19/11/2021
Interview: On Brink of Humanitarian Crisis, There’s ‘No Childhood’ in Afghanistan
17/11/2021
Politicians Subsidise Fossil Fuels with Six Trillion Dollars in Just One Year
Human Wrongs Watch
– It sounds incredible: while politicians have been cackling about the climate emergency and profiling in empty promises to halt it, they have spent six trillion US dollars from taxpayers’ money to subsidise fossil fuels in just one year: 2020. And they are set to increase the figure to nearly seven trillion by 2025.
An offshore oil rig drilling platform. Globally, fossil fuel subsidies amounted to 5.9 trillion US dollars in 2020, according to an IMF report. Credit: Bigstock
Add to this that governments will double the production of energy from these very same, highly dangerous, global warming generators. Continue reading
17/11/2021
Military Pollution Is the Skeleton in the West’s Climate Closet
Human Wrongs Watch
By Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Leaders at the COP26 summit have no intention of tackling the growing environmental impacts caused by their ‘defence’ spending.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
World leaders gathered in Glasgow last week for the COP26 summit in a bid to demonstrate how they are belatedly getting to grips with the climate crisis.
Agreements to protect forests, cut carbon and methane emissions and promote green tech are all being hammered out in front of a watching world.
17/11/2021
UN Backs Plans to Ensure Regular, Healthy School Meals for Every Child in Need by 2030
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Following pandemic-driven school closures, five UN agencies threw their strong support behind an international coalition to improve the nutrition, health and education of school-age children around the world.
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17/11/2021
Ethiopia: Mass Arbitrary Arrests Target Tigrayans
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Over the past week, mass arrests of people reportedly of Tigrayan origin have continued in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and elsewhere, the UN rights office said on Tuesday 16 November 2021.
The alert from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) comes as the World Food Programme (WFP) described the aid situation for vulnerable people in Tigray as “hand-to-mouth”.
Citing reports, OHCHR said that at least 1,000 individuals are believed to have been detained by police officers in the last seven days, on suspicion of being linked to the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
16/11/2021
Scary Drones
It is almost impossible to know what kind of data will be gathered by drones all over the world | Image from Wall Street International.
16 November 2021 (Wall Street International)* — Are drones already conquering the world? Hi-tech is exponentially and rapidly changing our lives.
We are observing the rise of AI technology in all sectors of society. A large number of industries, including both the military and commercial sectors, governments and recreational users are all adopting the technology of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) — or drones.
16/11/2021
Climate Change Is Ecological Destruction: Greenwashing and False Solutions at COP 26
Human Wrongs Watch
By Navdanya International (Vandana Shiva) – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The climate emergency we face today is part of several interlocking crises involving our health, our soils, and the biodiversity on the planet. The same line of thinking and actions that are driving climate change is leading to biodiversity loss and extinction of species and has also created the current hunger, malnutrition, and health emergencies. The climate crisis is a symptom of the broader ecological crisis being perpetuated by an extractivist and profit-driven system.
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16/11/2021
Asian Staffers at UN Launch Network to Protect Rights & Fight Racism
Human Wrongs Watch
– The United Nations, which consists of 193 member states, has long been accused of discrimination against staffers who number over 315,000 and spread across 56 UN agencies and entities worldwide.
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But most of these are deeply rooted system-wide. A wide-ranging staff survey, both in New York and Geneva last year, revealed that discrimination was based either on race, religion, gender or nationality. Continue reading
16/11/2021
Ethiopia: $40 Million (!) in Aid Relief for Victims ‘Living on a Knife-Edge’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — As the humanitarian crisis grows in Ethiopia’s conflict-affected north, the UN announced on Monday 15 November 2021 that $40 million in funds have been made available to scale up emergency operations.
15/11/2021
By 2025, 1.8 Billion People Will Experience Absolute Water Scarcity, and 2/3 of the World Will Be Living under Water-Stressed Conditions
Human Wrongs Watch
Drought, a complex and slowly encroaching natural hazard with significant and pervasive socio-economic and environmental impacts, is known to cause more deaths and displace more people than any other natural disaster.
(UNCCD)* — By 2025, 1.8 billion people will experience absolute water scarcity, and 2/3 of the world will be living under water-stressed conditions (1).
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 