2024 World Press Photo global winners

Mohammed Salem World Press Photo of the Year

A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece
Mohammed Salem, Palestine, Reuters

Introducing the 2024 World Press Photo Contest global winners

Congratsssssssssssss Mohammed Salem and All !!!!!

World Press Photo

Protect the FGM Ban, Protect the Girls!

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Protect the FGM Ban, Protect the Girls!

Avaaz


Girls in The Gambia as young as four months old are blindfolded, pinned down, and forced to have their genitals cut off — and soon this horror could be completely legal.
Gambian politicians want to reverse the country’s ban on female genital mutilation.
FGM survivors are trying to save the ban and protect the girls who haven’t been cut yet.
Those brave women are asking us to join the fight with a massive global outcry.
We have less than 90 days to act, so sign now and Avaaz will work with Gambian groups to bring our voices to the decision-makers!

Urgent Action Needed: Iranian Regime Executes Seven, Including Young Woman Arrested at 16 - NCRI

Urgent Action Needed: Iranian Regime Executes Seven, Including Young Woman Arrested at 16

© Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

Probable Child Offender and Child Bride Marjan Hajizadeh and Esmail Hassaniani Executed for Drug Charges

© Iran Human Rights

pouting ♥♥

 

Kíkí is blind since 4 months ago ...
there is no treatment ... she is a 22 years old Lady ...
at first it was not easy 4 us at all
but now Kíkí is adapting to her new life ...
still not me, i'm not able to take her photos,
i believe it's treason ...

don’t pout, Kíkí,
I care guide & i Love you ♥♥

titi lu

this photo was taken last year when Kíkí could see ...

USA » April/June 2024 - Scheduled executions

April - June 2024

April

4 - Michael Smith - murdered by Oklahoma 

Oklahoma executes Michael Dewayne Smith, convicted of killing 2 people in 2002
© CBS News

Oklahoma death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith denied execution stay
© The Oklahoman » pub. March 26

9 - Brian Dorsey -  murdered by Missouri  

Missouri executes Brian Dorsey
© CNN

Missouri governor denies clemency to man facing execution
© Kansas City Star » pub. April 8

Missouri Supreme Court declines to halt execution of man who killed couple in 2006
© CBS News » pub. March 21


May

30 - Jamie Mills - Alabama *

June

6 - Wade Lay - Oklahoma *

11 - David Hosier - Missouri *

26 - Ramiro Gonzales - Texas *


as of April 9

* serious dates    

for scheduled executions, check ►
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Take Action for All at ► Catholic Mobilizing Network
& Execution Petitions – Death Penalty Action

Recent State Killings & stays ►

January - March 2024

Kill Death Penalty NOW !!!!!   

Watch Live: 2024 total solar eclipse passes peak totality

AP Photo/Eric Gay
Texas, April 8, 2024

Watch Live: 2024 total solar eclipse passes peak totality

© CBS News

Centuries of Indigenous Knowledge Found Along the Path of the Total Solar Eclipse

Centuries of Indigenous Knowledge Found Along the Path of the Total Solar Eclipse

© Native News Online 

total Solar Eclipse » monday, April 8

SIGN: END VIETNAM’S CRUEL DOG AND CAT MEAT TRADE

SIGN: END VIETNAM’S CRUEL DOG AND CAT MEAT TRADE

By Lady Freethinker

A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece by Mohammed Salem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by Mohammed Salem
Palestine, Reuters

A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece
© World Press Photo

2024 Contest regional winners announced | World Press Photo

Mohammed Salem (26) is a Palestinian photojournalist based in the Gaza Strip.

Mohammed Salem Profile | The Wider Image | Reuters

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March 2024 Report: Exposing Iran's Crimes Against Humanity

March 2024 Report: Exposing Iran's Crimes Against Humanity

© NCRI Women Committee

Uganda court upholds anti-homosexuality death penalty bill

Uganda court upholds anti-homosexuality death penalty bill

© PinkNews

On Paul Verlaine ♥ Birthday

Paul Verlaine by Léopold Poiré,
before 1896

♥♥♥


Il pleure dans mon cœur

Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville;
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur?

