Archive for January 22nd, 2022

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22/01/2022

Human Rights Violations and Culture of Impunity in South Asia

Human Wrongs Watch

By Sania Farooqui

New Delhi, Jan 21 2022 (IPS)* – As countries across South Asia continue to battle the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, causing serious public health and economic crisis, this region, which is home to almost 2 billion people, is also grappling with the erosion of democratic norms, growing authoritarianism, the crackdown on freedom of press, speech and dissent.

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22/01/2022

Global Temperatures: Costs Continued to Soar in 2021

Human Wrongs Watch

21 January 2022 (UNEP)* — Last week, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed that in 2021, the US experienced 20 major climate-related disaster events with damage costs exceeding 1 billion. In total, these events caused US$145 billion in damage and claimed at least 688 lives.

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Photo: REUTERS/Adrees Latif / 04 Feb 2021

The year was also one of the hottest globally and the fourth-hottest in the US since it started keeping records 127 years ago.

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22/01/2022

“We face a five-alarm global fire that requires the full mobilization of all countries”

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(UN News)* — At a time when “the only certainty is more uncertainty”, countries must unite to forge a new, more hopeful and equal path, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the General Assembly on Friday [21 January 2022], laying out his priorities for 2022..

Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the UN General Assembly on his priorities for 2022.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the UN General Assembly on his priorities for 2022.

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22/01/2022

Urgent Action Needed to Protect Vietnamese Workers Trafficked to Serbia

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(UN News)* — Urgent action is required to assist and protect some 400 Vietnamese migrant workers who were allegedly trafficked to Serbia, experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said on Friday [21 January 2022]. 

A view on Belgrade, Serbia.
© UNSPLASH/Nikola Aleksic | A view on Belgrade, Serbia.

Eight companies, including Vietnamese labour recruitment agencies and Chinese construction firms registered in Serbia, have reportedly been implicated in serious human rights abuses, they said, citing information received.  

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22/01/2022

Yemen: UN Mission Warns of ‘Devastating’ Loss of Life, as UN Chief Condemns Coalition Airstrikes

(UN News)* — The UN chief has condemned airstrikes launched early on Friday [21 January 2022] by the Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi rebels in Yemen, that struck a detention centre in the rebel-held city of Saada, which have left at least 60 dead, and more than hundred injured.

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A woman, carrying her child who suffers from severe malnutrition and health complications, walks to a health centre in Hudaydah governorate, Yemen.
UNICEF/Taha Almahbashi | A woman, carrying her child who suffers from severe malnutrition and health complications, walks to a health centre in Hudaydah governorate, Yemen.
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The Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized Government, has been fighting Houthi militants who control much of the country including the capital Sana’a, since 2015. Conflict escalated this week, following an attack on coalition partner, the United Arab Emirates by Houthi forces, on Monday.

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