Human Wrongs Watch

Human Wrongs Watch This November marks 25 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Does a child born today have better prospects in life than one who was born at the…

Human Wrongs Watch The illegal killing of elephants for their ivory is now at “critically high levels” in Africa with increased involvement by organized crime groups, leading to their possible extinction in parts of the continent, the UN Office for…

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…

 Human Wrongs Watch A Syrian singer’s songbook, a Turkmen calligrapher’s ink, a Palestinian Iraqi’s lucky lighter, a Yazidi teenager’s Taylor Swift album. These are a civil war’s survivors and the things they carried.’  By Lauren Bohn*, November 2014 — The…

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…

Human Wrongs Watch ‘The Ebola epidemic has forced millions in West Africa to change how they interact, starting with the strict rule of “Don’t touch”. But for the visually impaired, like Basiru Bah in Sierra Leone, losing human contact is…

  Human Wrongs Watch For the first time, two United Nations human rights committees have joined forces to issue a comprehensive interpretation of the obligations of States to prevent and eliminate harmful practices inflicted on women and girls, such as…

  Human Wrongs Watch The most basic of all human rights -water- is also a central element in global affairs and the development agenda with wide implications on international peace and security, the Deputy Secretary-General on 6 November 2014 told…

Human Wrongs Watch The UN health agency on 6 November 2014 warned that as the world population aged 60 or older will jump from some 800 million to 2 billion in the next four decades, soaring levels of chronic illness and…

  Human Wrongs Watch By Federico Mayor Zaragoza*, Other News  **Gorbachev in 1987 | President of the Soviet Union, 15 March 1990 – 25 December 1991| Wikimedia Commons November 2014 — Twenty-five years ago the initial dismantling commenced at the Berlin Wall, that…