A CANDLE HAS BEEN LIT IN
REMEMBRANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA
AS IMMIGRANT-FAMILY DETENTION CENTER
SHUT DOWN, ALLEGED NEWS
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
TEXAS IS TRYING TO CLASSIFY IMMIGRANT DETENTION CENTERS AS CHILD-CARE FACILITIES; ALLEGED NEWS
IN AUGUST 2015 LUMIERE REFLECTED THE NEWS THAT JUDGE DOLLY GEE SAID DETAINED IMMIGRANT WOMEN, CHILDREN WHO WERE DETAINED AFTER CROSSING THE US-MEXICO BORDERS SHOULD BE RELEASED BECAUSE THEIR DETENTION VIOLATED A 1997 COURT SETTLEMENT THAT PROHIBITS MINORS FROM BEING HELD IN UNLICENSED, SECURE FACILITIES; ALLEGED NEWS. [1]
Reclassification
Texas is trying to classify Immigrant Detention Centers as Child-Care Facilities; Alleged News. [2]
A new rule submitted to the State's Health and Human Services Commission would create a new category of child-care license that would keep family detention centers open in Karnes City and Dilley that house migrant women and children caught crossing the Mexican border; Alleged News.
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
In February 2016 it was reported that the rule has been in the works since September, as the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services dealt with a decision from federal Judge Dolly Gee that came down in July of last year; Alleged News.
Judge Gee ruled that the country's three detention centers release the children they were holding in 'deplorable conditions' that 'failed to meet even the minimum standard' for a safe and clean environment for children; Alleged News. [2]
Subpar Conditions
Judge Gee wrote that the subpar conditions violated 1997's Flore v. Meese settlement agreement, a class action suit that set standards for how unaccompanied migrant children stopped at the border should be treated, namely, that they must be held in licensed facilities; Alleged News.
Judge Gee's decision applied that standard to children apprehended with their parents, too; Alleged News.
At the time, there were about 1,400 children and parents in the country's then three detention centers; Alleged News. [2]
Since that time, Pennsylvania shut down its Immigrant-Family Detention Center, Alleged News. [3]
What Are The Children Fleeing From?
Drugs and Gangs. In 2014, it was reported that Anthony O. Castellanos disappeared from his gang-ridden neighbourhood in Honduras; his younger brother Kenneth got on his bicycle to search for him; Alleged News.
They were found within days of each other, dead; Alleged News.
Anthony, 13, and a friend, had been shot in the head; Kenneth, 7, had been tortured and beaten with sticks and rocks, Alleged News.
These young innocents were among seven children murdered in the La Pradera neighbourhood of San Pedro Sula in April 2014 alone; part of a wave of gang violence that is claiming younger victims; Alleged News.
The killings are a great factor inspiring the migration of Central American children to the United States, which has sent an unprecedented number of unaccompanied minors across the Texas border; alleged News. [4]
How the Children Flee
In December 2014 and August 2015, Lumiere wrote of the dreadful plight of Little Innocents.
Stories of the torture and massacre of children abound.
One of immense pathos is that of a young girl resisting being robbed, was clubbed over the head and dragged off by two men who cut a hole in her throat, stuffed her panties in it, and left her body in a ravine; Alleged News. [5] and [6]
In Honduras, a young boy was gang raped after refusing to join a local drug gang; Alleged News. [5]
Further documented stories can be found at this link;
http://ignatiansolidarity.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Unaccompanied_Children_Real_Stories_of_Central_American_Children__Families.pdf
US Southwest Border
An 11 year old Guatemalan boy was allegedly found dead in the brush a mile from the Mexican border. This little lad was found with no shirt, only a white rosary. [7]
This child, and others, represent the horrendous massacre of the Holy Innocents that is taking place in our own age.
What mute suffering have these children gone through, mewling for help that never ever came.
THE LUMINOUS 38th VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM 1965 TO 1969, HUBERT HUMPHREY JR, WROTE;
'IT WAS ONCE SAID THAT THE MORAL TEST OF A GOVERNMENT IS HOW THAT GOVERNMENT TREATS THOSE THAT ARE IN THE DAWN OF LIFE, THE CHILDREN; THOSE WHO IN THE TWILIGHT OF LIFE, THE ELDERLY; AND THOSE THAT ARE IN THE SHADOWS OF LIFE, THE SICK, THE NEEDY, THE HANDICAPPED.' [8]
IN THE SPIRIT OF LUMIERE, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN DO TO HELP?
