19/04/2019
As Fighting in Libya Escalates, So Does Number of Children ‘at Imminent Risk of Injury or Death’
Human Wrongs Watch
In and around Tripoli, an increasing number of children are “at imminent risk of injury or death” two senior United Nations officials warned on Thursday [18 April 2019], citing a surge of aggression in crisis-torn Libya.
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18/04/2019
Trump’s Veto Will Trigger More US Arms to Kill Civilians in Yemen
Human Wrongs Watch
– President Donald Trump’s decision to veto a bi-partisan Congressional resolution to end US military involvement in a devastating Saudi-led four-year conflict in Yemen– is expected to escalate the ongoing war in the trouble-plagued region.
Yemen home for the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The weapons used by the Saudis in the reckless bombing of mostly civilian targets, including schools and hospitals, are largely from the United States: F-15 fighter planes, Bell helicopters, drones, air-to-surface missiles, M60 battle tanks, laser-guided bombs and heavy artillery.
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18/04/2019
Yemen: ‘More Bombs and Weapons Will Only Mean More Suffering and Death’
Human Wrongs Watch
Statement by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Policy Director, Ole Solvang, on the US President’s veto to a bill to end military support for the war in Yemen*
17 April 2019 (Norwegian Refugee Council)* – “President Trump said that withdrawing from the war in Yemen would ‘negatively affect ongoing efforts to prevent civilian casualties.’ Yet if he was truly concerned about civilian life, he would first and foremost ensure that the US-supported Saudi-led coalition stop breaking the laws of war and depriving millions of Yemenis of life-saving assistance.
18/04/2019
For Radical US Constitutional Reforms
The White House | Photo from Wall Street International.
18/04/2019
A Year into Sociopolitical Crisis, Thousands of Nicaraguans Continue to Flee
Human Wrongs Watch
By Jean Pierre Mora in Upala, Costa Rica*
Since the government suppressed street protests last April, thousands have sought safety in neighbouring Costa Rica, where meeting basic needs remains a challenge. | Español | Français
Manuel and his two children in their new home in Costa Rica as Nicaraguan asylum seekers. | © UNHCR/Flavia Sanchez
17/04/2019
Progress against Torture in Afghan Detention Centres, But Government Needs to Do More – UN Report
Human Wrongs Watch
Torture is likely still widespread in Afghanistan’s State-run prisons for detainees linked to ongoing conflict there, the UN said on Wednesday [17 April 2019], while also noting an “encouraging reduction” in the level of abuse since 2016.
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Based on interviews with more than 600 detainees and published jointly by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), their latest report on the treatment of prisoners in 77 facilities in 28 out of 34 provinces indicates that an average of nearly one in three, provided “credible and reliable” accounts of suffering.
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17/04/2019
Libya: Heavy Shelling and Civilian Deaths ‘Blatant Violation’ of International Law – UN Envoy
Human Wrongs Watch
Heavy shelling overnight on Tuesday [16 April 2019] which hit a densely-populated neighbourhood of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, was condemned “in the strongest terms” by the head of the UN Mission there, after “scores” of civilians were reportedly killed and injured.
“Horrible night of random shelling of residential areas”, tweeted UN Special Representative Ghassan Salame on Wednesday, after the Abu Slim district was hit. “For the sake of 3 million civilians living in Greater Tripoli, these attacks should stop. NOW!”
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17/04/2019
On the Disconnect – Intelligence and Consciousness in the Brave New World
The meteoric of artificial intelligence | Image from Wall Street International.
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17/04/2019
Reckoning with Failure in the War on Terror
Human Wrongs Watch
By Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Donald Trump’s ascendancy to the presidency, as Max Blumenthal points out in his insightful book “The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump,” was made possible not only by massive social inequality and concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of the oligarchic elites but by the national security state’s disastrous and prolonged military interventions overseas.
Mr. Fish / Truthdig
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