Human Wrongs Watch
By Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service*
On the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out
2010 Interview Still More Relevant Today
Part 1
.
read more »
04/03/2019
Photo Essay: ‘Equality Is Our Goal, Access Is Our Right’
1 March 2019 (UN Women)* — A bus to get to work. A clinic for health care. A monthly pension for old age. Some people can take these for granted. But many others suffer from the lack of infrastructure, public services and social protection that affect their rights and well-being. Women and girls are often foremost among those who miss out.
Photos: L-R: UNICEF/Ueslei Marcelino, UNICEF/Brian Sokol, UNICEF/Daniele Volpe
read more »
04/03/2019
How to Feed Future Generations Using Recipes from the Past – Reviving Ancestral Traditions to Beat Malnutrition
4 March 2019 (FAO)* — High up in Guatemala’s Cuchumatanes mountains, lunch is served in the Torres household. Mom Catarina places a steaming plate of empanadas – pastry stuffed with tomatoes, onions and greens – on the dining table in front of her three daughters, whose eyes shine bright in anticipation.
Eat your greens! A new cookbook is reviving old, nutritious traditions of Mayan families in Guatemala. ©FAO/Jorge Rodríguez Baeza
04/03/2019
A Total of US$ 1.2 Billion Needed to Fund the UNRWA’s Vital Core Services, Life-Saving Humanitarian Aid for 5.4 Million Palestine Refugees across the Middle East
Human Wrongs Watch
UNRWA* — The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Pierre Krähenbühl, on 29 January 2019 called for a total of US$ 1.2 billion to fund the Agency’s vital core services and life-saving humanitarian aid for 5.4 million Palestine refugees across the Middle East. It is the amount needed to keep UNRWA operations at the same level as in 2018.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl (center) calls for a total of US$ 1.2 billion to fund the Agency’s vital core services and life-saving humanitarian aid for 5.4 million Palestine refugees across the Middle East during press conference at the United Nations in Geneva on 29 January 2019. © UNRWA Photo by Maria Mohammedi
04/03/2019
Alarming Global Surge of Measles Cases a Growing Threat to Children – UNICEF
Human Wrongs Watch
Ten countries accounted for approximately three-quarters of the total increase in measles in 2018, including significant outbreaks in Brazil, Madagascar, the Philippines, Ukraine, and Yemen
UNICEF/UN0284080/ Dyachyshyn | Maryana Dzuba, 9, receives her first dose of MMR vaccine on 21 February 2019 in the medical centre of the Lapaivka village school, Lviv region, Ukraine, as part of a three-week long catch-up vaccination campaign to increase MMR coverage among school aged children in the region. Photo: Yurko Dyachyshyn
NEW YORK, (UNICEF)* – UNICEF on 1 March 2019 warned that global cases of measles are surging to alarmingly high levels, led by ten countries accounting for more than 74 per cent of the total increase, and several others that had previously been declared measles free.
read more »
04/03/2019
Anxiety and Depression Disorders – Traditional Chinese Medicine Approach
Anxiety and depression disorders | Photo from Wall Street International.
03/03/2019
‘Once Lost, Hearing Doesn’t Come Back,’ World Health Organization Warns on World Hearing Day
3 March 2019 – Many people live with unidentified hearing loss, often failing to realize that they are missing out on certain sounds and words. To address this problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging people on this year’s World Hearing Day, held on March 3, to check their hearing.
03/03/2019
‘We Can All Benefit’ – A Dairy Cooperative in Bangladesh Is Helping Change Women’s Lives
Human Wrongs Watch
1 March 2019 (FAO)* — Knocking on closed doors is something Renu Bala is very good at.
.
Renu Bala is one of thousands of Bangladeshi farmers befitting from agricultural investment programmes supported by FAO with funding from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP). ©FAO/Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
.
First, it was the doors of her neighbours in Panjor Bhanga, her home village in northern Bangladesh. She had an idea for them: what if they formed a milk cooperative?
They didn’t have much to lose. “The women of this village are very poor and raise only local Deshi cattle,” Renu explains. “I thought that if I could start a dairy business, and encourage other women to join, if I could make them aware, then we could all profit.”
read more »
03/03/2019
10 Things You’ve Always Wanted to Ask the Students Skipping School to Fight Climate Change
Youth Climate Strike US co-leader Isra Hirsi. © Adam Iverson | Photo from Greenpeace International.
Isra Hirsi just turned 16 years old. To celebrate, she came home from school and spent three hours on conference calls.
Isra, a student at South High School in Minneapolis, is one of thousands of students around the world planning a massive Youth Climate Strike for March 15. With a few weeks to go, there are already strikes planned for 47 countries and almost all 50 states. Isra is one of three organizers who are bringing the movement — inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s weekly climate strikes — to the United States.
read more »
03/03/2019
Empowering Women Means Taking a Stand for Environmental Rights
Photo by The Samburu Women’s Trust | Photo from UN Environment.
1 Match 2019 (UN Environment)* — The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many of the same challenges as other indigenous communities around the world.
They have few opportunities to influence or manage activities that affect their environment, and insufficient information and understanding of their entitlements and rights when large development and infrastructure projects come to do business on their lands.
read more »
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 