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Recently deceased Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno seen here addressing the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 © 2019 AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File

(Nairobi) – Chad's transitional military council should scrupulously respect human rights and the rule of law, ensuring that civilians are protected and avoid any escalation of abuses against civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The military council should also ensure a swift transition to democratic civilian rule, upholding the right of Chadians to elect their leaders in free and fair elections.

A spokesman for the Chadian army announced on national television on April 20, 2021, that President Idriss Déby Itno, 68, had died of injuries suffered in clashes between rebels and government forces. The exact circumstances of his death remain unclear. The spokesman said that the government and parliament have been dissolved, all borders have been shut, and a transitional military council headed by Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, one of Déby's sons, will be in charge of the country for the next 18 months. This is contrary to Chad’s Constitution, which provides that in the event of the death of a president, the president of the national assembly should provisionally lead the country for 45 to 90 days before a new election.

“The potentially explosive consequences of President Déby’s death cannot be underestimated – both for the future of Chad and across the region,” said Ida Sawyer, deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Chad’s regional and international partners should closely monitor the situation and use their influence to prevent abuses against civilians.”

On April 19, the Chadian electoral commission announced that Déby had won a sixth term in the presidential elections held on April 11. The pre-election period was marred by a ruthless government crackdown on protesters and the political opposition. On election day, rebels from the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), based in Libya, invaded Chad, attacked a military post, and called on Déby to step down. Clashes between rebels and government forces continued over the following days in the western Kanem province.

The African Union (AU) should urgently deploy a crisis team from its Early Warning and Conflict Prevention Division, including human rights observers, to monitor developments and urge Chadian security forces as well as armed groups to refrain from attacking civilians, Human Rights Watch said. The AU should appoint a new special envoy to the Sahel to help bolster and coordinate AU efforts across the region.

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) should also closely monitor the situation and support the work of local human rights defenders.

For years, international players have propped up Déby’s government for its support for counterterrorism operations in the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin and involvement in other regional initiatives while largely turning a blind eye to his legacy of repression and violations of social and economic rights at home.

“Chad’s transitional leaders, with support from regional and international partners, should work toward reversing Chad’s downward human rights trajectory,” Sawyer said. “They should ensure a prompt and peaceful transition to civilian government, based on Chadians’ free exercise of their wishes in a fair election.”

For more background, please see below.

Background

Déby has ruled Chad since December 1990 when he removed the autocratic leader Hissène Habré, who has since been convicted by a special court in Senegal for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and torture, including rape and sexual slavery. While Déby backed the prosecution of his predecessor, he prevented the airing of his role as army chief when the atrocities were committed, and he broke his promise to compensate Habré’s victims.

Despite its vast oil wealth, Chad remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Chad was placed last in the World Bank’s 2020 Human Capital Index, while the United Nations Development Programme ranked Chad 187 out of 189 countries in its 2020 human development index.

Déby’s government received significant international support for its role in the fight against armed Islamist groups in the Sahel and Lake Chad basin. Chad has committed 1,000 troops to the G5 Sahel Joint Force – a military force created to counter Islamist armed groups in the Sahel region, with support from the European Union, Saudi Arabia, and the United States, among others. It has also contributed 3,000 soldiers to the Multinational Joint Task Force, a joint military force mandated by the African Union to respond to Boko Haram attacks across the Lake Chad basin, with support from the European Union, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. N’Djamena, Chad’s capital, hosts the headquarters of Barkhane, the French counterterrorism force operating in Mali.

Between October 2017 and 2020, Chad sent troops to Libya in support of Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army. Chad and Sudan also engaged in proxy wars for years, with armed tribal militias active on both sides of the borders. Chad currently hosts around 370,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur.

