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About a fourth to a third of all students report that they’ve been bullied in school. Tiếp tục đọc “Finland is really good at stopping bullying. Here’s how they’re doing it.”
UNICEF_For International Youth Day, UNICEF has released the results of a new global poll of more than 100,000 young people from more than 14 countries that shows two-thirds of young people have been bullied.
We asked Yeshna, a 18 year old blogger living Mauritius to write a reflection on the results and share her thoughts on bullying and why it continues to affect children in every region of the world.
Nerd. Loser. Ugly. Fake. Lame. Fat. Stupid. Worthless. Weak. Hopeless. Pathetic. If these words that so many use appeared on our skin, would we still feel ‘beautiful’? Tiếp tục đọc “If you see it, you can stop it”
![Luis Antonio Tagle, Catholic leader of Manila, said violence cannot be the answer to the country's drug problem [Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/2/18/21f984638c264cd08adc9dad91a201c7_18.jpg "Thousands march against Duterte's war on drugs")
Thousands of Catholics have gathered in the Philippine capital in a “show of force” to protest extrajudicial killings being carried out under the banner of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
The rally, dubbed the “Walk for Life”, was attended by 20,000 people, organisers said. Manila police estimated the crowd at 10,000.
At the biggest rally yet against the killings, members of one of the nation’s oldest and most powerful institutions prayed and sang hymns as they marched before dawn on Saturday, to condemn a “spreading culture of violence”.
More than 7,000 people have died since Duterte took office almost eight months ago and ordered an unprecedented crime war that has drawn global criticism for alleged human rights abuses.
The move, however, has been popular with many in the mainly Catholic nation.
“We have to stand up. Somehow this is already a show of force by the faithful that they don’t like these extrajudicial killings,” Manila bishop Broderick Pabillo told AFP news agency before addressing the crowd.
“I am alarmed and angry at what’s happening because this is something that is regressive. It does not show our humanity.”
The demonstrators also condemned legislation restoring the death penalty for drug-related crimes and other offences. Tiếp tục đọc “Thousands march against Duterte’s war on drugs”
Tiếp tục đọc “Công việc chăm sóc không lương – Để ngôi nhà thành Tổ ấm”
Submission argues ICC should investigate possible crimes ‘committed by individuals and corporate actors’
Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime could constitute a crime against humanity, a petition before the International Criminal Court from a coalition of legal experts has alleged.
On Monday morning, GMT, a 108-page legal submission from the Global Legal Action Network (Glan) and the Stanford International Human Rights Clinic was submitted to the court, detailing what the network describes as the “harrowing practices of the Australian state and corporations towards asylum seekers”. The petition submits the office of the prosecutor of the ICC should open an investigation into possible “crimes against humanity committed by individuals and corporate actors”.
“As recent leaks reveal, these privatised facilities entail long-term detention in inhumane conditions, often including physical and sexual abuse of adults and children,” Glan said in a statement. Tiếp tục đọc “International Criminal Court told Australia’s detention regime could be a crime against humanity”
VE – Có những ý kiến trái chiều xung quanh dự thảo danh mục 20 loại hàng hóa, dịch vụ do Nhà nước độc quyền…
Sản xuất vàng miếng nằm trong danh mục 20 loại hàng hóa, dịch vụ do Nhà nước độc quyền.
MANILA — The drug raid ended like so many others in the Philippines, with all the suspects shot by the police.
But one of them, Efren Morillo, a 28-year-old fruit and vegetable vendor, did not die.
As the only known survivor of a so-called buy-bust operation, Mr. Morillo has provided a chilling first-person account that challenges the government’s assertion that the thousands of suspects killed in President Rodrigo Duterte’s antidrug campaign were killed by the police in self-defense. And his testimony lies at the heart of the first court case to challenge that campaign.
According to his sworn affidavit, none of the five suspects were drug users and none were armed.
The police took two of them, including Mr. Morillo, inside a house, handcuffed, Mr. Morillo said. Three others were lined up at a clearing near a ravine, ordered to kneel, their hands tied behind their backs.
There was begging and crying as the police shot each man at close range, Mr. Morillo said.
“Thoroughly frightened that I might be shot again, I closed my eyes and played dead,” he said. As he lay on the floor bleeding, he said, he overheard the police officers talking about planting guns and drugs because they had found none there.
When the police officers left the house, he took a chance and fled.
Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a fresh rebuke against Myanmar over its repression of the Rohingya minority group, just days after a United Nations report concluded that security forces had slaughtered and raped hundreds of men, women and children in a “campaign of terror.”
“They have been suffering, they are being tortured and killed, simply because they uphold their Muslim faith,” Francis said of the Rohingya in his weekly audience at the Vatican.
He asked those present to pray with him “for our Rohingya brothers and sisters who are being chased from Myanmar and are fleeing from one place to another because no one wants them.”
BEIJING — A politely worded but testy debate has flared over a Vatican conference on human organ trafficking, with a group of ethicists warning that China will use the participation of its most senior transplant official to convince the world that it has overhauled its organ procurement system.
