Torture the maduro government?

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Electric shocks and sexual violence: UN High Commissioner Bachelet blames secret service in Venezuela for cruel abuses. During her visit to the troubled country, she also spoke with Catholic representatives.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has blamed the Maduro government in Venezuela for torture, disappearances and killings of opposition figures.

The crimes must be thoroughly investigated and the perpetrators held accountable, Bachelet demanded Friday before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. "Excessive and lethal force has been used repeatedly against demonstrators," the UN High Commissioner stressed.

"Torture and Reprisals

She presented a report to the 47-country UN body on human rights violations in the South American crisis country, where the regime of socialist President Nicolas Maduro clings to power. The Maduro government's deputy foreign minister, William Castillo, acknowledged "problems" in Venezuela during the debate. However, he accused the U.S. of being responsible for a "multi-layered aggression" against his country aimed at "regime change".

UN High Commissioner called on Maduro government to stop serious violations of economic, social, civil, political and cultural rights. She also demanded the release of all political prisoners. Many detainees have complained of torture and reprisals, as well as degrading and inhumane treatment, the report said.

She mentioned electric shocks, simulating suffocation with plastic bags, beatings, sexual violence, forced postures and the denial of water and food. For torture, the report blames mainly the intelligence services. State-backed armed gangs, known as colectivos, would have been involved in the process. According to the opposition, there are currently more than 700 political prisoners in Venezuela.

Talks with politicians, NGOs and church

Former Chilean President Bachelet had visited Venezuela in late June and met with President Maduro there. It also consults with opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has declared himself interim president, representatives of the Catholic Church and human rights organizations, and relatives of political prisoners. Its report was based on 558 interviews with victims and witnesses of torture and human rights abuses, it said.

The UN High Commissioner also drew attention to the more than four million Venezuelan refugees who have left their country.

If the situation does not improve, the exodus of people will continue, she said. According to its report, President Maduro has been trying to "neutralize, repress and criminalize the opposition" since 2016. In order to intimidate and oppress critics, especially citizens who had peacefully demanded their rights at demonstrations, were put in pre-trial detention.

A bitter power struggle between Maduro and the bourgeois opposition has been raging for months in Venezuela. Self-appointed interim President Guaido is now recognized as head of state by more than 50 countries, including the U.S. and Germany. On Maduro's side are countries like Cuba, Russia and Turkey. The majority of the military supports Maduro and is his biggest power factor.

Seeded number halved in western manners in 40 years

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection in which a single sperm cell is injected into an egg cell. Image: EKEM / Common-free

The reproductive research must urgently strengthen, such an appeal in the British Medical Journal. But why actually?

With the reproductive ability of the human genus it does not seem to be the best. Of course, you did not necessarily have to worry, as the world’s volcanization continued to grow even further and thus the resources that are necessary for survival could be further shrinked. The reduction of reproduction love to understand as a natural antidote, which was currently the survival of people.

Individually, however, it can become a drama if the reproduction does not work and the child wish can not be satisfied by adoption or should. The Danische Professor for Endocrinology and Andrology Niels Skakkebaek at the University of Copenhagen warns after a review of the research situation that at least in the Western world the number of sperm in the manners is considerably accumulated. You can act quickly to find the cause, writes Skakkebaek in the British Medical Journal BMJ. But what is that bad? That the manner in the west become less cautionary and therefore the people from other regions can generate more offspring?

After a Metastudie published in Human Reproduction Update, the sperm concentration in the ejaculate of the manner from Western countries (North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand) between 1973 and 2011 fell by more than 52 percent. And the number of sperm is almost 60 percent. In addition, the scientists found, there are no signs for the fact that the rint of the rucks is slowed down, rather it was continuous less. On the other hand, in Sudamerika, Asia and Africa do not establish a striking racy. Here, however, significantly fewer examinations have been carried out.

The scientists point out that the sperm count is closely linked to the manual fertility. The economic and social burdens through manual infertility are high and have been increasing. There is also a connection between low sperm count and mortality and morbiditat as well as with testicular cancer. Skakkebaek writes that in the period of time the number of manners, which already received in a young age, had increased testicle cancer. Although it is not known which causes of this trend has, but the suspicion was suggested that it could be dealing with the environment or lifestyle, for example, with the suspension of pesticides, even if not known, to what extent an impact on the sperm qualitat or have testicles. Also stress, eating and corporation can also have an influence.

Infertility treatments are only a short-term solution for single

In the prosperity fortifications, the number of children, which come about with artificial fertilization, rises during the fertilitat rates in many western countries under 2.1 children per woman, which is why the population decreases. In Germany, but also in Japan or Singapore, the fertilitar rate has fallen to 1.0 to 1.5 children per woman despite artificial fertilization and therefore led to political and economic discussions.

This is worrying to help muse art generations and start new clinical and basic research programs in reproductive medicine, as infertility treatments are only a short-term solution for individuals. In addition, there is the possibility that the most common method of artificial fertilization, intravytoplasmic sperm injection in which a single sperm cell is injected into an egg cell, "produce new generations with bad reproductive health" could. So the inhabitants of the Western world die – the wins? – due to increasing infertility of the manner?

The reproductive physician also speaks in its own interest and requires more money for his fashion without truly whatever the need to expand reproduction research is so urgent. So the role of endocrine disruptors (environmental hormones: only a modern myth?) that are clarified the lifestyle, including drugs, or the increase in testicular cancer in young man people.

However, not only such questions had to be clarified, but also from an evolutionary perspective had to be supposed to be supposed to be an adjustment to changed living conditions or. could act on the prosperity, from which grounds the preservation of national population levels necessary or why it is important that the fertility of art generations in western countries should rise again.

For the first time, top representatives of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference and the Lesbian and Gay Association have met for an official discussion. Points of view and demands were exchanged. The dialogue is to be continued.

The meeting took place on Friday in the Berlin Archbishop's Ordinariate and lasted one and a half hours. Afterwards, Berlin Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki spoke of an open exchange of views that should be continued. The secretary of the Bishops' Conference, Father Hans Langendorfer, expressed similar views. LSVD national spokesman Gunter Dworek explained that ies are the employment of homosexual employees in church service and the church-critical demonstration during the Pope's visit on 22. September had been. In addition, homosexual cohabitation had been discussed.

The managing director of the LSVD Berlin-Brandenburg, Jorg Steinert, emphasized that it was an "intellectually stimulating discussion". He was pleased that the meeting had taken place so soon after Woelki took office. The meeting was initiated by the LSVD. The occasion was Woelki's statements on the Catholic view of homosexuality. The LSVD is one of the organizers of the anti-pope demonstration.

Points of view and demands exchanged
Woelki said at the meeting that he personally and the Catholic Church as a whole did not want to discriminate against or exclude people on the basis of their sexual orientation. At the same time, he had made it clear that the Church does not deviate from the ideal of marriage between a man and a woman open to children. This ideal is to be considered also in church mechanisms. Langendorfer asked with regard to the demonstration not to deny the pope the necessary respect. He is general coordinator of the visit of Benedict XVI. According to the archdiocese, both sides agreed that the protests should be peaceful.

The representatives of the LSVD demanded that declarations of not wanting to discriminate and exclude must also be followed by visible action. The Catholic Church must come to terms with its part in the history of persecution of homosexuals and draw consequences from it. It must respect the fundamental rights of lesbians and gays. Above all, the LSVD demanded a different approach to gay and lesbian employees of church institutions, who are threatened with dismissal in the case of a registered civil partnership.

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