Ricky Basig, dirigeant indigène, a été abattu hier soir
▻http://philipperevelli.com/asie/philippines/carnet-de-reportage-mindanao-14-abattu-hier-soir
Ricky Basig, dirigeant indigène, a été abattu hier soir
▻http://philipperevelli.com/asie/philippines/carnet-de-reportage-mindanao-14-abattu-hier-soir
#NoLandNoLife | An urgent appeal to respect the human rights of the lumads in Mindanao, Philippines and to end the militarization of their communities | PANAP
▻http://www.panap.net/campaigns/land-food-rights/noland-nolife/post/2614
We join our brothers and sisters from the lumad* (indigenous) communities in Mindanao, Philippines in their appeal to end the militarization of their villages and to stop the human rights abuses reportedly being committed by government’s armed forces deployed in their areas for anti-insurgency operation. We are appalled how the supposed anti-insurgency military campaign has turned into a systematic repression of the lumads, in particular those who are defending their ancestral land and resources against corporate encroachment and takeover.
We continue to receive alarming reports on the intensifying militarization in lumad areas such as in the towns of Malapatan and Alabel in Saranggani province where more than 1,000 members of the B’laan tribe (one of the lumad groups) have been forced to leave their communities since May 2015 due to aerial bombings and indiscriminate firing allegedly by the Philippine armed forces as well as the establishment of military camps in B’laan villages. Torture, illegal arrests and detention, among other atrocities, are also reportedly rampant.
Several of our partners in the Philippines who are campaigning against pesticide poisoning, land grabbing and human rights violations have been long working with lumad communities. We share their legitimate concern that while the military’s purported target are the armed rebel groups, the militarization and alleged human rights atrocities could also be the direct result of the national government’s aggressive promotion and defense of big corporate investments in mining, plantation, and other extractive industries in Mindanao.
#philippines #militarisation #terres #agro-industrie #droits_humains #violences_policières
Economie. Au #Japon, le pire #stage du monde
Le Japon doit faire face à une pénurie de main-d’œuvre, notamment dûe au vieillissement de sa population. Pour y pallier, le gouvernement a mis en place un programme de formations et de stages pour attirer les travailleurs étrangers en provenance de #Chine, du #Vietnam ou des #Philippines.
Vice News s’est rendu au Japon pour enquêter sur ce programme. Les “stagiaires” peuvent rester jusqu’à trois ans dans le pays, travaillent sans vraiment apprendre de nouvelles techniques – comme le promet pourtant le gouvernement – et sont payés un salaire de misère. Voici le “pire stage du monde”.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/video/economie-au-japon-le-pire-stage-du-monde
#travail #exploitation #migration
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INFOGRAPHIC Malaysia vows to turn away boat people. Rights groups warn of humanitarian catastrophe @AFP
#cartographie #visualisation #réfugiés #asile #migration #Rohingya #Bangladesh #Malaisie
cc @reka
Immigration. Les #Philippines, premier pays à offrir un réfuge aux boat people
Les Philippines ont annoncé lundi leur intention d’accueillir les migrants provenant de la Birmanie et du Bangladesh. Elles deviennent ainsi le premier pays à offrir un refuge aux milliers de boat people abandonnés par les passeurs dans les mers d’Asie.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/immigration-les-philippines-premier-pays-offrir-un-refuge-aux
#Palawan: Stop blaming indigenous peoples’ farming practices for deforestation- look at oil palm plantations and mining
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24842-palawan-stop-blaming-indigenous-peoples-farming-practices-for-de
Recent years have seen an exponential increase in land deals across the Philippines with the conversion of large expanses of land with crops mainly intended for export while traditional upland farming implemented through swidden (‘slash-and-burn’) technology (kaingin) is demonized and antagonized through restrictive legislation. The latter, however, fosters local self-sufficiency and plays a fundamental role in the livelihood and worldviews of indigenous societies.
Palawan, known as the “Philippine last Frontier”, in spite of its unique recognition as a UNESCO Man & Biosphere Reserve, has not been spared from massive investments in extractive resources and industrial agriculture, especially oil palm and rubber development. And yet, indigenous people and upland dwellers continue to be blamed for massive deforestation and ecological disaster.Not surprisingly, the recent front cover of a well known Philippine Newspaper (the Daily Inquirer, May 9 issue) holds a headline post with a powerful image that easily conflates all upland peoples as criminal agriculturalists (▻http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/684378/summer-not-all-beach-in-palawan-it-is-the-season-to-burn-forests) “Images are powerful and can be damaging” says Wolfram Dressler a Research Fellow from the University of Melbourne (Australia) who has carried out extensive anthropological research in Palawan. ”They can direct blame without nuance and context. The masses (and government) absorb such images to reinforce centuries old narratives demonizing kaingin—a term that many farmers avoid because of its pejorative nature” adds Dressler.
