The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday December 9th, 2022
The global gates of discrimination and the silent generation by Thanos Kalamidas
It was random but the same time it all happened the same
week. US Supreme Court seems ready to back a web designer opposed to
same-sex marriage; Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a
bill that expands a ban on so-called LGBTQ “propaganda” in Russia and
the Indonesian parliament unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal
code that criminalizes sex outside marriage. Totally unrelated, still
totally related; and all in cue with the termination of the “Roe v Wade”
protection of the abortions in USA.
In the meantime Ron DeSantis keep building his anti-gay walls in
Florida, Poland is preparing a law that absolutely forbids abortions in
violation of the EU laws, Uganda bans all LGBTQ rights groups and Qatar
during the World Cup …bans every freedom and right for everybody with
the exception of the royal family. Shockingly, in South Africa a bar
forbids the entrance of black people if they are not …accompanied by a
white person!
Nonetheless, this is just the peak of the iceberg. Human rights,
women rights, equality rights, are under attack in every single corner
of this planet. From Colombia to Japan and from South Africa to Russia.
And there is a ‘shining’ star for all that, a star that somehow paves
the way for the rest; USA. The United States of America have the power
to influence negative evolution even with their absence. Donald Trump’s
repulsion of the US constitution and the January 6th Capital
Hill attack has inspired a group of a coup plotters in Germany, SCOTUS
cancellation f Roe v Wade has set the blueprint for whole nations and
Ron DeSantis definitely gives an alibi to Vladimir Putin’s homophobia.
Continue reading HERE!
Fiona Was An Occasional Failure #poem by Chad Norman
“A certain Nova Scotia cemetery
withstood a certain hurricane;
not a hillside tree was harmed,
only the odd limb or two
scattered among the honouring stones.”
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Anniversary of the Genocide Convention: 9 December 1948 by Rene Wadlow
Genocide is the most extreme consequence of racial
discrimination and ethnic hatred. Genocide has as its aim the
destruction, wholly or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial or
religious group as such. The term was proposed by the legal scholar
Raphael Lemkin, drawing on the Greek genos (people or tribe) and the
Latin cide (to kill).(1) The policies and war crimes of the Nazi German
government were foremost on the minds of those who drafted the Genocide
Convention, but the policy was not limited to the Nazi. (2)
The Genocide Convention is a landmark in the efforts to develop a
system of universally accepted standards which promote an equitable
world order for all members of the human family to live in dignity.
Four articles are at the heart of this Convention and are here quoted in
full to understand the process of implementation proposed by the
Association of World Citizens, especially of the need for an improved
early warning system.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #029 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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