On Refugee Migrants` Right to Live: A Nonkilling View
POETRY FORMAT, 1 Feb 2016
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service
Migrant
Refugee migrant
Migration
Refugee migration
A life-endangerment situation
A citizen`s political condemnation?
A victim of local/global humiliation?
The right to humanitarian advocacy: compassionate cooperation?
Selecting refugees? Shame on you, Civilization!
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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 Hélder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights) and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associação Brasil América (www.abaweb.org). He can be reached at fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com.
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