Human Wrongs Watch
– “Unless we take action, the share of children leaving school in developing countries who are unable to read could increase from 53 to 70 percent.”
Credit: Shafiqul Alam Kiron/IPS
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22/01/2022
Human Rights Violations and Culture of Impunity in South Asia
Human Wrongs Watch
– As countries across South Asia continue to battle the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, causing serious public health and economic crisis, this region, which is home to almost 2 billion people, is also grappling with the erosion of democratic norms, growing authoritarianism, the crackdown on freedom of press, speech and dissent.
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22/01/2022
“We face a five-alarm global fire that requires the full mobilization of all countries”
Human Wrongs Watch
22/01/2022
Yemen: UN Mission Warns of ‘Devastating’ Loss of Life, as UN Chief Condemns Coalition Airstrikes
(UN News)* — The UN chief has condemned airstrikes launched early on Friday [21 January 2022] by the Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi rebels in Yemen, that struck a detention centre in the rebel-held city of Saada, which have left at least 60 dead, and more than hundred injured.
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The Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized Government, has been fighting Houthi militants who control much of the country including the capital Sana’a, since 2015. Conflict escalated this week, following an attack on coalition partner, the United Arab Emirates by Houthi forces, on Monday.
20/01/2022
#Ethiopia #TigrayGenocide #ExcuseForRegimeChangeWar
Human Wrongs Watch
By Ann Garrison | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service*
While France steps up neocolonial aggression in its former North and West African colonies, the U.S. has set its sights on the elected government of Ethiopia in the geostrategic Horn of Africa. Ethiopia’s growing ties with China and Russia and the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Cooperation Between Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea so threaten U.S. global hegemony that a U.S. “regime change” campaign is well underway.
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19/01/2022
Yemen: Violent Escalation, Alarming Number of Air and Drone Strikes against Civilians and Non-Military Targets
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Escalating conflict in Yemen has seen an alarming number of air and drone strikes already this year, notably against civilians and non-military targets, the UN rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday [18 January 2022].
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“We are deeply concerned by the continuing escalation of the conflict in Yemen. Overnight, air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition on the capital, Sana’a, are reported to have left at least five civilians dead,” said OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.
19/01/2022
UNRWA Seeks $1.6 Billion to Support Palestinian Refugees in 2022
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday [18 January 2022] appealed for $1.6 billion to support its lifesaving work this year amid acute regional crises and chronic funding shortfalls.
UNRWA provides services and programmes, including education, health and food assistance, to more than five million Palestinians across the Middle East.
The 2022 budget proposal includes additional emergency funding to address humanitarian needs arising from crises in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, and Lebanon.
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18/01/2022
Hey, Hey, USA! How Many Bombs Did You Drop Today?
Human Wrongs Watch
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago. These monthly reports have been published since 2007 to document the number of bombs and missiles dropped by U.S.-led air forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria since 2004. But President Trump stopped publishing them after February 2020, shrouding continued U.S. bombing in secrecy.
August 2020 U.S. drone strike in Kabul killed 10 Afghan civilians. Credit: Getty Images
Over the past 20 years, as documented in the table below, U.S. and allied air forces have dropped over 337,000 bombs and missiles on other countries. That is an average of 46 strikes per day for 20 years.
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18/01/2022
As the Pandemic Devastates the Poor, the World’s 10 Richest Have Multiplied their Wealth into Trillions
Human Wrongs Watch
– The numbers are unbelievably staggering: the world’s 10 richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion —at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day, according to a new study from Oxfam International.
In Malawi, some students have been going to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: UNICEF/Malumbo Simwaka
These phenomenal changes in fortunes took place during the first two years of a Covid-19 pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall, and over 160 million more people forced into poverty—60 million more than the figures released by the World Bank in 2020.
“If these ten men were to lose 99.999 percent of their wealth tomorrow, they would still be richer than 99 percent of all the people on this planet,” said Oxfam International’s Executive Director Gabriela Bucher.
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18/01/2022
Ukraine: The West Has Paved the Road to War with Lies
Human Wrongs Watch
By Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
While this is being written, tension builds up around the more comprehensive Ukraine conflict formation. If this blows up in real war – God forbid! – the main reason will be three serious lies disseminated by the NATO side.
Britannica
Lies are used in so-called security politics when some militarist project doesn’t make any (common) sense to intelligent people, when the real motives have to be covered up and war is being prepared or when the sociological cancer called the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex, MIMAC, and the elites who run it, try to squeeze out even larger military expenditures from their taxpayers.
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