Articles by Human Wrongs Watch
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UN’s Five Major Leaders Skip Key Summit of the Future
Thalif Deen | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – The list of speakers reflects notable absentees for a high-level summit: the five permanent members of the Security Council whose representatives do not include any head of state or head of government.
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‘Barbaric’ Sexual Violence in Sudan
UNOCHA | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – Reports of sexual violence reveal the war’s disproportionate impact on women and girls. Allegations of rape, forced marriages, sexual slavery, and trafficking of women and girls – especially in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan – continue to be recorded.
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Gaza: Nearly 1 Million Women and Girls Have Been Displaced and more Than 17 Thousand Women and Children Have Been Killed
UNRWA | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
23 Jan 2024 – Women and girls are among the most vulnerable groups in any society. Their vulnerability is typically amplified in times of crisis, such as the displacement of Gaza’s population because of the Israeli genocidal massacre.
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Extremist Ideology in Europe: ‘Leave Everyone Behind’ (Except Us)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – A glance at the European political map would show how far the extremist ideology has been installed in European countries–those who still wave the French Revolution’s flag of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.”
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Huge Increase in Transnational Crime in Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – How come that in a world where technology is able to detect an ant in a jungle, the traffickers of death continue to carry out their lucrative criminal activities everywhere and in all fields, from weapons to prostitution, enslavement and drugs to deadly fake medicines, through oil, gas and poisoned food.
→ read full articleMigration: Europe’s Complicity in Massive Human Rights Violations
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
19 Jun 2023 – The massive drowning of hundreds of migrants close to Greece shores on 14 June is just a new chapter in Europe’s long series of continued violations of all international human rights laws.
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Far-Right Extremist Ideology Spreading like an Oil Spill in Europe
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
22 Jun 2023 – The abuse of human rights has sharply increased with the steady rise of the right and far-right parties in the wealthy industrialised countries, whose extremist ideology is now spreading faster than ever in Europe.
→ read full articleGuess Who Is the Worst Enemy of the Oceans (and Everywhere Else)?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – Oceans produce 50% of the Planet’s oxygen while absorbing 30% of carbon dioxide produced by humans, buffering the impacts of global warming. The bad news is that, with 90% of big fish populations depleted and 50% of coral reefs destroyed, human beings are taking more than can be replenished by the oceans.
→ read full articleOf the Sahel and the Merchants of Death
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – There is a trafficking web across the Sahel spanning 6.000 kilometres–from Atlantic Ocean to Red Sea–home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
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Climate Carnage: Things Can Only Get Worse
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Please stop repeating all this softened wording, such as climate change, climate-related hazards, climate crisis, or extreme weather events… And just call it what it really is: climate carnage.
→ read full articleG7 Owes the Poor $13 Trillion in Unmet Pledges. Meanwhile…
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
The G7 countries owe low- and middle-income countries US$ 13.3 trillion in unpaid aid and funding for climate action when one billion people risk cholera because of the reduction and non-payment of committed assistance.
→ read full articleA Short Tale of a Tree, a Bottle of Oil, and a Moroccan Wedding Party
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
12 May 2023 – A much needed break amidst so many alarming news, with a brief story of a tree, a bottle of liquid gold, and a wedding gift.
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Unceasing Human Attacks on the Source of 80% of Food, 98% of Oxygen
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – Plants are the source of 80% of all food, and as much as 98% of all oxygen. Logically, human beings would do anything to protect this essential source of life. But do they? Not at all. Rather the whole contrary.
→ read full articleCan African Farmers Still Feed the World?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – In 2016, Africa had 60-65% of the world’s uncultivated arable land and 10% of renewable freshwater resources. According to the AU, African farmers could feed the world. Is it still the case?
→ read full articleOf Africa and the Magic Formula of the Italian Taxi Driver
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – Africa is the continent that has contributed the least (just 2 to 3%) to the causes of the current climate emergencies while bearing the brunt of 82% of the devastating consequences.
→ read full articleNow Europeans Learn What Climate Extremes Are All About
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Apologies to those Western politicians and media who continue to say that Ukraine’s brutal proxy war stands behind whatever catastrophes, disasters or crises that occur in the Planet. Scientific evidence confirms that much earlier than that war Europe, like many other regions, was already walking closer to the edge of extreme weather consequences.
