Ben Freeman sur Twitter : "We tracked more than $174 million in foreign funding going to the nation’s top think tanks in our new report “Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America.” It’s a must read for understanding this seldom discussed avenue of foreign influence" / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/BenFreemanDC/status/1223225468289196033
#métaliste de documents (surtout cartes et visualisations) qui traitent des #migrations_intra-africaines et qui peuvent servir à combattre le #préjugés de la #ruée vers l’Europe de migrants d’#Afrique subsaharienne...
Voir notamment le livre de #Stephen_Smith qui entretien ce #mythe :
La #ruée vers l’#Europe. La jeune #Afrique en route pour le Vieux Continent
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Les documents pour contrer ce mythe...
Le #développement en #Afrique à l’aune des #bassins_de_migrations
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Les migrations au service de la transformation structurelle
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Many more to come ? Migration from and within Africa
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#Infographie : tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur les migrants intra-africains
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Une population en pleine expansion, fuyant les régions sous tension
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Les #migrations_internes vont-elles recomposer l’Afrique ?
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African migration : is the continent really on the move ?
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Africa : International migration, emigration 2015
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Un premier atlas sur les #migrations_rurales en Afrique subsaharienne - CIRAD
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Merci cristina, c’est très très utile (et merci de rappeler que Stephen Smith a mal vieilli ...)
@reka
Stephen Smith, je suis pas sûre que ça soit un problème de vieillesse.
▻https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n06/stephen-w.-smith/rwanda-in-six-scenes
▻https://survie.org/publications/livres/article/negrophobie-reponse-aux
▻https://www.arenes.fr/livre/negrophobie
puis
►https://blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invites-de-mediapart/blog/021018/stephen-smith-ravive-le-mythe-des-invasions-barbares-macron-et-l-aca
▻https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2018/10/09/la-ruee-d-africains-vers-l-europe-une-these-sans-valeur-scientifique_1684
▻https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/29709
Cartographie de l’extrême droite française [mise à jour hiver 2019-2020]
▻https://lahorde.samizdat.net/2019/12/16/cartographie-de-lextreme-droite-francaise-mise-a-jour-hiver-2019-2
Ce serait pas inutile de rajouter des gens comme Pierre Rabhi (►https://seenthis.net/messages/340286)
J’ai failli dire des entités comme la nef aussi...mais bon y’a rien de vraiment révélateur sinon les fondateurs issues de l’école Steiner-Waldorf ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9dagogie_Steiner-Waldorf et Steiner lui même un bon raciste : ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner#Pangermanisme_et_nationalisme
Donc ▻https://www.lanef.com/accueil/la-nef-et-lanthroposophie ? Je ne connaisais pas.
#INFOGRAPHIES:Combien les #banques gagnent des #dettes de l’État ?
▻https://french.alahednews.com.lb/essaydetails.php?eid=33120&cid=297
La dette gouvernementale libanaise, qui a atteint 79.5 milliards de dollars en 2017, se distribue sur cinq parties principales : Les banques commerciales (40%), la Banque du #Liban (35%), les institutions publiques (9%), les créanciers étrangers et les créanciers officieux étrangers (16%). Cependant, les banques commerciales locales possèdent la part du lion de ces revenus très élevés, sans aucun risque.
Selon le quotidien libanais #AlAkhbar, les banques commerciales sont au nombre de 50. Néanmoins, 10 parmi elles seulement contrôlent 82% de la totalité des actifs et des emplois du secteur bancaire. Ces banques emploient 31.9 milliards de dollars dans la dette gouvernementale, distribués entre 18.4 milliards de dollars en livre libanaise (bons du trésor) et 13.5 milliards de dollars en monnaie étrangère (Eurobonds).
A Calais, la frontière tue ! In Calais, the border kills !
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Deaths at the Calais Border
Uncountable lives are wasted and suffer at the hands of the Calais border regime. There is no accurate count of how many people have died. This is a list of people known in Calais or from news reports.
For sure there will have been more, their deaths ignored, the facts covered up or altogether unreported. Many already go unnamed, without vigils and protests, without families or friends to advocate on their behalf.
But we will never let these deaths be silenced. We will not forgive and we will never forget.
These borders kill! One death is too many!
▻https://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/deaths-at-the-calais-border
#morts #décès #mourir_aux_frontières #Calais #France #frontières #Angleterre #UK #migrations #asile #réfugiés #base_de_données #database #liste #timeline #ligne_du_temps #mourir_dans_la_forteresse_Europe #visualisation #infographie #frise #frise_chronologique #time-line
ping @reka @simplicissimus @karine4
Un article de février 2018
The deadly roads into Calais
Since 1999, an estimated 170 migrants desperately seeking a clandestine passage across the Channel to Britain have died in road accidents in and around the port of Calais in northern France, 37 of them since 2015. One former police officer said the situation became so grim “it was humanly impossible to pick up more bodies from the road”. One of the most recent victims was a 22-year-old Eritrean whose mutilated body was found on a motorway last month after he was run over by a truck whose driver fled the scene. Elisa Perrigueur reports from Calais, where she met with Biniam’s relatives as they prepared the return of his body home to north-east Africa.
The temperature was below freezing point on a bleak dawn last month when Biniam’s remains were found near the port of Calais, lying on the smooth tarmac of the A16 motorway that runs parallel to the Channel coast. According to statements given to the police afterwards by those who knew him, Biniam L. (full last name withheld here), a 22-year-old Eritrean, had probably spent all night looking for a truck he could climb onto in the hope of smuggling his way to England.
He was successful, at first. He had managed to mount one of them, hiding in its cargo hold, most certainly hoping, like so many others who attempt the same, that once it passed through the fortified perimeter of the port, which is surrounded by 39 kilometres of fencing, it would be one of the vehicles that occasionally escapes the heat scanners and sniffer-dog searches, first in Calais and then, after the brief sea passage, through the British port of Dover. With no ID documents and no baggage, just the clothes he would hope could adequately keep out the biting cold.
But on that early morning of January 9th this year, his plan went horribly wrong. The truck he had hidden in did not turn off the motorway into Calais, but instead continued its route eastwards. The young man must have panicked when he realised the fact, for he tried to jump from the truck onto the motorway despite the speeding traffic. According to members of the local French migrant aid association, l’Auberge des migrants, who spoke to police afterwards, Biniam landed on his head and was run over by another truck following behind. But neither vehicle stopped, and there remains doubt over the exact circumstances of his final moments.
Between December 2017 and January this year two other migrants, 15-year-old Abdullah Dilsouz and Hussein Abdoullah, 32, both Afghan nationals, lost their lives in accidents on the roads around Calais. “Since 2015, there have been 37 migrants who have died in [and around] Calais,” said a spokesperson for the local prefecture. “The highest number date back to 2015 and 2016, the great majority are road accidents.” In 2015, the death toll reached 18, followed by 14 in 2016.