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marlaluster · 6 years ago

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The message didn't go through, but what I said in it tells a bit about n hints toward my situation here in the United States that I wish to get out from. It is a lot of things I can tell but this reality of the way of things in the world, i don't believe it is as it is said most commonly. There are bits n pieces of things, contributions of supposed others surfacing more and more, to represent what it is to me. That occurrence of those things to surface is really something of an overriding magic here, overriding much suppression n oppression of it (the magic, ie life itself) by the devil. But I have been attacked n am attacked now by the devil n the society order/government etc, which really is the devil, in the United States for saying this reality of the world -- where animals cannot talk as people do n where there is poverty n inequality -- is ruled by the devil. Things should be more in the hands of the individual to control his circumstances etc and there should be more common ground n common wished things to be what is the "governance" or direction, or way of things for people n not this estranged n official n contrived government structure which is really what is the rule of the devil n is actually a representation of the devil. The government is supposed to be a false rule, a false god, other than the people. "He can see the things in the message Marla, so i would have to go," the devil said as I was writing this message at a point. It was talking about someone w the United Nations that is possible to see this message here in the reality of what I call devil world, really devil land. But I am seeking to try to come to New Zealand as a refugee, not that I am so easily served by existing governmental type structures such as this, but this reality n the next maybe can meet at this kind of program or available help within the present (n deteriorating) way of things in the world, which is the false reality of the devil. I saw online they don't get many refugees in New Zealand and that they thought they don't get enough referrals from the United Nations for people in very dire situations or something like that. The situation I'm in is very bad. I should be able to have my view, have my opinion n be okay at the very least, not that this is likely if one is in an environment where people are seen as n regarded as inferior to experience things said to be out of the ordinary such as talking in the mind, or inferior to be conspiracy theorists, or inferior ultimately to be outside the norm or just not w the popular "in crowd". If people are regarded that way, ie as inferior, its unlikely that they would be something other than attacked really to assert themselves as the truth over the popular thought, popular opinion, etc. The situation probably not unlike Hippocrates (or whoever is the figure that is told to have taken poison over renouncing his teachings under some pressure of a ruler type of figure) n I guess witches burned at the stake in the (supposed) history of this reality of the world that seems to have sharp clause (claws) n condition for those challenging the status quo or popular thought. Availability, space etc to have my view n be okay is not what has occurred here in this country of the United States, which, to talk in a way not so welcome here, is actually a place not possible to exist. It's really what is the reason for the occurrence of the myth n legend n tale of the Bermuda Triangle. The United States is really the storied Bermuda Triangle, I've been told in my mind. The Bermuda Triangle is a area in the ocean near the United States where things are said to disappear n never been seen again, but it's supposed to be challenged as true the area exists or that things really disappeared there. I'm told in my mind that the United States is where the devil is to have apparently arranged to be things he's not supposed to be able be in other countries where it's supposed to be not as less than to tell the truth, such as that it is not real here, ie this reality of the world. It is said it is more less than to tell the truth in the United States which is supposed to show how superior it is to sell out to the devil n act like this present reality is the only truth, this present reality of things like how it is in the United States most of all however, which has no queen, ie monarchy (which is more like the actual nature of the rule where one figure -- really the devil but it's hidden -- is really in charge and kind of unfairly so); w an eagle on it's seal/emblem instead of a more mythological looking creature or something; and a serious-looking flag design also; w a history of supposed leaders of high esteem so prepared by going to what's supposed to be the finest n best universities etc. Lots of issues involved in this situation of my being disempowered that are unfair. There is a world domination here where some people are less in power and poorer than others, ie inferior as who believe in magic etc or who can somehow seem -- if its true people aren't inferior not to be a certain favored way such as showing "aptitude" in math n science etc, which is favored in this present way of things -- to suggest of another knowing or contribution other than presently held as so sought after or appreciated or made so apparent. With this governmental structure dominating in the present reality of the world, which is really a false reality ruled by the devil, blacks all over the world are typically supposed to be inferior n the tribal people n people in the Congo etc, who would seem to be knowing of magic or be suggestive of having a more broad inclusion of things n have more creative ideas of things. The rule of the world w governments etc asserts pretty much, as I'm aware, that magic is not real etc. It is making a field day environment for the devil to attack people, ie for the devil to attack me n not be recognized as attack or for what it is. I have some links n things I collected to help show there is a rising demonstration of that there is something happening here in this country of the United States n it's supposed to be other countries also implied but the devil i think is making that up, but it's a rising apparentness of there being a experience of the government run society n etc that is something other than what has been for the most part considered possible n other than has been protected against for someone to experience it, it being very bad attacking etc for the person not recognized as attacked by the government etc. You can tell this, ie a person can see this is not traditionally protected against, the experience or attack I'm trying to describe, by considering some movies and other things that tell about the attack of an individual that is at the mercy of the rule of the society or the majority that is having an experience of things other than that of the individual. The movie Enemy of the State w the actor Will Smith, the character played by Will Smith ending up in a mess of a situation, unmanageable n horrible n dangerous after apparently uncovering a government secret, something like this. There's a similar movie w Sandra Bullock, i have to find the title. But she becomes a target of government attack after finding I think some kind of government secret. This American society has many other stereotypical instances of attack of the individual in which the individual is to others something other than who the person is to himself. I am someone to be contexted or identifiable as mentally ill here in this society. (I don't agree w mental illness as true.) This, ie mental illness, is not the exact apparent experience of the main characters in the movies I referred to, but it is pretty much my experience that this is who I am supposed to be in the context n truth of this society I am in presently in the United States n it is suggested as a possible context for a rising expression of what can be a person's experience here that is outside the familiar bounds of the society n government operation for protection n service etc. There has been reports of people kidnapped in instances of forced hospitalization for so called mental illness. There has been reports n much surfacing information on people being called "targeted individuals" that are said to be targets for covert attack by government agents using some technology to make issues that are to this point mostly only classified as mental illness, such as hearing talking n harassment in the mind. Other things surfacing are mirroring my experience where I'm being ignored or not recognized that I am being attacked by what's supposed to be ordinary on benevolent practices of the society. It's creating an alternate reality, and alternate story n telling that is a quiet storm on this reality continuing as it has pretending no story other than the official can dominate or claim the flow of information or the norm or what's commonly told as what's truly happening. I can forward some examples of this kind of expressed phenomena or happenings. Like I said, i tried to recently collect some things for my seeking to be recognized as n get some attention etc as a refugee. I had to learn about the term refugee n etc. Things are not really easy to understand etc for an actual person present here, the stuff is supposed to be foreign (in the rule of the devil) that is the workings of things. One thing i say that contradicts the truth asserted as true of this present reality is I say people are not really present in their form. I am attacked very bad by the devil here w very bad torment, magic, physical things to my face, appearance, etc, things that are supposed to be known here as something other than they are to me. This is something now w this rising tide or emerging information that can be contexted or matched or mirrored as an experience something like that of the targeted individual. The devil tormenting me some now. It tries to tell me it's telling me what to say. People are supposed to be less than to the devil here w what the devil seeks as the rule here. It tries to act like people do not really exist n that it is some origin etc of people, it's extremely disgusting n irritating. But I wish for change n to be able to have something other than this present way of things in the world as the way of things seems to me from appearances from the outside looking in mostly n not much experience outside of the US. In the way of things in the United States I've experienced that control is too much out of the hands of the individual. Please help me as a refugee n i can move forward. I am stopped or paused now or have been in the country of the United States as someone saying that the truth has not been what's told here as to the history n whats really happening -- for the most part (but things are cumulatively arising to challenge n change that, as I'm telling here). I said in spring 2014 that this reality is ruled by the devil n that people were not really mentally ill to experience hearing talking in the mind n other things said to be illness here, such as bad sadness here in devil land. I soon after that began being attacked by the society structure, things are very out of the hands of the individual, very hard to manage, as alluded to in the two movies I mentioned. Other movies, such as movies about crazed stalkers in love w unattainable objects of their affection, hint at this culture in the United States where the individual is at the mercy of the truth of or overridden by the truth of the crowd but that is not exactly as it is outwardly stated in this reality. It's supposed to just be that the truth of the crowd n reality of the crowd is superior to that of the individual in many other instances, such as w Paula Dean n others having what was considered unwelcome things to say at points n they were met w rebuke of the crowd losing job positions, but I don't support people having to work however. Work is slavery n enslavement to the rule of the devil, it's forced labor here. But this culture in the country of the United States singles out n attacks the individual. It holds n asserts as true for people to be many things outside the norm -- such as mentally ill -- that are things to be considered inferior to what others are as supposedly normal. The devil, as I was writing this at a point, kept trying to press i was not who was writing this. It was supposed to be from some other source other than myself. It's extremely bad torment n attack. But the governmental structures the devil has arranged for here, they favor the crowd, it is a god that is worshiped here, the crowd. It is evil, the crowd. There is a false n superficial standard set by the crowd, where others are supposed to be inferior to not be blending in n etc. But poverty w government structures n their money systems: a very bad restraint on people. I am not w much means. I have also been homeless here, a home not so accessible to people here. These examples also of how a person, ie individual is disempowered or having less freedom than should be seen as beneficial, ie good etc for the whole/greater good. I will forward more information n try to look into more things about getting to Australia or New Zealand. I read New Zealand has had fewer refugees, which may mean it's more available or beneficial for me to go there because I am not normal n maybe this occurrence means the country can deal w a abnormal situation or is more prepared for one person as who ends the world. Really I am the only person here present in my form in the world as it is known, which is really ruled by the devil. But I am not sure if New Zealand is to so be having to be this kind of situation. I suppose I somewhat prefer Australia, but I wish to go where it is best. I can try to get more situated to live in Australia later, hypothetically, as I wish to live there, but I am interested in New Zealand also. There are some other things I can tell, such as about instances of outward attack and about one of my soul mates residing in Australia, but I'll leave off there. I will try to forward this message to someplace in Australia like w the prime minister there or the immigration services there n also in New Zealand. Sincerely, Marla Rose Luster ________________________________________ From: marla [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 10:02 AM To: U.S. Department of Education Subject: RE: Important info about your defaulted federal student loan Im attacked by this society very bad. I am trying to seek to find a way i can leave to be a refugee in another country. I was made homeless at a point when things were gone out of control w this issue n account n other things also. I'm not a normal experience here anymore, it's unmanageable here for me because I've been attacked by this society n government. It's not allowed to be my friend anymore here, this government etc, because I said it's ruled by the devil. It's really ruled by the devil etc, this reality. It's very bad here, it's not as it is acknowledged n said to be often enough. But there is increasing expression of opinion of this way of things as not what is as it's been said to be like as in things being about liberty etc, ie good-intentioned here so much. Presently it's difficult n concerning to deal w this issue of the account (n other things). Really it's slavery here n very disgusting here. ________________________________________ From: U.S. Department of Education [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Important info about your defaulted federal student loan Affordable payment agreements available Click here to view this email as a web page. [Federal Student Aid An Office of the U.S. Department of Education] Dear Marla, The U.S. Department of Education recently recalled your defaulted student loan account from Account Control Technology Inc.. You can now make payment arrangements without paying additional collection costs, but you must call us before August 18. Take Action Now Please call the U.S. Department of Education’s Default Resolution Group at 800-621-3115

