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We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter 11: John Stuart Mill
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/19/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-11-john-stuart-mill/>*By
John Scales Avery*
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 11: John Stuart Mill. The others
will follow successively.*
*He was not allowed to have a childhood*
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) showed his genius at an early age, and his
father, the Utilitarian philosopher and political economist James Mill,
immediately began to groom him to replace Jeremy Bentham as the leader of
the Utilitarian movement.
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We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter 10: Robert Owen
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/19/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-10-robert-owen/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 10: Robert Owen. The others will
follow successively.*
*A pioneer of social reform*
During the early phases of the Industrial Revolution in England, the
workers suffered greatly. Enormous fortunes were made by mill and mine
owners, while workers, including young children, were paid starvation wages
for cruelly long working days.
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The Sexualities Revolution
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/19/the-sexualities-revolution/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Johan Galtung and
Antonio C. S. Rosa*
*17 July 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service —
<https://www.transcend.org/tms>Like the feminist revolution, this one may
be said to have originated in USA. The two are related. There is a long,
painful history. From use and abuse of women, also inside marriage, for
male sexual satisfaction only, still going on. To an awakening, realizing
that there is female sexuality, maybe a little different, maybe with
several orgasms rather than a big one.*
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Halting Sexual Exploitation of Children in Tourism, Mission Impossible
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/19/halting-sexual-exploitation-of-children-in-tourism-mission-impossible/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Baher Kamal
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/baher-kamal/>**
*ROME, Jul 18 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) **– While the business
sector jumps for joy as the number of tourists grew in 2016 for the seventh
consecutive year to reach 1.2 billion, and as the first four months of 2017
have registered 6 per cent increase, the sheer speed, abetted by
technology, of an atrocious crime—the sexual exploitation of children in
tourism, has, to date, out-paced all attempts to put an end to it.*
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Not Just Numbers: Migrants Tell Their Stories
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/17/not-just-numbers-migrants-tell-their-stories/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Baher Kamal
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/baher-kamal/>**
*ROME, Jul 17 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – Every single day,
print and online media and TV broadcasters show images and footage of
migrants and refugees adrift, salvage teams rescuing their corpses–alive or
dead, from fragile boats that are often deliberately sunk by human
traffickers near the coasts of a given country. Their dramas are counted
–and told– quasi exclusively in cold figures.*
Every now and then a reporter talks to a couple of them or interviews some
of the tens of humanitarian organisations and groups, mostly to get
information about their life conditions in the numerous so called
“reception centres” that are often considered rather as “detention centres”
installed on both shores of the Mediterranean sea.
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The Mouse that Roared: How Saudi Arabia Underestimated Qatar
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/17/the-mouse-that-roared-how-saudi-arabia-underestimated-qatar/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Catherine Shakdam**
*9 July 2017 (RT <https://www.rt.com/>)* — There is a certain irony to the
crisis that ails the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), now that Qatar has
been labelled a pariah by Saudi Arabia. Terror aside, this stand-off has
potential to reshape the region into a completely new geopolitical entity.*
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What Is ‘Femonationalism’?
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/17/what-is-femonationalism/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Niki Seth-Smith
<https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/niki-sethsmith>**
*13 July 2017 – openDemocracy <https://www.opendemocracy.net/>* — Academic
Sara Farris talks about the ‘instrumentalisation’ of migrant women in
Europe by right-wing nationalists – and neoliberals.*
Sara Farris recently published a provocative book entitled In the name of
women’s rights: the rise of femonationalism
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-name-of-womens-rights>.
In it, she examines how right-wing nationalists, neoliberals, and some
feminists and women’s equality agencies, all invoke women’s rights to
stigmatise Muslim men and advance their own political objectives.
