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February 14, 2018
Sex Abuse: hyped by the Media is among, but not the most important issue the world is facing today
Life's experiences can make you bitter, hateful, resentful or cynical
if you let them. It's even worse if you trying to build a relationship
with the opposite gender and you already had some share of
disappointments in your life.
Sometimes it's good to go through all those things for some individuals, because sometimes you decide there and then that "I wouldn't never put anyone through what he or she put me through. " .
And sometimes it's not good at all for others because they can decide that "I will never let anyone put me through this again, therefore I will hurt them before they hurt me" and they just do that. Hurt or hurting people hurt people,
Honestly isn't that what life is all about? Maybe the best way to to label that is experience.
Unfortunately the Media, and Government, which influence the majority of the population around the world, are now all riding on the bandwagon of combating "sexual abuse"which mainly focusses on celebrities, the Catholic Church and most recently NGO's like Oxfam.
Obviously it is important to combat sexual abuse, but it certainly should not be on top- of the list of all the other horrors the world is facing like war, poverty and the causes of mass migration, or weapons sales.
The number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution last year exceeded 60 million for the first time in the United Nations’ history, a tally greater than the combined populations of the United Kingdom, or of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, says a new report released on World Refugee Day today.
The Global Trends 2015 compiled by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) notes that 65.3 million people were displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of more than 5 million from 59.5 million a year earlier.
The tally comprises 21.3 million refugees, 3.2 million asylum seekers, and 40.8 million people internally displaced within their own countries.
Measured against the world’s population of 7.4 billion people, one in every 113 people globally is now either a refugee, an asylum-seeker or internally displaced – putting them at a level of risk for which UNHCR knows no precedent.
In the past years Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia produce half the world’s refugees, at 4.9 million, 2.7 million and 1.1 million, respectively.
Colombia in Latin America had the largest numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs), at 6.9 million, followed by Syria’s 6.6 million and Iraq’s 4.4 million.
While the spotlight last year was on Europe’s challenge to manage more than one million refugees and migrants who arrived via the Mediterranean, the report shows that the vast majority of the world’s refugees were in developing countries in the global south.
In all, 86 per cent of the refugees under UNHCR’s mandate records were in low- and middle-income countries close to situations of conflict.
Nearly 1/2 of the world's population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty — less than $1.25 a day. 1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.
Like it or not, dear feminists, you might find the sexual harassment a terrible crime , so do most most of us, but there are also other crimes, sometimes must worse than sex abuse.
Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most revered moguls and influential kingpins, who has been sexually harassing and abusing women for nearly 30 years.is a terribly sad case but in reality that is a drop of water on a hot plate, compared to the results of wars and proxy wars, or poverty around the world.
Unfortunately those horrific events hardly ever get the attention they deserves because those problems are usually the the result of our own governments deeds and actions.
"We the people" are really the only ones who can do something about it, this destructive policy of wars has to stop and we should not get side-tracked by the smoke-screens our Governments and media are applying to divert our attention.
EU-Digest
The above report can be used
only if the source is mentioned
Sometimes it's good to go through all those things for some individuals, because sometimes you decide there and then that "I wouldn't never put anyone through what he or she put me through. " .
And sometimes it's not good at all for others because they can decide that "I will never let anyone put me through this again, therefore I will hurt them before they hurt me" and they just do that. Hurt or hurting people hurt people,
Honestly isn't that what life is all about? Maybe the best way to to label that is experience.
Unfortunately the Media, and Government, which influence the majority of the population around the world, are now all riding on the bandwagon of combating "sexual abuse"which mainly focusses on celebrities, the Catholic Church and most recently NGO's like Oxfam.
Obviously it is important to combat sexual abuse, but it certainly should not be on top- of the list of all the other horrors the world is facing like war, poverty and the causes of mass migration, or weapons sales.
The number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution last year exceeded 60 million for the first time in the United Nations’ history, a tally greater than the combined populations of the United Kingdom, or of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, says a new report released on World Refugee Day today.
The Global Trends 2015 compiled by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) notes that 65.3 million people were displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of more than 5 million from 59.5 million a year earlier.
