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They are the ones who are “bringing human rights to life”, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated in his message for the day.
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10/12/2019
International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide
Human Wrongs Watch
Background by the United Nations*
The Genocide Convention (article 2) defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group … “, including:
A Muslim man grieving over his son’s grave in Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 1994. UN Photo/John Isaac
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10/12/2019
Too Often, “The World Has Failed” Populations Under Threat of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing – UN Chief
9 December 2019 (UN News)* — Too often, “the world has failed” populations under threat of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing, Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of Genocide on Monday [9 December 2019].
09/12/2019
Feedback Loops
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Why Climate Is an Emergency
John Scales Avery
The central problem which the world faces in its attempts to avoid catastrophic climate change is a contrast of time scales.
In order to save human civilization and the biosphere from the most catastrophic effects of climate change we need to act immediately. Fossil fuels must be left in the ground. Forests must be saved from destruction by beef or palm oil production.
These vitally necessary actions are opposed by powerful economic interests, by powerful fossil fuel corporations desperate to monetize their underground “assets”, and by corrupt politicians receiving money from the beef or palm oil industries.
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09/12/2019
Corruption Thwarts Attempts to Build a Better World and ‘Must Be Fought by All, for All’
09/12/2019
Inequality Threatening Human Development, New Global UN Report Warns
Human Wrongs Watch
9 December 2019 (UN News)* — Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) argues in its latest report released on Monday [9 December 2019].
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The 2019 Human Development Report (HDR) states that just as the gap in basic living standards is narrowing for millions of people, inequalities surrounding education, and around technology and climate change, have sparked demonstrations across the globe.
08/12/2019
Gains and Losses of Irregular Migration
Human Wrongs Watch
– While opening a newspaper or watching a TV program we are every day made aware of the plights of irregular migrants. Some recent examples among many – on 24 October, 39 Chinese nationals were found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex. They had apparently frozen to death within a refrigerator container with temperatures as low as -25C (-13F).
This while tragedies occur almost daily on the Mediterranean Sea. On 26 November, a rescue vessel found a boat almost completely sunken.
It had three dead bodies aboard. Fifty-five migrants were saved.
Three of them were in a critical condition, and one died after reaching Melilla in Spain, where the migrants were brought in.
Three children were among the survivors, though a further ten individuals were reported missing. Nowadays, such news items pass by almost imperceptibly.
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08/12/2019
Taking on Traffickers at the World’s Largest Refugee Site
Human Wrongs Watch
By Louise Donovan in Kutupalong, Bangladesh*
UNHCR works closely with Bangladesh authorities to protect vulnerable Rohingya refugees from abduction and human trafficking at Kutupalong refugee settlement.|Español| Français
Rohingya children at a child-friendly space in Kutupalong refugee settlement in July 2019. More than half the settlement’s residents are children, who are more vulnerable to trafficking and abduction than adults. © UNHCR/Antoine Tardy
2 December 2019 (UNHCR)* — When Sara’s* seven-year-old son Mohamed* was snatched from the vast Kutupalong refugee settlement in south-east Bangladesh, she set out to find him on foot.
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08/12/2019
Bolivia: Post-Coup Update
Human Wrongs Watch
By Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service*
With every passing day, it becomes clearer that the military coup in Bolivia on November 10th was masterminded in Washington DC.
Bolivian president Evo Morales who is now in exile in Mexico.(Photo: Sebastian Baryli)
This reality will create yet a new difficulty in relations between the U.S. regime and Mexico to its direct south, because the Mexican Government, under progressive President Lopez Obrador, took the courageous and very meaningful step of providing refuge to the U.S.-couped Bolivian President Evo Morales and therefore posed overtly a resistance to the U.S. dictatorship.
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06/12/2019
Oikonomia: Bringing the Economy Back to the Earth
Human Wrongs Watch
By Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Economy: From Care and Management of “Oikos” to a Money Machine at War with the Planet and People
Manlio Masucci
The word ‘economy’ has its roots in the Greek word ‘oikos’, which originally referred to household, house, or family, its daily operations and maintenance. Economy, derived from Oikonomia is thus the management of the home.
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