17/08/2022
Leif Eiriksson Peace Award 2022 to Johan Galtung
Human Wrongs Watch
By Thor Magnusson | Mirpuri Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service*
From the Peace 2000 Institute and Mirpuri Foundation
The award was presented on 8 July 2022 by Thor Magnusson from the Peace 2000 Institute through the Mirpuri Foundation at the Lisbon Opera House, Portugal. 1,400 people attended.
Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University. He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.
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17/08/2022
Afghan Refugees, Medical Visitors Bemoan Treatment in Pakistan
Human Wrongs Watch
– Afghan refugees living in Pakistan face a host of problems, ranging from seeking medical treatment to shelter, business, police harassment and violence. Many of those affected have been there for four decades.
Action taken against stall-owners at the Refugees Bazaar in Peshawar. Afghan refugees say they are unfairly targeted by the authorities. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS
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17/08/2022
Amid Gruelling Violence and Economic Collapse, Women and Girls in Haiti Need Urgent Support
Human Wrongs Watch
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti 16 August 2022 (UNFPA)* – As Haiti’s economy teeters on the brink of collapse and essential services crumble, residents of the capital Port-au-Prince are caught in a horrifying crossfire of surging gang violence, with rising accounts of murders, kidnappings, rape and forced displacement.
16/08/2022
World Cup Abuses Harm Children, Families of Migrant Workers
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By Human Rights Watch*
12 August 2022 — Thousands of migrant workers lost their lives to make the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar possible. But the scale of the human rights abuse doesn’t end with these workers’ lives, nor does it end in Qatar.
16/08/2022
Making Money from War
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
A Vast River of Money
John Scales Avery
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the world spent 2.113 trillion US dollars on armaments in 2021.
Of this almost incomprehensible amount of money, the United States spent almost half the total, $801 billion.
Perhaps one reason for the disproportionately large US arms spending is that in the United States, the arms industry has been privatized, which is not the case in China or Russia. In the US, selling weapons and death is a business. It is a business, on which capitalist investors can make enormous profits, selling weapons and selling war.
Selling Weapons and War Abroad
The United States is by far the largest exporter of weapons in the world. The US sells weapons through NATO. It also sells weapons to dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, and these same weapons have produced a humanitarian catastrophes such as starvation in Yemen. Small arms exported to Africa deepen and prolong local conflicts.
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12/08/2022
The Hunger Factory (II): The Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Human Wrongs Watch
– While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight.
Food and energy prices have increased to their highest levels in decades. And 62 new food billionaires have been created. Credit: Bigstock.
Like the legend of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the modern ones are a mix of combined causes: inequality; speculation; indebtedness, and the crushing impacts of climate emergency.
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12/08/2022
The Hunger Factory (I): The Miracle of the Sudden Rise and Fall of Food Prices
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What the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has once again laid bare is just how fragile globalised food systems are. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
The data, released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 5 August, adds the FAO Food Price Indexaveraged 140.9 points in July, down 8.6% from June, “marking the fourth consecutive monthly decline since hitting all-time highs earlier in the year.”
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12/08/2022
A Safe Haven for Ousted Political Leaders Escaping Executions and Hangings
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A Liberian execution squad fires a volley of shots, killing cabinet ministers of Liberia. April 1980. Credit: Website Rare Historical Photos
Perhaps one of the secure “safe havens”—and a popular “political retirement home”– is Saudi Arabia, a traditionally authoritarian regime, which has provided sanctuary for leaders from Uganda, Tunisia, Pakistan, Yemen and Qatar.
A cartoon in a British newspaper summed it up when it jokingly depicted the “ARRIVALS” terminal in a Saudi airport with a fast-checkout line for visitors– supermarket-style—with a sign that read: “FOR OUSTED WORLD LEADERS ONLY”
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12/08/2022
Racism Is Rampant in US Reproductive Health Care
In a submission to the United Nations in advance of its review of US compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Human Rights Watch and our partners laid out three key areas in which racial discrimination thrives in the US and perpetuates health inequities, with particularly devastating impacts on Black women.
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