#international migrants day

[murderousink23]

12/18/2024 is National Muffin Day 🇧🇷, Answer The Telephone Like Buddy The Elf Day 🇺🇸, Arabic Language Day 🇺🇳, International Migrants Day 🇺🇳

[sofiaflorina2021]

Happy International Migrants Day 2024

Happy International Migrants Day, 18 December, 2024. 2024 Theme: "Honouring the Contributions of Migrants and Respecting Their Rights".

[migrantsday]

Strengthening union power with migrant workers.

To mark International Migrants Day, the ITUC organised a webinar, in which trade unions from every region shared their experiences of building union power with migrant workers. The webinar highlighted the importance of ensuring democracy at work for migrant workers, including the effective exercise of their right to freedom of association and collective bargaining through trade unions.

[subby-sab]

Today is 18th of December.

Today is International Migrants Day, National Roast Suckling Pig Day, Bake Cookies Day, Arabic Language Day.

[dijetemjeseca]

Svjetski dan migranata

[remembertheplunge]

12/18/2024

This is a great book to be reading now. That’s my margin note from this morning on the page describing the colors of the triangle warn by members of different groups in the Nazi concentration camps in the late 30s and up to 1945.

[versuasiva]

8 de marzo

tercer año fuera de mi país,

tercer año que los fantasmas creen que ganaron,

porque a mi antigua yo,

la silenciaron,

la amordazaron y empujaron al miedo absoluto,

le quitaron la esperanza y sus sueños,

le quitaron las ganas de vivir,

le quitaron su valiosa intimidad,

le robaron la luz de las metas que tenía,

la juzgaron y cuando creía que era suficiente, siguieron, terminándola de apuñalar emocionalmente hasta no poder respirar y hasta no querer respirar,

se la comieron viva y con zapatos creyendo que no sabría levantarse,

pensaron que estaría sola en esta historia,

la historia que alguna vez dije que se quedarían solo en eso: una historia, pero.. hoy luego de algunos años, la desempolvo, la remarco

y hoy, abro el libro,

lo escribo, porque luego de estos años,

ya no existe el miedo,

ni a las denuncias,

ni a la vergüenza popular,

ni a nada,

PORQUE ME QUITARON TODO,

sobre todo..

las ganas de vivir,

me persiguieron políticamente y me siguen persiguiendo de manera silenciosa, a través de los años, cada vez que digo una palabra clave sobre mi activismo o historia,

aparecen como fantasmas el pasado, con nuevos nombres, pero misma figura, rostro,

y ya no tengo miedo, porque sé que no estoy sola,

porque estoy al otro lado del mundo donde la violencia sigue, pero al menos me siento protegida estando lejos,

sólo mis verdaderas amigas conocen la verdadera historia y por eso no me dejan de abrazar fuerte, cada vez que pueden,

tuve que dejar mi valioso activismo, mis posts, mi familia, mi vida, mi ganas de vivir en el futuro en mi país,

porque tuve que irme a poder sentir un poco de paz, vivir un poco, olvidando lo malo,

sabiendo que tu país te trató tan mal,

y el sistema no te decepcionó porque para ti y para tu hermana, nunca funcionó,

el sistema nunca funcionó para nosotras, con diecisiete años y mi hermana con diez, ni cuando tenía veinte, ni mucho menos a mis veintiuno, pero a esos hombres, de alguna manera se les premia,

esa carta en pandemia, sacándo de la cárcel al infierno vivo, fue la señal para que mi padre y mi madre empacaran mis cosas y me dijeran: “tienes que irte del país, a fuerza, luego te mandamos a tu hermana”

luego de saber que mi destino era huir de mi país o morir en las manos de mis victimarios, la respuesta no fue clara, fue obligatoria,

y aquí estoy..

hablando de lo que nunca, nunca, me gusta hablar, la verdadera razón de mis antiguos miedos..

pasaron años y nada, nadie me derrumbó, sigo en pie y nadie tiene autoridad de callarme ahora,

porque, luego de tanto y tan poco,

volví.

