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29/06/2021

‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’ Now Launched

Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert J. Burrowes & Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service*

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‘We Are Human We Are Free’ announces the launch of the ‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’.

This worldwide nonviolent resistance movement is a strategy to resist the achievement of elite control through implementation of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’.

Our aim is to build a mass civil resistance movement to undermine the power of the Global Elite to control us, and to regain the freedoms that make our lives worth living.

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29/06/2021

Migrants Smuggled across Borders Are Often Subjected to ‘Extreme Violence, Torture, Rape and Kidnapping’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Migrants smuggled across borders are often subjected to extreme violence, torture, rape and kidnapping, whether in transit or in captivity, but authorities take little action to address these offences, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report published on 28 June 2021.

Djibouti is a favoured destination for migrants and refugees from countries in the region, notably Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia.
OIM/Alexander Bee | Djibouti is a favoured destination for migrants and refugees from countries in the region, notably Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia.
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The study focusses on transit routes in West and North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and Central America.It also examines the differing types of violence inflicted on men and women, and presents factors and motivations behind abuse committed during smuggling operations.

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28/06/2021

The Islands of the Caribbean: Connected by Biodiversity

Human Wrongs Watch

25 June 2021 (UNEP)* — Birds, fish, turtles, marine mammals and even seeds and larvae connect the islands of the Caribbean across the air and the sea.

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CBC / 23 Jun 2021

Aware that biodiversity knows no borders, the governments of Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic have joined forces in the Caribbean Biological Corridor with the vision to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems across the Greater Antilles.

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28/06/2021

Complicit: Nuclear Weapons Spending Increased in 2020 by $137,666… Every Minute!

Human Wrongs Watch

By the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)*

$72.6 billion is how much nine nuclear armed countries spent on their nuclear weapons as the pandemic spread in 2020 and a global treaty banning nuclear weapons took full effect.

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The report “Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending” details the spending of these nine countries on their arsenals, the companies that profited, and the lobbyists hired to keep nuclear weapons in business.

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28/06/2021

World Military Spending Rises to almost $2 Trillion in 2020

Human Wrongs Watch

By SIPRI-Stockholm International Peace Research Institute*

(Stockholm) Total global military expenditure rose to $1981 billion last year, an increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms from 2019, according to new data published on 29 April 2021 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

World military spending rises to almost $2 trillion in 2020

World military spending, by region, 1988–2020. Data and graphic: SIPRI

The five biggest spenders in 2020, which together accounted for 62 per cent of global military expenditure, were the United States, China, India, Russia and the United Kingdom. Military spending by China grew for the 26th consecutive year.

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28/06/2021

The Trillion Dollar Climate Finance Challenge (And Opportunity)

Mangrove seedlings are planted in an estuary in Bali to help fight erosion.

UNDP/Tim Laman | Mangrove seedlings are planted in an estuary in Bali to help fight erosion.

Investments in renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure are growing, however from January 2020 to March 2021, globally, more money was spent on fossil fuels, which when burned, create the harmful gasses driving climate change.

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26/06/2021

UN’s Double Standard on Human Rights Abusers Protects Big Powers

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen*

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26/06/2021

Formal and Informal Micro-, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Make Up 90% of All Firms, Account for 70% of Total Employment and 50% of GDP…

Human Wrongs Watch

A close-up of a smiling man with a smiling woman sewing in the background.

 

Sewing workshop of a family business in China. PHOTO:Marcel Crozet / ILO

26 June 2021 (United Nations)* — The COVID-19 crisis has taught us that the pandemic and containment measures do not impact everyone in the same way.

Among the private sector, Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs), especially those led by women, youth, ethnic minorities and migrants, suffered the most.

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26/06/2021

Wholesale Food Markets ‘Critical’ for Agri-Food Systems Transformation

Human Wrongs Watch

Rome/Florence (FAO)* – Wholesale food markets are a critical partner in global efforts to transform agri-food systems and fight food insecurity, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, on 25 June 2021 said.

Photo: ©FAO/ C. Marinheiro

Vendors wear protective face masks at the Asa Branca Market in Luanda, Angola.

Speaking online to the World Union of Wholesale Markets (WUWM) Conference held in Florence, FAO Director-General outlined how the COVID-19 pandemic had made it imperative to address inequalities in access to nutritious and healthy diets.

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26/06/2021

Roadmap for the Progressive Elimination of Dumpsites in Latin America and the Caribbean

Human Wrongs Watch

Panama City, June 25, 2021 (UNEP)* – The Roadmap for the Progressive Closure of Dumpsites in Latin America and the Caribbean aims to establish the requirements and necessary steps to eliminate dumpsites in the region by 2030 and, thus, correct the impacts on health and the environment caused by the inappropriate disposal of solid waste

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Basurales / 25 Jun 2021

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The analysis, presented at a high-level event, is the result of the work of the Voluntary coalition of governments and relevant organizations, which has been supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

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