It's Your Turn to speak out...

Go Ahead, Speak for Yourself

Conflicts and wars... drought and global warming... wild fires and melting icebergs... displacement and immigrants and refugees and migrants... The globalization of human crisis... created by humans and the profit driven economies... the 180-turn to autocrats around the world... Putin of Russia, Erdogan of Trukey, Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia... Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines... Ilham Aliev of Azerbaijan... kings and emirs of the Middle East... The celergy of Iran... and also rulers of China and North Korea... and the rest of the autocrats, oligarchs, and despots around the globe... 

And the intentional destruction of democratic norms... and demolition of civility and civilization... committed by ISIS and Taliban and other Islamic-Jihadist terrorists...
The misery of the world is globalized and the US administration is actively helping and abetting in the process of globalization of human misery... grabbing-stealing children from their parents-mothers and deporting asylum seekers and immigrants is what the US administration is promoting...
Maybe it is time you speak out for peace and justice around the world...
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 In the US... the boy looking at the blank wall... and wondering about his parents... Where are the...?  and in Europe... migrants walking along the Roya river, in Italy, toward the French border... seeking asylum...

Refugees facing the hazards and the traffickers... The waves are deadly... but people are desperate...

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The most dangerous country to be a woman is India , but the US is not far behind... The US ranks 10th in survey... and sorry to admit, it will be worse before it gets better...The Handmaid's Tale is looming larger and larger with each passing day... (You may browse the survey too... the link is included...)

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The Thomson Reuters Foundation released its results recently of a survey of 550 experts on women's issues, finding India to be the most dangerous nation for sexual violence against women, as well as human trafficking for domestic work, forced labor, forced marriage and sexual slavery, among other reasons.

It was also the most dangerous country in the world for cultural traditions that impact women, the survey found, citing acid attacks, female genital mutilation, child marriage and physical abuse. India was the fourth most dangerous country for women in the same survey seven years ago.

Nine of the 10 countries on the list were from Asia, the Middle East or Africa. At number 10 was the United States, the only Western country to be included. The foundation said this was directly related to the #MeToo movement.

The world's most dangerous countries for women

According to the survey:

1. India

2. Afghanistan

3. Syria

4. Somalia

5. Saudi Arabia

6. Pakistan

7. Democratic Republic of Congo

8. Yemen

9. Nigeria

10. United States

  ABOUT THE POLL                        Seven years ago a Thomson Reuters Foundation experts' survey found the five most dangerous countries for women were seen to be Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India, and Somalia. This year we set out to see if the situation had changed. We wanted to find out whether more was being done to address the overall risks faced by women, and specifically regarding healthcare, access to economic resources, customary practices, sexual violence, non-sexual violence and human trafficking. We expanded our poll to the 10 most dangerous countries with some surprising results.

World leaders vowed three years ago to eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls by 2030, allowing them to live freely and safely to participate equally in political, economic and public life. But despite this pledge it is estimated that one in three women globally experience physical or sexual violence during their lifetime. Child marriage is still rife, with almost 750 million women and girls married before their 18th birthday, resulting in teen pregnancies that can put their health at risk and limiting schooling and opportunities.

When people look back at the US immigration debate, they might point to May 2018 as a turning point -- a month when policies became reality, when words once whispered in private became words shouted in public, when life for immigrant families crossing the border became visibly worse.

There were major events that made national news. And smaller rumblings that could pave the way for seismic shifts.

A caravan crossing the US-Mexico border sparked a push to overhaul asylum policies and stop future groups from getting in.

The President of the United States called immigrant gang members "animals."

A lawyer vowed to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement after hearing people speak Spanish at a restaurant. And a Border Patrol agent questioned a US citizen after she spoke Spanish in a store.

Authorities separated immigrant children from their parents as part of a new "zero tolerance" plan to prosecute everyone caught illegally crossing the border.
The waves are dangerous...

 

 

The waves were dangerous before too... when oppressed Europeans escaped persecution and settled in North America...

 

These were the waves confronted by white Europeans escaping religious intolerance and persecution in Europe... 

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Go Ahead, Speak for Yourself... It's the anniversary of Charlottesville, Virginia demos by white supremacists...