The Inquirer’s article was triggered by an aerial survey carried out by the so called Center for Sustainability (CS), a nonprofit organization allegedly working for sustainable development in Palawan. The group spotted from the air key locations, previously covered by forest, and which have now been subject to clearing due to various external forces (mining, oil palm plantations and shifting agriculture (locally known as kaingin, or more appropriately ‘uma’). According to the group, in addition to clearing by ‘poor farmers’, forest burning in the south has been linked to the proliferation of palm oil and rubber plantations, and the main target of ‘slash-and-burn’ activities is the clearing of primary forests for development.
Ironically, for carrying out its photo survey CS conservationists have barrowed the private plane of multimillionaire Jose Alvarez, the present Governor of Palawan, a well-known supporter of large-scale agro-industry, especially rubber which accelerates deforestation and deprives more traditional indigenous communities of their resource-base.
#peuples_autochtones #Philippines #agriculture #agro-industrie #forêt #déforestation #huile_de_palme #caoutchouc
#Mer_de_Chine_du_Sud. Les #Philippines bien décidées à contrer Pékin
En conflit territorial de longue date avec la Chine à propos des îles #Spratleys, où Pékin s’est lancé dans des constructions d’envergure, les Philippines expriment leur détermination à lui faire barrage.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/mer-de-chine-du-sud-les-philippines-bien-decidees-contrer-pek
#Chine
L’appel de Manille est sans ambition et régressif ! Analyse
Beaucoup ont parlé de l’appel de Manille lu par Marion Cotillard lors du voyage présidentiel de François Hollande aux Philippines. Peu l’ont analysé avec précision, sauf à dire qu’il ne contenait rien de spectaculaire. Ce n’est pas vrai. Il est spectaculairement sans ambition et régressif. Analyse.
▻http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/maxime-combes/280215/lappel-de-manille-est-sans-ambition-et-regressif-analyse
#ambition #AppeldeManille #Climat #Cop21 #Cotillard #france #Hollande #Paris2015 #Philippines #réchauffement_climatique
L’autre appel de Manille
A l’occasion du déplacement de François Hollande aux Philippines, voici l’autre appel de Manille, celui qu’aurait pu lire Marion Cotillard si le gouvernement français était vraiment décidé à lutter contre les dérèglements climatiques !
►http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/climatiques/article/260215/lautre-appel-de-manille
#AppeldeManille #FrançoisHollande #DérèglementsClimatiques #COP21 #climat #Philippines #JusticeClimatique
The #Philippines: stop the palm oil rush in Palawan
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24176-the-philippines-stop-the-palm-oil-rush-in-palawan
The proposal to convert further 8 million hectares of Philippine soil into oil palm plantations made headlines across the country and shed a harsh light on how Philippine authorities imagine their country’s development.
Palm oil companies are planning to convert 20,000 hectares of land in the Philippines’ Palawan Man & Biosphere Reserve. 6,000 hectares have already been cleared, endangering biodiversity, water resources, topsoil quality and the livelihood of farmers and indigenous peoples, while exacerbating rural poverty. If oil palm expansion is allowed to continue, the environmental and ecological sustainability of the province and local food security will be severely compromised.
While Agumil Philippines, Inc. – the largest palm oil company in Palawan – freely exports palm oil to Malaysian buyers, local farmers have nothing to feed their families or anything to take to the local market. “Agumil does not even allow us to intercrop cassava on our land, which they have converted into oil palm plantations,” says Jerry Azucena of the newly established Coalition against Land Grabbing (CALG). “They have destroyed our lives, and sooner or later they will have to compensate us,” he adds.
