How come that in a world where technology is -or is about to be- able to detect an ant in a jungle, the traffickers of death continue to carry out their lucrative criminal activities everywhere and in all fields, from weapons to prostitution, enslavement and drugs, to deadly fake medicines,
Author: Baher Kamal, IPS
Extremist ideology in Europe: Leave everyone behind
A quick glance at the current European political map would clearly show how far the extremist ideology has been installed in European countries –those who still wave the French Revolution’s flag of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.” According to the Napoleonic French Revolution’s three pillars, Liberty means freedom for an individual to do
Extremist ideology spreading like an oil spill in Europe
The abuse of human rights has sharply increased with the steady rise of the right and far-right parties in the wealthy industrialised countries, whose extremist ideology is now spreading faster than ever in Europe. Indeed, most of the European Union 27 member countries are now either formally ruled by or strongly
Migration: Europe’s complicity in massive human rights violations
Why do 800 mothers a day die from preventable causes?
The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health care and, in many cases, even a total lack of maternity services, which threaten to further raise the number of these tragic preventable deaths one million or more a year by 2030. Severe bleeding, high blood pressure, pregnancy-related infections, complications
Hate speech loads the gun, misinformation pulls the trigger
In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact, is being amplified at ‘unprecedented scale’ by new technologies. Hate speech has now reached dangerous records, fuelling discrimination, racism, xenophobia and staggering human rights violations. It mainly targets
Food industry exposes five billion people to toxic chemicals
The food industry continues to intensively use toxic chemicals in their products, some of them provoking heart diseases and death. Trans fat is just one of them, adding to contaminating fertilisers, pesticides, microplastics and a long etcetera. “Trans fat is a toxic chemical that kills, and should have no place in
US installs new nukes in Europe as destructive as 83 Hiroshima bombs
Forget about all these humanitarian blah blah … and buy more weapons
Day after day, international humanitarian organisations launch desperate appeals for funding to continue saving some of the many lives at high risk. When they get a handful of dollars –even just one million– from a rich country, they welcome it as manna from heaven. Not only the available funding for humanitarian
