proceeding with evictions during the pandemic is a violation of the right to life.”Related: Paulinho Paiakan is remembered as a hero to Indigenous BraziliansErika Cavalcante da Silva, 36, lives with her husband and four kids in a 9-by-12 wooden shack they built themselves over the last year. It’s in a community called Faith in God, on the outskirts of the city of Riberao Preto in São Paulo.In mid-April, she watched as backhoes tore down 20 of her neighbors’ homes. Authorities ordered the demolition. She said that with the interference of heavy rain and the help of local organizers, they were able to stop it. Since then, the neighborhood has grown, but the police are constantly threatening to return.In the meantime, because of the COVID-19 crisis, Silva says she lost most of her housekeeping work. Her husband, who has lung problems, had to quit his job driving for Uber. The monthly government support they’ve been receiving amid the pandemic runs out this month. She says she doesn’t know what they’ll do.“I am scared,” Silva said. “I’m scared to death that my daughter, who’s pregnant, will catch coronavirus. City officials think that only criminals live in the favela, but we are families here.”Housing advocates blame a confluence of recent events for the spike in evictions — including the push to tamp down on new favelas and urban and rural “housing occupations,” or squatter settlements like Silva’s, which have grown during the financial crisis. With rising unemployment, many working-class families who are unable to pay their rent have ended up on the streets, moved in with relatives or joined new favelas and growing occupations on the city’s outskirts of the city.Related: Black Lives Matter protests renew parallel debates in Brazil, ColombiaOther factors driving up evictions may have to do with private real estate interests, and the government’s inclination to act on evictions during the pandemic — when housing activists are less vocal, activists say.“Some authorities are taking advantage of the situation. The São Paulo mayor’s office is requesting legal measures to fast-track the removal of 400 families in Campos de Eliseos, in the middle of the pandemic. This also happened in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The government [is] requesting that an eviction be carried out with urgency.”Talita Anzei Gonsales, Observatory of Forced Removals“Some authorities are taking advantage of the situation,” said researcher Talita Anzei Gonsales, at the Observatory of Forced Removals. “The São Paulo mayor’s office is requesting legal measures to fast-track the removal of 400 families in Campos de Eliseos, in the middle of the pandemic. This also happened in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The government [is] requesting that an eviction be carried out with urgency.”These evictions are often violent. During a forced removal in Piracicaba, São Paulo, on May 7, police fired rubber bullets toward a cluster of makeshift homes, a YouTube video shows. Reporter Maria Teresa Cruz, with the Brazilian outlet Ponte Jornalismo, described the scene that day in a video from a nearby roof. She had to stop as clouds of tear gas wafted over the area and into nearby neighborhoods.Reintegração de posse em Piracicaba (SP) https://t.co/p6QmZQ2yOm— Ponte Jornalismo (@pontejornalismo) May 7, 2020“There was no aggression from the residents being removed. I can say that because I witnessed it first hand. The reaction of the police was disproportionate,” Cruz told The World. “They fired a lot of tear gas grenades and many rubber bullets even into the favela alongside the occupation ... People who were home were suffocated by the gas that came in through the windows of their shacks. This forced them outside and into the line of fire.”This sort of thing is happening daily around the country.“They hit a boy who was only 2 years old,” said a man wearing a green mask in an Aug. 6 video of an eviction of families in Jabaquara, in the city of São Paulo.“They shot a tear gas grenade at us over there. Fired rubber bullets. We are just here to demand our rights.”

