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‘Never before have the risks of climate change been so obvious and the impacts so visible
Human Wrongs Watch As Governments prepare to meet for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, starting on Monday 1 December 2014, a top UN official has highlighted the session as an opportunity to raise immediate awareness on…
World AIDS Day: all you need to know about HIV
29 November 2014 — The following are seven key facts about HIV, as well as a complete set of information regarding AIDS, all of them elaborated by the World Health Organization (WHO) ahead of the World AIDS Day on 1…
Taiwan’s KMT trounced in bid for Taipei mayor post
The significance about these mayoral elections in Taiwan, in Taipei, this weekend is that a candidate who is not affiliated with any political party has won as the mayor of Taipei. This is a victory for everyone who opposes the…
Hong Kong’s Umbrella movement for “fun” and for “gau-wu”
The Facebook page of “United for Democracy: Global Solidarity with Hong Kong” has lots of one-liners greeting the latest phenomenon erupting from the streets of Hong Kong, particularly the more frenzies district of Mong Kok. Explain gau wu to your…
How we learned to stop playing with blocks and ban nuclear weapons
“It is in the interest of the very survival of humanity that nuclear weapons are never used again, under any circumstances.” This is the view of the 155 states that endorsed the joint statement delivered by Ambassador Dell Higgie of…
Future Festival: Not so far, not so close
Text and Photographs: Daniela Quinteros Rosas A great variety of instruments from different nations united in Sydney (Australia) gave the tone to an abstract harmony that was transformed into a music festival in one of the most multi cultural cities…
How to Make Cooking Safe for 10 Million People by 2020
Human Wrongs Watch 21 November 2014 – Every year, household air pollution from cooking kills over four million people and sickens millions more, the United Nations spotlighted at a New York conference on cookstoves, as it urged Governments to take…
The Power of 1.8 Billion Youth
Human Wrongs Watch ‘Young people matter. They matter because an unprecedented 1.8 billion youth are alive today, and because they are the shapers and leaders of our global future. They matter because they have inherent human rights that must be…
Nonviolent Action: minimizing the risk of violent repression
In a recent article, full of insight, Professor Bill Quigley identified ten different illegal actions police often take ‘to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights’ to take nonviolent action to address a grievance. He noted that these police tactics…
Amid ‘Anaemic’ Job Creation, Greece Risks Prolonged Social Crisis – UN Report
Human Wrongs Watch Faced with an “anaemic” pace of job creation and nearly 1.3 million unemployed citizens, Greece risks a prolonged social crisis unless urgent measures are taken, warns a new report out on 24 November 2014 from the International Labour…
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