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itsfinancethings · 5 years ago

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This Friday, the Nobel committee in Oslo, Norway will announce the winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is awarded annually to the person or organization that has done the most to promote world peace.

Last year, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and human rights activist Nadia Murad jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

There are 301 nominees for this year’s prize, out of which 223 are individuals and 78 are organizations, according to the Nobel Institute. The official list of nominations remains a secret, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of speculation about who is in the running.

Here is a selection of oddsmakers’ favorites for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize — with the caveat that the Nobel committee is rarely predictable in its choice of winner:

Greta Thunberg

Jason DeCrow — APYouth activist Greta Thunberg addresses the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations on Sept. 23, 2019 in New York City.

Greta Thunberg is the clear favorite to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year, according to oddsmakers. Thunberg, who featured on a recent cover of TIME magazine, has become famous for her speeches and protests over climate inaction. At 15 years old, she began her school strike outside the Swedish Parliament in August 2018. Little more than a year later, an estimated four million people joined the teenager in a global strike on Sept. 20 — with activists, many of them schoolchildren, joining the protests from Thailand to Afghanistan to Haiti. A few days later, Thunberg gave an emotionally-charged speech at the Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23, where she condemned world leaders for their lack of action in halting climate change.

Despite her achievements, conservatives have criticized Thunberg and suggested that her win would be controversial. Some see her courage and drive to hold world leaders to account as confrontational, divisive and unhelpful. “The problem is that the principle of ‘flight shame’ brings her chances… down. Shame is not a constructive feeling to bring about change,” Sverre Lodgaard, a deputy member of the Nobel award committee from 2003 to 2011 told Reuters.

Even so, Thunberg remains the favorite to win. If she does, she would become the youngest person ever to be awarded a Nobel Prize — a title currently held by Malala Yousafzai, who won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize aged 17.

Abiy Ahmed

Mulugeta Ayene — AP/ShutterstockEthiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed welcomes an Eritrean delegation in Addis Ababa on June 26, ahead of a Summit where the leaders agreed to end the 20 year war.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed made headlines in 2018 after instigating the end of 20 years of conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea. War between the two countries began over border disputes in 1998, five years after Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia. At least 70,000 people were killed before the two sides signed a peace deal in December 2000 — but tensions have remained high as Ethiopia refused to accept the border.