The Saudi royal family probably feels it can now move on from the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi now that his sons released a statement Friday saying they forgive their father’s killers. Khashoggi, who was a critic of the Saudi government, was killed and believed to have been dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. In Saudi Arabia, which lacks a codified legal system and follows Islamic law, forgiveness from a victim’s family in such cases can allow for a formal pardon and a stay of execution. Khashoggi's fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, said no one could pardon his killers.Agnès Callamard is the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and led an investigation last fall into his murder. She joined The World's host Marco Werman from Paris.Related: Saudi sentences five to death, three to jail over Khashoggi murderThis is a stunning statement from Khashoggi's sons — that they forgive the killers of their father. What are his sons saying in this document they put out on Twitter today?Well, what they are saying is that in this period of Ramadan, they wish to forgive the killers of their father whom they describe as a martyr. My main feeling really is compassion for the family and the son in particular, who must have been put under tremendous pressure to put out such a statement. And we need to remember that the Saudi state will stop at nothing to have its way.Well, Ms. Callamard, you're starting to lean into it. In your statement that you put out today, you call this pardoning a parody of justice. Explain what you mean.Well, I describe it actually as a final act of the parody of justice, because the parody of justice started almost a few days after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi when a team of 17 or 18 individuals were sent off to Turkey for the purpose of investigating the killing. And in fact, what we know now is that their main objective was to clean up the crime scene. The second act was the trial, which I have described as well as a travesty of justice. It was held secretly. It did not include those who ordered or incited the crime. The third one was the delivery of the verdict in December last year, where those that ordered the crime and were in the trial, were let free. And the only ones that were condemned were basically the little people, the hit men. And the last and final act was when the son announced that he was pardoning the killer. But everything has been a travesty of justice.Related: International community has 'failed' in the aftermath of Khashoggi's deathSo, what are the next steps here? You’ve done an extensive investigation. You’ve published your findings. Where can this case go from here?They is a role for courts, just not courts in Saudi Arabia. So, for instance, the Turkish prosecutor has announced that he was charging 17 individuals. So, I'm hoping that Turkish judges will move on with a trial in absentia. Under universal jurisdiction, there is much that European courts could do and the US as some form of jurisdiction over the killing because Jamal Khashoggi was an American resident.How optimistic are you, though, that this administration, given its coziness with the Saudi monarchy, will pursue justice from this end?I don't think the administration will do so.Unfortunately, no. I think individuals in the US can activate the judicial process. The problem at the moment is with the US administration. The White House has imposed a veto on all Congress-driven resolutions related to Saudi Arabia for the last 12 months. The White House at the moment is definitely not working for the purpose of delivering justice, but really for the purpose of impunity and silencing the voices of those who want justice.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Reuters contributed reporting.

The black letter law and articles in this episode are: The DOJ Inspector General Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation Introduction https://oig.justice.gov/press/2019/2019-12-09.pdf The full OIG Review https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf Politico “Russia’s Long and Mostly Unsuccessful History of Election Interference” https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/26/russias-long-and-mostly-unsuccessful-history-of-election-interference-229884 Operation Ghost Stories https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/operation-ghost-stories-inside-the-russian-spy-case Washington Post “U.N. Report on Jeff Bezos Phone Hack Only Adds to Questions About How the National Enquirer Got Its Scoop” https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/un-report-on-jeff-bezos-phone-hack-only-adds-to-questions-about-how-the-national-enquirer-got-its-scoop/2020/01/27/7248bfc4-4053-11ea-aa6a-083d01b3ed18_story.html Financial Times “Saudi's MBS implicated in hacking of Jeff Bezos's phone” https://www.ft.com/content/83dcdf74-3c9b-11ea-a01a-bae547046735 UN experts call for investigation into allegations that Saudi Crown Prince involved in hacking of Jeff Bezos’ phone https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25488&LangID=E Jim Baker is the Director of National Security and Cybersecurity at the R Street Institute https://www.rstreet.org/team/jim-baker/

71 years ago the United Nations voted on the Declaration of Human Rights. How far have we come? Do we really believe in the rights of all human beings? And are we actually going to do anything about China's concentration camps? Maybe it's up to you and me. During a hike at Wo Hop Shek (Hong Kong's largest cemetery grounds), I shared some thoughts on what we can do, and why the world must focus on human rights abuses in China now. You can read the depressingly evasive statement from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights here: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx… To read more about the church I mentioned in the video, you can see Early Rain Church's Facebook Page (link below). In case you missed it, China's high-profile crackdown of this church took place last year--on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! China continues to send a very clear message about what they think of human rights and religious freedom, which the world must not ignore. https://www.facebook.com/prayforearlyrain/posts/486982141922637

