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#OrangeUrHood Campaign Kicks Off UN-led Effort to End Violence against Women
Human Wrongs Watch New York, 24 November 2014 – Tonight, for the first time ever, both the iconic United Nations Headquarters complex and the Empire State Building in New York are bathed in orange light to kick off the “Orange…
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…
‘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…
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…
More than 100,000 Libyans Flee Fighting over Past Month — 400,000 Since Last May
Human Wrongs Watch Geneva (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on 14 November 2014 reported that intense fighting among rival armed groups in western, eastern and south-eastern Libya has forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes in the…
On International Day, UN Urges Protection of Environment from ‘Ravages of War’
Human Wrongs Watch From the contamination of land to the plundering of natural resources, the environment has long been a “silent casualty” of war, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 6 November 2014 affirmed as he warned that the fast-changing…
Internally Displaced or Refugees — Does It Really Matter?
Human Wrongs Watch . By Louise Redvers, Erbil, 13 November 2014 (IRIN)* – At Harsham camp on the northern edge of Erbil, internally displaced Iraqi families who fled Mosul and its surrounding villages to escape Islamist militants stock their tents with…
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