→ read full articleAfrica, Now Squeezed to the Bones
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023 – As many as 45 African countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have been further squeezed as funding shrinks to lowest ever levels; a portion of the so-called aid goes back to the rich donor countries. See what happens.
→ read full articleSuperbugs among Top 10 Threats to Whole Cycle of Life
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – Research after research, scientists renew their alerts of the dangers of human-driven ‘superbugs’ – bacterias and pathogens that do not respond to antimicrobials, increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.
→ read full articlePlanet Garbage
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
4 Apr 2023 – Straight to the point: the current system of voracious money-making production and the induced over-consumption patterns have turned Planet Earth into a giant garbage dump. And straight to the facts:
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The ‘Vampiric’ Draining and Poisoning of Lifeblood: Water
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
21 Mar 2023 – Shockingly, the human suicidal war on Nature not only continues unabated but is also set to become even more virulent. Be reminded that groundwater accounts for 99% of all liquid freshwater on Earth.
→ read full articleThe ‘Pernicious Evil’ of Racism, Discrimination, Hatred, Inequality
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – Three-quarters of a century ago, the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, emphasising that all human beings are born equal in dignity and rights. The 2023 theme of its 75th anniversary focuses on the urgency of combating racism and racial discrimination.
→ read full article‘Outright Hatred’ towards Muslims, Has Risen to ‘Epidemic Proportions’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – “Terrorism and violent extremism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization, or ethnic group.”
→ read full articleWhy Do 800 Mothers a Day – 1 Every 2 Minutes– Die from Preventable Causes?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
7 Mar 2023 – The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health care and, in many cases, even a total lack of maternity services, which threaten to further raise the number of these tragic preventable deaths one million or more a year by 2030.
→ read full articleWildlife Is Much More than a Safari. And It Is at Highest Risk of Extinction
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – Wildlife is indeed far much more than a safari or an ‘exotic’ ornament: as many as four billion people –or an entire half the whole world’s population– rely on wild species for income, food, medicines and wood fuel for cooking.
→ read full article‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (I)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II.
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‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (II)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – While the world’s biggest powers and their giant private corporations continue to attach high priority to their military –and commercial– dominance, both of them being shockingly profitable, entire generations are being lost to deadly armed conflicts, devastating climate catastrophes, diseases, hunger and more imposed impoverishment.
→ read full article‘Hate Speech Loads the Gun, Misinformation Pulls the Trigger’ – And It Is Profitable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023 – In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact is being amplified at ‘unprecedented scale’ by new technologies.
→ read full articleFood Industry Exposes Five Billion People to Toxic Chemicals That Kill
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – The food industry continues to intensively use toxic chemicals in their products, some of them provoking heart diseases and death. Trans fat is just one of them, adding to contaminating fertilisers, pesticides, microplastics and a long etcetera.
→ read full articleHow [Much] Are You Today?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – Gone are those times when catastrophes were measured in terms of human suffering. Now, with an exception: Ukrainians victims of the Russian invasion, everything is calculated in just money.
→ read full articleUS Installs New Nukes in Europe: As Destructive as 83 Hiroshima Bombs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – As if the 100 billion dollars that the United States has so far provided to Ukraine in both weapons and aid were not enough, the US has now started to install in Europe its brand new, more destructive nuclear warheads.
→ read full articleMigrants? ‘Don’t You Dare Come Here, Unless…’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
19 Dec 2022 – When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two born-in-Europe devastating armed conflicts–World Wars I and II–they migrated to the Americas and other Western countries in search of safe haven.They were checked at the border and admitted to enter as useful workforce. Seldom, if ever, anybody classified them as “illegal” migrants.
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Corruption (I): The Most Perpetrated–and Least Prosecuted–Crime
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
6 Dec 2022 – Transparency International’s report, Exporting Corruption 2022, rates the performance of 47 leading global exporters, including 43 countries that are signatories to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Anti-Bribery Convention, in cracking down on foreign bribery by companies from their countries.