The tally comprises 21.3 million refugees, 3.2 million asylum seekers, and 40.8 million people internally displaced within their own countries.
Measured against the world’s population of 7.4 billion people, one in every 113 people globally is now either a refugee, an asylum-seeker or internally displaced – putting them at a level of risk for which UNHCR knows no precedent.
In the past years Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia produce half the world’s refugees, at 4.9 million, 2.7 million and 1.1 million, respectively.
Colombia in Latin America had the largest numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs), at 6.9 million, followed by Syria’s 6.6 million and Iraq’s 4.4 million.
While the spotlight last year was on Europe’s challenge to manage more than one million refugees and migrants who arrived via the Mediterranean, the report shows that the vast majority of the world’s refugees were in developing countries in the global south.
In all, 86 per cent of the refugees under UNHCR’s mandate records were in low- and middle-income countries close to situations of conflict.
Nearly 1/2 of the world's population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty — less than $1.25 a day. 1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.
Like it or not, dear feminists, you might find the sexual harassment a terrible crime , so do most most of us, but there are also other crimes, sometimes must worse than sex abuse.
Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most revered moguls and influential kingpins, who has been sexually harassing and abusing women for nearly 30 years.is a terribly sad case but in reality that is a drop of water on a hot plate, compared to the results of wars and proxy wars, or poverty around the world.
Unfortunately those horrific events hardly ever get the attention they deserves because those problems are usually the the result of our own governments deeds and actions.
"We the people" are really the only ones who can do something about it, this destructive policy of wars has to stop and we should not get side-tracked by the smoke-screens our Governments and media are applying to divert our attention.
EU-Digest
The above report can be used
only if the source is mentioned
September 9, 2017
Harvey and Irma remind us, all displaced persons around the globe share common problems and deserve common solutions - by R.M.
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| Irma : Floridians fleeing the State from natural disaster |
The only difference being that for one
the calamity came as part of a natural disaster, from which they
eventually can return home safely, and for the other,
as a result of “man-made “ disasters, commonly known as wars and
religious persecutions..
We
as humans, morally, can not show compassion for one human being and
withhold it from the other. Certainly not for those displaced persons,
who were forced to flee from their home countries against their will and
become refugees in foreign lands, and considered second rate
citizens there.
A "master race" does not exist.
Humans are all equal in the eyes of our Creator. There is no
difference if you are a man or a woman, black, white, brown, yellow, African, American, Arab,
Asian , European, Eskimo, or Indian.
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| People fleeing from "man-made"disasters reaching EU coasts |
Bottom line: Yes, we need to help and
pray for all the stricken people in Florida and Texas, but
must also include in our prayers all those other displaced
persons around the world.
Displaced persons from Myanmar,,Syria,
Afghanistan,Sudan, and many other “disaster” areas, to mention just a few, deserve the same
helping hand and prayers we usually reserve for our own.
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EU-Digest
November 14, 2014
Refugees: U.N. says 13.6 million displaced by wars in Iraq and Syria
About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London,
have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and many are without
food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on
Tuesday.
Amin Awad, UNHCR's director for the Middle East and North Africa, said the world was becoming numb to the refugees' needs.
"Now when we talk about a million people displaced over two months, or 500,000 overnight, the world is just not responding," he told reporters in Geneva.
The 13.6 million include 7.2 million displaced within Syria - an increase from a long-held U.N. estimate of 6.5 million - as well as 3.3 million Syrian refugees abroad.
Read more: U.N. says 13.6 million displaced by wars in Iraq and Syria - Chicago Tribune
Amin Awad, UNHCR's director for the Middle East and North Africa, said the world was becoming numb to the refugees' needs.
"Now when we talk about a million people displaced over two months, or 500,000 overnight, the world is just not responding," he told reporters in Geneva.
The 13.6 million include 7.2 million displaced within Syria - an increase from a long-held U.N. estimate of 6.5 million - as well as 3.3 million Syrian refugees abroad.
Read more: U.N. says 13.6 million displaced by wars in Iraq and Syria - Chicago Tribune
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