Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Extreme overcrowding and lack of access to food, water and health, are among the ‘inhumane conditions’ that prisoners in Haiti must endure, often over the course of many years, according to a new UN report.
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01/07/2021
Urgent Action Needed to End ‘Inhumane Conditions’ Facing Haiti Prisoners – UN Human Rights Chief
01/07/2021
Once Again, Haiti Seems to Be Dying
Hurricane Tomas floods streets of Gonaives, Haiti | Image from Wall Street International.
30June 2021 — (Wall Street International)* — The story goes that on his first voyage to what would become America, Christopher Columbus disembarked on October 12, 1492, on a beach he named San Salvador, today Wattlin, in the Bahamas archipelago.
By December 1 he chose to live in a wonderful setting on an island he called Hispaniola. He took possession of it without asking, obviously, the locals. Colonization began by building a fort called “La Navidad”, on the north coast of what is today Haiti.
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01/07/2021
Number of Migrant Workers Increases by Five Million, Reaching 169 Million
Human Wrongs Watch
A new ILO report estimates that between 2017 and 2019 the number of international migrants has increased from 164 to 169 million.
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GENEVA, 1 July 2021 (ILO)* – The number of international migrant workers globally has risen to 169 million, a rise of three per cent since 2017, according to the latest estimates from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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The share of youth migrant workers (aged 15-24) has also increased, by almost 2 per cent, or 3.2 million, since 2017. Their number reached 16.8 million in 2019.
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