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On Nelson Mandela Day, UN Urges Action that Inspires Change for a
Better World
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/19/on-nelson-mandela-day-un-urges-action-that-inspires-change-for-a-better-world/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*As the world marks Nelson Mandela International Day, United Nations
officials and UN Peace Ambassador Stevie Wonder on 18 July 2016 paid
tribute to the South African activist and peacemaker’s tireless efforts to
end intolerance and injustice, calling on the international community to
follow his guiding example in efforts to build a better world for all.*
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Children Increasingly Targeted for Murder, Rape in Central African Republic
– UNICEF
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/19/children-increasingly-targeted-for-murder-rape-in-central-african-republic-unicef/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*Renewed fighting in the Central African Republic (CAR) is increasingly
targeting children, while there are concerns that the humanitarian needs in
the country could escalate to levels not seen since the crisis four years
ago, United Nations humanitarian officials on 18 July 2017 said.**
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East Africa’s Poor Rains: Hunger Worsened, Crops Scorched, Livestock Dead
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/19/east-africas-poor-rains-hunger-worsened-crops-scorched-livestock-dead/>Human
Wrongs Watch
*ROME, Jul 19 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – Poor rains across East
Africa have worsened hunger and left crops scorched, pastures dry and
thousands of livestock dead, the United Nations food and agriculture agency
has warned in a new alert.*
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Winning on the World’s Largest Tuna Company and What It Means for
the Oceans
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/17/winning-on-the-worlds-largest-tuna-company-and-what-it-means-for-the-oceans/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Sarah King* *
*11 July, 2017 (Greenpeace <http://www.greenpeace.org/>) — It took two
years of relentless campaigning and nearly 700,000 concerned people from
around the world <http://tuna.greenpeace.org/stories/petition-delivery/>,
but today we are sharing the good news that together we convinced the
world’s largest tuna company to clean up its act!*
Tuna giant Thai Union, which owns brands such as John West, Chicken of the
Sea, Petit Navire, Mareblu, and Sealect, has committed to a series of
changes to its business that will help to protect seafood workers, reduce
destructive fishing practices, and increase support for more sustainable
fishing.
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Digitizing Family Planning: The Way of the Future
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/17/digitizing-family-planning-the-way-of-the-future/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*By **Stella Paul* <http://www.ipsnews.net/author/stella-paul/>*
*LONDON, Jul 17 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – Online shopping may
have its pros and cons, but when it comes to buying products that have an
invisible morality tag, it’s the safest possible option, believes Franklin
Paul*.
One of India’s most vocal advocates for youth rights to sexual health,
education and products, Paul has spent over two years studying and
introducing digital technologies to India’s rural youths.
*PLEASE DON'T MISS THESE NEWS AND VIEWS*
We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter 9: Percy Bysshe Shelley
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/15/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-9-percy-bysshe-shelley/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 9: Percy Bysshe Shelley. The
others will follow successively.*
*A pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny*
Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Shelley is today considered to be
one of the major English-language poets.
Less well known is the fact that he was a pioneer of non-violent resistance
to tyranny, whose ideas influenced Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy and
Mahatma Gandhi.
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We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter 8: Thomas Robert Malthus
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/15/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-8-thomas-robert-malthus/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 8: Thomas Robert Malthus. The
others will follow successively.*
*A debate between father and son*
T.R. Malthus’ “Essay on The Principle of Population”, the first edition of
which was published in 1798, was one of the the first systematic studies of
the problem of population in relation to resources.
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“Modern” Business Owns You
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/14/modern-business-owns-you/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Johan Galtung and Malvin
Gattinger **
*10 July 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service — <https://www.transcend.org/tms>*Let
us start with an example.
The senior author bought an apartment in a nice housing complex in the
little town of Manassas, Prince William County, half an hour from the
center of Washington DC.
There was a little center with an office and a small staff always there,
and a meeting room that could be let was also used for the annual general
assembly of house-owners.
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Reforming the International Financial System
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/14/reforming-the-international-financial-system/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By **Jomo Kwame Sundaram**
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/jomo-kwame-sundaram/>
*KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 13 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – When we fail
to act on lessons from a crisis, we risk exposing ourselves to another one.
The 1997-1998 East Asian crises provided major lessons for international
financial reform. *
*Two decades later, we appear not to have done much about them. The way the
West first responded to the 2008 global financial crisis should have
reminded us to do more. But besides accumulating more reserves, Southeast
Asia has not done much else.*
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Abe, Izzy & Bibi
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/15/abe-izzy-bibi/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Uri Avery**
*15/07/2017*
*THE WHOLE thing could have been a huge practical joke, if it had not been
real.*
All of Israel was taken in. Left, right and center. All the newspapers and
TV networks, without exception.
There it was: UNESCO has declared that the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron is a
Palestinian heritage site.
