Human Wrongs Watch
By Davin Hutchins | Greenpeace*
— We need urgent action to phase-out fossil fuels and cut emissions fast.
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13/11/2021
Global Survey Shows Hardly any Support for Net-Zero Pledges with Carbon Offsets
13/11/2021
Conflict, Violence, Climate Change Drove Displacement Higher in First Half of 2021
People fleeing the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo seek shelter in the town of Sake, May 2021. UNHCR immediately began providing assistance. © UNHCR/Guerchom Ndebo
The report, for January-June 2021, showed an increase from 82.4 million at end 2020. This resulted largely from internal displacement, with more people fleeing multiple active conflicts around the world, especially in Africa. The report also noted that COVID-19 border restrictions continued to limit access to asylum in many locations.
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13/11/2021
Europe Hits Highest Weekly COVID-19 Cases since Pandemic Began
Almost 27 thousand deaths were reported in the continent last week, more than half of all COVID-19 deaths globally.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus explained that the virus is not only surging in countries with lower vaccination rates in Eastern Europe, but also in nations with some of the world’s highest vaccination rates in Western Europe.
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13/11/2021
Diabetes Equates the Rich and the Poor
Human Wrongs Watch
– Although for different reasons, diabetes appears to be one of the few cases that put rich and poor societies at equal footing. In either case, diabetes is caused by wrong, dangerous to health nutritional habits.
Diabetes test, Mauritius. Credit: Nasseem Ackbarally/IPS
In fact, people in industrialised countries tend to consume the so-called “junk food”, while in poor nations diabetes is caused by malnutrition and undernourishment.
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