12/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
SocialistWorker* – With November 17 set as its next national day of action, the Occupy movement faces many challenges–but it has already defined a new era of resistance.
Photo: SocialistWorker.org
It was an Arab Spring and a hot summer of struggle in Europe. But autumn has belonged to Wall Street–to Occupy Wall Street, that is. The Occupy movement is less than two months old, but it has transformed U.S. politics and given vibrant form to the working class discontent hidden for years beneath the surface of society.
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11/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
Karachi – The three-room house in the Korangi area of the Pakistani city of Karachi, occupied until two months ago by Alam Din and his family of six, stands empty.
A flood-affected family in Pakistan | Credit: UN
Neighbours say Din, a street vendor, left suddenly after his 14-year-old daughter was raped by several local youths while on her way home from an evening lesson, reports IRIN, humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs*.
The crime was never reported; Din and his brothers felt to do so would damage family honour and instead Din apparently bundled his family and possessions on to a truck and left in the dead of night for Punjab province.
“The girl had to be carried out,” said Aleena Bibi, a neighbour. “She had been injured. It is a tragedy this should happen to a child, but now people also consider the house unlucky and are reluctant to buy.”
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11/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
Paris – The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will temporarily halt some activities owing to the $65 million budget shortfall resulting from the U.S. decision to withhold its dues.
Education will be affected by U.S. decision to stop funding UNESCO. Photo: Thomas Schoch
Irina Bokova, UNESCO director general, while making this announcement on Nov. 10, also said that the specialized organization has launched a new online tool to enable donors to help offset the loss.
The new fund is one of several measures announced by Bokova in an address to the 36th session of UNESCO’s General Conference that ended in Paris on Nov. 10. “UNESCO is facing a difficult situation,” she told the agency’s highest ruling body. “It’s a test for our organization.”
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11/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
By James Wan* – ThinkAfricaPress
Witchcraft in Ghana is a very real phenomenon. It displaces people from their homes, it breaks up families and it destroys lives. Those believed to be responsible for causing illness and misfortune are often tortured, killed or expelled from their villages.
'Witch' Amina Wumbala outside her hut in Gambaga | ThinkAfricaPress
Yaba Badoe’s powerful and heart-rending documentary The Witches of Gambaga, screened in London as part of Film Africa 2011, examines the lives of some of the accused witches who have sought refuge in perhaps Ghana’s oldest and most famous witches’ camp of Gambaga.
Filmed over the course of five years and told largely by the women themselves, the documentary highlights the plight of some of the true victims of witchcraft beliefs.
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09/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
By Baher Kamal*
Cairo – The four-decade-long bid to liberate the Middle East from all weapons of mass destruction (WMD) starting with nukes, will move next year to Helsinki as Finland surprisingly decided to host an international conference on the establishment of a Middle East nuclear-free zone.
The announcement of the conference venue, which was made by the UN on October 14, 2011, falls during a new high peak in the on-going Arab Spring in several countries, mainly Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and the continuing bitter popular uprisings against dictatorial regimes in Yemen and Syria, among others.
The decision also coincides with a strong, increasing wave of popular protests in some key Arab countries against Israel – the sole country in the region to have nuclear weapons, estimated at 210 and 250 atomic warheads. This number is equivalent to more than double of the combined atomic arsenals of India and Pakistan.
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08/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
Brasilia- Brazil and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a new initiative to help developing countries run their own national school meal programmes to advance the nutrition and education of children.
Credit: UN
Brazil has been recognised for its Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) strategy for reducing poverty and food insecurity and its school meals programme, which reaches about 45 million children per year.
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08/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
By Uri Avnery* – TRANSCEND
‘Israel will not attack Iran. Period. Since the 1956 Suez adventure, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered an ultimatum that stopped the action, Israel has never undertaken any significant military operation without obtaining American consent in advance. The US is Israel’s only dependable supporter in the world (besides, perhaps, Fiji, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau.) To destroy this relationship means cutting our lifeline. To do that, you have to be more than just a little crazy. You have to be raving mad’.
Binyamin Netanyahu
Everybody knows the scene from school: a small boy quarrels with a bigger boy. “Hold me back!” he shouts to his comrades, “Before I break his bones!”
Our [Israeli] government seems to be behaving in this way. Every day, via all channels, it shouts that it is going, any minute now, to break the bones of Iran.
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06/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
Population in the 11 Nile basin countries, estimated in 200 million people, is expected to increase by between 61 and 82 per cent by 2030, while water resources will not vary. This is of particular concern since some of these countries are among the poorest in the world.
Credit: UN
The Nile basin riparian nations are Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
Agriculture already uses more than 80 percent of renewable water resources in the Nile basin, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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05/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
By Charles Mercieca*, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND
“The promotion of wars are viewed, especially by most US politicians, as the Holy Cow, more sacred than God Himself! President Obama has been so much under pressure from Republicans, where their ultimate goal is to oust him from the Whitehouse, that he has compromised his principles beyond comprehension. The Republicans want to continue to protect the rich as to become even richer, while they are literally dumping the poor making them poorer.”
The greatest problem of the American people is threefold in nature: (1) Congress, commonly known as the US government, which formulates and makes laws, (2) Whitehouse, the seat of the US President, who is empowered to set up guidelines and policies that are beneficial to the entire nation, and (3) Supreme Court, composed of nine members each one nominated by the US President but has to be approved by Congress in order to take office.
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04/11/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
MOONMEUANG – Training in how to prune peach trees may not be at the top of most drug and crime interventions, but perhaps they should be when it comes to opium, experts say.
Image: Alvesgaspar | Wikimedia Commons
Opium production was rising in Laos, formerly the third-largest producer in the world after Afghanistan and Myanmar, until the government slashed poppy plots from 26,800ha to 1,500ha between 1998 and 2006.
But since 2007 opium farming has doubled to 3,000ha and the upward trend is still continuing, according to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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