International
Hong Kong: Sixty days and its D’Occupy Day
The Hong Kong protest action under the banner of the Umbrella Movement – and for some the Umbrella Revolution – has come to a stage which many have seen as inevitable. After almost two-months blocking normally busy thoroughfares, enough was…
End Violence against Women
Human Wrongs Watch By UN Women*, November 2014 — To raise awareness and trigger action to end the global scourge of violence against women and girls, the UN observes International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25…
Support needed for a strong Anti-racism Intergroup in the European Parliament
As a transnational organisation part of a wider coalition supporting the re-establishment of a strong Intergroup on Anti-racism and Diversity (ARDI) for the 8th European Parliament legislature, we attach great importance to main-streaming racial equality in the policy and legislative…
‘For oil companies, our rights are just another obstacle’
Human Wrongs Watch By Martin L., Joris T., Leon V. and Faiza O.*, 21 November, 2014 – Once upon a time fossil fuel exploration took place far away, out of sight and out of mind. But as oil and gas giants become…
Uncomplicated, in Afghanistan
By Kathy Kelly On November 7, 2014, while visiting Kabul, the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg noted that NATO will soon launch a new chapter, a new non-combat mission in Afghanistan. But it’s difficult to spot the new method…
Little Book, Big Data
Human Wrongs Watch The Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has published a comprehensive pocketbook of nutrition-related data covering all regions of the world ahead of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) taking place in the Italian capital…
Every Dollar Invested in Water, Sanitation Brings Four-Fold Return in Costs – UN
Human Wrongs Watch For every dollar invested in water and sanitation, there is a $4.3 return in the form of reduced health care costs for individuals and society around the world, where 2.5 billion people still lack access to basic…
On World Toilet Day — 1 in 3 Women Worldwide Does Not Have Access to Safe Toilets
Human Wrongs Watch With one out of three women worldwide lacking access to safe toilets, it is a moral imperative to end open defecation to ensure women and girls are not at risk of assault and rape simply because they…
On International Day, ‘Tolerance for All Regardless of Nationality, Religion, Race, Sexuality…’
Human Wrongs Watch Making International Day of Tolerance, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 16 November 2014 urged world leaders to protect people from persecution and to encourage tolerance for all regardless of nationality, religion, language, race, sexuality or any…
Brisbane: A show of Western weakness
No matter what you may think of Putin and Russia this is simply not the way international politics should be conducted, particularly not at the personal level. If it wasn’t an offence to children, one would aptly characterise it as…
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