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Corruption (II): Europe Doing Nothing
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – Western Europe and the European Union remain the highest scoring regions in the world’s corruption index; progress has halted and worrying signs of backsliding have emerged: Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index.
→ read full articleThis Planet Is Drying Up–and These Are the Consequences
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of loss of life arising from wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. Droughts devastate farmland, destroy livelihoods and cause untold suffering.
→ read full articleCrimes against the Innocent Child
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
21 Nov 2022 – In addition to the reported brutalities, many more crimes against children continue amidst worldwide impunity. The following are just some tragic examples.
→ read full articleBlack ‘Fraud-Days’ and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
25 Nov 2022 – Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales; most of them are fake, as often denounced by consumers organisations, which report that the business usually inflates prices before launching such deals.
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Don’t Be Fooled: Climate Disasters Are Highly Lucrative
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
17 Nov 2022 – Companies involved in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear warheads, have been supported by over 150 big banks by lending them money or underwriting bonds, according to ICAN’s ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ report.
→ read full articleIn Praise of Toilets
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – Some billionaires, in particular in the Gulf oil-producing kingdoms, pose their buttocks on a solid-gold toilet around solid-gold faucets. The other side of the coin shows a shocking, different picture: 4 billion people –or about half of the world’s population– still live without access to a safe toilet and other sanitation facilities.
→ read full articleMarket Lords, Much more than a War, behind World’s Food Crisis
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
11 Nov 2022 – While grain exports continue to flow to world’s markets, and Turkey-brokered agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilisers shipments from both countries, food prices are still skyrocketing. How come? “In each of the three global food crises studied, financial speculation has caused steep increases in prices, making food inaccessible to hundreds of millions of people.”
→ read full articleEurope in Its Labyrinth
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – European politicians continue to run in all directions to find a way out of their energy crisis. One of them, the Swiss Environment Minister, asked people to ‘shower together’.
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Will the Lettuce Outlast All This?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
One third of all plastic waste ends up in soils or freshwater. Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, known as microplastics, and these break down further into nanoparticles.
→ read full articleRural Women Work the Hardest, Produce the Most, Eat the Least
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – Make no mistake. Violence against women has been perpetuated, specially when it comes to those who have already been deprived of their basic human rights, as it is the case of rural women in over two-thirds of the world.
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Millions of Girls Abused in the Name of Fake, Toxic Masculinity
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – A common feature to religions – including the monotheistic ones – is that groups of males have self-proclaimed themselves as the source for interpreting the “Word of God,” shaping them, and spreading them among the peoples of good faith.
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Africa, the Looted Continent
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
10 Oct 2022 – Africa. The birthplace of “Homo Sapiens.” The land of plenty. The home of over 1.3 billion humans, with 500 million plus living in extreme poverty, continues to be looted. It is a sort of graveyard for half of the world’s victims of terror and the land with the highest suicide rate on Earth. Why?
→ read full articleThe Fatal Attraction of the City
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
3 Oct 2022 – While cities are seen as a symbol of glamour and comfort for a number of their residents, over one billion people continue to live in overcrowded settlements with inadequate housing. And their number is rising every single day.
→ read full articleGo and Tell the Hungry That Their Food Is Being Thrown in the Garbage
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – These are facts, not guesses: about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted and lost… every single year, the equivalent of one ton per each of the one billion hungry people, many of them are those who produced the food.
→ read full articleOf the Mexican Joke and the Nuclear Top Guns
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – A Mexican joke goes: “I kill people for money. But you are my best friend, so I will kill you for nothing.” This seems to be the dominating thinking of the five permanent members of the so-called UN Security Council, which, according to their own definition, hold the “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
→ read full articleWhy Are Politicians Able to Read – and Understand – Some Texts and Not Others?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
20 Sep 2022 – Day after day, the world’s scientific community, based on solid investigations, elaborates dozens of studies identifying the causes of the existing emergencies facing humanity. They also prepare understandable summaries and conclusions and propose feasible solutions to the current crises and ways to prevent major future risks.