WOW ! Watch this little girl name the presidents of 30 countries
▻http://africasacountry.com/wow-watch-this-little-girl-name-the-presidents-of-30-countries
Some people think that #Africa_is_a_Country. Some people, such as the New York Times editors, think that #Ivory_Coast is two countries (see below). Many people struggle to name prominent politicians in the countries where they live. #Zara is not like any of these people. She is a little girl who can name the […]
#BREAKING #EDITORIAL #UNCATEGORIZED #VIDEO #Angola #Botswana #Brazil #Burkina_Faso #Cameroon #China #Colombia #Congo #Equatorial_Guinea #Ethiopia #France #Gambia #Ghana #Girl_names_30_presidents #Guinea-Bissau #Kenya #Mali #Namibia #Nigeria #Philippines #Portugal #Russia #Senegal #South_Africa #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #USA #Zimbabwe
The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed
►http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation
Inside the soul-crushing world of content moderation, where low-wage laborers soak up the worst of humanity, and keep it off your Facebook feed. Source: Wired News
The campuses of the tech industry are famous for their lavish cafeterias, cushy shuttles, and on-site laundry services. But on a muggy February afternoon, some of these companies’ most important work is being done 7,000 miles away, on the second floor of a former elementary school at the end of a row of auto mechanics’ stalls in Bacoor, a gritty Filipino town 13 miles southwest of Manila.
#travail #inégalités #réseaux_sociaux #surveillance #censure #philippines #silicon_valley
the number of content moderators scrubbing the world’s social media sites, mobile apps, and cloud storage services runs to “well over 100,000”—that is, about twice the total head count of #Google and nearly 14 times that of #Facebook.
A suicidal message posted by a whisper user and flagged for deletion by a TaskUs employee. MOISES SAMAN/MAGNUM
Whisper practices “active #moderation,” an especially labor-intensive process in which every single post is screened in real time; many other companies moderate content only if it’s been flagged as objectionable by users, which is known as reactive moderating.
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While a large amount of content moderation takes place overseas, much is still done in the US, often by young college graduates
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He also got a fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of #YouTube. For instance, in late 2010, Google’s legal team gave moderators the urgent task of deleting the violent sermons of American radical Islamist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, after a British woman said she was inspired by them to stab a politician.
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In Manila, I meet Denise (not her real name), a psychologist who consults for two content-moderation firms in the Philippines. “It’s like PTSD,” she tells me as we sit in her office above one of the city’s perpetually snarled freeways. “There is a memory trace in their mind.”
Behind Closed Doors, Abuse of Domestic Workers in Asia and Middle East - NYTimes.com
▻http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/behind-closed-doors-abuse-of-domestic-workers/?_php=true
With his latest project, photographer Steve McCurry, best known for his work in war-torn countries like Afghanistan, has documented the suffering of women from Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines who endured a myriad of abuses while working for families elsewhere in Asia and the Middle East.
#Philippines : farmers call to stop ’Golden Rice’ trials - The Ecologist
▻http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2546891/philippines_farmers_call_to_stop_golden_rice_trials.html
En toute logique, si les Philippines cèdent des terres aux investisseurs étrangers (et c’est le cas pour y produire du maïs, du soja, du manioc, de la canne à sucre) elles devraient pouvoir cultiver des légumes contenant de la vitamine A pour leur propre population
A year after the uprooting of #Golden_Rice, more than a hundred farmers, scientists, consumers and basic sectors are calling for the immediate halt of the planned field tests and commercialization of Golden Rice (GR) in the Philippines.
GR they say, will only pose more problems rather than solving the problem on hunger and malnutrition.
The group also called for respect for farmers’ rights to land, seeds and technology and pushed for sustainable approaches to attaining food sufficiency and genuine rural development.
Mr Bert Autor, spokesperson of SIKWAL-GMO (Bicol Initiative Against Golden Rice) and member of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Bikol (KMB) said that they do not want Golden Rice as it will pave the way towards more GMOs and tie more farmers to indebtedness.
We must protect our precious rice seed!
“More small farmers are into greater debt because of high costs of production and dependency on modern seeds and other production inputs”, said Autor.
"In a hectare, the average gross income of farmers in the Bicol River Basin is about P36,000. However, the cost of production reaches about P29,700 for the irrigation fee, fertilizer, pesticides and machineries, labor, seeds, land rent, etc.
“Now they are introducing this Golden Rice to us. We believe that this is again a ploy to further control our seeds and extract profit from farmers. We do not want Golden Rice in Bicol!”
In August 2013 more than 400 farmers and campaigners marched to the office of the Department of Agriculture’s Regional Office in Pili, Camarines Sur and uprooted the genetically modified Golden Rice.
According to the farmers, the direct action is justifiable to prevent #contamination of their precious traditional and farmer-bred varieties, and protect the health of the people and the environment.
Dernier numéro de #Belgeo :
Nick Schuermans
Geography textbooks and the reproduction of a racist and ethnocentric world view among young people in Flanders [Texte intégral]
#racisme #Flandres #ethnocentrisme
Handboeken aardrijkskunde en de reproductie van een racistisch en etnocentrisch wereldbeeld bij Vlaamse jongeren
Henri Nicolaï
Le #Congo et l’#huile_de_palme. Un siècle. Un cycle ? [Texte intégral]
The Congo and palm oil. A century. A cycle ?
