Archive for October 4th, 2016

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04/10/2016

World Habitat Day: ‘Adequate Housing Is a Universal Human Right’ 

Human Wrongs Watch

Adequate housing is a universal human right and should be at the centre of the urban policy and in the physical centre of the city, senior United Nations officials on 3 October 2016 said, marking the 2016 edition of World Habitat Day.

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Pedestrian waits to cross in Mumbai, India. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank | Source: UN News Centre

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“The unplanned rapid expansion of towns and cities means an increasing number of poor and vulnerable people are living in precarious conditions, without adequate living space or access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, electricity and health care,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message on the Day.

More than half the global population already lives in urban areas. Approximately a quarter of these urban dwellers live in slums or informal settlements.

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04/10/2016

Selecting the Next UN Secretary-General: Informal Briefings Reopen

Human Wrongs Watch

The latest candidate for the position of the next United Nations Secretary-General was on 3 October 2016 heard by UN Member States, answering questions on how she would promote sustainable development, improve efforts to create peace, protect human rights, and deal with huge humanitarian catastrophes should they be selected to lead the 193-member Organisation.

A wide view of the Trusteeship Council Chamber as the General Assembly holds informal dialogues with candidates for the position of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

The current Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, is the eighth occupant of the post in the Organization’s 70-year history. He took office in January 2007 and will be ending his 10-year tenure on 31 December 2016.

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04/10/2016

October 2: Nonviolence Day, Gandhi’s Birthday

Human Wrongs Watch

By Antonio Carlos Silva Rosa*, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,  3 October 2016

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“The International Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence.” — un.org

Thus starts the UN Resolution that on 15 June 2007 formalized the legacy of one the most prominent figures of the 20th Century, born 1869 dead 1948 and still ahead of his time in 2016.

Yet, in the short span of 9 years this celebration has already become merely symbolic, ceremonial, practically meaningless. Gandhi Jayanthi as it is called in India. Myths can be useless and also misleading. So let me stick to the man and his meaning to humans.

Let’s remind ourselves of the worldwide wars, proxy-wars, invasions, occupations, terrorisms (State and private); slaveries/tortures of various kinds, human trafficking, forced human mass displacements, persecutions of minorities, economic exploitation, and cruelty to animals.

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