Big brands sit back and wait for consumers to think they are making a smart decision just because the price is low, forgetting that the lower the discount, the lower price put on the planet.
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01/12/2021
The True Cost of Black Friday
01/12/2021
Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean Rose by 13.8 Million People in Just One Year
Human Wrongs Watch
A joint publication of FAO, IFAD, PAHO/WHO, WFP and UNICEF
The Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2021 ©FAO
Santiago/Chile, 1 December 2021 (FAO)* – Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean is at its highest point since 2000, after a 30 percent increase in the number of people suffering hunger from 2019 to 2020, says a new UN report.
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01/12/2021
Let’s Get Money Out of Politics
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Why COP26 Failed Future Generations
John Scales Avery
In discussing the threat of catastrophic climate change, we need to be aware of the contrast between the short-term future and the long-term future.
Unless we take immediate and drastic action, we risk passing environmental tipping points, beyond which uncontrollable feedback loops will take over, making human efforts useless.
However, it is difficult to mobilize the political will needed for immediate and drastic action, because the worst effects of catastrophic climate change lie in the very distant future.
What will happen if we fail to act decisively and immediately on the issue of climate?
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01/12/2021
Series of Appalling Deadly Attacks on Displaced People in DR Congo
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The UN refugee Agency, UNHCR, is “appalled by a series of deadly attacks” on displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the agency’s spokesperson told journalists on Tuesday [30 November 2021] in Geneva.
01/12/2021
Israel-Palestine: Risk of ‘Deadly Escalation’ in Violence, without Decisive Action
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — With violence continuing daily throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process urged the Security Council on Tuesday [30 November 2021] to adopt a more coordinated approach to the region.
Tor Wennesland told Council Members that “recent developments on the ground are worrying”, pointing out the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and the challenges faced by the Palestinian Authority.
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