Human Wrongs Watch
18/02/2019
From Smartphones to Wedding Rings, the ‘Hidden Cost of Everyday Gold’ – A UN Initiative to Tackle Mercury-Based Mining Methods
18/02/2019
Gandhi’s Message for Today’s World
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*
2019 is the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth. Therefore it might be appropriate to look at his life, and his message for today’s world.
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If humans are ever to achieve a stable global society in the future, they will have to become much more modest in their economic behavior and much more peaceful in their politics. For both modesty and peace, Gandhi is a useful source of ideas.
The problems with which he struggled during his lifetime are extremely relevant to us in the 21st Century, when both nuclear and ecological catastrophes threaten the world.
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18/02/2019
FAO Sounds Alarm on Desert Locust Outbreak in Northeast Africa and Saudi Arabia Triggered by Heavy Rains
Human Wrongs Watch
Increased vigilance, strict monitoring and early control needed to prevent further swarms forming and spread along both sides of the Red Sea.
The desert locust is the world’s most dangerous migratory pest capable of flying up to 150 km a day with the wind.
ROME,15 February 2019 (FAO)* – Heavy rains and cyclones have triggered a recent surge in Desert Locust populations, causing an outbreak to develop in Sudan and Eritrea that is rapidly spreading along both sides of the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, FAO warned on 15 February 2019.
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