On Monday 6 February 2023 at 13.25 local time a disrupting earthquake of 7.8 magnitude devastated with twenty seismic shocks the regions of   central and eastern Turkey and the Syrian border. This has been, in the words of Erdogan, the worst humanitarian and natural catastrophy since 1939, when another quake invested the State, provoking 33000 dead and 100000 wounded people. This time the tragedy spikes higher numbers: 34000 dead people are recorded so far, half a million people in need according to the WFP and 141000 rescue personnel digging into the rubble, especially the white helmets, working in 10 provinces and the Who warns a second disaster as cold winter sets in. Almost uncountable the homeless and the Internal Displaced people, especially in Syria where the aftermath of the earthquake add up to the IDPs of the civil war. Thus, the data are dreadly alarming. What will happen thereafter is unlikely to be foreseen, both in Turkey where next June Erdogan will face the presid

Next 3 Dec, 2022 it will kick start and be hosted in Japan the “World Assembly for Women” (WAW!), that’s the Japanese initiative for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment and for mainstreaming gender into a new form of capitalism,   pursuing the special focus to realize “a society where women shine”. This conference will be held for the fifth year since the foundation of this cycle of events, concurrently with the W20, one of the engagement group of G20. Are invited to take part in it Ms Malala Yousafzar, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2014 that is highlightening the importance of the education for girls, advocating that “one book and one pen can change the world”.Moreover it will join the talks the female foreign ministers and youth representatives other than Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. This initiative plunges its roots in the framework of the CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, dated 19

  Riots and clashes keep on inflaming the pacific movements in Teheran in the name of the defense of women rights and against the restrictions they have to face day by day for Islam’s sake in a climate of repression exerted by the clerical authority. After 40 days from the death of Mahsa Amini, an important date in the Islamic calendar, that marks the end of the mourning and the visit of the family of the girl stopped by the police the last 17 September because of an ill-donned and unadjusted veil, new public demonstrations have crowded the squares and the streets of Berlin proclaiming the “Women, Life, Liberty”slogan- At the same time an important signal of protests have been shown in Uk and USA, ” in sign of solidarity,   against the brutality of the Iranian moral police that has so far caused 248 victims, 12000 arrests, 315 investigated for “conspiracy against the national security. These pacific movements don’t involve just students of secondary and high schools but wide swaths o

  The war on drugs is a global campaign , led by the U.S.federal government , of drug prohition , military aid   and intervention, whose aim is to reduce the illegal drug trade  in the US, popularized after the press conference given on 1971 by President Richard Nixon d uring which he declared drug abuse "public enemy number one". Two years before, Nixon had formally declared a "war on drugs" directed toward eradication, interdiction, and incarceration. The Drug Policy Alliance , which advocates for an end to the War on Drugs, have estimated that in 2021 the US has spent a cumulative $1 trillion on it. Sixty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs  and years after Nixon initiative, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed. This war is also fought abroad against the main exporters such as Colombia, Mexico and Latin America. As part of its Plan Colombia program , among other ones, the US

  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 set of Texas statutes criminalizing abor

  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 principles enshrined in the UN Charter.  The international community will continue to hold Russia to account

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