Este escrito y fuerza invertida, es dedicada a mi hermana, Pierina. Que literalmente fue “la voz que me salvó la vida” un grito de ella, hizo que no terminaran de acabar con mi vida. Su voz fue mi salvación cuando fuimos pequeñas, más adelante, su testimonio y palabras años después, fue mi punto final para salir de un infierno que vivía en carne propia. Porque mi hermanita es lo más precioso que tengo en la vida, ella me salvó la vida y yo le daré la mejor vida a ella, lejos de tanta violencia que vivimos.

Te amo Pierina Juárez, te espero pronto, aquí, para ser felices como siempre lo soñamos.

[pizap]

🌍 Celebrate International Migrants Day with piZap! 🌍

Today, we honor the journeys, courage, and contributions of migrants around the globe. Use piZap's tools to create vibrant designs, express your creativity, and share messages of diversity and unity. Let's celebrate together!

📸 Design your story. Inspire the world.

#InternationalMigrantsDay #CelebrateDiversity #GlobalUnity #piZapCreativity #DesignForChange #MigrationJourney #EmbraceCulture #UnityInDiversity

[remittancesday]

Focus on the economic impact of Remittances on households, communities, and nations.

“Digital remittances: Towards financial inclusion and cost reduction.” International Day of Remittances 2024. Remittances remain essential for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. By helping to put food on the table and pay for school, housing and medical expenses, they provide a crucial lifeline for those who receive them. The International Day of Family Remittances draws our attention to the economic impact of this money on households, communities, and nations, and recognises the sacrifice, separation and generosity often involved.

[mediaheights]

International Migrants Day is seen as an opportunity to recognize the contributions made by millions of migrants to the economies of their host and home countries promote respect for their basic human rights. #InternationalMigrantsDay Build your brand with digital media & take the benefits of social media branding contact Media Heights. By Mediaheightspr.com #Digitalbranding #MEDIAHEIGHTS #advertisingagency #web #MEDIAHEIGHTSPRCOM #best #public #relation #agency #in #chandigarh #mohali #punjab #north #india #digitalmarketingcompany #searchengineoptimization #content #instagrammarketing #buildingrelationships #globally #customer #internetbanding — at media heights #smo #branding #facebook #twitter #marketingonline #brand #searchengineoptimization #internetmarketing #follow #digitalagency #marketingagency #motivation #digitalmarketingtips #onlinebusiness #websitedesign #marketingonline #brand #searchengineoptimization #content #instagrammarketing #advertisingagency #web #technology #onlinebranding #branding360degree #SEO #SEObrandingagency #websiteranking #websitetrafic #Digitalmarketing #mediaheights #OnlineAdvertising #instagrammarketing #advertisingagency #web #marketingonline #brand

[gayvampyr]

CNN:

Hundreds of families gathered in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina on June 15, plotting their escape from what had become a hellscape of blown-out buildings scrawled with racist graffiti and streets strewn with corpses. The state governor had just been executed and mutilated by Arab militia groups, leaving civilians with no choice but to flee.

What followed was a gruesome massacre, eyewitnesses said, believed to be one of the most violent incidents in the genocide-scarred Sudanese region’s history. The powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allied militias hunted down non-Arab people in various parts of the city and surrounding desert region, leaving hundreds dead as they ran for their lives…

…residents set off en masse from southern El Geneina, many trying to reach the nearby Sudanese military headquarters where they thought they might find safety. But they said they were quickly thwarted by RSF attacks. Some were summarily executed in the streets, survivors said. Others died in a mass drowning incident, shot at as they attempted to cross a river. Many of those who managed to make it out were ambushed near the border with Chad, forced to sit in the sand before being told to run to safety as they were sprayed with bullets.

“More than 1,000 people were killed on June 15. I was collecting bodies on that day. I collected a huge number,” one local humanitarian worker, who asked not to be named for security reasons, told CNN. He said the dead were buried in five different mass graves in and around the city.

Conflict erupted between the RSF and the Sudanese army in April. Since then, more than one million people have fled to neighboring countries, according to estimates from the International Organization for Migration.

