Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The plan by Israel’s Government to build more than 3,400 housing units in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank was condemned on Thursday [] by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.
08/03/2024
World News in Brief: Israeli Settlement Plan Condemned; Abductions in Northern Nigeria; Alarm over Reported Pre-election Attacks in India
08/03/2024
5 Ways to Accelerate Women’s Economic Empowerment
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — At the current rate of investment, more than 340 million women and girls will still live in extreme poverty by 2030, according to UN Women.
© WFP/Evelyn Fey | Women in Djoukoulkili, Chad – a country wracked by conflict and climate change – take part in land rehabilitation programme supported by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on 8 March by investing in women, we look at what needs to be done to improve the economic situation of women around the world.
“This year’s theme – invest in women – reminds us that ending the patriarchy requires money on the table,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement for the International Day.
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08/03/2024
New Attempts to Reduce Gender Inequality in Brazil
Human Wrongs Watch
– Brazil is beginning to test the effectiveness of a gender pay equality law passed in July 2023, a new attempt to reduce inequality for women in the world of work.
Women march for their rights on Mar. 8, 2023, in Brasília. Every International Women’s Day, Brazilian women take to the streets in towns and cities to protest against sexism, racism and other factors of gender inequality. CREDIT: Lula Marques / Agência Brasil
This Friday, Mar. 8, International Women’s Day, is the deadline for companies with more than 100 employees to publish their first half-yearly salary transparency reports, with comparative data on remuneration and the distribution of hierarchical functions between men and women, and between different ethnic groups, nationalities and ages.
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07/03/2024
2023, Deadliest Year on Record for Migrants
Human Wrongs Watch
Geneva/ Berlin, 6 March 2024 (IOM)* -– At least 8,565 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2023, making it the deadliest year on record, according to data collected by IOM’s Missing Migrants Project.
The 2023 death toll represents a tragic increase of 20 per cent compared to 2022, highlighting the urgent need for action to prevent further loss of life.
“As we mark the Missing Migrants Project’s ten years, we first remember all these lives lost. Every single one of them is a terrible human tragedy that reverberates through families and communities for years to come,” said IOM Deputy Director General Ugochi Daniels.
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02/03/2024
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers’ Long Overdue Wages at Risk
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By Human Rights Watch*
Gaps in Repayment Program; Wage Theft Still Rampant
(Beirut) – Representatives of two construction companies in Saudi Arabiaannounced recently that migrant workers will get their long overdue unpaid wages, but gaps in the repayment scheme puts the payments at risk, Human Rights Watch said on 29 February 2024.
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28/02/2024
Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti
Human Wrongs Watch
By Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service*
How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside?
D.R. Congo
How can I sit in my modest but comfortable home, refrigerator well stocked, knowing what unbearable suffering is being inflicted on my brothers and sisters in the human family and not run raging through the streets screaming Stop! Stop!?
How can I hold the knowledge of my own so-called government, via named and nameless maleficent megalomaniacs, facilitating unspeakable horrors far away and not take the first flight to my nation’s capital and hurl buckets of blood at the White House?
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26/02/2024
5 Things You Should Know about ‘Clean Energy’ Minerals and the Dirty Process of Mining Them
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — If the world is to move away from fossil fuels, we will need to extract far more rare minerals, to power renewable energy sources such as wind turbines and solar plants. However, energy experts point out that mining these minerals can be a dirty process, ravaging the environment, and leading to human rights abuses.
26/02/2024
‘Robot Cars’ Are Coming. How Can We Make Sure They’re Safe?
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The concept of “autonomous” cars, moving us all around in an orderly, congestion-free fashion has been around, in various forms, for decades. But, despite some impressive technological advances in recent years, that vision is still some way off.
© Ian Maddox | A Tesla car in “autopilot” mode
“Connected vehicles” also raise fears of hacking, and cars being remotely controlled by unscrupulous individuals or organizations.
A good example is the recent movie, Leave the World Behind, which features a scene in which hundreds of electric cars are hacked, causing them to smash into each other on a New York highway.
Nevertheless, the industry is forging ahead with plans to introduce increasing levels of autonomy in the latest car models, and the UN is at the heart of those discussions, which involve governments and the transport industry, aimed at developing international regulations and guidelines governing automated driving.
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24/02/2024
Governments Target Nationals Living Abroad
Human Wrongs Watch
By Human Rights Watch*
Killings, Removals, Other Abuses Threaten Rights; Bold Policy Response Needed
© 2024 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch(New York) – Governments across the globe are reaching beyond their borders and committing human rights abuses against their own nationals or former nationals to silence or deter dissent, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 22 February 2024.
23/02/2024
Imperialism, Globalisation and Its Discontents*
Human Wrongs Watch
– Imperialism continues to dominate the world. Globalisation is losing to some of its anti-theses, but imperialism still rules, increasingly by law, albeit in changing even contradictory ways.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Hence, we live in challenging times. It is often difficult to see the main challenges we face as there seem to be so many. Also, the new or the unusual gains far more attention than what appears commonplace.
Power and empire
Our histories and cultures are often quite different despite our common, but varied experiences of foreign domination, even rule. Such power involves varied mixes of socioeconomic and political relations, involving governance and even the rule of law.
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