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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25/01/2022
We Are Militarism’s Hostages
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Do our “Defense Departments” really defend us? Absolutely not! Their very title is a lie. The military-industrial complex sells itself by claiming to defend civilians. It justifies vast and crippling budgets by this claim; but it is a fraud.
John Scales Avery
For the military-industrial complex, the only goal is money and power. Civilians like us are just hostages. We are expendable. We are pawns in the power game, the money game.
Nations possessing nuclear weapons threaten each other with “Mutually Assured Destruction”, which has the very appropriate acronym MAD. What does this mean? Does it mean that civilians are being protected?
Not at all. Instead they are threatened with complete destruction. Civilians here play the role of hostages in the power games of their leaders.
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25/01/2022
Up to 70% of Children in Developing Countries to Be Left Unable to Read?
Human Wrongs Watch
– “Unless we take action, the share of children leaving school in developing countries who are unable to read could increase from 53 to 70 percent.”
Credit: Shafiqul Alam Kiron/IPS
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22/01/2022
Human Rights Violations and Culture of Impunity in South Asia
Human Wrongs Watch
– 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.
Photo: REUTERS/Adrees Latif / 04 Feb 2021
22/01/2022
“We face a five-alarm global fire that requires the full mobilization of all countries”
Human Wrongs Watch
22/01/2022
Urgent Action Needed to Protect Vietnamese Workers Trafficked to Serbia
Human Wrongs Watch
(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].
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.
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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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.
20/01/2022
#Ethiopia #TigrayGenocide #ExcuseForRegimeChangeWar
Human Wrongs Watch
By Ann Garrison | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service*
While France steps up neocolonial aggression in its former North and West African colonies, the U.S. has set its sights on the elected government of Ethiopia in the geostrategic Horn of Africa. Ethiopia’s growing ties with China and Russia and the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Cooperation Between Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea so threaten U.S. global hegemony that a U.S. “regime change” campaign is well underway.
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20/01/2022
Human Trafficking, Rape, Extortion Behind ‘Forced Conversions’, Say Experts
Human Wrongs Watch
– Two years after Michelle, 15, was kidnapped, sold, forced to convert to Islam and married to a stranger, relatives still ostracise her.
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