singular_me
4th July 2014, 08:09 PM
those black leaders understood it all... ROFLOL
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‘African leaders gathered for a continent-wide summit voted to give themselves and their allies immunity from prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide at a new African Court of Justice and Human Rights.
The decision comes as the continent confronts human-rights violations and has two sitting presidents and one ousted president facing charges at the International Criminal Court.
Amnesty International called it “a backward step in the fight against impunity and a betrayal of victims of serious violations of human rights.”‘
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/1/africa-summit-immunity0.html
World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme ‘complicit’ in genocidal land grabs – NGOs
‘Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 500 million acres of land in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean was acquired or negotiated under deals brokered on behalf of foreign governments or transnational corporations.
Many such deals are geared toward growing crops or biofuels for export to richer, developed countries – with the consequence that small-holder farmers are displaced from their land and lose their livelihood while local communities go hungry.’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jul/03/world-bank-un-redd-genocide-land-carbon-grab-sengwer-kenya
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‘African leaders gathered for a continent-wide summit voted to give themselves and their allies immunity from prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide at a new African Court of Justice and Human Rights.
The decision comes as the continent confronts human-rights violations and has two sitting presidents and one ousted president facing charges at the International Criminal Court.
Amnesty International called it “a backward step in the fight against impunity and a betrayal of victims of serious violations of human rights.”‘
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/1/africa-summit-immunity0.html
World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme ‘complicit’ in genocidal land grabs – NGOs
‘Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 500 million acres of land in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean was acquired or negotiated under deals brokered on behalf of foreign governments or transnational corporations.
Many such deals are geared toward growing crops or biofuels for export to richer, developed countries – with the consequence that small-holder farmers are displaced from their land and lose their livelihood while local communities go hungry.’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jul/03/world-bank-un-redd-genocide-land-carbon-grab-sengwer-kenya