Maël Galisson, a coordinator for the network of associations in the region providing aid for migrants, the Plate-forme de services aux migrants, has carried out research to establish the number of victims over the past almost 20 years and, where possible, to record their identities. “Since 1999, we estimate that at least 170 people have died while trying to cross this frontier area,” he said. The majority of road accidents occur on the stretches of the A16 and A26 motorways close to Calais, and the ring road into the port centre.
The day after his death, Biniam’s brother Bereket, 26, arrived in Calais from Germany, accompanied by a cousin and uncle who had travelled from Norway. “He had no ‘dream’ as people put it, he just wanted a country where he was accepted,” said Bereket, who said he had difficulty believing the news that his brother, who he said was “so young to die”, had been killed in a road accident, which he received in a phone call from a friend.
Bereket said he was not aware of the daily reality of the migrants in Calais, the road blocks migrants mount to try and slow traffic and the clandestine crossings in trucks. In his case, he had crossed to Europe by boat across the Mediterranean Sea. Biniam, he explained, had left the family village in Eritrea, north-east Africa, one-and-a-half years ago, to escape conscription into the army. At one point, he joined up with his brother Bereket in Germany, where the latter had been granted residence. “I obtained [official residency] papers close to Stuttgart and today I work in Germany, I had begun to have a stable life,” recounted Bereket. “His asylum demand was rejected, I don’t understand why.” Biniam had re-applied a second time for right of asylum, but was again turned down. It was after that, in November, that he set off for Calais, where between 550 and 800 migrants – according to figures respectively from the prefecture and the migrant aid associations – live rough, mostly in surrounding woodland.
The few friends of Biniam who Bereket met with in Calais were little forthcoming about his time there. Loan Torondel of the Auberge des migrants association, which had offered Biniam shelter, said he was never seen at the daily distribution of meals. “A month here is not very long for finding a truck,” he said. “Often, migrants spend months before succeeding, for those who manage to.”
During his visit to Calais on February 2nd, French interior minister Gérard Collomb, hoping to dissuade migrants from gathering there, described the frontier point as “a wall” and “a mirage”. But from the beach, the migrants can see the English coast, where some have family and friends they hope to join, in a country with lower unemployment than in France and where finding work, undeclared, is easier. Others say they would stay in France but fear that, if they engaged in the official procedures, because their fingerprints are registered in the first European Union (EU) country they reached before travelling to France they would be sent back there, in accordance with the regulations of the EU’s so-called Dublin Agreement.
The victims are often young men’
For the migrants hoping to cross to Britain from Calais there are few options in how to do so. The British government has handed France about 140 million euros over the past three years to part fund the increased security measures at the port, which is the frontier point before departure for the English coast. On January 18th, at a summit meeting between British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron, London announced that it was to provide a further 50.5 million euros, for a further beefing up of security and for establishing a centre for migrants at a site distanced from the town.
For the migrants who can afford their fees, one option is to use the services of people smugglers. They charge between 1,500 euros and 10,000 euros per person for a clandestine passage in a truck, operating out of vehicle parks which they reign over as their own territory. Clashes which broke out in Calais on February 1st between Afghan and Eritrean migrants, which left 22 needing medical treatment, including four teenagers wounded by gunfire, appear to have been linked to turf wars between people smugglers.
Others try blocking trucks on the approach roads to the port, operating in small groups to lay down obstacles to slow or even halt the vehicles in order to jump on. The method is a dangerous one, for both the migrants and the drivers. In June 2017, the polish driver of a truck died after his vehicle crashed into another truck that was blocked by migrants on the A16 motorway, burned alive in his cabin.
Then there are those, and who probably included Biniam, who try to mount the vehicles on their own. Eupui is a 19-year-old migrant from Cameroun, in West Africa, and has lived since 2016 on the ‘Dunes’ industrial zone of the port, the site of the notorious and now razed migrant camp known as “the Jungle”. His solitary sorties to find a truck that would take him across the Channel somehow allow him “to keep going”, he told Mediapart. “I sleep three hours and then I try,” he said. “As soon as I see a truck that isn’t going too fast, even a car, I see if I can get into the boot.” He said he hides “near the bends of the motorways” because vehicles reduce speed there. “I’m not afraid, I’ve lived much worse,” he added. “I crossed the Sahara in horrible conditions to come here. I have nothing left to lose. I’ve injured my knee, but never mind.”
Biniam’s brother Bereket said his brother did not realise the danger in the risks he was taking. “I spoke to him three weeks before he died,” said Bereket. “He told me that everything was fine for him in France. But he lied to me, he didn’t tell me he was at Calais. If I had known, I would have told him to get out of this dangerous place.”
Bereket said he was “disappointed” by what he saw on this, his first trip to France. He has been supported by local charitable associations, including the Réveil voyageur and the Secours catholique, who usually look after relatives of those who have died. “You don’t see many officials, politicians, as if Biniam’s death had no importance,” he said bitterly.
“The associations have been managing this for years,” said Sabriya Guivy from the Auberge des migrants group. “When relatives arrive in Calais they are disappointed at not seeing many officials. They have the impression that they are not taken into account. Mr Macron referred to the death of the Polish driver, but not that of migrants,” she added, referring to a speech by the French president during his visit to Calais on January 16th.
Undertaker Brahim Fares, based in nearby Grande-Synthe, says he charges a “lower than average” price to migrant families out of solidarity. “The dead are repatriated to Afghanistan for between about 3,400-3,500 euros, depending on the weight and the size,” he detailed. “For Eritrea, it begins at around 3,200 euros. Burials in Calais are about 1,600 euros, as opposed to a usual 2,400 euros.” Since 2015, Fares says he has organised the return home of about 15 bodies of migrants, and also the burials of about the same number in the north Calais cemetery managed by the Town Hall. The burial spots are simple ones, covered in earth and marked by crosses made of oak. “The victims are often young men, almost all of them identified,” he added. “I once had an Ethiopian woman. Not all the families can come all the way here. Those who manage to are very shocked, because the bodies are sometimes very damaged, as those in road accidents are.”
Fares was given charge of Biniam’s body, which he recalled had “the hands cut off, the arms smashed up”. The corpse will be returned to Eritrea, where his parents live. Bereket, with his uncle and cousin, made up a large wreath of plastic flowers. “It’s really not so good but we had only that,” he said. But at the hospital in Lille where the body was placed in the coffin, they were told that they could not place the wreath on top of it, nor the white drape they had wanted to cover it with, according to their custom. “The airport authorities will end up throwing the wreath away, it’s not allowed in the hold,” Fares explained to them. After a poignant moment of silence, they asked him why it would be so complicated to do so.
Biniam’s relatives spent two weeks attempting to find out the exact circumstances of what happened to him. At the police station in Calais, they were shown a photo of his injured face. Members of the motorway patrol police gave them the few details they had, which were the approximate time of the accident, a statement from a witness who had not seen very much, and the fact that the driver of the truck that ran over Biniam had fled the scene. “France is a developed country […] so why can’t the driver who did that be found?” asked Bereket. “Even in Eritrea we’d have found the killer of my brother.”