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G20’s Record Does Not Inspire Hope
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/09/g20s-record-does-not-inspire-hope/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*By Anis Chowdhury <http://www.ipsnews.net/author/anis-chowdhury/> and Jomo
Kwame Sundaram* <http://www.ipsnews.net/author/jomo-kwame-sundaram/>*
*SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – The
G20 leaders meeting in Hamburg, Germany, on 7-8 July comes almost a decade
after the grouping’s elevation to meeting at the heads of state/government
level. *
*Previously, the G20 had been an informal forum of finance ministers and
central bank governors from advanced and emerging economies created in 1999
following the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.*
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‘Billions around the World Lack Safe Water, Proper Sanitation Facilities’
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/14/billions-around-the-world-lack-safe-water-proper-sanitation-facilities/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*12 July 2017 – Some three in ten people around the world lack access to
safe and readily available water at home, and almost six in ten to safely
managed sanitation, a new United Nations report has warned, calling on
countries to do more to fulfil these basic human needs*.
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Worsening Hunger in East Africa amid Third Consecutive Failed Rainy Season
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/15/worsening-hunger-in-east-africa-amid-third-consecutive-failed-rainy-season/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*14 July 2017 – The third consecutive failed rainy season in East Africa
has seriously eroded families’ resilience, and urgent and effective
livelihood support is required, the United Nations agricultural agency has
warned.*
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Asia-Pacific Moving in ‘wrong Direction’ on Some Development Targets – UN
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/14/asia-pacific-moving-in-wrong-direction-on-some-development-targets-un/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*11 July 2017 – Despite an impressive track record, the Asia-Pacific region
will need to scale up development efforts to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs>) by
2030, the target envisioned, the United Nations development arm for the
region has said.*
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Five Years into South Sudan’s Independence, ‘Children Denied Childhoods’
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/09/five-years-into-south-sudans-independence-children-denied-childhoods/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*8 July 2017 – As South Sudan enters its sixth year of independence, the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF <http://www.unicef.org/>) is calling
the situation in the country “a catastrophe for children” and cautioned
that they are being denied a childhood in nearly all aspects of their
lives.*
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We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter (7) The Marquis de Condorcet
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-7-the-marquis-de-condorcet/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 7: The Marquis de Condorcet. The
others will follow successively. *
*A vision of human progress*
In France the Marquis de Condorcet had written an equally optimistic book,
“Esquisse d’un Tableau Historique des Progres de l’Esprit Humain”.
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Is Religion the New Colonial Frontier in International Development?
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/05/is-religion-the-new-colonial-frontier-in-international-development/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Azza Karam*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/azza-karam/>*
*UNITED NATIONS, Jul 4 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – A decade ago,
it was difficult to get Western policy makers in governments to be
interested in the role of religious organizations in human development. The
secular mind-set was such that religion was perceived, at best, as a
private affair. *
*At worst, religion was deemed the cause of harmful social practices, an
obstacle to the “sacred” nature of universal human rights, and/or the root
cause of terrorism. In short, religion belonged in the ‘basket of
deplorables’.*
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Peaceful Societies – Where Are They?
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/05/peaceful-societies-where-are-they/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Johan Galtung**
*3 July 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service –
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2017/07/peaceful-societies-where-are-they-2/>There
are many of them–of different kinds–in world geography. We can try to
identify the characteristics of their peacefulness.*
Or we can start by identifying belligerent societies and then see peaceful
societies as their negations. Let us try this one first.
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Climate Change-Poverty-Migration: The New, Inhuman ‘Bermuda Triangle’
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/climate-change-poverty-migration-the-new-inhuman-bermuda-triangle/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Baher Kamal
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/baher-kamal/>**
*ROME, Jul 7 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – World organisations,
experts and scientists have been repeating it to satiety: climate change
poses a major risk to the poorest rural populations in developing
countries, dangerously threatening their lives and livelihoods and thus
forcing them to migrate.*
Also that the billions of dollars that the major industrialised
powers—those who are the main responsible for climate change, spend on
often illegal, inhumane measures aiming at impeding the arrival of migrants
and refuges to their countries, could be devoted instead to preventing the
root causes of massive human displacements.
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U.S. “Dumping” Dark Meat Chicken on African Markets
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/06/u-s-dumping-dark-meat-chicken-on-african-markets/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Friday Phiri*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/friday-phiri/>*
*MPUMALANGA, South Africa, Jul 6 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – The
United States and Europe’s preference for white meat is hurting Africa’s
poultry industry, says Luc Smalle, manager at the agro firm Rossgro in
South Africa’s Mpumalanga area.*
With 3000 Ha of maize and 1000 Ha of soya, as well as 1,500 heads of beef
cattle, Rossgro mills its own feed, which also caters for millions of
chickens housed in 40 environmentally controlled houses.
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