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No one touch Roe v. Wade decision!

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  During last days has been kicked up a fuss by the Politico journal that published a leaked draft US Supreme Court opinion on the Mississippi case that would overturn the Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), a landmark decision by which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. This case was a turning point in women's reproductive rights and has remained a hot-button issue within United States politics ever since. The Roe v. Wade decision held that a woman, with her doctor, could choose abortion in earlier months of pregnancy without legal restriction, based primarily on the right to privacy Roe v. Wade is a legal case in which the SCOTUS on January 22, 1973, ruled (7–2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Justice Blackmun, the Court held that a...

Will Russia suspension from UNHRC make it step back from its stance?

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  As declared by the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken “By suspending Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, countries around the world chose to hold Moscow to account today for gross and systematic violations of human rights in its premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified war of choice against Ukraine.  We have seen growing evidence of Russia’s brutal disregard for international law and human rights in Ukraine, most notably in the death and devastation it has caused in communities such as Bucha, Irpin, and Mariupol.  The atrocities the world has witnessed appear to be further evidence of war crimes, which serves as another indication that Russia has no place in a body whose primary purpose is to promote respect for human rights The world is sending another clear signal that Russia must immediately and unconditionally cease its war of aggression against Ukraine and honor the prin...

Under the veil

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 "Under the veil" is an unbiased magazine created to highlight the whole world of women in all their aspects and women's rights, merging in itself two blogs ("Sparklingmoonshine.blogspot.com"- Art, Poetry and Entertainment- and "Worldscratches.blogspot.com" - International Affairs and Human Rights) and adding new original contents on global and gender studies, going beyond the transparencies and the obscuring curtains of public widespread information. In this magazine are reported both global and gender studies by which emerge my personal reflections, often in form of poetry or free thoughts,and glamorous and entertainment topics, including anthropology, psychology and lifestyle.

Below the horizon - the yearning hearts and tears of screwed up Afghan women after Taliban takeover (special insight)

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  Below the horizon: the yearning hearts and tears of screwed up Afghan women after Taliban takeover The Taliban shift takeover in Afghanistan and the fell of Kabul the 15 Aug 2021, after the flee of the president Ghani, followed to a long series of scathing attacks and crimes, is looming a catastrophe in terms of the protection of human rights in general and the rights of women in detail. A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks against the US  that took place the 9/11, 2001, plotted by Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda, in which four commercial airliners traveling from the northeastern U.S. to California were hijacked mid-flight by 19 terrorists, causing mass casualties (3000 deads and 2500 injured)  and partial or complete destruction of targeted buildings ( two of the planes hit the Twin Towers of the WTC; a third hit the west side of the Pentagon; a  fourth plane missed the target of Washington, crashing instead into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania) started the ...