Loan Torondel of the association l’Auberge des migrants said he had seen similar outrage by relatives before. “Many don’t understand why their close family member died under a lorry and that the driver did not act voluntarily,” he said. “Biniam’s family thought that there would be the launch of an investigation, like in American films. They think that the police is not [bothered into] carrying out an investigation, but in reality there are few witnesses.”
Meanwhile, Bereket has lodged an official complaint over his brother’s death “against persons unknown”, explaining: “I won’t be able to sleep as long as I don’t know how he died, and while the person responsible is free.”
’It’s incredible that nobody saw anything’
While the police systematically open investigations into the road deaths of migrants, they are often complex, beginning with the identification of the victim. Patrick Visser-Bourdon, a former Calais-based police detective, recalled the death of a Sudanese migrant whose body was found one morning in 2016 close to the port’s ring road, with “the head opened, abandoned, wearing a pair of jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt”.
During his enquiries, Visser-Bourdon approached the head of the Sudanese community of migrants living in the camp known as “the Jungle”, but nobody recognised the body. “We also put out his photo in the police stations,” he said. “In the majority of such cases, we mostly called on the NGOs for help.” As in the case of Biniam, the driver of what was apparently a truck that had hit the Sudanese man had not stopped. “There was blood on the road, there was necessarily some on the bumpers of the truck,” said Visser-Bourdon. “The driver therefore must have stopped his vehicle at some point to clean it, between the Jungle and the port. It’s incredible that nobody saw anything.”
Sabriya Guivy from the Auberge des migrants group added that because some local sections of the motorways are unlit, “It is entirely possible to not realise that one has hit someone and to carry on”.
A section of the numerous investigations into such events end up being closed, unsolved. Someone who is charged with involuntary homicide in France faces a sentence of three years in prison, and up to five years in jail in the case of aggravating circumstances such as fleeing the scene. “Sometimes, some of them don’t remain at the scene of the accident, notably in the case of dangerous [migrant] road blocks, but they go directly to present themselves to the police,” said Pascal Marconville, public prosecutor of the nearby port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, whose services have jurisdiction for events in Calais. “In that case, it’s regarded more as a hit-and-run offence which is exonerated by the circumstances.”
Patrick Visser-Bourdon said he had welcomed the building of a wall surrounding the ring road in 2016 aimed at deterring migrants from the traffic. “It was humanly impossible to pick up more bodies from the road,” he said.
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/190218/deadly-roads-calais
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En français :
A Calais, les routes de la mort pour les migrants
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/180218/calais-les-routes-de-la-mort-pour-les-migrants?page_article=1%20
Turkey stops 300,000 irregular migrants en route to EU so far this year
Turkey has prevented some 269,059 irregular migrants, the highest ever, from crossing into Europe in the first eight and a half months of this year.
The country is located in between European and African continents and is often used as a junction point to enter the European countries.
Each year thousands of illegal migrants, many of them fleeing war, hunger and poverty back in their home countries, take a dangerous route to cross into Europe for a better life.
Some of the migrants reach Turkey on foot before eventually taking a dangerous journey across the Aegean to reach the Greek islands. People have lost their lives trying to make the journey of “hope” while many of them were rescued by Turkish security forces.
Turkey continues to fight against irregular migration, particularly in the northwestern province of Edirne and the Aegean Sea.
According to the migration authority’s most recent data, the authorities have intercepted some 269,059 irregular migrants between the period of Jan. 1 and Sept. 12. The number is expected to rise until the end of the year. Last year Turkey intercepted 268,003 illegal migrants. The number was 146,485 in 2015, 174,466 in 2016 and 175,752 in 2017 – meaning the number has almost doubled over the last three years.
In all, Turkey stopped more than 1,530,677 illegal migrants in the last 15 years.
The majority of the irregular migrants captured this were Afghans, some 117,437. They were followed by 43,204 Pakistanis and 29,796 Syrians.
The country’s Thrace region has become a hot spot for irregular migrants.
In Edirne, one of Turkey’s westernmost provinces, 73,978 irregular migrants have been captured this year. It is also worth mentioning that the number of terrorists captured in Edirne has increased by 70% compared to the last year. In the Aegean Sea, on the other hand, 31,642 migrants were captured. Meanwhile, 28 irregular migrants were killed in the sea while trying to reach Europe.
Last year, 25,398 irregular migrants were captured in the Aegean while 65 lost their lives.
▻https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2019/09/18/turkey-stops-300000-irregular-migrants-en-route-to-eu-so-far-this-year
#Turquie #EU #frontières #externalisation #asile #migrations #accord_UE-Turquie #réfugiés #Evros #îles #Mer_Egée #visualisation #infographie
Les États-Unis arment le #Moyen-Orient
La #France, elle, troisième exportateur mondial d’armes, en vend globalement de plus en plus.
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Une petite mise à jour de ta carte, @reka ?
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Infographie simple des données transmises à Google par un Smartphone Android (au repos / à l’usage)
Pour plus de détails voir aussi ▻https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DCN-Google-Data-Collection-Paper.pdf
(p16 et 26 on trouvera des comparaisons Apple+iOs/Google+Android : Google semble nettement plus gourmand...)
Choisis ta licence
Une #infographie pour aider au choix de sa #licence_libre #Creative_Commons, au moment de publier ses contenus.
Traduction par Cédric Frayssinet
Global Report on Internal Displacement 2019
There were 28 million new displacements associated with conflict and disasters across 148 countries and territories in 2018.
Carte des nouvellement déplacés internes :
▻http://www.internal-displacement.org/global-report/grid2019
#IDPs #déplacés_internes #asile #migrations #réfugiés #statistiques #2018 #rapport #chiffres #monde #cartographie #visualisation
Ces réfugiés dans leur propre pays
En 2018, il y a eu autant de nouveaux « déplacés internes » dans 55 pays que de réfugiés en séjour dans le monde entier.
A voir le nombre de personnes exilées à l’intérieur de leur propre pays, celui des réfugiés paraît faire moins problème. A fin 2018, le nombre de réfugiés recensés dans le monde entier atteignait 28,5 millions, soit autant que celui des « déplacés internes » supplémentaires enregistrés au cours de la seule année dernière.
Selon le Rapport global 2019 de l’Observatoire des situations de déplacement interne (IDMC) du Conseil norvégien des réfugiés, dont le siège se trouve à Genève, on comptait, à fin 2018, 41,3 millions de personnes vivant en situation de déplacés internes dans 55 pays, suite à des catastrophes naturelles ou à des conflits. Il s’agit d’un effectif record de personnes déplacées dans leur propre pays du fait de conflits, de violence généralisée ou de catastrophes naturelles.