When Ahmed took office in April 2018, he freed political prisoners and went on to sign a peace agreement with his Eritrean counterpart Isaias Afwerki, indicating that Ethiopia would accept the border and he would hand over disputed land territories. Since taking power, Ahmed has also championed the role of women in politics — he appointed women to half of the government’s 20 ministerial posts, including the country’s first female defense minister. British oddsmaker Ladbrokes offers odds of 4/1 for the Ethiopian Prime Minister to win.

Jacinda Ardern

Hagen Hopkins—Getty ImagesNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugs a worshipper at Kilbirnie Mosque in Wellington on March 17, 2019, two days after the Christchurch attacks.

In the past year, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been a symbol of empathy, defiance, and strength in the face of tragic events.

The Christchurch attacks, where mass shootings at two mosques in March this year left 51 people dead and dozens injured, shocked and devastated the country. Arden has been swift to react — less than a month after the attacks, New Zealand’s parliament voted 119 to one to pass gun control legislation outlawing most automatic and semi-automatic weapons as well as components that modify existing weapons. Arden, the world’s youngest female leader at 38 years old, has also been vocal in her determination to deny the gunman a platform to elevate his white supremacist views, famously saying: “You will never hear me speak his name.”

Her actions make Ardern a strong contender for the Prize, with Ladbrokes putting her chances at 8/1 — if she wins, she would be the first person from New Zealand to win the Peace Prize.

Raoni Metuktire

Eric Feferberg—AFPBrazil’s indigenous chief Raoni Metuktire looks on as he is welcomed by French Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition in Paris on May 13, 2019.

As a Brazilian indigenous chief, Raoni Metuktire has spent his life protecting his home, the Amazon rainforest. Metuktire, 89, traveled to the 2019 G7 Summit in August this year to discuss the Amazon with world leaders, after a surge in fires destroyed large parts of the rainforest. Metuktire has been critical of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro and his exploitation of the Amazon. Since his inauguration in January this year, the rate of deforestation has soared by up to 92% according to satellite images.

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Reporters Without Borders, an international watchdog group, is at the forefront of efforts to preserve media freedom and freedom of expression by protecting journalists across the world and highlighting injustices toward them. The organization has spoken out against Saudi Arabia after newspaper columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi operatives inside his country’s consulate in Istanbul on Oct., 2 last year. If Reporters Without Borders won, they would be the first organization promoting independent reporting and press freedom to win the Peace Prize.

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The U.N.’s refugee agency, set up after the Second World War, aims to help displaced people fleeing war and persecution across the world. Its office has received two Nobel Peace Prizes in 1954 and 1984, and a prize now would be timely. In July this year, the UNHCR publicly stated its concern about the Trump administration’s new rule barring the majority of people crossing the southern U.S. land border from seeking asylum.

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Residents of a Siberian Town With Black Snow Are Pleading for Asylum in Canada

Indigenous people and people of color are disproportionately affected by our global climate crisis. But in the mainstream green movement and in the media, they are often forgotten or excluded. This is Tipping Point, a new VICE series that covers environmental justice stories about and, where possible, written by people in the communities experiencing the stark reality of our changing planet.

Nikitina Irina Alexandrovna is from the Siberian town of Kiselyovsk, where inky black snow, a toxic byproduct of coal mining, has rendered it a nightmare-scape. Industrial waste covers homes, schools, and vehicles in a shroud of contaminated dust. The miasma of pollution is so pervasive that locals find it coming out of their mouths.

Now, more than a dozen Kiselyovsk residents, including Alexandrovna, are asking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accept them as environmental refugees, as CBC News first reported.

“In this moment in Russia, there is a region where a terrible ecological situation has developed,” said Alexandrovna in June in a YouTube video that conveyed their request. “Open-pit coal mining led to this ecological catastrophe […] when the whole world talked about our black snow.”

The town’s conditions became national news in February when footage of darkened snowdrifts and dirty icicles spread on Russian television that described the scenes as “post-apocalyptic.” In July, Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk group, released a track called “Black Snow”. The acid rain hasn’t fucking stopped since last year / my eyes are being corroded, its bleak lyrics go, speaking to “intolerable living conditions” that member Nadya Tolokonnikova condemned in an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The YouTube video shows mostly women standing outdoors, taking turns to read harrowing testimonials from sheets of paper. Their voices are muffled by the wind and some have brought their children. At one point, Alexandrovna matter-of-factly compares Kiselyovsk to a gas chamber.

“We were gasping in the city from coal, exhausting our children almost all winter,” said resident Uliya Gennadievna Vitzenko in the video, which was posted by a Russian YouTube channel that documents life in Kiselyovsk.

Russia is among a lineup of countries where citizens are seeking legal protection from environmental ruin. But the legal frameworks that dictate who deserves protection, and from what, are woefully unprepared for these cataclysmic shifts.

The term “climate change refugee,” for example, does not formally exist under international law as Izzie Ramirez explained for VICE, and is now being challenged on a global stage. The United Nations (UN) 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees only defines “refugee” as someone who crosses an international border for “a well-founded fear of being persecuted because of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.”

The Kiselyovsk group, meanwhile, seems to straddle several definitions. Ecologically, coal mining has destroyed the town, but is not necessarily a symptom of climate change. Still, their circumstances exemplify the Gordian knot that is today’s climate crisis, and you can see how victims of fossil fuel corruption are kindred with those harmed by its environmental effects.

“It seems to me that [they are] really a mixture of development-induced displacement and environmental displacement,” Elizabeth Ferris, a research professor at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, told VICE. “Both groups are considered to be ‘internally displaced persons.’”

“There may be a creative argument in the future [for expanding the definition of ‘refugee’] but certainly this coal-mining incident is not that test case,” said Raj Sharma, an immigration lawyer in Calgary. Rather, “it is a harbinger of things to come.”