Now, a telecommunications blackout and the flight of international aid groups have all but cut off Darfur from the outside world. But news of the June 15 massacre began trickling out of the region from refugees who escaped to Chad. The evidence uncovered by CNN suggests that, behind a curtain of secrecy, the RSF and its allies are waging an indiscriminate campaign of widespread killings and sexual violence unlike anything the region has seen in decades.

The RSF’s official spokesperson told CNN that it “categorically” denied the allegations.

“To say you were Masalit was a death sentence,” said Jamal Khamiss, a human rights lawyer, referring to his non-Arab tribe, one of the biggest in Darfur. Khamiss was among those who said that they fled from El Geneina to Chad, surviving a series of RSF and allied militia positions by concealing his ethnicity.

The United Nations raised the alarm in June over ethnic targeting and killing of people from the Masalit community in El Geneina, after reports of summary executions and “persistent hate speech,” including calls to kill or expel them.

The vast majority of those who managed to make it out of El Geneina alive sought refuge in the Chadian border town of Adre, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) away from the city.

On June 15, the town received the highest number of migrants in a single day, along with the highest number of casualties — 261 — since the Sudan conflict broke out, according to Doctors Without Borders, widely known by its French name, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which runs the only hospital in Adre. The number of wounded people that arrived at the hospital was even higher the next day: 387.

“The last time we recorded the death toll in Geneina it was 884,” one local humanitarian worker from El Geneina, who works for a Western non-profit organization, told CNN. “That was June 9. After June 9, it was a different story. The dead became uncountable.”

Action Against Hunger is accepting donations to provide health, sanitation and nutrition services to Sudanese refugees in Chad.

[murderousink23]

12/18/2023 is National Muffin Day 🇧🇷, Answer The Telephone Like Buddy The Elf Day 🇺🇲, Arabic Language Day 🇺🇳, International Migrants Day 🇺🇳

[sayruq]

3 thoughts on this:

Economy - Israel's economy took a hit in October that was comparable to the economic tremors caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. It is effectively in a major recession today. The longer they drag out this war, the worse their economic condition will be. Foreign capital will continue leaving the country as it seems incapable of stabilising. While the continued use of reserves means 300,000 Israelis will be unable to work, not to mention the millions of dollars Israel has to spend to mobilise its reserve every day. The longer the war goes on, the more people will end up leaving the country. 470,000 have left in October and November with no intention of returning while over 300,000 settlers are internally displaced. Both of those numbers are bound to go up as the war continues. This means that Israel is missing hundreds of thousands of Israeli workers. A few weeks ago, Israel struck a deal with the Indian government to get 100,000 workers after tens of thousands of worker migrants fled the country. That plan fell through thanks to Indian trade unions. Now Israel is turning to African States in a desperate attempt to replace the Gazan workers it's currently genociding. We will see if that plan works as Africans are by and large pro Palestine. Plus the Yemeni naval blockade is growing more and more intense every week as a direct response to the genocide in Gaza. In short, Israel's economy can't withstand a long war. America cannot help prop up the economy as it will soon be facing its major economy issues in the coming years including a housing crisis and likely a recession.

Military defeats - Israel cannot defeat Hamas. It cannot win a war inside Gaza. It failed to do so in 2014, it's failing right now. It has lost hundreds of military vehicles including the (formerly) vaunted Merkava-4. The estimated number of injured soldiers stands at 10,000+ while the Resistance is still intact and capable of carrying out dozens of military operations against IDF and the surrounding cities and settlements every day. The IDF has never looked more weak than it is right now. Hezbollah has been employing a military strategy dubbed the escalation ladder, in which one end of the ladder is no war and the other end is total war. It has continuously escalated against Israel, attacking deeper and deeper into its territory, and it will continue until there's open war between Israel and Lebanon. The point of the escalation is to give Israel time to leave Gaza but as that's not something the Israeli government is planning on doing, we're looking at a region war in 2024 (so far we have a regional conflict and whilebits serious, it's not yet war). Just like it can't win in Gaza, Israel can't defeat Hezbollah and occupy Southern Lebanon like its leaders have been threatening to. It certainly can't take on the Ansar Allah group in Yemen.