Listen NowThough difficult to accurately calculate for obvious reasons, the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) 2018 point-in-time survey identified over 550,000 individuals living in emergency shelters, transitional housing or were unsheltered.  One-third were families, a disproportionate number were African American and/or veterans and a growing number were victims of wildfires or a severe climate event (think: Hurricane Florence or Michael).  The homelessness problem is worsening for numerous reasons including growing income inequality and the lack of livable wages, failed federal policy, an insufficient stock of affordable housing, the criminalization of poverty and health care that leaves nearly 30 million non-elderly uncovered and/or is ill equipped to diagnose and treat a homeless population that bears a heavy disease burden that includes psychotic and affective disorders.  During this 30 minute conversation Mr. Watts and Dr. DePietro begin by briefly explaining how NHCHC is organized and its mission.  They discuss moreover upstream or systemic causes of homelessness, the inadequacy of affordable housing and the failure of related federal policy, the criminalization of homelessness and its effects,  the prevalence and largely unmet physical and behavioral health care needs, associated health care costs and what some health care institutions are doing to recognize the necessity of combining medical care with social service supports including housing. Mr. G. Robert (Bobby) Watts is the CEO of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.  Mr.Watts has more than 25 years of experience in administration, direct service, and implementation of homeless health services. He began his work with people experiencing homelessness as a live-in staff member of the New York City Rescue Mission in Manhattan.   Previously he served as the ED of New York City's Care for the Homeless where he significantly expanded the organizations FQHC and constructed a women's shelter.   Mr. Watts is also the former Finance Officer of the New York City HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council.   He has served on the Steering Committee of the New York City Medicaid Managed Care Task Force and a member of the New York State Interagency Council on Homelessness and numerous other related committees, task forces and work groups.  He earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell University, his a MPH and Master's of Science in epidemiology from Columbia University and holds a Certificate of Theological Studies from Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack,Barbara DiPietro, Ph.D.,  directs the policy and advocacy activities for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. This includes conducting policy analysis, providing educational materials and presentations to a broad range of policymakers and other stakeholders, coordinating the Council's policy priorities with national partners, and organizing staff assistance to the Policy Committee and the National Consumer Advisory Board.   Previously, she worked for the State of Maryland in the Governor's Office as well as the Department of Health.  Dr. DePietro holds a Master's Degree in Policy Sciences and a Doctorate in Public Policy, both from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  Her dissertation research focused on the impact of homelessness on emergency departments in Baltimore City. For information on NHCHC go to: https://nhchc.org/  Per my mention of the 2018 UN report on poverty in the US, i.e., "Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights" go to: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=EPer my mention of Amazon's opposition last year to a Seattle tax that would have helped the homeless, see: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/technology/seattle-tax-amazon.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

For a year now, a group of Turkish women living in Massachusetts have gotten up on Sunday mornings, long before their husbands and children, to work on a project they told no one about.The handful of women — who are mainly in their 30s and 40s — meet at each other’s homes, taking turns hosting.“We come to the meeting yawning and sometimes complaining about it — ‘Oh, this is the only day I feel free, but we are doing this.’ But right at the same time that we start having our meeting, immediately, the feeling changes. Then, you start feeling responsible and even proud of what you’re doing.”Meryem, group member“We come to the meeting yawning and sometimes complaining about it — ‘Oh, this is the only day I feel free, but we are doing this,’” said Meryem, a health economist and mother of two girls. “But right at the same time that we start having our meeting, immediately, the feeling changes. Then you start feeling responsible and even proud of what you’re doing.”Related: For this Turkish filmmaker, wedding dresses are a metaphor to discuss femicideWhat they’re doing could endanger their friends and families in Turkey, so we’re not using their real names. They’re building an online audio archive, hosted by Boston University, called Undaunted Voices of Turkey: Stories of Women Who Resist. It’s a collection of voices that are rarely heard: those of women who’ve spent time in Turkish prisons since the attempted coup on July 15, 2016.One of the group members, a teacher named Leyla, was in Turkey when it happened.“We just turned on the TV; they said the army tanks just blocked the ways, and all those kind of things happened, and we just turned upside down,” she remembered.The military blocked bridges. There were explosions. TV stations were raided by soldiers. Government buildings and protesters were shot at. Social media was shut down. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan soon announced the attempted coup had failed.Related: As ‘fed up’ women in Turkey leave marriages, domestic violence and divorce rates rise“We will take all the necessary steps by standing tall,” he said while calling in to a Turkish TV show. “We will not leave the arena to them.”Leyla recalls everyone in Turkey began talking about academics and others being taken to jail.“We just packed everything and said we’d spend one year here just to be safe,” she said.Leyla and her family haven’t been able to go back. Erdoğan declared a state of emergency and, according to the UN Human Rights Office, the Turkish government detained or arrested nearly 160,000 people on suspicion of terrorism. People who’ve spent time in Turkish prisons describe enduring subzero temperatures. Prisoners have nothing to sleep on but the cement floor. A UN special rapporteur has expressed concerns about torture by Turkish guards.Still, in 2017, President Donald Trump hailed Erdoğan during a visit as a great ally.Related: Four women from history who changed the world“As countries, I think we’re right now as close as we have ever been,” Trump said then.Turkish journalists in Sweden reported that thousands of those jailed were pregnant women or women who had just given birth. Many were arrested on the grounds that they were “associates” of their husbands, who were suspected of having ties to terrorism. The group of women in Massachusetts felt helpless and frustrated.“The first time I heard about the death of someone in detention, I cried, I think, a week.” Mine, group member“The first time I heard about the death of someone in detention, I cried, I think, a week,” said group member Mine, who’s lived in the US for 12 years, and is an engineer and mother of a 5-year-old girl.Mine and the others agreed to take action, together. Sending money wasn’t enough; they wanted to do something lasting and permanent. From their friends and family, they were hearing not only about women being jailed; women were also being forced into new roles in their families because their husbands had been jailed. A small group of Turkish women in Massachusetts come together on Sundays to work on their project collecting testimonies from women imprisoned in Turkey.  Credit: Rupa Shenoy/The World  Related: Nakiye Elgün was a well-known feminist in Ottoman times. Few know of her today.“The pressure is mostly on women I would say. I heard one of them saying, ‘Well, until now, the society didn’t care I was working or doing paperwork outside. But now, I’m the breadwinner. I had to do this,’” she said. “So, I feel there’s a change of roles in a way.”Through their networks, they find women who want to speak and can call out of Turkey, or have fled to another country. A group member named Ayse interviews them by phone. She’s an elementary school teacher and mother of two who’s lived in the US for almost 10 years.“I try to say nothing and just listen,” she said.The group has recorded around 30 interviews. Each of the group members has her own role; they took workshops to learn how to conduct interviews and use digital audio technology.In Ayse’s most recent recording, a woman recounts that, after the 2016 attempted coup, her name appeared on a government list of suspected terrorists. She and her husband were dismissed from their jobs as teachers. Her husband was detained and, one day after dropping her son at school, police were waiting to take her away. She spent nine months in a cold, crowded jail cell. She’s out now, but she’s prepared her two children in case the police show up again. “She said, ‘I’m a realistic [person], my kids are realistic,’” Ayse said.After a year of doing interviews like that one, collecting stories, and building a network of people to transcribe and translate them, the group is finally ready to share their project. They thought about creating a website, but worried it would be attacked by forces in Turkey that object to their work. Boston University agreed to help launch the project, and the Massachusetts women’s names won’t be attached to it.“It puts a lot of pressure on us because that is a time we were waiting for, and we are going public now,” Meryem said.Their archive of oral testimonies will go live on Thursday.So, they’re nervous. But the work has given them purpose.“We feel responsible for carrying the word to the next generations,” Meryem said.The group is editing the women’s stories into an English-language podcast, to increase awareness of what’s happening in Turkey. But they don’t comment on the current Turkish government. They say they’re not political.“Will there be a change? Maybe with this, yes. I mean, do we plan for it? No,” Mine said. “We do really care about keeping these voices. We try not to think about the rest.”Instead, they’re focused on showing people that there’s always some way to fight oppression.