In a letter to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome, where the two-day Summit on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism began on Tuesday, 11 ethicists wrote: “Our concern is with the harvesting and trafficking of organs from executed prisoners in China.”
China has admitted that it extracted organs from death row prisoners for decades, in what critics have called a serious violation of the rights of inmates who cannot give genuine consent. Since Jan. 1, 2015, Chinese officials have said they no longer use prisoners’ organs, though doubts persist.
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines angrily dressed down more than 200 police officers on national television on Tuesday, presenting them with a thorny ultimatum: Resign or be shipped off to a terrorist hotbed known for beheadings and attacks on police stations.
Mr. Duterte accused the 228 officers of a litany of criminal and professional misdeeds, including corruption, drug use and dealing, and, in one high-profile case, the kidnapping and murder of a South Korean businessman.
Calling the group of National Police officers from Manila, the capital, “rotten to the core,” Mr. Duterte said he was ordering them to Basilan, an island in the country’s restive south and home to the Islamic terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf.
DĐ – Bùi Trân Phượng
Nam nữ bình quyền do ĐH Hoa Sen và NXB Hồng Đức tái bản, quý 3/2014
(tin Thể Thao & Văn Hoá)
Đặng Văn Bảy (1903-1983) là tác giả sớm nhứt ở Nam bộ đã viết về nữ quyền. Nam nữ bình quyền được viết ở Vĩnh Long từ đầu tháng 8 năm 1925 đến đầu tháng 7 năm 1927, xuất bản năm 1928 ở Sài Gòn và bị cấm khoảng một năm sau đó.
Nay đọc lại, chúng ta thấy đây thực sự là một tiếng nói tiên phong đấu tranh cho quyền bình đẳng nam nữ, bảo vệ quyền làm người của phụ nữ. Là một trong những tiếng nói sớm nhứt về vấn đề nầy, Nam nữ bình quyền của Đặng Văn Bảy đồng thời xứng đáng được coi là suy nghĩ và diễn ngôn vào loại đi xa nhứt trong sự đặt lại vấn đề, thách thức trật tự lâu đời và hiện hữu, trật tự trong quan hệ giới, và cả trong quan hệ giữa người cai trị và bị trị, giữa người áp bức và bị áp bức. Tiếp tục đọc “Một tư tưởng nữ quyền tiên phong và thấu đáo”
DĐ – Tính nghiêm trọng của các vấn đề Tây Nguyên. Làm gì để giải quyết?
Nguyên Ngọc
I – Một số nét tổng quan
A – Khái niệm Tây Nguyên :
Theo địa lý hành chính hiện nay, Tây Nguyên gồm có năm tỉnh, kể từ bắc vào nam : Kontum, Gia Lai, Đắc Lắc, Đắc Nông, Lâm Đồng.
YANGON, Myanmar — The soft-spoken rights lawyer had devised a plan to replace Myanmar’s Constitution with one that would strip the military of its extraordinary political powers.
The lawyer, U Ko Ni, a top adviser to the governing National League for Democracy, had recently been working on a new draft, a colleague said, and he hoped to promote his project at a conference this month.
But when he returned to the Yangon airport on Sunday from a trip to Indonesia, cradling his young grandson in his arms as he waited for a taxi, a man drew a pistol and shot him in the head.
The killing appears to have been a rare political assassination in Myanmar, fueling rumors, distrust and worry about the country’s future.
“This bullet was not only for Ko Ni,” the colleague, U Thein Than Oo, a human rights lawyer in Mandalay, Myanmar, said by telephone. “It was for the N.L.D. and the people who want to amend and replace the 2008 Constitution and support the peace process.”
GENEVA — Members of Myanmar’s Army and the police have slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children, gang-raped women and girls, and forced as many as 90,000 Rohingya Muslims from their homes, according to a United Nations report released on Friday.
The report, the world body’s first official account of a four-month government crackdown on ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar, said the actions of members of the army and the police “very likely” were crimes against humanity.
“The gravity and scale of these allegations begs the robust reaction of the international community,” said Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, whose office released the 50-page report.
BQT – 15:39 | 29/12/2016
Người dân Đức ứng phó với khủng hoảng, khủng bố với một tâm thế hoàn toàn khác so với nhiều nơi trên thế giới.
Vụ khủng bố bằng xe tải hạng nặng tại chợ Giáng sinh ở Berlin ngày 19/12 mà một số báo chí gọi là “vụ 11/9” của Đức, khiến 12 người thiệt mạng và hàng chục người bị thương, còn đang trong quá trình điều tra nhưng dư âm của nó đang còn nóng và chắc chắn sẽ còn theo người dân Đức trong thời gian tới.
Nhưng vì sao là Đức và vì sao đúng dịp này? Liệu bọn khủng bố quốc tế có đạt được điều mà chúng mong muốn qua những hành động vô nhân tính này hay không?
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| Quang cảnh đổ nát của khu chợ sau vụ việc kinh hoàng. (Nguồn: Reuters) |
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