Archive for ‘War Lords’

02/07/2021

‘Billions of People Will Lack Access to Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in 2030 Unless Progress Quadruples’

Latest estimates reveal that 3 in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A mother and her children wash their hands outside their home using a bucket, water, and soap.
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GENEVA/NEW YORK, 1 July 2021 (UNICEF)* – Billions of people around the world will be unable to access safely managed household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in 2030 unless the rate of progress quadruples, according to a new report from WHO and UNICEF.

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01/07/2021

Urgent Action Needed to End ‘Inhumane Conditions’ Facing Haiti Prisoners – UN Human Rights Chief

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)*Extreme overcrowding and lack of access to food, water and health, are among the ‘inhumane conditions’ that prisoners in Haiti must endure, often over the course of many years, according to a new UN report.

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© UNICEF/Roger LeMoyne | Boys reach through bars at a jail for juveniles in the Delmas neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 2005
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The document published on Wednesday [30 June 2021], based on visits to 12 detention centres by UN staff at the beginning of 2021, notes that in some instances up to 60 people were crammed into spaces measuring just 20 square meters, leaving them unable to even lie down on the floor to sleep.

01/07/2021

Once Again, Haiti Seems to Be Dying

Human Wrongs Watch

What will Latin America do about it?

Hurricane Tomas floods streets of Gonaives, Haiti
Hurricane Tomas floods streets of Gonaives, Haiti | Image from Wall Street International.

30June 2021 — (Wall Street International)* —  The story goes that on his first voyage to what would become America, Christopher Columbus disembarked on October 12, 1492, on a beach he named San Salvador, today Wattlin, in the Bahamas archipelago.

By December 1 he chose to live in a wonderful setting on an island he called Hispaniola. He took possession of it without asking, obviously, the locals. Colonization began by building a fort called “La Navidad”, on the north coast of what is today Haiti.

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01/07/2021

Number of Migrant Workers Increases by Five Million, Reaching 169 Million

Human Wrongs Watch

A new ILO report estimates that between 2017 and 2019 the number of international migrants has increased from 164 to 169 million.

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GENEVA, 1 July 2021 (ILO)* – The number of international migrant workers globally has risen to 169 million, a rise of three per cent since 2017, according to the latest estimates from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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The share of youth migrant workers (aged 15-24) has also increased, by almost 2 per cent, or 3.2 million, since 2017. Their number reached 16.8 million in 2019.
30/06/2021

Sharing Scientific Knowledge

Human Wrongs Watch

By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*

We Stand on Each Other’s Shoulders

Cultural evolution depends on the non-genetic storage, transmission, diffusion and utilization of information.

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John Scales Avery

The development of human speech, the invention of writing, the development of paper and printing, and finally, in modern times, mass media, computers and the Internet: all these have been crucial steps in society’s explosive accumulation of information and knowledge. Human cultural evolution proceeds at a constantly-accelerating speed.

Our modern civilization has been built up by means of a worldwide exchange of ideas and inventions. It is built on the achievements of many ancient cultures.

China, Japan, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, the Islamic world, Christian Europe, and the Jewish intellectual traditions, all have contributed.

Potatoes, corn, squash, vanilla, chocolate, chili peppers, and quinine are gifts from the American Indians.

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30/06/2021

‘We Are the Lucky Ones’

By Catherine Wachiaya in Tunaydbah refugee settlement, Sudan*

Ethiopian refugee Mihret hid in the bush for days without food or water, to escape the Tigray conflict. Now safe in Sudan, she is using her engineering skills to assist her community. Français

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Mihret, 25, an Ethiopian refugee and engineer poses on top of a water tank in the mobile office base at Tunaydbah settlement, Sudan.
© UNHCR/Ahmed Kwarte

30/06/2021

‘Remain Vigilant’ against Malicious Technologies that Could Imperil Future Generations

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — With over 4.6 billion internet users around the world, digital advances continue to revolutionize human life, but “we must remain vigilant” in the face of malicious technologies that “could imperil the security of future generations”, the head of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) told the Security Council on Tuesday [29 June 2021].

© UNICEF/Elias | In today’s digital era, governments are increasingly relying on digital surveillance technology to support national security.
29/06/2021

No Matter How Far HMS Queen Elizabeth Sails, It Won’t Make Britain Great Again

Human Wrongs Watch

By Paul Rogers*

26 June 2021 (openDemocracy)* — The UK’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is a few weeks into its deployment to Japan and back, which is expected to last more than seven months and include a transiting of the South China Sea through areas claimed by China.

800px-HMS_Queen_Elizabeth_in_Gibraltar_-_2018_(28386226189)The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in Gibraltar for her first overseas port visit. The 65,000 tonne future flagship was conducting a routine logistics stop having left her home in Portsmouth a week earlier for helicopter trials | Author: Dave Jenkins – InfoGibraltar | Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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29/06/2021

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

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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

Bangladesh: Hold Security Forces Accountable for Torture

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By Human Rights Watch*

Rights Groups Call for Decisive Action on International Day for Victims

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officials stand alert inside a truck in front of Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, Bangladesh on February 20, 2021.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officials stand alert inside a truck in front of Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, Bangladesh on February 20, 2021. © 2021 Sipa via AP Images

New York, 27 June 2021 – The Bangladesh government has failed to address widespread allegations of torture and ill-treatment by its security forces, ten rights groups said on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The groups called on the United Nations and concerned governments to take decisive action.

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