8 April 2020 (UN Environment)* — Did you know that around 60 per cent of all infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, as are 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases, in other words they come to us via animals?
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09/04/2020
Children Vulnerable to Abuse and Violence During Coronavirus Lockdowns – Independent Human Rights Experts
7 April 2020 (UN News)* — Independent UN human rights experts have called on States to boost child protection measures to help safeguard the welfare of millions of children who may be more exposed to violence, sale, trafficking, sexual abuse and exploitation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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09/04/2020
We Need Solidarity, Not Sanctions
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery*
8 April 2020 (Wall Street International)* — According to the United Nations Charter, only the Security Council may impose sanctions. No individual nation may do so.
Our world faces a common enemy | Image from Wall Street International.
Nevertheless, the United States currently imposes economic sanctions on Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba, Venezuela, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
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09/04/2020
He’s Got Eight Numbers, Just like Everybody Else”
Human Wrongs Watch
By Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service*
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Trident nuclear disarmament activist Steve Kelly, a Jesuit priest, begins his third year imprisoned in a county jail as he and his companions await sentencing.
On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail.
He turned 70 while in prison, and while he has served multiple prison sentences for protesting nuclear weapons, spending two years in a county jail is unusual even for him.
Yet he adamantly urges supporters to focus attention on the nuclear weapons arsenals which he and his companions aim to disarm.
“The nukes are not going to go away by themselves,” says Steve.
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08/04/2020
COVID-19 Crisis Expected to Wipe Out 6.7% of Working Hours Globally in the Second Quarter of 2020 – Equivalent to 195 Million Full-Time Workers: ILO
Human Wrongs Watch
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a catastrophic effect on working hours and earnings, globally. A new ILO report highlights some of the worst affected sectors and regions, and outlines policies to mitigate the crisis.
GENEVA, 7 April 2020 (ILO)* – The COVID-19 crisis is expected to wipe out 6.7 per cent of working hours globally in the second quarter of 2020 – equivalent to 195 million full-time workers.
08/04/2020
Ending the Unthinkable Injustice of Human Chaining
Human Wrongs Watch
– When Akanni’s mother died in early 2018, she stopped eating for three weeks. Her mood became unpredictable; she was often shouting or sulking angrily. Medicine from a local pharmacist didn’t help. At a loss for what to do to handle the trauma, Akanni’s father took her to a church in Abeokuta, Ogun state, in Nigeria. And then he left her there.
A man’s legs chained in a Christian rehabilitation center in Ibadan City, Oyo State, Nigeria, Ibadan City, Oyo State, Nigeria, September 2019. Women and men are chained and tied for perceived or actual mental health condition or intellectual disability. © 2019 Robin Hammond for Human Rights Watch.
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08/04/2020
‘Say No to Hate Speech and Xenophobia’, UN Chief Marking 26 Years since Genocide in Rwanda, which Killed over One Million People in Just 100 Days
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Remembering the more than one million people who over the course of just 100 days, were systematically killed in Rwanda, 26 years ago, the UN chief underscored on Tuesday [7 April 2020] that “we must never again let such an atrocity occur”.
07/04/2020
COVID-19 in India: Reverse Migration Could Destroy Indigenous Communities
Human Wrongs Watch
By Dilip Chakma, Convenor, Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) and Paritosh Chakma, Advisor, ILAI*
6 April 2020 (IWGIA)* — Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been declared as a pandemic and its impact on the world is yet to be fully assessed. Indigenous peoples living on the margins of the society are unlikely to be considered in the scheme of responses and reactions by most of the States.
Photo: Chris Erni // IWGIA
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