Catastrophes naturelles
Parmi les désastres qui ont provoqué l’an dernier quelque 17,2 millions de nouveaux déplacements, certains sont très probablement dus au changement climatique. Ainsi, les incendies qui ont détruit une grande partie de la forêt californienne et qui ont contraint 1,2 million d’Américains – sans compter les morts – à abandonner leur domicile et à s’installer ailleurs peuvent probablement être attribués au réchauffement climatique et à la sécheresse.
Au contraire, le Bangladesh n’a enregistré l’an dernier « que » 78’000 déplacements de personnes en raison des inondations. C’est presque l’équivalent de la population de la ville de Lucerne qu’il faut recaser sur des terrains sûrs dans un pays comptant 1’100 habitants au kilomètre carré. Le Bangladesh prévoit de construire trois villes de taille moyenne pour accueillir les déplacés récents et ceux qui ne vont pas manquer d’affluer dans les années à venir. Mais que pourra-t-on faire lorsque le niveau de la mer montera ?
Au Nigeria, cet immense pays de plus de 100 millions d’habitants, 80% des terres ont été inondées par des pluies torrentielles, causant 541’000 déplacements internes.
Problème : les personnes qui, en raison d’inondations ou de conflits locaux, doivent chercher refuge ailleurs dans leur propre pays se rendent systématiquement dans les villes, souvent déjà surpeuplées. Comment imaginer que Dhaka, la capitale du Bangladesh récemment devenue une mégapole approchant les 17 millions d’habitants, puisse encore grandir ?
Violences et conflits
En 2018 toujours, 10,8 millions de personnes ont connu le sort des déplacés internes en raison des violences ou des conflits qui ont sévi surtout dans les pays suivants : Ethiopie, République démocratique du Congo (RDC), Syrie, Nigeria, Somalie, Afghanistan, République centrafricaine, Cameroun et Soudan du Sud. Outre ces mouvements internes, des personnes sont allées chercher secours et refuge notamment en Turquie (3,5 millions), en Ouganda (1,4 million) ou au Pakistan (1,4 million).
Les trois pays qui comptent le plus de déplacés internes dus à la violence sont la Syrie, (6,1 millions de personnes), la Colombie (5,8 millions) et la RDC (3,1 millions). S’agissant de la Syrie, nous savons que la guerre civile n’est pas terminée et qu’il faudra faire des efforts gigantesques pour reconstruire les villes bombardées.
Mais que savons-nous de la Colombie, depuis l’accord de paix entre le gouvernement de Santos et les Farc ? En 2018, il y a eu 145’000 nouveaux déplacés internes et de nombreux leaders sociaux assassinés : 105 en 2017, 172 en 2018 et 7, soit une personne par jour, dans la première semaine de janvier 2019.
L’Assemblée nationale colombienne ne veut pas mettre en œuvre les accords de paix, encore moins rendre des terres aux paysans et accomplir la réforme agraire inscrite à l’article premier de l’accord de paix. Les Farc ont fait ce qu’elles avaient promis, mais pas le gouvernement. Ivan Duque, qui a remplacé Manuel Santos, s’est révélé incapable de reprendre le contrôle des terrains abandonnés par les Farc – et repris par d’autres bandes armées, paramilitaires ou multinationales, ou par des trafiquants de drogue. Triste évolution marquée par une insécurité grandissante.
Et que dire de la RDC ? C’est au Kivu, Nord et Sud, véritable grotte d’Ali Baba de la planète, que les populations sont victimes de bandes armées s’appuyant sur diverses tribus pour conserver ou prendre le contrôle des mines riches en coltan, diamant, or, cuivre, cobalt, étain, manganèse, etc. Grands responsables de ces graves troubles : les téléphones portables et autres appareils connectés à l’échelle mondiale ainsi que les multinationales minières.
Il y a probablement bien d’autres pays de la planète où les violences sont commises par des multinationales qui obligent les habitants locaux à fuir devant la destruction de leurs villages et de leurs terres. Où vont-ils se réfugier ? Dans les villes bien sûr, où ils espèrent trouver un toit. Mais un toit ne suffit pas, ni l’éventuelle aide humanitaire apportée par la Croix-Rouge et les Etats occidentaux. Quand débarquent des dizaines de milliers de déplacés, les municipalités doivent aussi construire des écoles, des hôpitaux, assurer la distribution d’eau potable et l’évacuation des eaux usées.
Dans les pays africains où il arrive que moins de la moitié des habitants aient accès à l’eau potable, un déplacement important risque fort de remettre en cause tout le programme gouvernemental. Le rapport de l’Observatoire des situations de déplacement interne va même jusqu’à prévoir que certains des Objectifs de développement durable fixés par les Nations unies en 2015 ne pourront jamais être atteints.
Displaced people: Why are more fleeing home than ever before?
More than 35,000 people were forced to flee their homes every day in 2018 - nearly one every two seconds - taking the world’s displaced population to a record 71 million.
A total of 26 million people have fled across borders, 41 million are displaced within their home countries and 3.5 million have sought asylum - the highest numbers ever, according to UN refugee agency (UNHCR) figures.
Why are so many people being driven away from their families, friends and neighbourhoods?
Devastating wars have contributed to the rise
Conflict and violence, persecution and human rights violations are driving more and more men, women and children from their homes.
In fact, the number of displaced people has doubled in the last 10 years, the UNHCR’s figures show, with the devastating wars in Iraq and Syria causing many families to leave their communities.
Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Yemen and South Sudan, as well as the flow of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh, have also had a significant impact.
Most do not become refugees
While much of the focus has been on refugees - that’s people forced to flee across borders because of conflict or persecution - the majority of those uprooted across the world actually end up staying in their own countries.
These people, who have left their homes but not their homeland, are referred to as “internally displaced people”, or IDPs, rather than refugees.
IDPs often decide not to travel very far, either because they want to stay close to their homes and family, or because they don’t have the funds to cross borders.
But many internally displaced people end up stuck in areas that are difficult for aid agencies to reach - such as conflict zones - and continue to rely on their own governments to keep them safe. Those governments are sometimes the reason people have fled, or - because of war - have become incapable of providing their own citizens with a safe place to stay.
For this reason, the UN describes IDPs as “among the most vulnerable in the world”.
Colombia, Syria and the DRC have the highest numbers of IDPs.
However, increasing numbers are also leaving home because of natural disasters, mainly “extreme weather events”, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), which monitors the global IDP population only.
The next biggest group of displaced people are refugees. There were 25.9 million by the end of 2018, of whom about half were children.
One in four refugees came from Syria.
The smallest group of displaced people is asylum seekers - those who have applied for sanctuary in another country but whose claim has not been granted. There were 3.5 million in 2018 - fewer than one in 10 of those forced to flee.
Places hit by conflict and violence are most affected
At the end of 2018, Syrians were the largest forcibly displaced population. Adding up IDPs, refugees and asylum seekers, there were 13 million Syrians driven from their homes.
