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“Shell’s profit comes at our expense”

Human Wrongs Watch By Isadora Wronski* 2 April 2015 (Greenpeace) — Climate science has made it clear that Arctic oil needs to stay in the ground if we want to avoid the worst impacts from global climate change. We know it…

International Criminal Court Welcomes Palestine as State Party to Rome Statute

Human Wrongs Watch 1 April 2015 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomed the Palestine as the 123rd State Party to its founding Rome Statute today, in a ceremony held at the seat of the Court in The Hague in…

Children Killed and Injured by Land-mines, Unexploded Ordnance in Eastern Ukraine

Human Wrongs Watch KYIV/GENEVA — At least 109 children are reported to have been injured and 42 killed by land mines and unexploded ordnance in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine since March last year, UNICEF on 31 March…

South Africa’s political assassinations continue

South Africa-Reports reveal that although there are no official statistics of political assassinations in the country,  we are reliably told that there are about 400 unregistered political assassinations’ cases.These political assassinations have been committed after 1994, in the new political…

Opening Message for the Day of Discussions on the Peace process in Colombia at Hudson Valley Park of Study and Reflections.

March 28, 2015 – First, let me thank you for being here and for traveling to this beautiful part of New York State. We are here at the Hudson Valley Park of Study and Reflection between Kingston and New Paltz.…

Occupy Rupert Murdoch Week Closes Entrance to News HQ

By Occupy the Media Occupy Rupert Murdoch Week Closes Entrance to News HQ to Highlight the Right-Wing Media Billionaires’ Hijacking of Britain’s Democracy About 50 Occupy Rupert Murdoch supporters have shut down the entrance to Rupert Murdoch’s News UK office…

Lee Kuan Yew, dynamic politician and elder statesman

This year I will be 31—the same age as Singapore’s first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew when he started the People’s Action Party in 1954. From a Facebook post My generation may not fully agree with his politics, even as…

Humanist Party Buenos Aires launches election campaign

Hello friends! In Buenos Aires we are in campaign until 26/04. There are simultaneous and mandatory open primaries. This means we need 30,000 votes (1.5%) to surpass this instance and participate in the general elections of 05/07. We hope, based…

5 Facts You Need to Know about Yemen and its Conflicts

Human Wrongs Watch 27 March 2015 (RT)* – One of the poorest and most violent countries in the Middle East, Yemen is also an area of strategic importance for regional players – and some of the world’s most dangerous terror groups. RT…

Wave of Occupations in London Swells!

By Occupy London Occupy Goldsmiths has now been set up. The new wave of occupations in London was swelled yesterday as students at King’s College London went into occupation to protest the ongoing neoliberalisation of higher education. They join the…

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