19/07/2022
A Better World Is Possible
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Tasks for the Future
John Scales Avery
In the future, we will be faced with many important challenges and tasks. We need a new economic system, a new society, a new social contract, a new way of life.
Here are the great tasks that history has given to our generation: We must achieve a steady-state economic system. We must restore democracy.
We must decrease economic inequality. We must break the power of corporate greed. We must leave fossil fuels in the ground. We must stabilize and ultimately reduce the global population.
We must eliminate the institution of war.
And finally, we must develop a more mature ethical system to match our new technology We must achieve a steady-state economic system.
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18/07/2022
Xenophobia in Madiba’s Land: Too Black… Or Just Too Poor?
Human Wrongs Watch
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UN Photo/Pernaca Sudhakaran
Just three days ahead of this year’s Nelson Mandela International Day (18 July), a group of independent United Nations human rights experts condemned reports of escalating violence targeting foreign nationals in South Africa.
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18/07/2022
IOM, UNHCR and UNICEF Urge European States to End Child Detention
Human Wrongs Watch
New recommendations released by the three agencies offer solutions and alternatives to the continued practice of detaining asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant children across Europe
18/07/2022
COVID-19 Fuels Slowest Rate of Childhood Vaccination in Three Decades, Leaving Millions at Risk
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Official data published by UN agencies on Friday [15 July 2022] shows the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccination rates in approximately 30 years, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving shots.
The figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, show the percentage of children who received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) – a marker for immunization coverage within and across countries – fell five points between 2019 and 2021, to 81 per cent.
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18/07/2022
Haiti: UN Sounds Alarm over Worsening Gang Violence across Port-au-Prince
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The UN human rights office said on Saturday [16 July 2022] it was deeply concerned by worsening violence in and around the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and rising abuse at the hands of heavily armed gangs, against vulnerable local communities.
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The alert comes just hours after UN humanitarians said they were ready to provide all the assistance they could to communities caught in the crossfire of gang violence, once they can gain safe access to those impacted.
A recent upsurge in fighting between rival gangs in the Cité Soleil neighbourhood of the capital, has led to the deaths of 99 people with 135 injured according to data reported by the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office (OCHA) in Haiti.
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14/07/2022
Hundreds of Millions of Human Workers Treated Worse than Robots
Human Wrongs Watch
Teenage girls harvest tomatoes on a farm in the state of Sinaloa, in northern Mexico. Credit: Courtesy of Instituto Sinaloense para la Educación de los Adultos (Sinaloa Institute for Adult Education)
For example, of all domestic workers worldwide -overwhelmingly women- up to 94% lack access to the full range of protections, covering medical care, sickness, unemployment, old age, employment injury, family, maternity, invalidity and survivors’ benefits.
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14/07/2022
Why NATO Is Outdated, Dangerous and Deserves to Be Abolished
Human Wrongs Watch
By Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Jan Oberg
Let’s look at NATO’s reaction to Russia’s ill-considered and international law-violating military action in Ukraine.
From a conflict-analytical point of view, it is reasonable to say that Russia is responsible for the war but that NATO with it reckless expansion against all promises given to Russia and a series of expert warnings is responsible for the underlying conflict.
It can safely be concluded that the Western/NATO response has moved beyond the proportionality principle, beyond rationality and a realistic image of the world and its own role in it:
NATO leaders express limitless hatred of everything Russia; historically hard and time-unlimited economic sanctions have been imposed – using the illegal method of collective punishment; weapons for an estimated US$ 60-100 billion will be pumped into Ukraine to defeat Russia there.
NATO has added US$ 350 billion in military expenditures since the US-instigated regime change in Kiev in 2014 and, since then, prepared Ukraine for a role in NATO. The 2% goals is now a floor, not a ceiling.
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14/07/2022
The Conservatives broke the UK Economy – and Don’t Know How to Fix It
The Conservative Party is set to elect a new leader | Composite by James Battershill/openDemocracy/Alamy stock photo
14/07/2022
Mystery Child Hepatitis Outbreak Passes 1,000 Recorded Cases
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — In addition to tackling COVID and the monkeypox outbreak, the UN health agency has also been keeping a close eye on the puzzling spread of hepatitis in previously healthy children, which has left dozens needing lifesaving liver transplants.
According to a new update on Wednesday [13 July 2022] from the World Health Organization (WHO), 35 countries in five regions of the world have now reported more than 1,010 probable cases of unexplained severe acute hepatitis, or liver inflammation, in youngsters, since the outbreak was first detected on 5 April.
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