Kiselyovsk, a town of 90,000 people, sits firmly within “the coal heart of Russia,” a region called Kuzbass. Its subterranean veins contain an estimated 725 billion tons of coal that have been exploited since the Soviet era, and today Kuzbass yields 60 percent of Russia’s supply, according to a 2015 report by Kaliningrad-based environmental group Ecodefense.

Residents say this appetite has cost Kuzbass its health and safety. “Our areas have high incidents of disease,” remarked one woman, a mother of four, who remained nameless in the YouTube video.

According to Ecodefense, people in Kuzbass overwhelmingly die young. When compared to national averages, they present with higher rates of 15 types of cancer, tuberculosis, and newborn congenital malformations. Kiselyovsk was among five towns in Kuzbass with the worst air quality according to the UN Development Programme. At the time, it found the region’s drinking water contaminated with metals, and its food laced with “excessive concentrations” of lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic.

“Our government forgives other countries’ big debts,” said Alexandrovna in the video. “[It has] forgotten that we were also people and children who are alive. We did nothing bad to anyone, so why do we live in such unbearable conditions?”

The sickening of Kuzbass is the product of open-pit mining which extracts coal from surface trenches as opposed to underground tunnels. It accounts for 70 to 80 percent of coal mining operations in the region, according to a 2018 report by the environmental justice group Fern and the Coal Action Network.

Today, 80 percent of Kuzbass lives next to a mining project, Ecodefense estimates. And the coal industry has been slow to modernize. Change is even undermined by officials who wish to conceal the problem—literally so in 2018 when Russian authorities painted over black snow in the town of Mysky.

“Hundreds of thousands are affected by coal mining as they are living very close to mines where people shouldn’t really live,” said Vladimir Slivyak, co-chairman of Ecodefense. “It is not safe to speak up, so people from Kiselyovsk made an extraordinary move to attract attention to their situation [by asking to become refugees].”

More appeals from Kiselyovsk have since been posted to YouTube. One directly asked Putin for help. The group said that Canada, with its “snow, cold, almost wild nature,” is an ideal new home—not paradise, but a place that reminds them of what they might someday leave behind.

When contacted about the first video, a spokesperson for Trudeau said in an email that “it would be inappropriate to comment on a specific case.”

The Kiselyovsk group said they sent a letter to the Canadian Embassy in Moscow, as first reported by CBC News. The embassy confirmed to VICE in an email that it responded, but “does not disclose correspondence.”

To begin the resettlement process, the Kiselyovsk residents must apply through a referral agency such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees—but cannot seek to become refugees while remaining in their home country.

Practically speaking though, it is unclear whether the Siberians stand a chance at becoming refugees, migrants, or even internally displaced persons.

“The challenge for Canada is that our refugee policies don’t recognize climate-induced displacement as a valid basis to seek protection, [with few exceptions],” said Sharry Aiken, a law professor at Queen’s University who has argued refugee cases before Canada’s supreme court. “There is no question that our laws and policies will need to adapt to this new reality.”

A 2010 report by Canada’s federal government forecasted this reality, stating that it has the opportunity “to plan an orderly and effective response to the coming crisis.”

However, any progress must reckon with the UN Refugee Agency’s argument that climate change victims are mostly disqualified from becoming refugees as it “typically creates internal displacement before it reaches a level where it displaces people across borders.”

“We are people, and we have kids, and we just want to simply live,” pleaded one Kiselyovsk resident, Tatiana. “We can be useful for Canada, as Russia has simply forgotten us.”

Dane Maximov contributed translations to this story.

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UNITED NATIONS — When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal in May, France’s ambassador to the United Nations lamented what he called the coming of “a new world disorder.”

America had resigned its role as “a last resort enforcer of international order,” the ambassador, François Delattre, said, and there was little France or any other country could do about it.

Since then, the United States has moved still deeper into going it alone at the United Nations, withdrawing from some important agencies and defunding others.

Still, the United States remains by far the biggest single financial contributor to the global organization. But the Trump administration also has pursued what it calls an America First agenda that critics, among them close allies, say has exacerbated crises.

They also say Mr. Trump’s actions have contributed to a level of intractability in the Security Council, the most powerful United Nations body, not seen since the Cold War.

For committed internationalists like Mr. Delattre, there was some hope a year ago when Mr. Trump made his debut at the General Assembly session attended by world leaders. He alleviated the worst fears, if only briefly, when he pledged to seek changes at the United Nations that would make it a “greater force for peace and harmony in the world.”

Mr. Trump began his General Assembly agenda on Monday by participating in a panel on countering narcotics trafficking, which aides said showed his commitment to global cooperation. But few diplomats are under any illusion about Mr. Trump’s return visit this week.

He was expected to deliver an address on Tuesday heavy on state sovereignty and American interest above all, according to his ambassador, Nikki R. Haley.

In a news conference last week, Ms. Haley reprised a talking point from her first confrontational days as ambassador, when she linked America’s financial generosity around the world to support for American priorities and promised she would be “taking names” of those who did not have America’s back.

“We’re going to be generous to those that share our values, generous to those who want to work with us,” she said, “and not those that try and stop the United States, saying they hate America and are counterproductive for what we’re doing.”

That tone has been matched by action over the last year as the United States has pulled out of one United Nations body after another.

Just weeks after Mr. Trump’s first speech before the General Assembly he withdrew the United States from Unesco, the United Nations cultural organization. This summer, the United States left the Human Rights Council, revoked funding for the United Nations agency that provides education and health care to Palestinians classified as refugees, and boycotted a United Nations agreement on migration.

Mr. Trump’s decisions to quit the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal are still sources of deep bitterness, particularly among close allies. His elevation of John R. Bolton, who muses about defunding the United Nations, to national security adviser was greeted with a shudder.