Colombians were the second largest group, with 8m forcibly displaced according to UNHCR figures, while 5.4 million Congolese were also uprooted.
If we just look at figures for last year, a massive 13.6 million people were forced to abandon their homes - again mostly because of conflict. That’s more than the population of Mumbai - the most populous city in India.
Of those on the move in 2018 alone, 10.8 million ended up internally displaced within their home countries - that’s four out of every five people.
A further 2.8 million people sought safety abroad as newly-registered refugees or asylum seekers.
Just 2.9 million people who had previously fled their homes returned to their areas or countries of origin in 2018 - fewer than those who became displaced in the same period.
The world’s largest new population of internally displaced people are Ethiopians. Almost three million abandoned their homes last year - many escaping violence between ethnic groups.
The conflict in the DRC also forced 1.8 million to flee but remain in their home country in 2018.
In war-torn Syria, more than 1.6 million became IDPs.
Venezuelans topped the list of those seeking asylum abroad in 2018, with 341,800 new claims. That’s more than one in five claims submitted last year.
Hyperinflation, food shortages, political turmoil, violence and persecution, have forced hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to leave their homeland.
Most left for Peru, while others moved to Brazil, the US or Spain. More than 7,000 applied for asylum in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago - just seven miles off Venezuela’s coast - last year alone.
Annielis Ramirez, 30, is among the thousands of Venezuelans seeking a better life on the islands.
“All my family is in Venezuela, I had to come here to work and help them,” she says. "I couldn’t even buy a pair of shoes for my daughter. The reality is that the minimum salary is not enough over there.
“I’m here in Trinidad now. I don’t have a job, I just try to sell empanadas [filled pastries]. The most important thing is to put my daughter through school.”
Those driven from their homelands mostly remain close by
Almost 70% of the world’s refugees come from just five countries: Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Myanmar and Somalia, according to the UNHCR. And their neighbouring nations host the most.
Most Syrians have escaped to Turkey and more than half of Afghan refugees are in Pakistan.
Many South Sudanese go to nearby Sudan or Uganda. Those from Myanmar - the majority Rohingya refugees displaced at the end of 2017 - mainly fled to Bangladesh.
Germany, which doesn’t border any of those countries with the largest outflows, is home to more than half a million Syrian and 190,000 Afghan refugees - the result of its “welcome culture” towards refugees established in 2015. It has since toughened up refugee requirements.
When assessing the burden placed on the host countries, Lebanon holds the largest number of refugees relative to its population. One in every six people living in the country is a refugee, the vast majority from across the border in Syria.
The exodus from Syria has also seen refugee numbers in neighbouring Jordan swell, putting pressure on resources. About 85% of the Syrians currently settled in Jordan live below the poverty line, according to the UN.
Overall, one third of the global refugee population (6.7 million people) live in the least developed countries of the world.
Many go to live in massive temporary camps
Large numbers of those driven from their home countries end up in cramped, temporary tent cities that spring up in places of need.
The biggest in the world is in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where half a million Rohingya now live, having fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar.
The second largest is Bidi Bidi in northern Uganda, home to a quarter of a million people. The camp has seen many arrivals of South Sudanese fleeing civil war just a few hours north.
Bidi Bidi, once a small village, has grown in size since 2016 and now covers 250 sq km (97 sq miles) - a third of the size of New York City.
But what makes Bidi Bidi different from most other refugee camps, is that its residents are free to move around and work and have access to education and healthcare.
The Ugandan government, recognised for its generous approach to refugees, also provides Bidi Bidi’s residents with plots of land, so they can farm and construct shelters, enabling them to become economically self-sufficient.
The camp authorities are also aiming to build schools, health centres and other infrastructure out of more resilient materials, with the ultimate aim of creating a working city.
Among those living in Bidi Bidi are Herbat Wani, a refugee from South Sudan, and Lucy, a Ugandan, who were married last year.
Herbat is grateful for the welcome he has received in Uganda since fleeing violence in his home country.
“The moment you reach the boundary, you’re still scared but there are these people who welcome you - and it was really amazing,” he says. “Truly I can say Uganda at this point is home to us.”
Lucy says she doesn’t see Herbat as a refugee at all. “He’s a human being, like me,” she says.
However, despite the authorities’ best efforts, a number of challenges remain at Bidi Bidi.
The latest report from the UNHCR notes there are inadequate food and water supplies, health facilities still operating under tarpaulins and not enough accommodation or schools for the large families arriving.
Displacement could get worse
Alongside conflict and violence, persecution and human rights violations, natural disasters are increasingly responsible for forcing people from their homes.
Looking at data for IDPs only, collected separately by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), natural disasters caused most new internal displacement cases last year, outpacing conflict as the main reason for people fleeing.
On top of the 10.8 million internally displaced by conflict last year, there were 17.2 million people who were forced to abandon their homes because of disasters, mainly “extreme weather events” such as storms and floods, the IDMC says.
The IDMC expects the number of people uprooted because of natural disasters to rise to 22 million this year, based on data for the first half of 2019.
Mass displacement by extreme weather events is “becoming the norm”, its report says, and IDMC’s director Alexandra Bilak has urged global leaders to invest more in ways of mitigating the effects of climate change.
Tropical cyclones and monsoon floods forced many in India and Bangladesh from their homes earlier this year, while Cyclone Idai wreaked havoc in southern Africa, killing more than 1,000 people and uprooting millions in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Idai was “one of the deadliest weather-related disasters to hit the southern hemisphere”, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.
Although linking any single event to global warming is complicated, climate change is expected to increase the frequency of such extreme weather events.
The WMO warns that the physical and financial impacts of global warming are already on the rise.
Phan Thi Hang, a farmer in Vietnam’s Ben Tre province, has told the BBC his country’s changing climate has already had a “huge impact” on rice yields.
“There has been less rain than in previous years,” he says. "As a result, farming is much more difficult.
“We can now only harvest two crops instead of three each year, and the success of these is not a sure thing.”
He says he and his fellow farmers now have to work as labourers or diversify into breeding cattle to make extra cash, while others have left the countryside for the city.
Like Phan’s fellow farmers, many IDPs head to cities in search of safety from weather-related events as well as better lives.
But many of the world’s urban areas may not offer people the sanctuary they are seeking.
Displaced people in cities often end up seeking shelter in unfinished or abandoned buildings and are short of food, water and basic services, making them vulnerable to illness and disease, the IDMC says. They are also difficult to identify and track, mingling with resident populations.
On top of this, some of the world’s biggest cities are also at risk from rising global temperatures.
Almost all (95%) cities facing extreme climate risks are in Africa or Asia, a report by risk analysts Verisk Maplecroft has found.
And it’s the faster-growing cities that are most at risk, including megacities like Lagos in Nigeria and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Some 84 of the world’s 100 fastest-growing cities face “extreme” risks from rising temperatures and extreme weather brought on by climate change.
This means that those fleeing to urban areas to escape the impact of a warming world may well end up having their lives disrupted again by the effects of rising temperatures.
