‘I’ll Be the First Farmer in My Family’
Human Wrongs Watch
School gardening takes root in Kenyan refugee settlement.
Thanks to a Junior Farmer Field and Life School training course in her school, Dimiana Nange Clement now wants to be a farmer. ©FAO/Sven G. Simonsen
10 April 2019 (FAO)* — Dimiana Nange Clement is a young refugee and a budding farmer. The 11-year-old lives with her family in the Kalobeyei integrated settlement in northern Kenya. The settlement is adjacent to the Kakuma refugee camp, one of the largest such facilities in the world.
Families and schools here are increasingly turning to gardening as a source of better nutrition and a way to inspire youngsters like Dimiana, who comes from South Sudan.
Niger Population’s Suffering ‘Increasing with Each Passing Month’
Human Wrongs Watch
An upsurge of violence in the south-east of Niger means that the population’s suffering is increasing “with each passing month,” a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesperson warned on Tuesday[9 April 2019], at a press briefing in Geneva. In March alone, some 88 civilians were reported to have died during attacks.
Can Students Become a Revolutionary Force?
Human Wrongs Watch
By David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service*
As often remarked in this blog, the world is in such a mess that we need radical action. In fact we need revolutionary change.
Dr. David Adams
But where can it come from? Who can be the revolutionary actors?
A century ago, it was thought by some that revolution would come from industrial workers.
They were constantly and obviously exploited by their capitalist bosses.
They were concentrated in large numbers in factories
They had the power to stop production by going on strike.
Today there are few such factories in the rich countries of the North. Factories have been automated or transferred to China and the poor countries of the South.
We don’t hear anymore that factory workers will change the world.
Greenhouse Gases Are Depriving Our Oceans of Oxygen
‘Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity’ Will Be Squandered Unless Social, Economic, Environmental Challenges Are Met’ – UN Youth Forum
Unless the world faces its “social, economic and environmental challenges head-on”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday [9 April 2019], the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), will not be met.*
Libyan National Conference Postponed, Nearly 500,000 Children at ‘Direct Risk’ from Fighting around Tripoli
An imminent UN-led Libyan conference seeking to set up elections for the war-ravaged, oil-rich country has been postponed because of ongoing clashes near the capital, the top United Nations official in the country said on Tuesday [9 April 2019].
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“Never Seen Such Toxicity, Such Poisonous Language in Politics, Media and Social Media” Directed Towards Refugees, Migrants and Foreigners
Human Wrongs Watch
In a heartfelt briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday [9 April 2019], Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has said that, during his three and a half decades as an international civil servant, he has “never seen such toxicity, such poisonous language in politics, media and social media,” directed towards refugees, migrants and foreigners.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 
In January 2019 Venezuela’s opposition-led National Assembly swore in congressman Juan Guaidó as the country’s interim president. Guaidó’s claim to power is a severe blow against the already weakened government of Nicolás Maduro, whose re-election as president in May 2018 was widely rejected by the international community and deemed illegitimate by over 50 foreign governments.