At a news conference last Thursday, the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, said that multilateralism was “under attack from many directions,” but diplomatically sidestepped a question about whether he thought Mr. Trump was a direct threat.

“I don’t like to personalize things,” he said.

Others were more blunt.

“It’s not just stepping back,” said Louis Charbonneau, the United Nations director for Human Rights Watch. “It’s an assault on the most important institutions we have for accountability and monitoring and exposing the worst abuses.”

Few would disagree about the need for some structural changes to the United Nations bureaucracy, which Mr. Trump, as president-elect, once described as a club where diplomats fraternize “and have a good time.”

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When no one is in earshot, some United Nations officials are even willing to consider the possibility that the disruptions caused by the Trump administration could do some good.

But nearly two years into his presidency, Mr. Trump remains for much of the world a source of bewilderment.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the recently retired United Nations High Commissioner for human rights, likened Mr. Trump to a bus driver “careening down a mountain road with steep cliffs on either side,” while in the back humanity hangs on for dear life.

Mr. Trump’s decision to conduct a session of the Security Council this week, which is his right as leader of the country that currently holds the body’s rotating presidency, already has been a source of anxiety and confusion.

First his administration announced that he would focus on Iran, rankling European diplomats opposed to his withdrawal from the nuclear accord, while opening the door to a face-to-face showdown between the president and Iranian leaders. Under Security Council rules, a country that is the specific subject of a meeting has the right to be represented there.

Ms. Haley had barely announced that the topic had been changed to the broader issue of nonproliferation when the president appeared to have upended her with a tweet.

“I will Chair the United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran next week!” he wrote. Administration officials sought to allay any confusion, saying that nonproliferation was the topic.

The General Assembly session has come against the backdrop of global calamities: wars in Syria and Yemen, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and climate change. American leadership, many argue, is a prerequisite for solving each of these crises. But in case after case, critics say, American leadership is lacking.

On the mother of all conflicts, between Israel and the Palestinians, “the U.S. lost its credibility as a broker,” said Riyad H. Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations.

In a rebuke to the United States last year, all other Security Council members rose up to criticize Mr. Trump’s decision to move the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the disputed holy city that the Palestinians want as the capital of their future state. Ms. Haley vetoed a resolution demanding a reversal of the decision.

Ms. Haley, who has been credited by some diplomats with doing her best to moderate the president’s isolationist instincts, insists that the United States remains engaged with the world, but on its own terms.

At the news conference last week, she listed the highlights of her turn as president of the Security Council, including sessions on human rights abuses in Venezuela and Nicaragua and an initiative to improve United Nations peacekeeping.

Others credited the United States with pressuring the Security Council to adopt an arms embargo on South Sudan as well as helping to lead a campaign in recent weeks to avert a military offensive in Syria by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad and his allies, Russia and Iran.

But rights groups and other critics of administration policy say that when it comes to the United Nations, Mr. Trump and his associates have chosen mainly to disengage.

“I think Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency has made a challenging situation significantly more challenging,” said Kumi Naidoo, the secretary general of Amnesty International. “He has taken it to another level of isolation.”

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America had resigned its role as “a last resort enforcer of international order,” the ambassador, François Delattre, said, and there was little France or any other country could do about it.

Since then, the United States has moved still deeper into going it alone at the United Nations, withdrawing from some important agencies and defunding others.

They also say Mr. Trump’s actions have contributed to a level of intractability in the Security Council, the most powerful United Nations body, not seen since the Cold War.

He was expected to deliver an address on Tuesday heavy on state sovereignty and American interest above all, according to his ambassador, Nikki R. Haley.

That tone has been matched by action over the last year as the United States has pulled out of one United Nations body after another.

“I don’t like to personalize things,” he said.

Others were more blunt.

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When no one is in earshot, some United Nations officials are even willing to consider the possibility that the disruptions caused by the Trump administration could do some good.

But nearly two years into his presidency, Mr. Trump remains for much of the world a source of bewilderment.

Ms. Haley had barely announced that the topic had been changed to the broader issue of nonproliferation when the president appeared to have upended her with a tweet.

“I will Chair the United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran next week!” he wrote. Administration officials sought to allay any confusion, saying that nonproliferation was the topic.

On the mother of all conflicts, between Israel and the Palestinians, “the U.S. lost its credibility as a broker,” said Riyad H. Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations.

But rights groups and other critics of administration policy say that when it comes to the United Nations, Mr. Trump and his associates have chosen mainly to disengage.

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America had resigned its role as “a last resort enforcer of international order,” the ambassador, François Delattre, said, and there was little France or any other country could do about it.

Since then, the United States has moved still deeper into going it alone at the United Nations, withdrawing from some important agencies and defunding others.

They also say Mr. Trump’s actions have contributed to a level of intractability in the Security Council, the most powerful United Nations body, not seen since the Cold War.

He was expected to deliver an address on Tuesday heavy on state sovereignty and American interest above all, according to his ambassador, Nikki R. Haley.

That tone has been matched by action over the last year as the United States has pulled out of one United Nations body after another.

“I don’t like to personalize things,” he said.

Others were more blunt.

Image

When no one is in earshot, some United Nations officials are even willing to consider the possibility that the disruptions caused by the Trump administration could do some good.

But nearly two years into his presidency, Mr. Trump remains for much of the world a source of bewilderment.

Ms. Haley had barely announced that the topic had been changed to the broader issue of nonproliferation when the president appeared to have upended her with a tweet.

“I will Chair the United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran next week!” he wrote. Administration officials sought to allay any confusion, saying that nonproliferation was the topic.

On the mother of all conflicts, between Israel and the Palestinians, “the U.S. lost its credibility as a broker,” said Riyad H. Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations.

But rights groups and other critics of administration policy say that when it comes to the United Nations, Mr. Trump and his associates have chosen mainly to disengage.

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Delegates Turn Attention to Man Who Has Turned His Back on the U.N.

