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Human Wrongs Watch
By Shuk-Wah Chung*
23 December, 2016 (Greenpeace)* – If art imitates life then surely it must mean that it’s the end of the world as we know it, and climate change is taking us all down with it.
These days, the films that we are getting down to “Netflix and chill” with have less to do with green-screen magic, explosions or mystical monsters; and more to do with the unfortunate slow catastrophe that is unfolding in the world.
Want disaster? How about a town ravaged by a super typhoon? In the mood for tension?
How about the real-life David and Goliath story of the indigenous tribe defending their land against major conglomerates?
Drama and action more your thing? What about illegal fishing and slavery happening out of sight, and deep in the middle of the vast ocean?
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Human Wrongs Watch
By Evelyn Rottengatter*
18 December 2016 (Pressenza)* – “Prayer of the Mothers” is a song by singer and songwriter Yael Deckelbaum. It was created together with women of the movement “Women Wage Peace” which aims for a peaceful and nonviolent solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Since its creation in summer 2014 during the escalation of the conflict in Gaza, which saw over 2,200 people killed, it is bringing together women from all nations and of all religions to set in motion a dialogue to end war and violence and to awaken a new spirit of hope and fundamental change, which can only be created by embracing the power of women, the power to care, to protect and to nourish.
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 