HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

By Ramesh Jaura/IndeptheNews*

As the international community struggles to provide all possible assistance to more than 11 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti and Kenya –adversely affected by the lack of food and long spell of drought –Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Luc Gnacadja, has drawn attention to an often ignored fact that “droughts do not happen overnight.”

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While calling on the international community to respond urgently to the unfolding crisis, Gnacadja stressed the need for “effective long term solutions to the root causes of famine in drought prone regions.”

Human Wrongs Watch

Report by Alan Maass/SocialistWorker*

“The murderous rampage in Norway by a far-right sympathizer–and the media’s rush to blame an all-too-familiar scapegoat. Close to 100 people died in Norway at the hands of a far-right fanatic whose connections to the organized racists and Islamophobes extend to the anti-Muslim bigots in the U.S.”

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