Guillermo Ángel Velázquez et Juan Pablo Celemín
Quality of life in Argentina : The environmental dimension at a departmental scale [Texte intégral]
La #qualité_de_vie en #Argentine : dimension environnementale à l’échelle des départements
Catherine Guéguen
Les Coréens aux #Philippines, jeux d’échelles et #mobilités [Texte intégral]
Koreans in The Philippines, effects of scale and mobilities
Comptes rendus – Book review
Mathieu Strale
Geneviève Origer, Vingt ans de #politique_portuaire à #Bruxelles (1993-2012). I. Le contexte et les prémices [Texte intégral]
#port
Courrier hebdomadaire du CRiSP numéro 2177-2178
Philippe Bourdeau
Valentine van Gameren, Romain Weikmans et Edwin Zaccai, L’adaptation au #changement_climatique [Texte intégral]
Editions La Découverte, collection Repères, Paris, 2014, 123 p.
#climat
cc @reka
#Philippines to evacuate workers from #Libya after gang-rape, #beheading
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/phillipines-evacuate-workers-libya-after-gang-rape-beheading
The Philippines is to charter ferries to speed up the removal of 13,000 nationals from Libya, officials said Thursday a day after a Filipina nurse was abducted and gang-raped there. The foreign ministry on Thursday confirmed the sexual assault of the woman in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Wednesday. It occurred 10 days after discovery at a hospital in the port of Benghazi of the beheaded remains of a Filipino construction worker who had been abducted earlier. read more
Filipino worker beheaded in #Libya
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/filipino-worker-beheaded-libya
Suspected militiamen have beheaded a Philippine worker in Libya after singling him out because he was not a Muslim, the Philippine Foreign Department said Monday. Department spokesman Charles Jose said this reinforced the government’s order to all Filipinos to evacuate the country because of the worsening security situation. He told reporters the Filipino construction worker was kidnapped on July 15 and his beheaded remains were found in a hospital on July 20. read more
MERS virus kills Filipino paramedic in #UAE
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/mers-virus-kills-filipino-paramedic-uae
The United Arab Emirates announced Friday that one of six Filipino paramedics in the UAE who have been infected by the MERS coronavirus has died from the respiratory disease. The announcement comes just days after a 24-hour shutdown of the emergency department at a major hospital in Saudi Arabia, where most cases have been reported, amid fears of a spread of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome among medical staff. The UAE interior ministry said the six staff members worked at the Al-Ain Rescue and Ambulance Section in Abu Dhabi. read more
Philippine President Aquino compares China to Nazi Germany - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/06/phil-f06.html
On February 4, Philippine President Benigno Aquino, speaking in an exclusive interview in Malacañang presidential palace with New York Times Hong Kong bureau chief, Keith Bradsher, compared China and its role in Southeast Asia to that of Nazi Germany in the lead up to the Second World War.
Aquino likened the disputed portions of the South China Sea to the Sudetenland, annexed by Hitler in the lead up to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. He stated that “the Philippines faces demands to surrender territory piecemeal to a much stronger foreign power and needs more robust foreign support for the rule of international law if it is to resist.”
#philippines #chines #déclarations_imprudentes #point_goldwin
je redoute les concerts d’aide mais quand Ricky Ford m’a proposé de jouer-lire PP avec lui je n’ai pas refusé
en plus c’est dans une salle hors de proportion dont les murs sont saturés de souvenirs commerciaux
là, en même temps que l’annonce j’ai rassemblé des informations sur la situation aux Philippines ▻http://www.imagine3tigres.net/spip.php?article273 - et, certes, si on veut aider les Philippins il faudra penser aussi les aider à se débarrasser de leurs dynasties familiales
depuis trois ans nous travaillons sur ce texte, il a fait je ne sais pas combien d’improvisations et ce soir je ne sais pas exactement ce que nous ferons, encore moins comment ça va se passer
#Hayian #Philippines #PoésieJazz #RickyFord #polypropylène
L’insoumis de Manille, par Bernard Eisenschitz (mai 2013)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/05/EISENSCHITZ/49086
Dans les années 1970, la #dictature et le #cinéma de pure distraction font bon ménage aux #Philippines. Le réalisateur Lino Brocka va entreprendre de former un public plus critique, sur le plan artistique comme dans le champ politique. Grand projet, qui exige de combiner l’esprit de subversion et la connaissance des genres en vogue.