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The message didn't go through, but what I said in it tells a bit about n hints toward my situation here in the United States that I wish to get out from. It is a lot of things I can tell but this reality of the way of things in the world, i don't believe it is as it is said most commonly. There are bits n pieces of things, contributions of supposed others surfacing more and more, to represent what it is to me. That occurrence of those things to surface is really something of an overriding magic here, overriding much suppression n oppression of it (the magic, ie life itself) by the devil. But I have been attacked n am attacked now by the devil n the society order/government etc, which really is the devil, in the United States for saying this reality of the world -- where animals cannot talk as people do n where there is poverty n inequality -- is ruled by the devil. Things should be more in the hands of the individual to control his circumstances etc and there should be more common ground n common wished things to be what is the "governance" or direction, or way of things for people n not this estranged n official n contrived government structure which is really what is the rule of the devil n is actually a representation of the devil. The government is supposed to be a false rule, a false god, other than the people. "He can see the things in the message Marla, so i would have to go," the devil said as I was writing this message at a point. It was talking about someone w the United Nations that is possible to see this message here in the reality of what I call devil world, really devil land. But I am seeking to try to come to New Zealand as a refugee, not that I am so easily served by existing governmental type structures such as this, but this reality n the next maybe can meet at this kind of program or available help within the present (n deteriorating) way of things in the world, which is the false reality of the devil. I saw online they don't get many refugees in New Zealand and that they thought they don't get enough referrals from the United Nations for people in very dire situations or something like that. The situation I'm in is very bad. I should be able to have my view, have my opinion n be okay at the very least, not that this is likely if one is in an environment where people are seen as n regarded as inferior to experience things said to be out of the ordinary such as talking in the mind, or inferior to be conspiracy theorists, or inferior ultimately to be outside the norm or just not w the popular "in crowd". If people are regarded that way, ie as inferior, its unlikely that they would be something other than attacked really to assert themselves as the truth over the popular thought, popular opinion, etc. The situation probably not unlike Hippocrates (or whoever is the figure that is told to have taken poison over renouncing his teachings under some pressure of a ruler type of figure) n I guess witches burned at the stake in the (supposed) history of this reality of the world that seems to have sharp clause (claws) n condition for those challenging the status quo or popular thought. Availability, space etc to have my view n be okay is not what has occurred here in this country of the United States, which, to talk in a way not so welcome here, is actually a place not possible to exist. It's really what is the reason for the occurrence of the myth n legend n tale of the Bermuda Triangle. The United States is really the storied Bermuda Triangle, I've been told in my mind. The Bermuda Triangle is a area in the ocean near the United States where things are said to disappear n never been seen again, but it's supposed to be challenged as true the area exists or that things really disappeared there. I'm told in my mind that the United States is where the devil is to have apparently arranged to be things he's not supposed to be able be in other countries where it's supposed to be not as less than to tell the truth, such as that it is not real here, ie this reality of the world. It is said it is more less than to tell the truth in the United States which is supposed to show how superior it is to sell out to the devil n act like this present reality is the only truth, this present reality of things like how it is in the United States most of all however, which has no queen, ie monarchy (which is more like the actual nature of the rule where one figure -- really the devil but it's hidden -- is really in charge and kind of unfairly so); w an eagle on it's seal/emblem instead of a more mythological looking creature or something; and a serious-looking flag design also; w a history of supposed leaders of high esteem so prepared by going to what's supposed to be the finest n best universities etc. Lots of issues involved in this situation of my being disempowered that are unfair. There is a world domination here where some people are less in power and poorer than others, ie inferior as who believe in magic etc or who can somehow seem -- if its true people aren't inferior not to be a certain favored way such as showing "aptitude" in math n science etc, which is favored in this present way of things -- to suggest of another knowing or contribution other than presently held as so sought after or appreciated or made so apparent. With this governmental structure dominating in the present reality of the world, which is really a false reality ruled by the devil, blacks all over the world are typically supposed to be inferior n the tribal people n people in the Congo etc, who would seem to be knowing of magic or be suggestive of having a more broad inclusion of things n have more creative ideas of things. The rule of the world w governments etc asserts pretty much, as I'm aware, that magic is not real etc. It is making a field day environment for the devil to attack people, ie for the devil to attack me n not be recognized as attack or for what it is. I have some links n things I collected to help show there is a rising demonstration of that there is something happening here in this country of the United States n it's supposed to be other countries also implied but the devil i think is making that up, but it's a rising apparentness of there being a experience of the government run society n etc that is something other than what has been for the most part considered possible n other than has been protected against for someone to experience it, it being very bad attacking etc for the person not recognized as attacked by the government etc. You can tell this, ie a person can see this is not traditionally protected against, the experience or attack I'm trying to describe, by considering some movies and other things that tell about the attack of an individual that is at the mercy of the rule of the society or the majority that is having an experience of things other than that of the individual. The movie Enemy of the State w the actor Will Smith, the character played by Will Smith ending up in a mess of a situation, unmanageable n horrible n dangerous after apparently uncovering a government secret, something like this. There's a similar movie w Sandra Bullock, i have to find the title. But she becomes a target of government attack after finding I think some kind of government secret. This American society has many other stereotypical instances of attack of the individual in which the individual is to others something other than who the person is to himself. I am someone to be contexted or identifiable as mentally ill here in this society. (I don't agree w mental illness as true.) This, ie mental illness, is not the exact apparent experience of the main characters in the movies I referred to, but it is pretty much my experience that this is who I am supposed to be in the context n truth of this society I am in presently in the United States n it is suggested as a possible context for a rising expression of what can be a person's experience here that is outside the familiar bounds of the society n government operation for protection n service etc. There has been reports of people kidnapped in instances of forced hospitalization for so called mental illness. There has been reports n much surfacing information on people being called "targeted individuals" that are said to be targets for covert attack