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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
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<The stench of death>
<Canada's murdered women and girls.>
Between 8 Nov 2021 and April 2022 AL Jazeera published a serial of
articles (except one i.e. an Al Jazeera team)
all by Canadian-French and better said Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi
Morin about femicides of Canadian Indigenous women and girls of which each word is so
heartbreaking that it takes a lot of courage to read the whole serial. Still I challenge you to do so! I divided it according to the
number of articles and quoted from them ending with a read more URL.:
Related:
The Guardian
12 January 2022
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
By William Wroblewski
<<'Babies here are born sick': are Bolivia's gold mines poisoning its
indigenous people?
<<Outside a small brick house shared by four families, Daniela Prada,
who is heavily pregnant, gathers guava leaves to make a tea for her
two-year-old son. <My baby gets sick a lot,> she says, boiling a pot of
water in her outdoor kitchen. <He always has diarrhoea and last night he
had a fever. Most of the time I give him natural medicine.> In an
identical house nearby, town leader Oscar Lurici says fevers are a part
of life in Eyiyo Quibo village on the Beni River in northern Bolivia.
People of all ages suffer from debilitating head and body aches, bouts
of vomiting and diarrhoea, memory loss and tiredness. Some children show
signs of cognitive development delays. <We do not know for sure what
causes these sicknesses,> Lurici says. <We are starting to think this is
all because of water contamination from the mercury found in the mining
waste.>
Lurici's 17-year-old son, also called Oscar, began suffering from
exhaustion, aches and trembling in early 2019. Various doctors diagnosed
ailments such as Parkinson's disease and anaemia. One suggested the
illness came from the contaminated river water. Before the year was out,
Oscar had died. Bolivia has long been criticised for using mercury in
small-scale gold mining, and growing evidence shows that mercury
contamination is causing illnesses in poor communities. Mercury is used
across the country, in mining projects in the cordilleras of the Andes
and on dredgers extracting gold from the sediment at the bottom of
waterways. The uncontrolled disposal of mercury waste creates toxic
flows in Bolivia’s river systems. Known as the <people of the river>,
the Esse Ejjas survived as nomads for generations, hunting and fishing
along the region's waterways. After settling in Eyiyo Quibo, men and
boys continued to fish, spending days travelling the river, camping on
its banks and working in pairs to fill their long, narrow wooden boats
with catfish and piranhas. In cases around the world, including a study
in the Brazilian Amazon published by the International Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health in 2020, researchers have found
fish to be heavily contaminated with mercury, and believe fish-based
diets in mining areas are causing increased mercury levels in indigenous
people. This could explain some of the illnesses in Eyiyo Quibo. In
2019, representatives of the Bolivian volunteer organisation Reaccion
Climatica took hair samples from women at Euiyo Quibo, including Prada.
In total, 64 samples were taken from Euiyo Quibo and Portachuelo,
another Esse Ejja community 380km (235 miles) north, for a study by the
International Pollutants Elimination Network (Ipen) to evaluate levels
of mercury in people living near small mines in four Latin American
countries: Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia. Published in June
2021, the study found that women from the Esse Ejja communities, the
only participants not living near a mine, had by far the highest levels
of mercury – on average almost eight times the accepted threshold of one
part per million (ppm), with one sample reaching 32.4ppm. The results
suggested a correlation between mercury in the body and fish consumed.
The findings rang alarm bells internationally. In September, the UN
special rapporteurs on toxics and human rights and on the rights of
indigenous peoples, Dr Marcos Orellana and José Francisco Cali Tzay,
submitted a letter to the Bolivian government calling out Bolivia's
inaction on the regulation, use, and trade of mercury, with a focus on
small-scale gold mining. They gave Bolivia 60 days to respond.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/12/babies-here-are-born-sick-are-bolivias-gold-mines-poisoning-its-indigenous-people
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