14/07/2019
Is Peaceful Research Possible? On the Methodology of Peace Research
Human Wrongs Watch
By Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service*
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The problem to be explored in this paper can be stated very briefly as follows: is peace research necessarily a peaceful activity? More precisely, is there a meaningful distinction between violent and nonviolent methodologies in peace research?
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14/07/2019
Reduce Once or Clean Forever?
Greenpeace Greece displays a “sea of plastic” from a brand audit they conducted at a secluded beach in Evoia, Greece. © Constantinos Stathias / Greenpeace
(Greenpeace International)* — While plastic pollution has won the public’s interest as one of the major threats we are facing, the responsibility of big companies that are addicted to single-use plastic has been kept largely as a side note.
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14/07/2019
How NGOs in Rich Countries Control Their Counterparts in Poor Countries… and Why They Refuse to Resolve It
Human Wrongs Watch
– Many NGOs around the world are fighting inequality between the rich and the poor, between the policies that make rich countries richer, and poor countries poorer.
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14/07/2019
Half of Somaliland Children Not in School – UNICEF
Human Wrongs Watch
13 July 2019 — Access to education in Somaliland is extremely limited, with more than 50 per cent of children in Somaliland out of school. In an effort to address the problem, the UN children’s fund, UNICEF, has partnered with the government, and the global fund Education Cannot Wait, to launch a programme designed to help children affected by ongoing crises in the country.
13/07/2019
150,000,000 More Child-Mothers?
Human Wrongs Watch
By Baher Kamal*
So far, 650 million women alive today were married as children
Ending child marriage and teenage pregnancy in Sierra Leone | UNICEF Sierra Leone/2017
Yet another inhumane practice to be added to the already reported Born Complete, Don’t Mutilate Them! and Robert J. Burrowes’ Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’ – Starving, enslaving, raping, torturing and killing our children.
Now it is about child-girls forced to be married before the age of 18.
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13/07/2019
Climate Change: ‘Heavy Carbon Dioxide Emitters Should “Take on Greater Responsibility” to Ameliorate the Problem’
Human Wrongs Watch
Citing climate change as being caused by “emissions accumulated throughout history”, the head of China’s Xiamen Airlines told the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York on Friday [12 July 2019] that heavy carbon dioxide emitters should “take on greater responsibility” to ameliorate the problem.
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13/07/2019
The American Dark Money Behind Europe’s Far Right
Human Wrongs Watch
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From Britain to Hungary to Italy, the far right is on the rise. openDemocracy investigations over the past year have revealed the vital role of US Christian conservatives.
Matteo Salvini | Source: File:Matteo Salvini – Trento 2015.JPGon Wikimedia Commons | Author: Niccolò Caranti | Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
13/07/2019
In Afghanistan, We Have Three Dreams
Human Wrongs Watch
By Dr Hakim Young and the Afghan Peace Volunteers – TRANSCEND Media Service*
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Dear fellow human beings,
Some of us have wondered, “Are people today too disconnected and frantic to calm down in order to solve global challenges together? Are we so polarized and self-absorbed that we cannot stop judging one another or insisting on our partisan ways?”
In Kabul, our thoughts and feelings are diverse, complicated and flawed, so we centre our three dreams on relationships.
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12/07/2019
International Approach to Refugees and Migrants in Libya Must Change – UN Refugees and UN Migration
An overloaded boat of refugees and migrants trying to reach Europe as seen from the deck of the Italian Coastguard ship, the San Giorgio, during a Mediterranean patrol in 2014. © UNHCR/Alfredo D’Amato
As a priority we ask that 5,600 refugees and migrants currently held in centres across Libya be freed in an orderly manner and their protection guaranteed, or evacuated to other countries from where accelerated resettlement is needed.
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