World Para Swimming Championships: Malaysia stripped of hosting 2019 event

Malaysia has been stripped of hosting the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships for refusing to let Israelis compete, says the International Paralympic Committee.

Malaysia, which is a majority Muslim country, banned the athletes because of what Kuala Lumpur sees as Israel’s poor treatment of Palestinians.

World Para Swimming Championships: Malaysia stripped of hosting 2019 event – BBC Sport

Whatever one’s issues with a particular country are, it is guaranteed that is not the athletes competing in  international events that re causing the issues.

Can we please, as a species, keep politics out of sports? Please?!

UN envoy: Prosecute Myanmar army chief for Rohingya ‘genocide’

Myanmar’s army chief should be prosecuted for “genocide” against the Rohingya, a United Nations’ human rights investigator has said.

Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, added that holding the perpetrators to account for their crimes was necessary before the refugees who fled the country could return.

Prosecute Myanmar army chief for Rohingya ‘genocide’: UN envoy | Myanmar News | Al Jazeera

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Donald Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees

In essence, the administration has now decided that Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the country before the establishment of diplomatic ties between the United States and Vietnam are subject to standard immigration law—meaning they are all eligible for deportation.

…Many pre-1995 arrivals, all of whom were previously protected under the 2008 agreement by both the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, were refugees from the Vietnam War. Some are the children of those who once allied with American and South Vietnamese forces, an attribute that renders them undesirable to the current regime in Hanoi, which imputes anti-regime beliefs to the children of those who opposed North Vietnam. This anti-Communist constituency includes minorities such as the children of the American-allied Montagnards, who are persecuted in Vietnam for both their ethnicity and Christian religion.

…“Forty-three years ago, a lot of the Southeast Asian communities and Vietnamese communities fled their countries and their homeland due to the war, which the U.S. was involved in, fleeing for their safety and the safety of their families,” said Kevin Lam, the organizing director of the Asian American Resource Workshop, an advocacy group. “The U.S. would do well to remember that.”

Donald Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees – The Atlantic

WTF?! Unamerican son-of-a-festering-putrid-asshat

 

Oldest known cave painting of animal found in Borneo, Indonesia, bolstering new theory on human ancestors

The sketch is at least 40,000 years old, slightly older than similar animal paintings found in famous caves in France and Spain. Until a few years ago, experts believed Europe was where our ancestors started drawing animals and other figures.

But the age of the drawing reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, along with previous discoveries in Southeast Asia, suggest that figurative drawing appeared in both continents about the same time.

…After large animal drawings and stencils, “It seems the focus shifted to showing the human world,” Aubert said.

Around 14,000 years ago, the cave-dwellers began to regularly sketch human figures doing things like dancing and hunting, often wearing large headdresses. A similar transition in rock art subjects happened in the caves of Europe.

…Whether new waves of people migrating from Africa brought the skills of figurative cave painting with them, or whether these arts emerged later, remains unclear. Scientists have only a partial record of global rock art. The earliest cave etchings have been found in Africa and include abstract designs, like crosshatches, dating to around 73,000 years ago.

Oldest known cave painting of animal found in Borneo, Indonesia, bolstering new theory on human ancestors – CBS News

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Sabarimala: Mobs attack women near India Hindu temple

Crowds of agitated protesters in Kerala attacked female devotees, many of whom turned back as a result.

Several people including an old woman were injured as crowds threw stones at vehicles and attacked police officers.

…But while most Hindu temples allow women to enter as long as they are not menstruating, the Sabarimala temple was unusual in that it was one of the few that do not allow women in a broad age group to enter at all.

This was overturned by the Supreme Court last month, with judges observing that “the right to practice religion is available to both men and women”.

Sabarimala: Mobs attack women near India Hindu temple – BBC News

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Women Are Not ‘Chattel,’ Says India’s Supreme Court In Striking Down Adultery Law

India’s Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law that made adultery illegal, calling it arbitrary and saying it is unconstitutional because it “treats a husband as the master.”

…Noting that the law is singular in the penal code for treating men and women differently, Chief Justice Dipak Misra said, “The adultery law is arbitrary, and it offends the dignity of a woman.”

He said adultery is grounds for divorce, but not jail time.

…Earlier this month, the court struck down a long-standing ban on gay sex. Last year, the justices outlawed the summary “triple talaq” divorce for Muslim men, and in a country with more child brides than anywhere in the world, the high court ruled that sex with an underage wife constitutes rape.

…The ruling to decriminalize adultery had been strongly opposed by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose center-right coalition is led by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP. Modi advocated amending the law to make it gender-neutral, while maintaining adultery as a criminal offense.

Women Are Not ‘Chattel,’ Says India’s Supreme Court In Striking Down Adultery Law : NPR

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