Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The United States on Wednesday [] vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
20/11/2024
‘The Man Who Bought the World’
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Human Wrongs Watch
By Human Rights Watch*
Saudi Arabia: Public Investment Fund Linked to Abuses: Crown Prince Concentrates Power Through Control of Nearly Trillion-Dollar Fund
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (center) heads a meeting of the Council of Economic Affairs and Development in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on May 29, 2018. The council is responsible for oversight of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF). © 2018 Balkis Press/ABACA/Shutterstock
(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has facilitated and benefited from human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 20 November 2024.
20/11/2024
Western Finance Ruining Economies of the Rest
Human Wrongs Watch
– Western financial policies have been squeezing economies worldwide. After being urged to borrow commercial finance heavily, developing countries now struggle with contractionary Western monetary policies.
Central banks
‘Unconventional monetary measures’ in the West helped offset the world economic slowdown after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Higher interest rates have worsened contractions, debt distress, and inequalities due to cost-push inflation triggered by ‘geopolitical’ supply disruptions.
Western central bank efforts have tried to check inflation by curbing demand and raising interest rates. Higher interest rates have worsened contractionary tendencies, exacerbating world stagnation. Continue reading
19/11/2024
Where Is the US Evil Empire Heading Now?
Human Wrongs Watch
By Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service*
7 Nov 2024 – Empires do NOT reform. Resilience is the term associated with the Oppressed, not the Oppressor. (Try imagine being enslaved or colonized for 300 years).
Maung Zarni
With elite delusions and a popular sense of “being special/ exceptional/ unique/ superior), Empires get toxic at home and abroad, decay, get overpowered/ crushed or simply collapse.
USA is no exception, except it has the capacity to bring humanity at large with it, to Hell.
I do not hate Americans as a people – just another population of fellow humans, who deserve life, not more or less than any other population.
But, with every cell in my body, I absolutely loath Empires and Imperialisms, whatever their names.
19/11/2024
Annexation of Gaza Won’t Create Lasting Middle East Peace – UN Agency for Palestine Refugees
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, confirmed on Monday [] that a large convoy of humanitarian aid was looted inside Gaza at the weekend, amid a near-total breakdown in law and order and harassment of the agency’s staff by Israeli soldiers.
19/11/2024
‘Cut the Theatrics’: UN Climate Chief Tells COP29 Negotiators to Focus on Solutions
()* — As COP29 climate talks in Baku enter their final week, the UN climate chief told negotiators on Monday [] to “cut the theatrics,” get down to business and hammer out a new finance deal to compensate countries for climate-driven damages and pay for a clean-energy transition.
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UNFCCC/Kiara Worth | UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell addresses negotiators as the final week of COP29 begins in Baku, Azerbaijan.
17/11/2024
Cryosphere Crisis: Scientists Warn of Devastating Global Impacts Without Urgent Climate Action
Human Wrongs Watch
– Scientists warn of vastly higher impacts on billions of people’s livelihood and cost to the global economy by the accelerating losses in the world’s snow and ice regions, aka the cryosphere.
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Mountain range in Mt. Everest region in Nepal; loss of snow and glacier melting in the region impacting people living in the region and downstream communities. Photo: Tanka Dhakal/IPS
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16/11/2024
The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees Is Living Through the “Darkest Moment” of Its 75 Year History
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, is living through the “darkest moment” of its 75 year history, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on Wednesday [], pointing to a trifecta of legislative, operational and security challenges.
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16/11/2024
UN May Face Another Calamity– Under a Second Trump Presidency
Human Wrongs Watch
– US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20 next year may be another calamity for the United Nations—particularly if the second term turns out to be a re-run of his first presidency (2017-2021).
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President Donald Trump addresses the General Assembly’s 75th sessions back in September 2020. Credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas Continue reading
15/11/2024
The 1.5 Degrees Celsius Target from Paris (Probably) Died on November 5th.
Human Wrongs Watch
– So, the worst has happened. American voters have apparently just elected the most chaotic and kleptocratic individual in their country’s political history as their president. (We say ‘apparently’, because these days nothing can be certain about the integrity of the US political or electoral system – as is the case with far too many other countries.)
As the annual global Climate Conference (COP29) continues its first week in Baku, Azerbaijan, we can already see what the impact of the next Trump presidency will be. Credit: Shutterstock
That means the previous president, Donald Trump – who opposed every one of those climate-friendly investments and has promised the greatest re-investment in oil, gas and coal of any nation in history – is back in.
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