Human Wrongs Watch
Women’s rights are under threat from a “backlash” of conservatism and fundamentalism around the world, a United Nation panel on 22 June 2018 warned.
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23/06/2018
Human Rights Chief Calls for International Probe on Venezuela, Following ‘Shocking Accounts of Extrajudicial Killings’
Human Wrongs Watch
In Venezuela, “credible, shocking accounts of extrajudicial killings” and impunity for perpetrators, indicate that the rule of law “is virtually absent”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on 22 June 2018 said, in a call for an international inquiry into the alleged violations.
23/06/2018
US Migrant Children Policy Reversal, Still ‘Fails’ Thousands of Detained Youngsters: 11 UN Human Rights Experts
Human Wrongs Watch
The United States government decision to end its border policy of forcibly separating migrant children from their parents, does not help thousands of youngsters already in detention, who should be released and reunited with their families, a group of UN human rights experts on 22 June 2018 said.
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21/06/2018
Changing Is Not Replacing — Problems Transformed into Justifications
Motion | Photo from Wall Street International.
21/06/2018
Old Wine, New Bottles: Trump Withdrawal from UN Human Rights Council Is Business As Usual for US
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Laughland*
20 June, 2018 (RT)* — Unlike other decisions taken by Donald Trump the announcement that the US is leaving the UN Human Rights Council has a lot of background in the policies adopted by previous administrations, many of which also despised the body.
UN Photo/Elma Okic | A wide view of the Human Rights Council.
Trump has gone a little further than his predecessors but his attitude is not fundamentally different from theirs.
21/06/2018
Standing with Rohingya Women
Human Wrongs Watch
By Nobel Women Initiative*
This World Refugee Day, we are spotlighting the plight of the Rohingya people with the ONLINE PREMIERE of our Standing with Rohingya Women short film. This five minute film follows our February delegation to Bangladesh with Nobel Peace laureates Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi, and Mairead Maguire, in partnership with Bangladeshi women’s right organization Naripokkho.
21/06/2018
“Agricultural Terrorism” and the “Right of Retaliation”
Human Wrongs Watch
By Walid Salem*
20 June 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — “Agricultural Terrorism” is a kind of “concept” that one finds when looking at Channel Seven of the settler colonialists (Now on: The settlers), and at some websites of those settlers.
Dr. Walid Salem
The alleged concept describes the Palestinian attacks against the Settlers agricultural lands by burning tires, igniting fires, and the so called “Weaponized Kites” like those flying from Gaza to the South of Israel creating arsons there.
The most important is the “retaliation” proposed and practiced by the settlers, and their Government in Israel.
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21/06/2018
Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Raping, Torturing and Killing Our Children
Human Wrongs Watch
By Robert J. Burrowes*
20 June 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — In the 9 Apr 2018 TMS Editorial, ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists.
In this one I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration that is effectively ignored by conflict theorists (and virtually everyone else).
This conflict is undoubtedly the most fundamental conflict in human society, because it generates all of the violence humans perpetrate and experience, and yet it is utterly invisible to almost everyone.
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21/06/2018
Replacement for United States on Human Rights Council to Be Elected ‘As Soon As Possible’
Human Wrongs Watch
International reaction to the United States decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council continued on Wednesday 20 June 2018 with the President of the Geneva-based assembly confirming that the election of a new Member State would take place “as soon as possible” to fill the vacant seat.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre | Vojislav Šuc, President of the Human Rights Council.
Speaking hours after the US move, Vojislav Šucsaid that the poll would take place once US “notification of withdrawal is formally received”.
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