8 July 2022 (Human Rights Watch)* — The European Court of Human Rights issued a historic ruling on July 7 concerning Greece’s illegal and life-threatening practice of pushing boats of asylum seekers back to Turkey.
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11/07/2022
European Court Slams Greece Over Deadly Migrant Pushback
11/07/2022
Thousands of Children Endure ‘Horrific Conditions’ in Conflict Zones
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The annual UN report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), released on Monday [11 July 2022], details the devastating impact that various forms of conflict had on children around the world in 2021.
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The dangers outlined in the report range from conflict escalation, military coups, and takeovers, protracted and new conflicts, as well as violations of international law.
Cross-border conflict and intercommunal violence also impacted the protection of children, especially in the Lake Chad Basin and Central Sahel regions.
The report highlights almost 24,000 verified grave violations against children, an average of some 65 violations every day.
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11/07/2022
India and China Continue to Lead –as World Population Projected to Reach 8.0 Billion
Human Wrongs Watch
– India and China, two Asian nuclear powers who are also longstanding rivals embroiled in the geo-politics of the Indian Ocean region, have remained two of the world’s most populous nations accounting for over a billion people each.
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But as the world’s population reaches the 8.0 billion mark, come November, India is projected to surpass China. The current numbers stand at 1.44 billion people in China and 1.39 billion in India. But the numbers are expected to change as India races ahead of China.
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08/07/2022
A World of 8 Billion, Yes, But (II): The Untold Story of the 50%
Human Wrongs Watch
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“When nearly a third of all women in developing countries are becoming mothers during adolescence, it is clear the world is failing adolescent girls,” said UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem. Credit: Michael Duff/UNFPA
Such a harsh reality does not only impact their basic human rights, like equal treatment, same rights as men in decision-making, working conditions, payment, property, healthcare, staggering poverty and a very long etcetera. Not only…
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08/07/2022
A World of 8 Billion, Yes, But (I) Only a Few Are Seen as Human Beings
Human Wrongs Watch
– Far-right Brazilian president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, was quoted a year ago or so as saying to a small group of indigenous people that they “now look a bit more like humans.”
Since the middle of the 20th century, the world has experienced unprecedented population growth. The world’s population more than tripled in size between 1950 and 2020.. Credit: Fahim Siddiqi/IPS
Tragically, a vast majority of this year’s record world population of 8 millions is harshly neglected and seen as just disturbing numbers, if ever treated as such humans.
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08/07/2022
Exile on Main Street: The Sound of the Unipolar World Fading Away
Human Wrongs Watch
By Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The future world order, already in progress, will be formed by strong sovereign states. The ship has sailed. There’s no turning back.
Pepe Escobar
Let’s cut to the chase and roll in the Putin Top Ten of the New Era, announced by the Russian President live at the St. Petersburg forum for both the Global North and South.
The era of the unipolar world is over.
The rupture with the West is irreversible and definitive. No pressure from the West will change it.
Russia has renewed with its sovereignty. Reinforcement of political and economic sovereignty is an absolute priority.
The EU has completely lost its political sovereignty. The current crisis shows the EU is not ready to play the role of an independent, sovereign actor. It’s just en ensemble of American vassals deprived of any politico-military sovereignty.
Sovereignty cannot be partial. Either you’re a sovereign or a colony.
Hunger in the poorest nations will be on the conscience of the West and euro-democracy.
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08/07/2022
Sanctions Are a Boomerang
Human Wrongs Watch
The “bodegones” are Venezuela’s new commercial boom. They sell imported products, mostly from the United States despite the sanctions, and have spread into middle and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Caracas and other cities, to attract consumers who receive remittances of foreign currency from the millions of Venezuelans who have migrated in recent years. CREDIT: Humberto Márquez/IPS
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08/07/2022
Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
Human Wrongs Watch
By Jeffrey D. Sachs | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service*
If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs..
President Joe Biden delivering “stand with Ukraine” remarks on May 3 at the Lockheed Martin facility in Troy, Alabama. (White House, Adam Schultz)
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The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden Administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the US wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and who did so much to provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The neocon track record is one of unmitigated disaster, yet Biden has staffed his team with neocons.
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08/07/2022
Morocco/Spain: Horrific Migrant Deaths at Melilla Border
Human Wrongs Watch
By Human Rights Watch*
Investigate Fully, Preserve Evidence, Ensure Dignified Treatment of the Dead.
(Milan) – The deaths of at least 23 African men at the Melilla-Morocco border on June 24, 2022 requires an independent, impartial investigation capable of determining what occurred and who bears responsibility for such loss of life, Human Rights Watch said on June 29, 2022.
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01/07/2022
New World Records: More Weapons than Ever. And a Hunger Crisis Like No Other
Human Wrongs Watch
– While the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit ended in Madrid on 30 June with net commitments to double spending on weapons and to increase by eight-fold the number of troops in Europe, the total of hungry people worldwide now marks an unprecedented record.
Conflict is still the biggest driver of hunger, with 60 percent of the world’s hungry living in areas affected by war and violence. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS
As advanced by IPS in its: NATO Summit Set to Further Militarise Europe, Expand in Africa? The Western military Alliance Declaration states that its member countries continue to face distinct threats from “all strategic directions.”
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