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15/10/2017
Spirituality among Disparities
Human Wrongs Watch
By Dr. Ravi P Bhatia*
9 October 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service – A well-known cliché that is often repeated — India is a land of diversities of all types. Like all clichés, there is a lot of truth but also a grain of exaggeration in this statement. Yes, there are multiple types of diversities — religious, political, economic, linguistic, geographic, ethnic, cultural and spiritual.
Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia | Source: TRANSCEND Media Service
Today apart from its many historical sites such as Taj Mahal, Hawa Mahal, Red Fort, Qutab Minar, etc., there are many temples, churches, mosques, Buddhist pagodas that attract people from all over the world and fortify their spirituality, religious faith and peace and harmony.
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15/10/2017
How to Change the Future of Migration
Human Wrongs Watch
– The world is on the move. More people have been forced to flee their homes than at any time since the Second World War due to increased conflict and political instability, hunger, poverty, and an increase in extreme weather events linked to climate change.
DROUGHT IN THE HORN OF AFRICA. Food security conditions in drought-hit areas are alarming […read more]. Credit: FAO
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14/10/2017
Your Money or Your Morals: Capitalism and Fossil Fuel Divestment
Human Wrongs Watch
New York Fossil Fuel Divestment Rally, Manhattan, 27 March 2014. ©Adam Welz for 350.org /0235.jpg. Flickr/350.org. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
The fossil fuel divestment campaign has become one of the most rapidly growing divestment movements in history and has unified an impressive diversity of supporters—from liberal Californian universities to the Rockefeller’s family trust.
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14/10/2017
Separation Is Beautiful
Human Wrongs Watch
By Uri Avnery*
7 Oct 2017
Just imagine: A new movement among the Mizrahim is born in Israel.
Uri Avnery
It declares that all the existing organizations of Mizrahim (Oriental Jews) are phony. That they are all instruments of the Ashkenazi (European Jewish) elite to keep the Mizrahim in subjugation.
That the Oriental Shas party is a joke, especially since the death of Rabbi Ovadia Josef, who was an authentic Mizrahi leader.
It says the Likud is the most cunning instrument for keeping the Mizrahim down.
That the endless rule of Binyamin Netanyahu, the very personification of the Ashkenazi elite, symbolizes the powerlessness of the ignorant Mizrahi masses, who keep him and his entire Ashkenazi gang in power.
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14/10/2017
Humanitarian Needs Spike as Rohingya Arrivals in Cox’s Bazar Top 536,000
Human Wrongs Watch
13 October 2017, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (IOM)* – An estimated 536,000 people have fled Myanmar and arrived in Cox’s Bazar, southern Bangladesh, over the past 47 days, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)-hosted Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) of aid agencies.
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Photo: IOM
Numbers spiked again this week when some 15,000 Rohingya crossed into Bangladesh between 9-11 October.
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14/10/2017
On International Day, UN Forecasts 14 Million People Made Homeless Each Year by Disasters
Human Wrongs Watch
Sudden onset disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and tropical cyclones, are likely to displace nearly 14 million people worldwide each year, warns a UN-backed study released on 13 October – International Day for Disaster Reduction.
A seven-year-old girl crosses an improvised wooden bridge which she built after Hurricane Irma caused severe damaged in the Five Cays’ settlement of Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Photo: UNICEF/Moreno Gonzalez
13/10/2017
Not True that Hunger Doesn’t Discriminate — It Does
Human Wrongs Watch
– In a world where only 8 individuals – all of them men—possess as much as half of all the planet’s wealth, and it will take women 170 years to be paid as men are*, inequality appears to be a key feature of the current economic model. Now a new study reveals that there is also a widening gap in hunger.
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In fact, the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) states that despite years of progress, food security is still under threat. And that conflict and climate change are hitting the poorest people the hardest and effectively pitching parts of the world into “perpetual crisis.”
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13/10/2017
UN Member States and Experts Now Discuss Demographic, Economic Dimensions of Migration
Human Wrongs Watch
United Nations Member States began on 12 October in Geneva the sixth thematic session of discussions on the proposed Global Compact on Migration, during which delegates and experts will examine the issue of labour mobility of migrants.
13/10/2017
Latin America and Caribbean Falling Off ‘Zero Hunger’ Path Towards 2030 – UN
Human Wrongs Watch
12 October 2017 – The total number of persons that suffer from hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean has increased, reversing decades of progress, even as overweight and obesity emerged as a major problem in all countries in the region of the Americas, a United Nations-backed report shows.
Agriculture workers on a strawberry farm in Argentina. Photo: World Bank/Nahuel Berger. Source: UN News Centre
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