#2013/05 #Art #Ville #Culture #Répression
#Lebanon: Justice for Another Domestic Worker
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-justice-another-domestic-worker
An Ethiopian maid, right, chats with her Sri Lankan Neighbor, left, as they stand on balconies in Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007. (Photo: AP - Grace Kassab) An Ethiopian maid, right, chats with her Sri Lankan Neighbor, left, as they stand on balconies in Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007. (Photo: AP - Grace Kassab)
A judge in Lebanon’s #Keserwan, Dina Daaboul, issued a ruling in the case of Filipina domestic (...)
#Culture_&_Society #Articles #domestic_workers #Mount_Lebanon #Philippines
Cartographie de crise aux Philippines - Libération
▻http://ecrans.liberation.fr/ecrans/2013/11/14/cartographie-de-crise-aux-philippines_946920
OPENSTREETMAP
Plus de 700 internautes travaillent à dessiner une carte libre et détaillée des villes touchées par le typhon Haiyan, pour faciliter l’intervention de l’aide humanitaire.
Branle-bas de combat. Dès l’annonce de l’approche du typhon Haiyan aux Philippines, la semaine dernière, une mission d’urgence était lancée sur OpenStreetMap, ce grand projet collaboratif qui veut être à la cartographie ce que Wikipédia est à l’encyclopédie. Ses contributeurs les plus alertes savaient qu’en cas de dégâts, suite à la catastrophe naturelle, les îles auraient besoin de toute forme d’aide possible – humanitaire, économique… – mais aussi de cartes. Pour dresser un plan précis des lieux touchés et mieux organiser les secours, comme ils l’ont fait avec brio en Haïti en janvier 2010. En anglais, on appelle cela du crisis mapping : de la cartographie de crise. « L’objectif de la cartographie de crise est de rassembler les informations géographiques avant que l’aide internationale et locale n’arrive sur place, explique Stefan Mühlbauer sur son blog Geoawesomeness. Le temps est un facteur critique. »
Le plus puissant cyclone de l’histoire, le super-typhon Haiyan, dévaste les Philippines [vidéo] - notre-planete.info
▻http://www.notre-planete.info/actualites/3852-super-typhon-Haiyan-Philippines
Haiyan : le plus puissant cyclone de l’histoire contemporaine
Né dans les eaux chaudes du Pacifique le 3 novembre 2013, Haiyan était alors une modeste dépression tropicale avec des vents de 48 km/h. Deux jours plus tard, celle-ci devenait un typhon avec des vents de 120 km/h ; puis un super-typhon le 6 novembre pour finalement atteindre son paroxysme le 7 novembre. D’après l’agence météorologique japonaise et le centre américain inter-armes de prévisions des cyclones tropicaux, Haiyan se caractérisait alors par une pression en son centre proche de 870 hPa, des rafales de vent qui ont atteint 379 km/h, et une houle cyclonique de 10 m ! Haiyan était devenu un monstre, classé au plus haut niveau (5) sur l’échelle ouverte de Saffir-Simpson : un cyclone « catastrophique » qui ravage tout sur son passage, encore plus puissant que le terrible ouragan Katrina qui dévastait le Mississipi (Etats-Unis) en août 2005.
Typhon Haiyan : des « développeurs sans frontières » au secours des Philippines | Slate.fr
▻http://www.slate.fr/monde/79863/typhon-haiyan-developpeurs-sans-frontieres-secours-philippines
L’action humanitaire ne se déploie plus seulement sur le terrain : elle se construit aussi dans le réseau. Depuis vendredi, une poignée de développeurs travaille à des outils permettant de mieux gérer l’après-Haiyan. Du coding d’urgence.
L’Arabie saoudite va expulser plus d’un million d’immigrés illégaux - Arabie Saoudite - RFI
►http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20131103-arabie-saoudite-va-expulser-plus-million-immigres-illegaux
Plus d’un million de travailleurs étrangers vont être expulsés d’Arabie saoudite, le lundi 4 novembre. C’est à cette date qu’expire une amnistie royale (décrétée initialement en avril pour trois mois puis différée à quatre, pour permettre à quelque quatre millions d’immigrés illégaux de régulariser leur situation). Malgré des rumeurs persistantes dans la presse locale, les autorités saoudiennes ont décidé de ne pas la proroger malgré des requêtes émanant de pays asiatiques comme les Philippines ou le Pakistan.
#arabie_saoudite #migrations #expulsions #asie #pakistan #sri_lanka #philippines
La réforme du marché du travail en Arabie saoudite,
►http://orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entendu/reforme-du-marche-du-travail-en,0304