10/08/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
While politicians in rich countries have been rescuing powerful “market lord” –private corporations and banks that have unleashed the global financial crisis or strongly contributed to it– for the sake of receiving their ‘electoral blessing’, the prices of grain and milk in the drought-hit Horn of Africa have risen to record highs. In Somalia, the price of maize is now 200 % higher that a year ago.
Thousands of Somalis have fled their country to escape famine | Credit: UN
These new records are exacerbating famine and hardship for the estimated 12.4 million people in the region who are facing severe food shortages and famine in some parts of Somalia, UN says.
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10/08/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
Oil floating on the water's surface in Ogoniland | Credit:UN
Families in Nisisioken Ogale, near a Nigerian National Petroleum Company pipeline, are drinking water from wells contaminated with benzene, a known carcinogen, at levels over 900 times above UN World Health Organization guidelines.
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10/08/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
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Britain is reeling after several nights of rioting in major cities across the country–the worst civil unrest in a least a generation. What began at the end of last week as a series of protests against police brutality and racism has escalated into a major crisis of the entire social and political order, with police apparently losing control in parts of major cities.
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