26 November 2019 (UN Environment)* — The newly launched Emissions Gap Report tracks the gap between where greenhouse gas emissions are heading and where they need to be. Are we meeting goals of the Paris Climate Agreement?
26/11/2019
World on Course for More Than 3 Degree Spike, Even If Climate Commitments Are Met
Human Wrongs Watch
Even if countries meet commitments made under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is heading for a 3.2 degrees Celsius global temperature rise over pre-industrial levels, leading to even wider-ranging and more destructive climate impacts, warns a report from the UN Environment Programme, released on Tuesday [26 November 2019]. (*).
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25/11/2019
Food for Thought: Dietary Changes Can Improve Our Health, Health of Planet
25 November 2019 (UN Environment)* — Our health and what we eat are inextricably linked. A balanced, nutritious diet gives us energy, keeps us focused and keeps many medical conditions at bay.
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But what and how we eat is just as important to planetary health, and right now our diets are helping to create a sickly Earth.
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25/11/2019
Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Reach Yet Another High
Human Wrongs Watch
Geneva, 25 November 2019 (World Meteorological Organization)* — Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. This continuing long-term trend means that future generations will be confronted with increasingly severe impacts of climate change, including rising temperatures, more extreme weather, water stress, sea level rise and disruption to marine and land ecosystems.
25/11/2019
Generation Equality Stands against Rape
Human Wrongs Watch
By UN Women*
End rape—an intolerable cost to society
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In her message for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka says: “If I could have one wish granted, it might well be a total end to rape”. Read the full message►
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25/11/2019
Why We Must Eliminate Violence against Women
“Sexual violence against women and girls is rooted in centuries of male domination. Let us not forget that the gender inequalities that fuel rape culture are essentially a question of power imbalances.” — UN Secretary-General António Guterres
Artwork for the UN Women interactive website, Violence Against Women: Facts Everyone Should Know. Image: UN Women
25 November 2019 (United Nations)* — Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.
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25/11/2019
A Staggering One-in-Three Women, Experience Physical, Sexual Abuse
Human Wrongs Watch
Violence against women and girls is among the most widespread, and devastating human rights violations in the world, but much it is often unreported due to impunity, shame and gender inequality, the UN highlighted ahead of Monday’s [25 November 2019] World Day to stamp out abuse of women and girls. (*)..
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25/11/2019
Cultural History
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Reformed Teaching of History
John Scales Avery
Human nature has two sides: It has a dark side, to which nationalism and militarism appeal; but our species also has a genius for cooperation, which we can see in the growth of culture.
\Our modern civilization has been built up by means of a worldwide exchange of ideas and inventions. It is built on the achievements of many ancient cultures.
China, Japan, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, the Islamic world, Christian Europe, and the Jewish intellectual traditions all have contributed. Potatoes, corn, squash, vanilla, chocolate, chilli peppers, and quinine are gifts from the American Indians.
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24/11/2019
A Brief Account of «the Destruction of the Indians» in Brazil
Human Wrongs Watch
By Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Meditating on the PanAmazon Synod of October 2019, makes me remember what Bartolome de las Casas called «the destruction of the Indians» when he was dealing with Central America.
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24/11/2019
The Coup That Ousted Morales
Human Wrongs Watch
By Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Any human being who values justice and freedom would condemn the coup that ousted the Bolivian president Evo Morales on the 10th of November 2019.
Morales obtained 47.08 % of the vote to secure a fourth term as president in the election held on the 20th of October. Since his vote was more than 10% of what his closest rival had harnessed, there was no need for a second round of voting according to the Bolivian Constitution. However his opponents did not want to accept the result.
Neither did the Organisation of American States (OAS) nor the United States of America (USA) nor the European Union (EU).
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