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Man can drop part of name denoting slave ancestry
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...y-tunisia-atig

Campaigners said the case brought by Hamden Dali would open the door for others who wanted to drop the word “atig”, or “liberated by”, which originally denoted a freed slave and forms part of the names of many Tunisian families.

Dali’s lawyer, Hanen Ben Hassena, said the association with slavery was an assault on human dignity and the man’s adult children had faced discrimination because of the family name, which had made it harder to get jobs.

Black Tunisians are descended from sub-Saharan Africans brought to Tunisia by slave traders. Activists say they face unequal job prospects and high levels of poverty and are often portrayed negatively in the media.

The president of the Tunisian anti-racism association Mnemty, which has campaigned for anyone with a slave name to be allowed to change it, welcomed the ruling. “Every person born in Tunisia is born free, so I don’t see why we keep that on paper,” said Saadia Mosbah. “In history books, OK, but not on our identity.”

Đổi tên mà cũng phải có ban hành đạo luật nữa. Ở ĐT muốn lấy tên mới dễ ẹc.

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At least 74 migrants drown in Mediterranean off Libyan coast, UN says

Rescue workers are still looking for survivors after a vessel carrying more than 120 migrants shipwrecked in the Mediterranean. The United Nations has recorded a recent uptick in departures from Libya since October.



At least 74 migrants have drowned after a boat shipwrecked off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday.

The IOM said reports indicated that the migrant vessel was carrying more than 120 people, including women and children. The coastguard and fishermen have brought 47 survivors to shore and 31 bodies have been retrieved.

This shipwreck is the latest in a series of recent tragedies involving migrants in the Mediterranean, the IOM said. The organization said there have been at least eight shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean since the beginning of October.

At least 900 people have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, according to the IOM. More than 11,000 others have been returned to war-torn Libya, where the UN says they face human rights violations, detention, abuse, trafficking and exploitation.

"The mounting loss of life in the Mediterranean is a manifestation of the inability of States to take decisive action to redeploy much needed, dedicated Search and Rescue capacity in the deadliest sea-crossing in the world," said Federico Soda, the head of the IOM mission in Libya.

In the years since the 2011 uprising that ousted and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya has emerged as a launching off points for migrants from African and the Middle East hoping to get to Europe from Africa and the Middle East.

Smugglers often pack desperate families onto shoddy rubber boats that often stall as in the Central Mediterranean, leaving the fate of the migrants to coastguard, fishermen and NGOs dedicated to migrant rescues.

At least 20,000 migrants have died in the Mediterranean since 2014, according to IOM figures.

dv/msh (AFP, dpa)

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Mars, Nestlé and Hershey to face child slavery lawsuit
https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...-lawsuit-in-us

Eight children who claim they were used as slave labour on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast have launched legal action against the world’s biggest chocolate companies. They accuse the corporations of aiding and abetting the illegal enslavement of “thousands” of children on cocoa farms in their supply chains.

Nestlé, Cargill, Barry Callebaut, Mars, Olam, Hershey and Mondelēz have been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in Washington DC by the human rights firm International Rights Advocates (IRA), on behalf of eight former child slaves who say they were forced to work without pay on cocoa plantations in the west African country.

The plaintiffs, all of whom are originally from Mali and are now young adults, are seeking damages for forced labour and further compensation for unjust enrichment, negligent supervision and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

It is the first time that a class action of this kind has been filed against the cocoa industry in a US court. Citing research by the US state department, the International Labour Organization and Unicef, among others, the court documents allege that the plaintiffs’ experience of child slavery is mirrored by that of thousands of other minors.

Ivory Coast produces about 45% of the global supply of cocoa, a core ingredient in chocolate. The production of cocoa in west Africa has long been linked to human rights abuses, structural poverty, low pay and child labour.

In the claim, all eight plaintiffs describe being recruited in Mali through trickery and deception, before being trafficked across the border to cocoa farms in Ivory Coast. There, they were forced to work – often for several years or more – with no pay, no travel documents and no clear idea of where they were or how to get back to their families.

The court papers allege that the plaintiffs, all of whom were under 16 years old at the time of their recruitment, worked on farms in major cocoa-producing areas of the country. The defendants’ apparent influence in these markets is described as “dominant” by the plaintiffs’ counsel.

The lawsuit claims one plaintiff wasonly 11 years old when a local man in his home town of Kouroussandougou, Mali, promised him work in Ivory Coast for 25,000 CFA francs (£34) a month. The legal documents allege that the boy worked for two years without ever being paid, often applying pesticides and herbicides without protective clothing.

The documents claim another child named as a plaintiff in the suit had visible cuts on his hands and arms from machete accidents. Speaking of his experience of forced labour between 2009 and 2011, he recalls being constantly bitten by insects. As with most of the plaintiffs, he claims in the lawsuit that he was promised payment after the harvest, but it never came.

Many of the plaintiffs quoted in the court documents report being fed little and working long hours. Often, they claim they were kept alone or isolated from other child workers, who spoke different dialects.