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/world-49638793
#conflits #violence #Bidi-Bidi #camps_de_réfugiés #bidi_bidi #vulnérabilité #changement_climatique #climat #villes #infographie #visualisation
#Pollution #plastique : à qui la faute ? | WWF France
▻https://www.wwf.fr/vous-informer/actualites/pollution-plastique-a-qui-la-faute
Dans son dernier rapport « Pollution plastique, à qui la faute ? », le WWF tire une nouvelle fois la sonnette d’alarme et formule des propositions pour sortir de cette #crise mondiale.
#Infographie : le rapport alarmant de WWF sur la pollution plastique | Bio à la une
▻https://www.bioalaune.com/fr/actualite-bio/37261/pollution-plastique-rapport-alarmant-wwf-infographie
#Bill_Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong | Jason Hickel | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-gates-davos-global-poverty-infographic-neoliberal
There are a number of problems with this graph, though. First of all, real data on poverty has only been collected since 1981. Anything before that is extremely sketchy, and to go back as far as 1820 is meaningless. Roser draws on a dataset that was never intended to describe poverty, but rather inequality in the distribution of world GDP – and that for only a limited range of countries. There is no actual research to bolster the claims about long-term poverty. It’s not science; it’s social media.
What Roser’s numbers actually reveal is that the world went from a situation where most of humanity had no need of money at all to one where today most of humanity struggles to survive on extremely small amounts of money. The graph casts this as a decline in poverty, but in reality what was going on was a process of dispossession that bulldozed people into the capitalist labour system, during the enclosure movements in Europe and the colonisation of the global south.
Prior to colonisation, most people lived in subsistence economies where they enjoyed access to abundant commons – land, water, forests, livestock and robust systems of sharing and reciprocity. They had little if any money, but then they didn’t need it in order to live well – so it makes little sense to claim that they were poor. This way of life was violently destroyed by colonisers who forced people off the land and into European-owned mines, factories and plantations, where they were paid paltry wages for work they never wanted to do in the first place.
In other words, Roser’s graph illustrates a story of coerced proletarianisation. It is not at all clear that this represents an improvement in people’s lives, as in most cases we know that the new income people earned from wages didn’t come anywhere close to compensating for their loss of land and resources, which were of course gobbled up by colonisers. Gates’s favourite infographic takes the violence of #colonisation and repackages it as a happy story of progress.
But that’s not all that’s wrong here. The trend that the graph depicts is based on a poverty line of $1.90 (£1.44) per day, which is the equivalent of what $1.90 could buy in the US in 2011. It’s obscenely low by any standard, and we now have piles of evidence that people living just above this line have terrible levels of malnutrition and mortality. Earning $2 per day doesn’t mean that you’re somehow suddenly free of extreme poverty. Not by a long shot.
Du même auteur ;
Global inequality: Do we really live in a one-hump world?
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/768775
The government of Hungary spent €216 million on propaganda and fearmongering in the past 8 years
The Hungarian government spent 69.3 billion Hungarian forints (approximately €216 million at today’s exchange rate) on propaganda and fearmongering in the past eight years. Our infographics also reveal that taxpayer money spent on spreading these messages is growing every year. Also, the companies that do the work and receive all this money (media outlets, outdoor advertising companies) are all owned by businessmen close to the government – except for one.
▻https://english.atlatszo.hu/2019/01/11/the-government-of-hungary-spent-e216-million-on-propaganda-and-fear
#Hongrie #propagande #budget #prix #coût #visualisation #infographie #où_vont_les_impôts #anti-Soros
Gilets jaunes : éclats de grenades, brûlures, membres arrachés… retour sur 82 blessures graves - Libération
►https://www.liberation.fr/france/2019/01/11/gilets-jaunes-eclats-de-grenades-brulures-membres-arraches-retour-sur-82-
Ils s’appellent Patrick, Franck, Cédric, Ayhan ou Fiorina. Leur nom, les photos de leur visage et surtout leurs mutilations sont connus des gilets jaunes. Avec des dizaines d’autres blessés, ils font partie du « mur de la honte », une liste partagée massivement sur Facebook, dans de nombreux groupes de soutien au mouvement. Parce qu’il est arrivé que, parfois, des clichés de blessés antérieurs au mouvement se glissent dans les diaporamas des victimes, Libération a analysé des centaines de photographies, de vidéos et de déclarations afin d’en détacher une liste, non exhaustive, de 82 manifestants blessés gravement - et d’une femme morte à cause d’une grenade lacrymogène.
Blessures retenues : les membres arrachés, les organes ayant perdu leur fonction principale, les os fracturés, les pieds et jambes incrustés de bouts de grenades, les brûlures graves, mais aussi toutes plaies ouvertes au niveau de la tête. Ainsi, les hématomes, parfois exceptionnellement vastes, causés par des tirs de lanceur de balles de défense (LBD) ou des coups de matraques n’ont pas été comptabilisés. Enfin, nous n’avons gardé que les cas où nous pouvions identifier la victime, soit par son prénom ou parce que nous avions suffisamment d’images d’elle.
A lire aussiGilets jaunes : « L’idée que seule la violence paye est très présente »
De ces 82 blessés graves, dont l’âge varie entre 15 et 80 ans, on remarque que la très grande majorité sont des hommes. Dix femmes, toutes touchées à la tête, ont été recensées. Parmi elles, on compte Zineb, l’octogénaire morte, ainsi que Fiorina, une étudiante de 20 ans éborgnée par un tir de lanceur de balles de défense (LBD), selon ses proches, en plein visage. Cette arme - fortement critiquée pour les dégâts qu’elle peut causer et dont le Défenseur des droits, Jacques Toubon, préconise l’interdiction pour le maintien de l’ordre - est celle à l’origine des coupures et fractures de quelque 60 victimes.
Le ministère de l’Intérieur, de son côté, a été incapable de donner un nombre précis et circonstancié des blessés. Estimant qu’ils étaient, au lendemain de l’acte VIII, « une cinquantaine » de manifestants blessés gravement. Son porte-parole justifie cette indistinction par le caractère évolutif de la gravité. « Parfois les pompiers vont catégoriser une personne en urgence absolue mais elle sera finalement traitée, après diagnostic, comme une urgence relative », explique Beauvau, avant d’énumérer de manière générale « environ 1 700 blessés du côté des manifestants et environ 1 000 pour les forces de l’ordre ».
Concernant le nombre de morts, le ministère rappelle que 11 personnes ont été tuées pendant le mouvement des gilets jaunes : à l’exception de l’octogénaire touchée par une grenade lacrymogène alors qu’elle fermait ses volets pendant une manifestation à Marseille, les autres victimes ont été renversées à proximité des ronds-points.
