Archive for September 22nd, 2020

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22/09/2020

‘Waste Is Only Waste When You Waste It’ – Could Ecobricks Be the Solution to Uganda’s Housing and Pollution Problem?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Wambi Michael*

MPIGI/MUKONO/KAMPALA, Uganda , Sep 21 2020 (IPS)* – About 40 kilometres out of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, in the Mpigi area, you can find an entire village hill with houses that have plastic bottles walls and car tyre rooftops.

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22/09/2020

The World Must Not Be ‘Neutral’ on Enforced Disappearances 

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The international community “should not be neutral” on enforced disappearance, independent UN human rights experts said on Monday [21 September 2020], calling for countries to strengthen cooperation in investigating and prosecuting perpetrators.

UN Photo/Mark Garten | Visitors throw white flowers into Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires out of respect and remembrance for the tens of thousands of people who disappeared during Argentina’s so-called “Dirty War”.
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