Don't eat chocolate.

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Don't eat chocolate.

Phải thêm là nếu có nguồn gốc từ: Nestlé, Cargill, Barry Callebaut, Mars, Olam, Hershey und Mondelēz.

Đặc biệt là Nestlé.

1. Cướp nước: "Nestlé Pure Life"
2. Phá rừng: „Give the orang-utan a break…“
3. Thử nghiệm: „Nestlé Skin Health“
4. Sữa bột: "Based on science"

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Yết hầu.

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Suez: More than 200 ships now waiting in canal as rescue operation stalls Access to the comments Comments
By AP • Updated: 26/03/2021 - 21:53


This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows the cargo ship MV Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt, Friday, March 26, 2021. - Copyright ©Maxar Technologies/AP

A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers and tugboats worked to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping.

One salvage expert said freeing the cargo ship, the Ever Given, could take up to a week in the best-case scenario and warned of possible structural problems on the vessel as it remains wedged.

The Ever Given, owned by the Japanese firm Shoei Kisen KK, got wedged Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the canal, about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) north of the southern entrance, near the city of Suez.

Dredgers have stopped removing sand around the bow of the vessel and tugboats were preparing another towing attempt, said Lt. Gen. Osama Rabei, head of the Suez Canal Authority, in a statement Friday night. There was no immediate word on whether they have managed to budge the skyscraper-sized vessel, and previous attempts with tugboats were unsuccessful.

A team from Boskalis, a Dutch firm specializing in salvaging, was working with the canal authority with tugboats and a specialized suction dredger at the port side of the cargo ship's bow. Egyptian authorities have prohibited media access to the site.

“It’s a complex technical operation” that will require several attempts to free the vessel, Rabei said in a statement.

Attempts earlier Friday to free it failed, said Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, the technical manager of the Ever Given.

The Suez Canal Authority said it welcomed international assistance. The White House said it has offered to help Egypt reopen the canal. “We are consulting with our Egyptian partners about how we can best support their efforts,” press secretary Jen Psaki said.

An initial investigation showed the vessel ran aground due to strong winds and ruled out mechanical or engine failure, the company said. GAC, a global shipping and logistics company, had previously said the ship had experienced a power blackout, but it did not elaborate.

Bernhard Schulte said two canal pilots had been aboard when the ship got stuck. Such an arrangement is customary, but the ship’s captain retains ultimate authority over the vessel, according to experts.

In addition to the over 200 vessels waiting near the canal, more than 100 ships were en route to the waterway, according to the data firm Refinitiv.

Diversions around Africa

Apparently anticipating long delays, the owners of the stuck vessel diverted a sister ship, the Ever Greet, to head around Africa instead, according to satellite data.

Others also are being diverted. The liquid natural gas carrier Pan Americas changed course in the mid-Atlantic, now aiming south to go around the southern tip of Africa, according to satellite data from MarineTraffic.com.

About 10% of world trade flows through the canal, which is particularly crucial for transporting oil. The closure also could affect oil and gas shipments to Europe from the Middle East.

Oil markets are absorbing the disruption for now, said analyst Toril Bosoni.

“Oil inventories have been coming down but they are still relatively ample,” he told The Associated Press, adding that he believes the impact might be more pronounced in the tanker sector than in the oil industry.


Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway is seen Friday, March 26, 2021.Mohamed Elshahed/Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

"We are not losing any oil supply but it will tie up tankers for longer if they have to go around” the tip of Africa, he said, which is roughly an additional two-week trip.

At the White House, Psaki added that the U.S. does see "some potential impacts on energy markets from the role of the Suez Canal as a key bidirectional transit route for oil. ... We’re going to continue to monitor market conditions and we’ll respond appropriately if necessary, but it is something we’re watching closely.”

Freeing the Ever Given is “quite a challenge” and could take five days to a week, .Capt. Nick Sloane, a maritime salvage expert who led the high-profile effort to salvage the cruise ship Costa Concordia in 2012 told the AP.

The Ever Given’s location, size and large amount of cargo make the operation more complex, Sloane said. The operation should focus initially on dredging the bank and sea floor around it to get it floating again, rather than unloading its cargo, which could take weeks.

That’s because the clock is also ticking structurally for the vessel, he added.

“The longer it takes, the worse the condition of the ship will become, because she’s slowly sagging,” said Sloane, vice president of the International Salvage Union. “So ships are designed to flex, but not to be kept at that position with a full load of cargo for weeks at a time. So it’s not an easy situation.”

International companies are preparing for the effect that the canal’s blockage will have on supply chains that rely on precise deliveries of goods. Singapore’s Minister of Transport Ong Ye Kung said the country’s port should expect disruptions.

“Should that happen, some drawdown on inventories will become necessary,” he said on Facebook.

The backlog of vessels could stress European ports and the international supply of containers, already strained by the coronavirus pandemic, according to IHS Markit, a business research group. It said 49 container ships were scheduled to pass through the canal in the week since the Ever Given became lodged.