[1] Breaking News; Judge says Detained Immigrant Women, Children Should Be Released; Alleged News
http://lumierecharity.blogspot.ie/2015/08/breaking-news-judge-says-detained.html
[2] Texas is trying to Classify Immigrant Detention Centers as Child-Care Facilities; Alleged News
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/02/11/texas_is_trying_to_classify_immigrant_detention_centers_as_child_care_facilities.html
[3] Pennsylvania Shuts Down Immigrant-Family Detention Center; Alleged News
http://articles.philly.com/2016-01-31/news/70203856_1_family-detention-undocumented-immigrants-facility
[4] Fleeing Gangs, Children Head to U.S. Border; Alleged News
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/world/americas/fleeing-gangs-children-head-to-us-border.html?_r=0
[5] Real Stories of Central American Children & Families, Alleged News.
http://ignatiansolidarity.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Unaccompanied_Children_Real_Stories_of_Central_American_Children__Families.pdf
[6] The Unwelcome [and Unacknowledged] Refugees Closer to Home; Alleged News
http://www.latinorebels.com/2015/12/10/the-unwelcome-and-unacknowledged-refugees-closer-to-home/
[7] US Southwest Border - Dreadful Plight of the Little Innocents, Alleged News
http://lumierecharity.blogspot.ie/2014/12/children-facing-deportation-us.html
[8] Hubert Humphrey, Alleged News
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey
With thanks to slate.com, philly.com, nytimes.com, ignatiansolidarity.net and latinorebels.com
Monday, March 28, 2016
SHACKLING IN INDONESIA, ALLEGED NEWS. WHY NOT JOIN THE CAMPAIGN?
LUMIERE HAS RECEIVED REPORT THAT PEOPLE WITH PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES [MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS] IN INDONESIA ARE SHACKLED OR PLACED INTO INSTITUTIONS; ALLEGED NEWS.
In the Institutions they often face physical and sexual violence, involuntary treatment including electroshock therapy, seclusion, restraint and forced contraception; Alleged News.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch examined how people with psychosocial difficulties often end up chained or locked up in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions, without their consent, due to stigma and the absence of adequate community-based support services, including mental health care; Alleged News. [1]
1977 Ban on Shackling
Despite a 1977 Ban on Shackling - known as pasung - in Indonesia, the practice continues; Alleged News.
More than 18,000 Indonesians with perceived psychosocial disabilites [mental health conditions] are tied down by chains - to beds, cement blocks and or in animal pens - and lack access to mental health care; Alleged News.
They are confined, sometimes for decades. [2]
Human Rights Watch is urging the Ministry of Health to provide mental health medication in local health centers and support services for all who seek them; Alleged News. [2]
Why not join the campaign, and tweet and email the Indonesian Health Minister at the following link -
https://www.hrw.org/breakthechains
See the video at
https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/video/2016/03/20/indonesia-end-shackling-people-disabilities
[1] Indonesia; End the Shackling of People with Disabilities; Alleged News
https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/video/2016/03/20/indonesia-end-shackling-people-disabilities
[2] #BreakTheChains : End Shackling in Indonesia; Alleged News
https://www.hrw.org/breakthechains
'Living in Hell': 18,800 Indonesians shackled for mental health conditions; Alleged News
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/12199886/Living-in-hell-18800-Indonesians-shackled-for-mental-health-conditions.html
With thanks to hrw.org and telegraph.co.uk
FOX NEWS REPORTING "SEE NO EVIL" - THE CASE OF KERMIT GOSNELL; ALLEGED NEWS
FOX NEWS REPORTING "SEE NO EVIL" - THE CASE OF KERMIT GOSNELL; ALLEGED NEWS.
WARNING; NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=kermit+gosnell+documentary+&view=detail&mid=DFA93E506861217BED50DFA93E506861217BED50&FORM=VIRE3
With thanks to Bing.com and FoxNews
OVERTURNING ROE V WADE. WHY NOT SIGN THE PETITION?
THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD VIDEOS SHOWED THE TRUE HORROR OF ABORTION.
Why not join Care Net in standing up for the unborn by signing the petition, 'I Support Overturning Roe v Wade.'
ABORTION IS MURDER.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ABORTION TO STOP!
SUPPORT OVERTURNING ROE V WADE!