« Mur de la honte »
Si la liste du « mur de la honte » ainsi qu’une photo compilant une vingtaine de blessés avec leurs prénoms font partie des sources les plus partagées sur les réseaux sociaux au sujet des gilets jaunes, il s’avère que leurs auteurs ne sont pas directement liés au mouvement. A l’origine de cette liste, on trouve ainsi le site Désarmons-les, un collectif « contre les violences d’Etat » actif depuis 2012. A la veille des manifestations de ce samedi, son recensement comptait 81 blessés.
Pour notre recensement, nous nous sommes appuyés sur leur liste et leurs photos, ainsi que sur les nombreux signalements du journaliste David Dufresne sur Twitter, afin de reconnaître les victimes, identifiant parfois plusieurs photos d’une seule et même personne, comme Thomas, un étudiant originaire de Nîmes, dont les différents clichés à divers moments de ses pansements pouvaient laisser penser qu’il s’agissait de plusieurs personnes. Lors de nos vérifications, il nous est aussi arrivé de ne pas trouver traces de certaines victimes sur les réseaux sociaux. Résultat : elles ne font pas partie de notre décompte.
A lire aussiGilets sur le feu
Contacté par Libération, Ian, un des membres fondateurs de cet observatoire des violences policières, explique la genèse de cette liste de blessures « sans précédent », créée « dans les jours qui ont suivi la manifestation du 24 novembre », alors que Jérôme, avec qui l’association va entrer en contact, a perdu un œil. Pour établir ce recensement, le collectif compte sur plusieurs éléments : sa participation aux manifestations, principalement à Paris, une veille des réseaux sociaux, ainsi que des contacts d’avocats ou de street medics (soignants volontaires dans les manifestations) dans plusieurs villes de France.
A ceux-là s’ajoutent des témoignages directs de victimes ou de leurs proches, que Désarmons-les vérifie. En effet, toutes les victimes ne figurent pas dans ce recensement non exhaustif, explique Ian : « S’il n’y a qu’une photo, on n’en fait rien. Soit on retrouve la personne et on la contacte. Soit la personne ou ses proches se manifestent et on vérifie auprès d’eux, en leur demandant de nous fournir des preuves de leur récit. Comme on bosse avec des medics, on sait distinguer si une blessure a été causée par une grenade ou un lanceur de balles de défense. » Le collectif ne compte pas les bleus ou les blessures légères.
« 200 signalements »
Priorisant la gravité des blessures comme critère pour ce décompte, Libération n’a pour l’instant pas noté toutes les intentions de plaintes qui devraient être déposées pour ces 82 blessés. Au micro de la matinale de France Inter, Eric Morvan, le patron de la Direction générale de la police nationale, indiquait vendredi que « l’IGPN a reçu sur sa plateforme 200 signalements et elle est aujourd’hui saisie par l’autorité judiciaire de 78 dossiers ».
Une procédure qui n’est pas toujours envisagée par les victimes. A l’image d’Alexandre, coupé au-dessous de l’œil par un projectile lancé par la police en fin de manifestation à Lyon samedi dernier. « J’y ai pensé, mais si je le fais, je pense que je passerai par un avocat. Je n’ai pas envie de me retrouver face à quelqu’un qui ne prendra pas ma plainte », confie-t-il à Libération. Pourtant, il n’est pas nécessaire d’être assis face à un policier pour signaler un abus à la police des polices. « On a une plateforme en ligne de l’IGPN, où tout citoyen peut faire un signalement », rappelle Beauvau.
42% des TPE/PME françaises interrogées estiment réaliser plus de 10% de leur chiffre d’affaire grâce à leur présence sur internet. Tous les chiffres de notre grande étude Réussir avec le Web sur ►https://www.afnic.fr/fr/l-afnic-en-bref/actualites/actualites-generales/11276/show/reussir-avec-le-web-dresse-le-portrait-robot-de-la-presence-en-ligne-des-tpe-p #Afnic #Marketing #Entrepreneurs #Infographie
This Map Shows Where in the World the U.S. Military Is Combatting Terrorism | History | Smithsonian
▻https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/map-shows-places-world-where-us-military-operates-180970997
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The infographic reveals for the first time that the U.S. is now operating in 40 percent of the world’s nations
#infographie #etats-unis #bases_militaires #nénuphars #lily_pad
Diasporas à l’échelle des continents
Attention, pépite.
Dans De Facto, publié par l’Institut Convergences Migrations, François Héran (démographe) publie un graphique* fort intéressant, réalisé à partir des données de stocks de migrants internationaux (2018) des Nations unies.
Les premières lignes indiquent que : « Le graphique remet en perspective les migrations africaines dans l’ensemble mondial des diasporas. Il ne s’agit pas de flux annuels mais d’effectifs accumulés au fil du temps (« international migrant stock » [...] ».
Lire la suite, ici : ▻http://icmigrations.fr/2018/11/14/0003
*Il s’agit en fait de la seconde version d’un graphe de flux, désormais plaqué sur un fond de carte ; l’esthétique de la figure a également été modifiée.
#migrants #migrations #flowmap #cartedeflux #cartostats #worldmap #diapora #ICmigrations
#François_Héran #migrations #visualisation #cartographie #monde #préjugés #migrations_sud-sud #Afrique #diaspora #préjugés #invasion #afflux
Un beau contre-pied au livre de #Stephen_Smith, La ruée vers l’Europe :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/673774
v. aussi
►https://seenthis.net/messages/647634
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/241513
Et pour déconstruire le #mythe de la #ruée_vers_l'Europe, voir aussi ces #infographie :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/482464
Merci Christina @cdb_77 pour tous ces retours :-) A bientôt !
Créer des visuels pour une information “design” – Prof & Doc – Site des document listes de l’académie de Besançon
▻http://documentation.ac-besancon.fr/creer-des-visuels-pour-une-information-design
Pourquoi créer un visuel avec un outil en ligne ?
Pour une publication web : la capacité d’attention étant plus courte sur écran, le design de l’information a une place cruciale dans les publications en ligne. Un visuel peut faciliter la compréhension.
Pour une affiche au design soigné : certains outils possèdent une banque de modèles et d’éléments qui facilitent la réception d’un message et son esthétique.
Nous vous proposons trois outils, classés par ordre de difficulté et de temps de conception. Les trois nécessitent une inscription.
Trump border wall construction underway in #Chihuahuita in Downtown #El_Paso
Construction of the border wall in the Chihuahuita neighborhood of Downtown El Paso continued Wednesday beneath the Stanton Street International Bridge. The U.S. Border Patrol announced Friday that the new wall would replace existing fencing south of Downtown El Paso and that construction would begin Saturday as part of President Donald Trump’s executive order authorizing construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
The wall starts in Chihuahuita and continues east for four miles. Chihuahuita is El Paso’s oldest neighborhood, with about 100 people currently living in the area. The southern boundary of the neighborhood is the border fence separating El Paso from #Juárez.
The existing fence will be removed, and an 18-foot-high steel bollard wall will be constructed in its place. The construction project is expected to be completed in late April. The estimated cost for the project is $22 million.