→ read full articleGender Equality Almost 300 Years Away at Current Rate of Progress
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
15 Sep 2022 – Millions of women don’t know what a salary is all about.
→ read full articleHundreds of Millions of Children Sentenced to Ignorance
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
7 Sep 2022 – More than two-thirds of 10-year-olds are unable to read and understand a simple text. This shocking finding should be enough to be alarmed about the horrifying fate of an entire generation. But there is much more.
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Afghanistan: A Hidden Trophy Worth more than a Trillion Dollars
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
6 Sep 2022 – How the Taliban’s regime has in just a few months erased with a stroke of a pen all the “great achievements” made over 20 years of US and allies’ massive military attacks on Afghanistan’s unarmed population. Has all this happened in just 12 months?
→ read full articleA Tale of Spanish Neckties and Other Made-in-Europe Things
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – While the United States continue to rank top oil and weapons producers, the world’s citizens are, once more, to pay the price: skyrocketing energy and food prices, unprecedented inflation rates, economic slowdown and the risk of a great recession, just to mention some.
→ read full article‘And of Water We Made Every Living Thing’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – This is how the Muslims’ Holy Book–the Quran–refers to the most precious element of life… Religions aside, also UNESCO underlines that “water is a unique and non-substitutable resource.” Now comes the question: is water finite or infinite?
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“The Worse, the Better” Doctrine and the Melting Ice
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – There is a prevailing doctrine among the right and far-right political parties that are still in the opposition and most likely to jump to power in those countries where they are not already ruling. It is the doctrine of “the worse things go, the better for us.”
→ read full articleOf Aristotle, Orwell, and the Young Heirs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Today’s youth are an unpowered witnesses to numerous unprecedented crises, which they did not create but are expected to overcome… and hopefully leave a much less baleful inheritance.
→ read full articleHunger Factory: The Miracle of the Sudden Rise and Fall of Food Prices (Part 1)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – How come food prices declined all of a sudden over four consecutive months? The Ukraine war began around five months ago. So? The “miracle” explained.
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Hunger Factory: The Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Part 2)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 – While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight.
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Of the Far West, the ‘Good Cowboys’… and the ‘Bad Indians’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – Rough men, ranchers, mercenary killers, saloons, cowboys, guns, gold fever, the ‘good sheriff’… and the ‘bad indians”. Add to this mix the deeply-rooted, widely dominating culture of the so-called “white supremacy.”
→ read full articleTechnology, Social Media Help Traffickers Hunt Their Victims, Enslave Them, Sell Their Organs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Human beings produce innumerable practical inventions while often making the worst use of them. How criminal groups heavily rely on digital platforms to trap and enslave their victims also for extracting and selling their organs.
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Of the Secret Leaks and the Baking Planet
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
29 Jul 2022 – Strangely enough, two major scientific findings, both announced in July, did not attribute the current dangerous world’s disasters to the proxy war unfolding in Ukraine.
→ read full articleThe World Was Already Broken–Shall Ukrainian Cereals Fix It Up?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
28 Jul 2022 – The world cheered the 22-July Turkey-brooked agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilisers exports from both countries. The Istanbul Agreement allows them to release their exports under UN and international supervision.
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Xenophobia in Mandiba’s Land: Too Black… Or Just Too Poor?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
18 Jul 2022 – South Africa, the home land of the late giant fighter against Apartheid, racism and discrimination – Nelson Mandela “Mandiba”, is already ‘on the precipice of explosive xenophobic violence’ against migrants, refugees, asylum seekers – and even citizens perceived as outsiders.
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Hundreds of Millions of Human Workers Treated Worse than Robots
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – While big private business pours billions of dollars in producing automatic machines, barely no money has been invested in the human workers who are left unprotected, treated like cheap robots, or even worse.
→ read full articleA World of 8 Billion, Yes, but only a Few Are Seen as Human Beings (Part 1)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – Far-right Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, was quoted as saying to a small group of indigenous people that they “now look a bit more like humans.”
→ read full articleNew World Records: More Weapons than Ever–and a Hunger Crisis like No Other
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Jul 2022 – While the NATO Summit ended in Madrid on 30 June with net commitments to double spending on weapons and to increase by eight-fold the number of troops in Europe, the total of hungry people worldwide now marks an unprecedented record.
