Baher Kamal
Inter Press Service
Spain
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Islamophobia - ‘Outright Hatred’ Towards Muslims, Risen to 'Epidemic Proportions'
Islamophobia is a ‘fear, prejudice and hatred of Muslims that leads to provocation, hostility and intolerance by means of threatening, harassment, abuse, incitement and intimidation of Muslims and non-Muslims, both in the online and offline world.’ → Read More
Why Do 800 Mothers a Day - 1 Every 2 Minutes– Die from Preventable Causes?
The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health care and, in many cases, even a total lack of maternity services, which threaten to further raise the number of these tragic preventable deaths one million or more a year by 2030. Severe bleeding, high blood pressure, pregnancy-related infections, complications from unsafe abortion, and … → Read More
Africa: Most African Govts (3 in 4) Spend More On Arms, Less On Farms
Opinion - The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms. → Read More
Most African Govts (3 in 4) Spend More on Arms, Less on Farms
The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms. Africa is home to a quarter of the world’s entire agricultural land. Nevertheless, in the 12 months that African leaders vowed to improve food security in the continent, over 20 million more people have … → Read More
‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (II)
While the world’s biggest powers and their giant private corporations continue to attach high priority to their military –and commercial– dominance, both of them being shockingly profitable, entire generations are being lost to deadly armed conflicts, devastating climate catastrophes, diseases, hunger and more imposed impoverishment. Part I of this series of two articles focussed on … → Read More
‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (I)
Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II. “Across the globe, children and their families are facing a deadly mix of crises, from conflict and displacement to disease, outbreaks and soaring rates of malnutrition. Meanwhile, climate change is making these crises worse and … → Read More
Hate Speech Loads the Gun, Misinformation Pulls the Trigger
In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact, is being amplified at ‘unprecedented scale’ by new technologies. Hate speech has now reached dangerous records, fuelling discrimination, racism, xenophobia and staggering human rights violations. It mainly targets whoever is not … → Read More
Trans Fat - Food Industry Exposes Five Billion People to Toxic Chemicals that Kill
Trans fat, or trans-unsaturated fatty acids, is a type of unsaturated fat that occurs in food. Of all the fats, trans fat is the worst for health. Used intensively it increases the risks of heart disease and death → Read More
Inequality reaches highest peak ever
Extreme wealth and extreme poverty have increased simultaneously for the first time in 25 years. The World Bank says we are likely seeing the biggest increase in global inequality and poverty since WW2 → Read More
US Installs New Nukes in Europe: As Destructive as 83 Hiroshima Bombs
As if the 100 billion dollars that the United States has so far provided to Ukraine in both weapons and aid were not enough, the US has now started to install in Europe its brand new, more destructive nuclear warheads. The US 100 billion dollars are to be added to all the weapons and aid … → Read More
Arms Sales - Forget About All this Humanitarian Blah Blah (And Buy More Weapons)
Sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached 592 billion US dollars in 2021, a 1.9% increase compared with 2020 in real terms. Such an increase marked the seventh consecutive year of rising global arms sales → Read More
Migrants? ‘Don’t You Dare Come Here, Unless…’
When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two born-in-Europe devastating armed conflicts that attracted other powers: the World Wars I and II, they migrated to the Americas and other Western countries in search of safe haven. Upon their arrival at their destination, they were checked at the border and admitted … → Read More
The Poor, Squeezed by 10 Trillion Dollars in External Debts
The external debt of the world’s low and middle-income countries at the end of 2021 totalled 9 trillion US dollars, more than double the amount a decade ago. Such debt is expected to increase by an additional 1.1 trillion US dollars in 2023. Moreover, the debt-service payments, projected to top 62 billion US dollars in … → Read More
Corruption: Europe Doing Nothing
“Western Europe and the European Union remains the highest scoring region in the world’s corruption index, progress has halted and worrying signs of backsliding have emerged.” This is how Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) report introduces its section: A Decade of Stagnating Corruption Levels In Western Europe Amidst Ongoing Scandals. The report shows … → Read More
Corruption: The Most Perpetrated –and Least Prosecuted– Crime
In these times when all sorts of human rights violations have been ‘normalised,’ a crime which continues to be perpetrated everywhere but punished nowhere: corruption is also seen as a business as usual. A business, by the way, that relies on the wide complicity of official authorities. “Corruption attacks the foundation of democratic institutions by … → Read More
This Planet Is Drying Up. And these Are the Consequences
Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of the loss of life, arising from impacts, such as wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. In other words, droughts are one of the “most feared natural phenomena in the world;” they devastate farmland, destroy livelihoods and cause untold suffering, as reported by … → Read More
Black ‘Fraud-Days’ and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales, most of them are fake, as often denounced by consumers organisations that report that the business usually inflates prices before launching such deals. Just a couple … → Read More
Crimes Against Children
An indisputable truth is that no child has ever chosen where to be born, which colour of skin to have, which ethnic community to belong to, what religion to practice and language to speak, or how safe or dangerous the context to grow up in. A child is the most innocent and defenceless human being. … → Read More
Don't Be Fooled: Climate Disasters Are Highly Lucrative
As much as wars –or even more–, climate disaster represents a great business opportunity, so don’t bother those who pour their fortunes into fueling them with talks about stopping it. See what happens. Investing in wars A couple of dozens of companies involved in manufacturing the most inhuman weapons of mass destruction– the nuclear … → Read More
World Toilet Day
2022 World Toilet Day focuses on another invisible fact: the grave impacts of such a sanitation crisis on groundwater, which is the source of up to 99% of the world’s fresh water → Read More