Velkommen til andet afsnit af Cybernormer, et podcast hvor vi taler om teknologiens indflydelse på os som individer og samfund og dykker ned i internettes fællesskaber. Dine værter i dette afsnit er Maia Kahlke Lorentzen og Henrik Chulu. Vi snakker med Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (https://twitter.com/NThylstrup) som er adjunkt på Aarhus Universitet og forsker i digitale medier. Hun har blandt andet undersøgt hvordan Facebook foretager content moderation, det vil sige hvordan de fjerner indhold som ikke stemmer overens med deres retningslinjer. Facebook beskyldes i en forskningsartikel (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3082972) dækket i New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html ) for at puste til xenofobiske flammer og skabe grobund for hatecrimes i Tyskland. Forskningsartiklen er imidlertid blevet kritiseret for sin metode og er ikke peer-reviewed (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/08/facebook-causing-anti-refugee-attacks-germany.html) og (https://twitter.com/JonasKaiser/status/1031953755649060864) I en anden del af verden anklages Facebook af FN (https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23475&LangID=E) for at have bidraget til folkedrabet på Rohyingaer i Myanmar ved at lade stå til og lade landets generaler frit bruge det sociale medie som platform for hadsk propaganda. (https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17789202/facebook-myanmar-ban-genocide-military-leadership) Cybernormer er produceret at Cybernauterne (https://cybernauterne.dk), et netværk af eksperter i cybersikkerhed og digital dannelse.

