Daughters of India Violated and Abused, by Graham Peebles + The ‘Genocide’ of India’s Daughters

by Graham Peebles
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
London
January 6, 2013

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A woman’s lot

In the ancient land of India, where female deities deeply revered, Kali and Lakshmi, Sarasvati and Parvati, are held high upon the alter of Hinduism, where each day thousands of Hindu’s ritually bathe in the Holy waters of the Ganges, cleansed within and without by the Goddess Ganga, women and girls; in the forests, cities, villages and towns, on buses and trains, in the street, the office, at school and in the home are being violated, abused, raped and trafficked into prostitution and domestic slavery.

The Arab Slave Trade In Foreign Workers Is Alive and Well by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
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East Africa
Crossposted from PressTV
January 2, 2013

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Recent legal moves by the governments of Ethiopia, Indonesia and the Philippines to protect their nationals working in the Persian Gulf Arab states point to this harrowing fact: the Arab slave trade in foreign workers is alive and well.

Rights groups estimate that there are up to 15 million migrant workers located in the Persian Gulf Arab countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Paid pittance wages and subsisting in dirty, overcrowded dwellings, these workers provide the labour backbone of the Arab oil economies.

Ethiopian migrants abused and unwelcome in Yemen by Graham Peebles

by Graham Peebles
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
London
December 17, 2012

Desperately seeking a future

Year on year the numbers of men, women and children leaving Ethiopia in search of work and freedom from repression in one of the Gulf States and beyond is increasing. Lured by the often hollow prospect of earning enough money to support their family, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)[i] estimate around 85,000 men women and children, desperate and naïve, have this year, no matter the severe risks, made their way to Yemen, the hub of migration out of the Horn of Africa. In the last six years around 250,000 Ethiopians have made the dangerous journey into this very poor, deeply divided country besieged with internal problems, which has limited resources, the second highest rate of chronic child malnutrition in the world and where 45% of the population live in poverty.

The Nameless by Guadamour

by Guadamour
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
January 15, 2012

The Nameless

I have to get out of here
the heat shimmers
and I know no one
Phoenix sucks

I dress in the shortest skirt I have
put on fishnet stocking
over-paint my face
look like a good presentable whore

The Intimately Oppressed by Howard Zinn

by Howard Zinn
Featured Writer
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crossposted at www.greanvillepost.com, July 20, 2011
August 12, 2011

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Chapter 6 from A People’s History of the United States.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

In this invisibility they were something like black slaves (and thus slave women faced a double oppression). The biological uniqueness of women, like skin color and facial characteristics for Negroes, became a basis for treating them as inferiors. True, with women, there was something more practically important in their biology than skin color-their position as childbearers-but this was not enough to account for the general push backward for all of them in society, even those who did not bear children, or those too young or too old for that.

“Nepal girls are cheaper to buy” by Brian McAfee

by Brian McAfee
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
August 13, 2011

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One of the most significant ongoing scourges that befalls humanity worldwide is the ongoing exploitation and sexual abuse of over two million girls and boys through sex trafficking. UNICEF estimates that two and a half million children, most of them girls, are tricked or forced into the multibillion dollar global sex industry.

Where Have Libya’s Children Gone? by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb
Featured Writer
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Tripoli, Libya
August 8, 2011

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The quality of life continues to degrade in certain areas of western Libya while public anxiety noticeably rises over missing Libyan children as the first week of an unusually stressful Ramadan passes.

The shortage of gasoline has become acute and despite government efforts to curtail price gouging, one taxi driver told this observer yesterday that while the usual price of ‘benzene’ was five liters (one gallon) for $.40 (forty US cents) he is now having to pay as much as “4 dinars for one liter of petrol!”

P. Sainath: Mass Media v. Mass Reality (must-see)

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zgraphix1 on Sep 11, 2011

Award-winning journalist P. Sainath will speak on the failure of mass media to report and analyze the widening economic inequality in India and around the world. For the past decade, Sainath has been reporting on the epidemic of farmers committing suicide in India as a result of the collapse of the rural economy.

Haiti children ‘taken from unaffected areas’

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Military contractor in Iraq holds foreign workers in warehouses (updated)

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Updated: added video report; and another article;  see below

By Adam Ashton
McClatchy Newspapers
12/02/2008

BAGHDAD — About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work.

Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, the Texas firm formerly known as Halliburton, hired the men, who’re from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. On Tuesday, they staged a march outside their compound to protest their living conditions.

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via McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/02/2008 | Military contractor in Iraq holds foreign workers in warehouses plus video report

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Updated

KBR/Halliburton Confines Workers In (Worse Than) Prison-Like Conditions

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http://cspanjunkie.org/
December 04, 2008 CNN

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Updated

Warehoused Asian workers in Iraq will be sent home

By Adam Ashton
McClatchy Newspapers
Dec. 4, 2008

BAGHDAD — Asian men who’ve been living in warehouses near the Baghdad airport while awaiting promised jobs with a military subcontractor now are in line to be sent home, and they’re still not sure how they’ll be paid for their time in Iraq.

Tensions simmered throughout the week at a compound where about 1,000 men from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka spoke out against their treatment by Najlaa International Catering Services, the Kuwaiti company that hired them for work in Iraq.

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via McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/04/2008 | Warehoused Asian workers in Iraq will be sent home.

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Iraq on Dandelion Salad (new tag)

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Modern slavery

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RussiaToday

The slave market is estimated to be worth $42 billion. All over the world, people continue to be kidnapped, transported, bought and sold like commodities. But in the 21st century how can anybody be forced into slavery? And can those who escape lead normal lives? Find out in a new XL report on RT.

 

 

Poverty in Haiti spawns child slavery

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AlJazeeraEnglish

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-day slavery.

The country’s government acknowledges that child slaves exist but says it is part of the culture.

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports.

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Bill Moyers Journal: Capitol Crimes

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Bill Moyers Journal

Aug 1, 2008

Capitol Crimes

With former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is already serving five and a half years, expected to be sentenced on other charges next month, Bill Moyers takes viewers back to the scene of the crime in this update of “Capitol Crimes.” The program examines the web of relationships, secret deals and political manipulation that exposes the use and abuse of power in American politics.

Video link and transcript

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Part 3

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Mosaic News – 06/24/08: World News From The Middle East

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This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

linktv

For more: http://www.linktv.org/originalseries
“Ceasefire in Gaza, War in the West Bank,” Dubai TV, UAE
“IDF Might Consider Missing Soldiers in Lebanon Dead,” IBA TV, Israel
“Lebanese Conflict Flares Up in the North,” Abu Dhabi TV, UAE
“Al Qaeda at Nahr Al Bared,” Al Jazeera English, Qatar
“Iraqi Refugees Face Deportation in Europe,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Symposuim on Guantanamo Prison,” Sudan TV, Sudan
“40 Million Threatened With Famine in Africa,” Al-Alam TV, Iran
Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani.

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The Real News: Childhood denied

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TheRealNews

More at http://therealnews.com/c.ph…
Millions of children forced to work to earn meagre income, or nothing at all

“Childhood denied“, posted with vodpod