Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday [] voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
19/09/2024
UN General Assembly Demands Israel End ‘Unlawful Presence’ in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
19/09/2024
Governments Using Billions of Public Funds to Subsidize Climate-Destructive Industries—Report
Human Wrongs Watch
– A report examining corporate capture of public finance is accusing industries fueling the climate crisis, including fossil fuel ones, of draining public funds in the Global South, singling them out for squeezing out of governments USD 700 billion in public subsidies each year.
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Joseph Loree, who lives in the oil-rich Lokichar area of Turkana in northern Kenya, keeps a few goats due to frequent droughts. Governments in the Global South are spending billions of dollars subsidising industries harming the climate, such as the one in Lokichar. Credit: Maina Waruru/IPS
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18/09/2024
Planetary Cancer: US Militarism a Lead Driver of Climate Catastrophe
Human Wrongs Watch
By Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Washington’s military interventions are not just wars on people — they’re also wars on the planet’s climate.
U.S. combat soldier in the rubble at one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Baghdad, 24 Apr 2003. (U.S. Air Force, Cherie A. Thurlby, National Archivers, Public domain)
13 Sep 2024 – This week marks 23 years since George W. Bush declared a U.S.-led “war on terror” and the people of Afghanistan and Iraq are still suffering its consequences.
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18/09/2024
‘Failing the Stress Test’: UN Chief Calls for Global Finance Overhaul
Human Wrongs Watch
By Conor Lennon
(UN News)* — Some of the world’s poorest countries spend more on debt repayments than health, education and infrastructure combined, severely hampering their chances of developing their economies.
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“The international financial architecture, crafted in 1945 after the Second World War, is undergoing a stress test of historic proportions – and it is failing that test”, argues UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a 2023 policy brief.
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16/09/2024
Why Dirty Air Costs US$ Trillions Every Year
Human Wrongs Watch
(UNEP)* — Air pollution costs the global economy a staggering US$8.1 trillion every year, or 6.1 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product.
Credit: UNEP
16/09/2024
August 2024, the Warmest on Record, Marking the 15th Consecutive Month of Record-High Global Temperatures
Human Wrongs Watch
13 September 2024 (WMO)* — The extended streak of extraordinarily high temperatures has continued, and the year so far has been the warmest on record for the globe, according to three leading international datasets.
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It was the warmest August on record, marking the 15th consecutive month of record-high global temperatures, which it itself is a record, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
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16/09/2024
Half the World Lacks Social Protection amid Climate Crisis – International Labour Organization
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Social protection is essential to safeguard people from shocks, but half the world is without any coverage, including over 90 per cent of people living in climate-vulnerable countries, according to a new report released on Thursday [] by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
15/09/2024
“A Race against Time”: Pregnant Djamila’s Journey to Hospital by Canoe in Flood-Ravaged Cameroon
Human Wrongs Watch
FAR NORTH REGION, Cameroon, 11 September 2024 (UNFPA)* -– As Djamila* clutched her pregnant belly, the floodwaters rose around her, threatening to engulf the fragile canoe she had escaped in.
“The water was everywhere,” she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. “I was so scared – not just for myself, but for my babies. Every minute felt like an eternity.”
At 18, this was her first pregnancy – and she was expecting twins.
10/09/2024
Cooking Smoke Kills Millions Every Year. Here’s What the World Can Do about That
Human Wrongs Watch
5 September 2024 (UNEP)* — For billions of people across the developing world, particularly children and women, mealtime starts by firing up a kerosene stove, lighting a charcoal grill or setting some logs ablaze.
Credit: Robert Harding via AFP/Lee Frost
The problem: much of this cooking happens inside and the smoke it produces is laced with toxic particles. This type of household air pollution led to 3.1 million premature deaths in 2021 and is part of a larger crisis driving climate change and biodiversity loss.
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10/09/2024
Tackling Climate Change Will Be a Pyrrhic Victory If We Lose Sight of the Poor
Human Wrongs Watch
– Last July, we were confronted with alarming statistics: 733 million people experienced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally.
In Africa it was even higher, with one in five people going hungry. Climate change is a significant driver of this crisis.
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