"I think if you had got a group of mysogynists in a room and said 'guys, how can we make this system work for men and not for women?', they wouldn't have come up with too many other ideas than what is already in place".The 173rd episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast is the much talked about report by the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, talking about the UK.It's so important I was going to just read the whole thing out and put that out as a podcast but fortunately for me there was a presentation and a Q&A, and here it is.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23881&LangID=Ehttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

The U.S. Visit by the Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty and Human RightsDiscussion with Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, on the observations and conclusions from his country visit to the United States in December 2017.  We discuss the political nature of poverty, its inextricable link to rising inequality in the United States and the overt and covert disenfranchisement of the extremely poor. We also discuss punitive policies towards the poor, including Jane Crow laws and the criminalization of homelessness and the prevalence of caricatured, pejorative narratives of the poor that perpetuate inequality. Additionally, we discuss the effective denial of constitutional rights to those in poverty, including through the criminal justice system.For More Info:http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Poverty/Pages/SRExtremePovertyIndex.aspxhttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Poverty/Pages/CountryVisits.aspxhttp://hdr.undp.org/en/content/assessing-multidimensional-poverty-%E2%80%93-one-index-global-levelhttps://inequality.stanford.edu/https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-knowhttps://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdfhttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CESCR.aspxhttp://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx

#115: Care in Chaos Cellar Door Skeptics dedicated the podcast to helping bring to light stories that may enrage you, enthrall you, educate you, and entertain you. Tonight’s episode comes with a content warning. CN: Abortion Clinic Violence / Anti-Choice Violence This episode has a special place in the hearts of the host. Their first topic for the tonight is a great interview with Lindsay Beyerstein and her new documentary “Care in Chaos”. The filmmaker talks about her experiences with a couple of women’s health clinics that are being bombarded by antics from Anti-Choice groups that will make your blood boil. This heartfelt look at how awful our nation can be, shows the strength and courage of the women who work at these clinics. As the episode rolls onward, the duo discuss extreme poverty in America, and how the a new study finds poverty of the world is not always combated with compassion and action, but with laws forcing homeless people to struggle and dig themselves a deeper ditch. They do not go off about healthcare this time but about the poor treatment of our nations and the world's poor people. The last segment they lighten up the show with a discussion on Hanlon’s Razor and a new study on dogs breeding the best traits from wolves. Both are a unique inquiry into some of the suttle thoughts the team has as they prep for each episode. Subscribe: http://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CellarDoorSkeptics RSS Feed: https://www.spreaker.com/user/8326690/episodes/feed iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cellar-door-skeptics/id1044088575?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Website: http://cellardoorskeptics.com Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cellar-door-skeptics Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cellardoorskeptics PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/CellarDoorSkeptics Intro Music: http://aloststateofmind.com/ Links -------- https://rewire.news/videos/2017/06/06/care-in-chaos/ @beyerstein https://www.democracynow.org/2017/7/14/care_in_chaos_new_documentary_uncovers https://rewire.news/tag/the-breach/ -------- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/15/extreme-poverty-america-un-special-monitor-report http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=E https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/15/america-extreme-poverty-un-special-rapporteur http://considerthehomeless.org/pdf/CA_New_Vagrancy_Laws.pdf -------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HanlonsRazor https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor -------- https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/dogs-breeds-pets-wolves-evolution/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20171117news-resurffriendlydogs&utm_campaign=Content&sf99255202=1&sf173577201=1 https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/williams-syndrome

Art, Activism, Water Shut Offs, School Closures, Detroit's Restructuring, Urban Redevelopment as Code for Racial Discrimination, Community Cooperation and Urban FarmingDiscussion with artist and activist Antonio Cosme concerning his prosecution by the recently established Detroit Graffiti Task Force for writing “Free the Water” on a decommissioned water tower to protest the continuing water shut offs occurring in his neighborhood. We discuss the water shut offs and school closures and their impact on the community as well as the overall impact and reasons for Detroit’s restructuring, which has disproportionality affected the city’s black population. Additionally, we discuss the city’s diversion of overstretched resources to fund policing of water shut offs and prevent political graffiti and other protest. We also discuss the revitalization of the community and urban space through urban farming and the production of local, organic produce.For More Info:http://freethewater313.org/https://vimeo.com/132829920http://ncac.org/blog/detroit-artists-face-felony-charges-for-protest-graffiti https://soundcloud.com/soufy313/pay-to-be-poisoned-ft-zebra-octobra-lisa-brunk-prod-by-native-keyzhttp://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/06/29/judge-tosses-case-against-street-artist-shepard-fairey-city-appeal/86523206/http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15188http://www.naacpldf.org/files/case_issue/LYDA,%20et%20al.%20v.%20Detroit-Brief%20in%20Support%20of%20Plaintiffs'%20Motion%20for%20Temporary%20Restraining%20Order.pdfhttp://www.mchr.org/2015/03/congressional-briefing-on-water-in-detroit-and-us-stories-of-shutoffs-and-possible-solutions/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/special-features/2014/08/140822-detroit-michigan-water-shutoffs-great-lakes/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-detroit-fees-idUSBRE9AK01S20131121http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/detroit-bankruptcy/2014/11/12/duggan-bankruptcy-fees/18889949/