by government agents using some technology to make issues that are to this point mostly only classified as mental illness, such as hearing talking n harassment in the mind. Other things surfacing are mirroring my experience where I'm being ignored or not recognized that I am being attacked by what's supposed to be ordinary on benevolent practices of the society. It's creating an alternate reality, and alternate story n telling that is a quiet storm on this reality continuing as it has pretending no story other than the official can dominate or claim the flow of information or the norm or what's commonly told as what's truly happening. I can forward some examples of this kind of expressed phenomena or happenings. Like I said, i tried to recently collect some things for my seeking to be recognized as n get some attention etc as a refugee. I had to learn about the term refugee n etc. Things are not really easy to understand etc for an actual person present here, the stuff is supposed to be foreign (in the rule of the devil) that is the workings of things. One thing i say that contradicts the truth asserted as true of this present reality is I say people are not really present in their form. I am attacked very bad by the devil here w very bad torment, magic, physical things to my face, appearance, etc, things that are supposed to be known here as something other than they are to me. This is something now w this rising tide or emerging information that can be contexted or matched or mirrored as an experience something like that of the targeted individual. The devil tormenting me some now. It tries to tell me it's telling me what to say. People are supposed to be less than to the devil here w what the devil seeks as the rule here. It tries to act like people do not really exist n that it is some origin etc of people, it's extremely disgusting n irritating. But I wish for change n to be able to have something other than this present way of things in the world as the way of things seems to me from appearances from the outside looking in mostly n not much experience outside of the US. In the way of things in the United States I've experienced that control is too much out of the hands of the individual. Please help me as a refugee n i can move forward. I am stopped or paused now or have been in the country of the United States as someone saying that the truth has not been what's told here as to the history n whats really happening -- for the most part (but things are cumulatively arising to challenge n change that, as I'm telling here). I said in spring 2014 that this reality is ruled by the devil n that people were not really mentally ill to experience hearing talking in the mind n other things said to be illness here, such as bad sadness here in devil land. I soon after that began being attacked by the society structure, things are very out of the hands of the individual, very hard to manage, as alluded to in the two movies I mentioned. Other movies, such as movies about crazed stalkers in love w unattainable objects of their affection, hint at this culture in the United States where the individual is at the mercy of the truth of or overridden by the truth of the crowd but that is not exactly as it is outwardly stated in this reality. It's supposed to just be that the truth of the crowd n reality of the crowd is superior to that of the individual in many other instances, such as w Paula Dean n others having what was considered unwelcome things to say at points n they were met w rebuke of the crowd losing job positions, but I don't support people having to work however. Work is slavery n enslavement to the rule of the devil, it's forced labor here. But this culture in the country of the United States singles out n attacks the individual. It holds n asserts as true for people to be many things outside the norm -- such as mentally ill -- that are things to be considered inferior to what others are as supposedly normal. The devil, as I was writing this at a point, kept trying to press i was not who was writing this. It was supposed to be from some other source other than myself. It's extremely bad torment n attack. But the governmental structures the devil has arranged for here, they favor the crowd, it is a god that is worshiped here, the crowd. It is evil, the crowd. There is a false n superficial standard set by the crowd, where others are supposed to be inferior to not be blending in n etc. But poverty w government structures n their money systems: a very bad restraint on people. I am not w much means. I have also been homeless here, a home not so accessible to people here. These examples also of how a person, ie individual is disempowered or having less freedom than should be seen as beneficial, ie good etc for the whole/greater good. I will forward more information n try to look into more things about getting to Australia or New Zealand. I read New Zealand has had fewer refugees, which may mean it's more available or beneficial for me to go there because I am not normal n maybe this occurrence means the country can deal w a abnormal situation or is more prepared for one person as who ends the world. Really I am the only person here present in my form in the world as it is known, which is really ruled by the devil. But I am not sure if New Zealand is to so be having to be this kind of situation. I suppose I somewhat prefer Australia, but I wish to go where it is best. I can try to get more situated to live in Australia later, hypothetically, as I wish to live there, but I am interested in New Zealand also. There are some other things I can tell, such as about instances of outward attack and about one of my soul mates residing in Australia, but I'll leave off there. I will try to forward this message to someplace in Australia like w the prime minister there or the immigration services there n also in New Zealand. Sincerely, Marla Rose Luster ________________________________________ From: marla [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 10:02 AM To: U.S. Department of Education Subject: RE: Important info about your defaulted federal student loan Im attacked by this society very bad. I am trying to seek to find a way i can leave to be a refugee in another country. I was made homeless at a point when things were gone out of control w this issue n account n other things also. I'm not a normal experience here anymore, it's unmanageable here for me because I've been attacked by this society n government. It's not allowed to be my friend anymore here, this government etc, because I said it's ruled by the devil. It's really ruled by the devil etc, this reality. It's very bad here, it's not as it is acknowledged n said to be often enough. But there is increasing expression of opinion of this way of things as not what is as it's been said to be like as in things being about liberty etc, ie good-intentioned here so much. Presently it's difficult n concerning to deal w this issue of the account (n other things). Really it's slavery here n very disgusting here. ________________________________________ From: U.S. Department of Education [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Important info about your defaulted federal student loan Affordable payment agreements available Click here to view this email as a web page. [Federal Student Aid An Office of the U.S. Department of Education] Dear Marla, The U.S. Department of Education recently recalled your defaulted student loan account from Account Control Technology Inc.. You can now make payment arrangements without paying additional collection costs, but you must call us before August 18. Take Action Now Please call the U.S. Department of Education’s Default Resolution Group at 800-621-3115

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Last year, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and human rights activist Nadia Murad jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

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Greta Thunberg

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Abiy Ahmed

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In the past year, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been a symbol of empathy, defiance, and strength in the face of tragic events.

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