Human Wrongs Watch
14 February 2019 (UN Environment)* — The students at Kingani school in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo used to have two choices for drinking water at school: get sick or remain thirsty.
Photo by Pixabay | Photo from UN Environment.
16/02/2019
Food Is Much More than What Is on Our Plates – Six Ways to Value What You Eat and Where It Comes From
16 February 2019 (FAO)* — In a vast world of 7 billion people where all you hear about are our differences, there are some important things that connect us, and one of these is food. Food connects us all. We all need it, depend on it, survive because of it and derive happiness from it.
The story of food begins with a farmer. Why do we give our chefs stars and awards, but we forget about the part our food producers play? ©135pixels/Shutterstock | Photo from FAO.
In fact, food is part of who we are. It’s part of our habits and cultures. Hundreds of TV shows, movies and podcasts revolve around the topic of food, and cookbooks always sit among the bestsellers.
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16/02/2019
‘Endemic’ Sexual Violence -Targeting Victims as Young as Eight Years Old- Surging in South Sudan; UN Human Rights Office
Human Wrongs Watch
15 February 2019 — A surge in sexual violence in South Sudan’s Unity state targeting victims as young as eight years old, has prompted a call from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, for urgent Government measures to protect victims, and bring perpetrators to justice.
16/02/2019
From the Field: Survival in Yemen against All Odds
Human Wrongs Watch
15 February 2019 — Fawaz, just 18-months old, suffered from severe acute malnutrition and was on the brink of death. In war-torn Yemen, he was one of hundreds of thousands of children, more likely to die, than survive.
OCHA/Giles Clarke | Fawaz, who suffers from severe acute malnutrition, and his mother in the hospital in Aden, Yemen. November 2018.
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