The delay could also result in huge insurance claims by companies, according to Marcus Baker, global head of Marine & Cargo at the insurance broker Marsh, with a ship like the Ever Given usually covered at between $100 million to $200 million.

Those trying to free the vessel want to avoid complications that could extend the canal closure, according to an Egyptian official at the canal authority. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to journalists.

Satellite and photos distributed by the canal authority show Ever Given’s bow touching the eastern wall, while its stern appeared lodged against the western wall.

The Ever Given was involved in an accident in northern Germany in 2019, when it ran into a small ferry moored on the Elbe River in Hamburg. No passengers were on the ferry at the time and there were no injuries, but it was seriously damaged.

Hamburg prosecutors opened an investigation of the Ever Given’s captain and pilot on suspicion of endangering shipping traffic, but shelved it in 2020 for lack of evidence, spokeswoman Liddy Oechtering told The Associated Press.

Oechtering also could not say what the investigation had determined the cause of the crash was, but officials at the time suggested that strong winds may have blown the slow moving cargo ship into the ferry.

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Tàu này của Nhật, do Đài loan thuê, bây giờ gây nhiễu nhương cho thế giới thì dân châu Á ở Mỹ sẽ bị đổ thừa nữa. Trâm chắc gọi vụ này là "Chop Suez" theo kiểu gọi dịch cúm là "Kung Flu" hồi trước.

Một con tàu đau, cả Tàu, Hàn, Nhật, Việt bỏ xừ.

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Thuận buồm Suez gió:

Ever Given container ship freed after a week
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...lvage-tugboats

Salvage teams on Monday succeeded in freeing a massive container ship that had blocked the Suez canal for the past seven days, clogging up one of the world’s key trade arteries.

A strong noon tide helped a fleet of tugboats finally wrench free the 220,000-tonne Ever Given and haul it towards a lake between the north and south end of the canal, where the ship could undergo technical inspection, canal authorities said.

“Admiral Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), has announced the resumption of shipping traffic in the Suez Canal,” the SCA said in a statement.

Television footage showed tugboat crews sounding their foghorns in celebration after the Ever Given, a cargo megaship the length of four football fields, was dislodged from the banks of the Suez.

He said 30,000 cubic metres of sand had been dredged to help free the vessel, which had been pulled free using 13 tugboats.

Satellite data from MarineTraffic.com confirmed the ship was moving away from the shoreline towards the centre of the canal.

The obstruction has created a massive traffic jam in the vital passage, costing global trade between $6-10bn per day according to one estimate and straining supply chains already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic.

It remained unclear when traffic through the canal would return to normal. At least 367 vessels, carrying a vast range of items from crude oil to cattle, have piled up on either end of the canal, waiting to pass.

Footage posted online a short time later showed the vessel moving smoothly through the canal with the assistance of tugboats, a marked contrast to the diagonally wedged ship whose predicament has raised oil and freight prices and may cause delays at ports around the world.

Dredgers, excavators and tugboats had worked throughout the weekend fighting changing wind and tides to dislodge thousands of cubic metres of dense clay caked around the 400-metre-long ship, managing in the early hours of Monday to rotate the vessel and free its stern side.

The financial data firm Refinitiv said on Monday the accident was costing the state-owned Suez Canal Authority about $16m a day in lost revenues.

Suez một dải nông sờ
Bên trông đầu nọ, bên chờ cuối kia

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Tàu này của Nhật, do Đài loan thuê, bây giờ gây nhiễu nhương cho thế giới thì dân châu Á ở Mỹ sẽ bị đổ thừa nữa. Trâm chắc gọi vụ này là "Chop Suez" theo kiểu gọi dịch cúm là "Kung Flu" hồi trước.

Một con tàu đau, cả Tàu, Hàn, Nhật, Việt bỏ xừ.

Kêu là Xú uế cũng được. Ai cập hốt từ cái kinh này khẩm địa từ hồi nào tới giờ. Lâu lâu vắt ngang một phát thắt yết hầu cho vui mà.

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Cũng có thể vụ này do CIA dàn cảnh để đột nhập lên tàu chở hàng, gắn thêm mật mã vô máy đếm phiếu bầu cử sẽ được dùng trong mấy kỳ bầu cử năm nay ở châu Âu (Hà lan, Đức...). Hồi mấy tháng trước lính Mỹ cũng rớt trực thăng ở Ai cập trong khi đánh nhau với CIA để giành lại máy chủ. Chắc chắn là vậy rồi, khỏi cần bằng chứng mất công đọc mệt.

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Cũng có thể vụ này do CIA dàn cảnh để đột nhập lên tàu chở hàng, gắn thêm mật mã vô máy đếm phiếu bầu cử sẽ được dùng trong mấy kỳ bầu cử năm nay ở châu Âu (Hà lan, Đức...). Hồi mấy tháng trước lính Mỹ cũng rớt trực thăng ở Ai cập trong khi đánh nhau với CIA để giành lại máy chủ. Chắc chắn là vậy rồi, khỏi cần bằng chứng mất công đọc mệt.

Thiệt tình!...
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