Sign the Petition at
With thanks to care-net.org. Image courtesy of care-net.org
PETITION HANDED IN TO WORLD BANK GLOBAL HQ, WASHINGTON D.C., ASKING FOR LOANS TO BE SUSPENDED TO THE UZBEK GOVERNMENT; ALLEGED NEWS
ON 9th MARCH 2015 WALKFREE.ORG - ALONGSIDE THE COTTON CAMPAIGN TEAM, ILRF AND ANTI-SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL - HANDED IN PETITION WITH 136 109 NAMES TO THE WORLD BANK GLOBAL HQ, ALLEGED NEWS.
The Petition is a Call on the World Bank to suspend loans to the Uzbek Government.
Although the World Bank formally condemned the use of forced labour upon receipt of the petition, it has yet to suspend its loans to Uzbekistan, Alleged News.
The fate of Elena Urlaeva was to be drugged, beaten and detained by police when she documented state-sponsored slavery in the cotton-fields of Uzbekistan, Alleged News.
In Uzbekistan, the whole country suffers because of the government's dependence on revenue from the cotton harvest, Alleged News.
The government operates the world's largest state-run system of forced labor where activists such as Elena are repressed, pensioners are required to pick cotton or submit 50% of their pension, and education and health care are affected for two months annually due to the mass mobilisation of teachers and doctors, Alleged News.
The World Bank is funding projects totalling $500 million in Uzbekistan that are documented to be using forced labour, Alleged News. [1]
The World Bank has signed a contract agreeing to suspend loans if evidence of forced labour was uncovered, Alleged News.
Walkfree.org needs our help to hold them to their promise. Why not sign the Petition?
https://www.walkfree.org/uzbek-slavery/
SEE THE VIDEO
Ordered into the Fields
Hundreds of thousands of students in Uzbekistan are pulled from their classrooms every Fall and ordered into the fields to pick cotton for little or no pay, Alleged News. [2]
A mother was recorded on video saying that if she didn't send her child to pick cotton, she faced a fine equivalent of two weeks pay, Alleged News. [2]
Rights groups say students are threatened with losing their seat in the classroom, Alleged News. [2]
Government and private sector employees are also forced to join the harvest and meet quotas knowing that if they don't, they face losing their jobs; Alleged News.[2]
Detained
In September 2015, two human rights activists were detained as they documented forced labor in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan, Alleged News.[3]
Dmitry Tikhonov was detained as he was documenting people being sent to the cotton fields; Alleged News. [3]
Elena Urlaeva and her companions, including her young son,were detained while Urlaeva documented people picking cotton; Alleged News. [3]
UN Human Rights Committee
In July 2015, the UN Human Rights Committeee reviewed Uzbekistan, Alleged News.
Among the issues discussed by the Committee's experts, serious concerns were raised regarding the use of forced labor in the Uzbek cotton industry, Alleged News.
Uzbekistan is one of the world's largest cotton exporters, Alleged News. [4]
Who buys Uzbekistan's cotton?
Europe buys almost a third of Uzbekistan's cotton, Alleged News. [5]
[1] Suspend loans tainted by Uzbek Forced Labour, Alleged News
https://www.walkfree.org/uzbek-slavery/
[2] Cotton exporters using child labor, Alleged News
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/21/cotton-exporters-using-child-labor/
[3] Activists beaten, detained for documenting forced labor in cotton fields; Alleged News
https://www.ifex.org/uzbekistan/2015/09/24/forced_labour/
[4] Forced labor in cotton industry in Uzbekistan, Alleged News
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+on+uzbekistan+forced+cotton+picking&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=6A33896BA68A59756AA76A33896BA68A59756AA7
[5] The cost of cotton; Funding exploitation, Alleged News
https://peopleandplanet.org/redressfashion/briefing/uzbekistan
Cotton slavery in Uzbekistan, Alleged News
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+on+uzbekistan+forced+cotton+picking&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=D4713719F3BD12B07AB0D4713719F3BD12B07AB0
With thanks to walkfree.org, thecnnfreedomproject. blogs, ifex. org, peopleandplanet.org and youtube
Saturday, March 26, 2016
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL LUMIERE CHARITY READERS
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL LUMIERE CHARITY READERS.
LET US CONTINUE TO JOIN HANDS AND
TOGETHER MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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LUMIERE CHARITY BLOGS.
LET US, UNITED, BRING
PEACE, JOY AND JUSTICE
TO A HURTING WORLD
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