{"id":56983,"date":"2015-04-27T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=56983"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:25:49","slug":"migrants-right-to-live-should-not-be-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/04\/migrants-right-to-live-should-not-be-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants\u00b4 Right to Live Should Not Be Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Humankind may boast of many a life-saving technological invention,<br \/>\nbut does it succeed, when challenged by migrant death prevention?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When so many migrants in the Mediterranean drown<br \/>\nit is time not only upon sea rescue policies to frown<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As co-responsible global citizens, let us not allow migrants\u00b4 right-to-live be killed.<br \/>\nLet\u00b4s support efforts to ensure Human Rights life-saving mission to be fulfilled.<br \/>\n_________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil Am\u00e9rica (www.abaweb.org). <\/em><em>He can be reached at fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humankind may boast of many a life-saving technological invention,<br \/>\nbut does it succeed, when challenged by migrant death prevention?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}