Border Wall Gate Construction Begins Friday
Construction of several border wall #gates along the Rio Grande Valley border is set to begin Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract to #Gideon_Contracting LLC in early October.
The agencies approved over $3.5 million for the San Antonio-based company, which is set to install the first seven border wall gates and includes options for four additional gates.
TPWD: Border wall will be built on #Bentsen State Park property in Mission
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has confirmed the border wall will be built on #Bentsen_State_Park property in Mission.
The department wrote several letters to Customs and Border Protection on their concerns on the border wall, even suggesting an alternative design.
According to Josh Havens, spokesperson for Texas Parks and Wildlife he says since the federal government has federal domain over the park, construction will go as planned.
Bentsen State Park is considered to be one of the top bird watching destinations in Texas.
“At first, we came for three or four days. Last year, we came for seven and this time we are coming for eight days,” said Charles Allen, who has been visiting the park for several years now.
Allen says the border wall would be a setback for the park.
“It would really be a disaster for the plants and the butterflies and for people who come to visit,” stated Allen.
CBP announced the construction of the border wall on the IBWC levee earlier this month.
The levee stretches through Mission and lies on park property.
“The federal government has confirmed with us that the initial six miles, I believe, of the construction of the wall is going to go across the levee that is at Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park,” said Havens.
According to Havens, the construction will split the park into two, separating the main visitor center from the rest of the park.
CBP plans to clear out 150 feet south of the levee for the construction, according to Havens.
“The native plants here have some purpose either a butterfly or several butterflies, or moths or some other birds or other larger animals,” said Allen.
Havens says they are aware of the ecological importance the vegetation of the park has and is planning to work with CBP on minimizing the vegetation loss.
Still park visitors feel there should be something else done to protect the park.
“I hate to see them tear this park in half can there be other way to be done? I’m sure there are options,” mentioned Larry McGuire, a winter Texan who visits the park.
According to Havens, it is way too early to tell if the park will close after the construction of the border wall.
They will have to gauge visitation after construction to determine that.
The Border Wall: What. Has Trump Built So Far?
The federal shutdown hinges on whether the United States should fund a large wall on its border with Mexico. While Trump has described the wall’s progress, not a single mile of an extended wall has been built so far.
Guide to figuring out the age of an undated world map
#ressources_pédagogiques #cartographie #cartes #date #cartographie_historique #datation
... et il faudrait probablement trouver d’autres tags pour pouvoir retrouver cette belle #infographie, mais je n’ai pas plus d’idées...
Ça c’est @xkcd (pas encore le flux RSS sur seenthis au moment de ce #graphe)
►https://xkcd.com/1688
La Terre digère mal les cinq milliards de tonnes de plastique que l’homme a jetées dans la nature. Scientifiques, entrepreneurs ou simples citoyens tentent d’apporter des solutions à cette crise environnementale qui nous concerne tous
►https://labs.letemps.ch/interactive/2018/longread-homo-plasticus
#plastique #déchets #environnement #webdoc #infographie #visualisation #recyclage #PET #pollution #eau
Migrants en Méditerranée centrale : des push-back aux pull-back
ping @reka
Quelqu’un parmi les seenthisien·nes peut peut-être m’aider ?
@simplicissimus peut-être ? @reka ?
Je cherche cette #caricature, mentionnée dans cet article, passionnant par ailleurs : ►https://journals.openedition.org/etudesrurales/8132
Voici la description de la caricature :
une caricature parue dans un journal israélien montre #Arafat remettant aux incendiaires un certificat de « brûleurs d’#arbres » fait sur le modèle des certificats de planteurs d’arbres décernés par le #FNJ [Bardenstein 2005].
source citée dans l’article :
Bardenstein, 2005, Cultivating Attachments. Discourses of Rootedness in Palestine/Israel. Stanford, Stanford University Press (à paraître).
–-> mais qui en réalité n’a jamais paru, j’ai l’impression !
J’ai cherché mais n’ai pas trouvé une telle caricature. Et, en effet, dans le CV de l’auteur il n’est pas fait mention de la publication citée. Plusieurs articles ou contributions traitent de Rootedness, mais pas en 2005 et pas sous ce titre.
▻https://www.ii.umich.edu/ii/people/all/c/cbardens/_jcr_content/file.res/Bardenstein.CV.Dept.Website.docx
Si même @simplicissimus n’a pas trouvé... peut-être il faudrait du coup écrire un petit message à l’auteur... je vais essayer, si je n’oublie pas !
#merci à toi François.
Sur ce sujet:
The Carmel wildfire is burning all illusions in Israel
Max Blumenthal, The Electronic Intifada, le 6 décembre 2010
►https://electronicintifada.net/content/carmel-wildfire-burning-all-illusions-israel/9130
Ce que je trouve de plus proche :
D’un article de 2011 attaquant violemment le FNJ à propos de la loi autorisant l’état et le FNJ à vendre des terrains à des particuliers (si j’ai bien compris…)
▻http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/002-D-60607-00.html
Je cherche avec les mots-clés FNJ (KKL en hébreu, KKL-JNF, très fréquemment), incendie, Arafat, « boîte bleue » (le fameux certificat) et les versions en hébreu.
Sur la fameuse « boîte bleue », @simplicissimus, ce magnifique film documentaire : ►https://seenthis.net/messages/317236
(ps. si jamais tu veux le voir, envoies-moi un email)
J’ai écrit un email à Carol Bardenstein. On va voir si elle va répondre.
Apparemment, on disait tronc bleu, cf. ce Jeu de dés d’avant 1947 intitulé Un voyage en Palestine, le pays dont la terre est libérée avec l’argent du tronc bleu du K.K.L.
p. 96 de cette compilation d’articles
Jewish National Fund – Colonizing Palestine Since 1901 Greenwashing Apartheid : The Jewish National Fund’s Environmental Cover Up
JNF eBook (Volume 4, May 15, 2011)
▻http://www.ijan.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/FINAL-JNFeBookVol4.pdf
avec quelques images, quelques cartes et 13 contributions, dont l’article de Max Blumenthal pointé par @sinehebdo
petit tag du coup... #tronc_bleu (#boîte_bleue)
Très intéressant, @simplicissimus, merci !
Je découvre du coup ce site, qui intéressera certainement @reka et @albertocampiphoto :
Visualizing Palestine
▻https://visualizingpalestine.org
https://s3.amazonaws.com/VP2/visuals/en/d81523aafec01aa9b2dc108b486ad7fc.jpg?2018#.jpg 
https://s3.amazonaws.com/VP2/visuals/en/68a4e6de11d0e2462e2fbbf758e447a1.jpg?2018#.jpg 
https://visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/offline-online/OC-OnlineOffline-Aboriginal%20Women-20180222.jpg
De nombreux visuels ont été traduits en français, ici:
▻https://goo.gl/photos/Qw674YZ2CEyn67459