West Bank - every week, there are clashes between Israeli forces and the Resistance in the West Bank and it's growing more and more intense. The best way to describe the region is 'powder keg.' Israel has responded to Oct 7th by detaining thousands of Palestinians and killing hundreds. There's a growing popularity of Al Qassam Brigades and other militant groups in Gaza. There also seems to be coordination between the Gazan and West Bank resistance groups, as in they would carry out operations at the same time. The longer the war on Gaza goes on, the more likely that war will also break out in the West Bank.

Many, many more Palestinians will die. This plan, more than anything, is a call for the continued slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.

But the longer this goes on, the closer Israel gets to collapsing.

[migrantsday]

Honoring the vital contributions of migrant workers to economies and societies while denouncing the exploitation, discrimination and violence they face.

Migrant workers are:

Often the victims of forced labour, abuse and exploitation.

Disproportionately represented in informal work and sectors where precarity is the norm.

Frequently left trapped in debt and poverty in their search for a better future. According to the ILO, migrant workers pay more than US$5.6 billion annually in illegal recruitment fees.

[femsolid]

“The ultra-rich like to tell us that getting rich takes skill, grit and hard work. But the truth is most wealth is taken, not made. So many of the so-called ‘self-made’ are actually heirs to vast fortunes, handed down through generations of unearned privilege. Untaxed billions of dollars in inheritance is an affront to fairness, perpetuating a new aristocracy where wealth and power stays locked in the hands of a few. The capture of our global economy by a privileged few has reached heights once considered unimaginable. The failure to stop billionaires is now spawning soon-to-be trillionaires. Not only has the rate of billionaire wealth accumulation accelerated —by three times— but so too has their power. The crown jewel of this oligarchy is a billionaire president, backed and bought by the world’s richest man Elon Musk, running the world’s largest economy. We present this report as a stark wake up-call that ordinary people the world over are being crushed by the enormous wealth of a tiny few.”

- Oxfam International Executive Director Amitabh Behar.

Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now.

Forbes data indicates that the largest annual increase in billionaire wealth occurred in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sixty percent of billionaire wealth is now derived from inheritance, monopoly power, corruption or crony connections, as Oxfam argues that “extreme billionaire wealth is largely unmerited.” 

Richest 1 percent in the Global North extracted $30 million an hour from the Global South through the financial system in 2023.

Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990, according to World Bank data.

The wealth of the world’s ten richest men grew on average by almost $100 million a day —even if they lost 99 percent of their wealth overnight, they would remain billionaires.

This ever-growing concentration of wealth is enabled by a monopolistic concentration of power, with billionaires increasingly exerting influence over industries and public opinion.

Research by Forbes found that every billionaire under 30 has inherited their wealth, while UBS estimates that over 1,000 of today’s billionaires will pass on more than $5.2 trillion to their heirs over the next two to three decades.

Many of the super-rich, particularly in Europe, owe part of their wealth to historical colonialism and the exploitation of poorer countries.

Low and middle-income countries spend on average nearly half of their national budgets on debt repayments, often to rich creditors in New York and London. This far outstrips their combined investment in education and healthcare.

Despite contributing 90 percent of the labor that drives the global economy, workers in low and middle-income countries receive only 21 percent of global income.

Migrant workers in rich countries earn, on average, about 13 percent less than nationals, with the wage gap rising to 21 percent for women migrants.

Oxfam report published on the 20th of January 2025.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Afraid to Die, Treated like Dogs; What Brazilians Deported from the USA Say

Migrants report abuse, degrading treatment, and threats from U.S. agents during the flight

The Brazilians deported from the United States who arrived at Belo Horizonte International Airport this Saturday (25) reported abuse, threats, and degrading treatment at the hands of U.S. immigration agents responsible for the flight back to Brazil.

Disembarking on Saturday night in Confins after being released by the Federal Police, several migrants said they had been handcuffed for 50 hours, with no air conditioning on the flight, and subjected to abuse by the Americans.

"Not even a dog deserved to be treated like that," said Jefferson Maia, who recounted spending two months imprisoned in the U.S. after crossing the border with Mexico. "I spent nearly 50 hours chained, not eating properly. I haven’t showered in five days."

Continue reading.