Ô bruit doux de la pluie
Par terre et sur les toits!
Pour un cœur qui s’ennuie
Ô le bruit de la pluie!

Il pleure sans raison
Dans ce cœur qui s’écœure.
Quoi! nulle trahison? …
Ce deuil est sans raison.

C’est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine,
Mon cœur a tant de peine.

- Paul Verlaine -

March 30, 1844 - January 8, 1896


Il pleure dans mon cœur | Song Texts, Lyrics &… | Oxford Song
» english translation

Paul Verlaine | Poetry Foundation

Paul Verlaine - Poems by the Famous Poet
© All Poetry

Paul Verlaine ! Wikipedia

Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

© The Guardian

Beaten, tortured and buried alive: What happened to the woman on the Israeli truck

Beaten, tortured and buried alive: What happened to the woman on the Israeli truck
by Maha Hussaini in Gaza, occupied Palestine

© Middle East Eye

Saudi Arabia to chair UN forum on women’s rights and gender equality

Saudi Arabia to chair UN forum on women’s rights and gender equality

© CNN

what is this, UN ???

Assange extradition delayed

Assange Extradition Delayed: British MP Jeremy Corbyn on U.K. Court Seeking More Assurances from U.S.

© Democracy Now!

Grave 'Threat to Journalists' Remains as UK Court Delays Assange Extradition Ruling

© Common Dreams

Free Assange !!!

♥ springmi ♥

 

♥ springmi mummiiiiiiiii ♥

you know, Flora my ♥,
we are not able to see the little flowers anymore ...
spring has arrived & everything is dark ...
do you see flowers there
& show us the colors and smells ???

♥ Love uuuuu Forever ♥
ronrons from Kíkí
mum lulu

4 Flora book
drawing with seeds collage

USA » Jan/March 2024 - Scheduled executions

January - March 2024 

March 

20 - Willie Pye - murdered by Georgia 

Georgia executes Willie Pye
© CNN

Clemency for Willie James Pye denied, execution scheduled for Wednesday
© FOX 5 Atlanta » pub. March 19

Georgia Sets March 20 Execution Date for Willie Pye Despite Strong Evidence of Intellectual Disability and Previous Finding of Ineffective Representation by Attorney with History of Racial Bias
© Death Penalty Information Center » pub. March 7

 

as of March 20

* serious dates    

for scheduled executions, check ►
Rick Halperin page, thanks !!!!!

Take Action for All at ► Catholic Mobilizing Network
& Execution Petitions – Death Penalty Action

Recent State Killings & stay ►

February

28 - Ivan Cantu - murdered by Texas

Texas executes Ivan Cantu
© The Texas Tribune

28 - Thomas Creech - Idaho * - botched - called off

Idaho delays execution of serial killer Thomas Creech after failed lethal injection attempts
© CBS News » pub. Feb. 28

 

January

25 - Kenneth Smith - Alabama - murdered by USA

Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith executed with nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of capital punishment
© CNN

 

Recent State Killings & stays ►

October - December 2023

Kill Death Penalty NOW !!!!!   

& it's Ramadan ...

Stop the Slaughter !!!!

Free Gaza !!!! Free Palestine !!!!

Shame on my country !!!!

as we celebrate 50 years of our Carnation Revolution,
the far right rises & the right wins the elections ...

Shame on my people, shame Portugal !!!!

luisa

Portugal’s center-right coalition claims slim election win as radical right surges
© CNN

Women's Day 2024

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

- Maya Angelou -

For women in Gaza, every day is a desperate struggle to meet their most basic needs

© Middle East Eye

Afghan women stage rare protests, braving Taliban reprisals

© Al Jazeera

Women Executed in Iran in 2023

© Iran Human Rights

International Women’s Day 2024 around the world – in pictures

© The Guardian

Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran - 2023

Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran - 2023

© Iran Human Rights

Iran hanged at least 834 people in 2023,
the second-highest number of executions in two decades.