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Why this crisis is a turning point in history

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The era of peak globalisation is over. For those of us not on the front line, clearing the mind and thinking how to live in an altered world is the task at hand. JOHN GRAY | 1 APRIL 2020 | New Statesman The deserted streets will fill again, and we will leave our screen-lit burrows blinking with relief. But the world will be different from how we imagined it in … [Read more...] about Why this crisis is a turning point in history

‘We will starve’: Zimbabwe’s poor full of misgiving over Covid-19 lockdown

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Unable to access state benefits, food and even running water as the country shuts up shop, people in Harare fear the worst Nyasha Chingono in Harare |Fri 3 Apr 2020 |The Guardian Nelson Mahunde, 70, trudges along the deserted streets of Harare’s central business district to collect his monthly pension. In one hand, he clutches a pension letter; with the other, he … [Read more...] about ‘We will starve’: Zimbabwe’s poor full of misgiving over Covid-19 lockdown

A letter to Cihim Ali, in an Eritrean jail on her birthday

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Ciham Ali was born in the United States and moved to Eritrea with her family. Her father was a minister in Isaias Afwerki’s government. He fled to Australia when he fell out with the president. When Ciham tried to leave, she was arrested at the border. She was 15. On April 2, she turned 23, after eight years in jail. Human Rights Watch has called her release. Vanessa … [Read more...] about A letter to Cihim Ali, in an Eritrean jail on her birthday

In the face of the pandemic, human rights are a necessity — not a luxury

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Solomon Dersso |3 Apr 2020 | Mail & Guardian The Covid-19 pandemic, is of course, a public health emergency. But it is also a human and peoples’ rights issue.  Given the well-established principle of human rights law — that the state bears primary responsibility for protecting its people from threats to their rights to health and life — the first point of the the … [Read more...] about In the face of the pandemic, human rights are a necessity — not a luxury