→ read full articleNuclear-Armed Powers Squander $156.000 per Minute on Their MAD Policy
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
24 Jun 2022 – They call it MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction. It is about the nuclear-armed powers’ doctrine of military strategy and national security policy. And they spent on their MAD policy more than 156.000 US dollars, every single minute, in just one year–2021.
→ read full articleDespite Unspeakable Hardships, Migrants Keep One Billion People Alive
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – Here goes another fact: 230 million migrant workers are now a major life-saving source for up to one billion people starving in the world’s poorest communities, as well as a vital lifeline for the economy of their countries of origin.
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The Great Fish Robbery
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
6 Jun 2022 – Now it comes to another ‘crime’ being stealthy committed as a consequence of the unrelenting obsession for making more and more money. It is about the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, a practice that threatens marine biodiversity, livelihoods, exacerbates poverty, and augments food insecurity.
→ read full articleWhat If a Patient Unplugged the Oxygen Tube That Keeps Her or Him Alive?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – Imagine a patient connected to a vital oxygen device to keep him or her breathing, thus alive. Then, imagine what would happen if this patient unplugged it. This is exactly what humans have been doing with the source of at least 50% of the whole Planet’s oxygen: the oceans. The ocean […]
→ read full articleThe Richest 1% Pollute More than the Poorest 50%
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
As an introduction to the World Environment Day on 5 June, this report deals with how the excesses of the world’s population, mostly in the wealthiest countries, are causing so much harm to Planet Earth.
→ read full articleFive More Planets Earth Urgently Needed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – If everyone were to consume resources at the rate at which people in the United States, Canada and Luxembourg do, at least five Earths would be needed. But there is a problem… There is one Earth.
→ read full articleUpset with the Opulence of the Rich? But the World’s Children Are Paying the Bill
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – The excesses committed by rich people can be deadly–and in fact they are. Be it about food, energy or overall waste, such excesses have been depleting the world’s natural resources and pushing both current and future generations towards the edge of a predictable abyss.
→ read full articleThe Risk of Turning Planet Earth into a Giant Desert
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – The message is clear: three-quarters of the world’s population will be affected by drought by 2050. Does it sound too far in time? Well, your kids might be among the billions of humans living on a desertified planet.
→ read full article‘By Deliberately Ignoring Risk, the World Is Bankrolling Its Own Destruction’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
20 May 2022 – It is often said that a pessimistic person is an optimistic but well-informed person.
→ read full articleInequality Tightens Its Grip on the Most Vulnerable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
13 May 2022 – Please do not say you were not aware that the world produces enough food to feed all human beings on Earth, while nearly double the combined European Union’s population go to bed hungry… every single night.
→ read full articleThe Suicidal War on Nature Continues Unabated – International Mother Earth Day
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
20 Apr 2022 – The gloomy picture is drawn from indisputable scientific conclusions and should be already known by everybody, in particular by decision-makers, whether they are politicians… or rather not.
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Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part I: UK, Greece
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
21 Apr 2022 – In what looks pretty much like an ‘operation clean sweep’ aiming at getting rid of more and more migrants, refugees and asylum seekers by shipping them far away, the process of ‘externalisation’ of millions of victims of wars, poverty, climate crisis and political persecution, is now growing fast.
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Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part II: Hungary, Poland
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
22 Apr 2022 – This article will deal with how Hungary has been criminalising organisations that provide humanitarian assistance to migrants, and how Poland ‘arbitrarily’ detains thousands of asylum seekers.
→ read full articleThe Cost of War: 23 Million Afghans Suffer Acute Hunger, 95% Don’t Eat Enough Food
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Following 20 long years (2001-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleSouth Sudan: Oil Underground, Blood on the Surface
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While politicians and media have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war” between ethnic groups, there are some facts that should be considered. One of them is that this country is rich in oil.
→ read full articleWar on Syria: Eleven Years of Carnage
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – “Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population has been displaced. More than 100,000 are missing or forcibly disappeared. Syria’s cities and infrastructure have been destroyed. The poverty rate is 90 percent; 14.6 million people depend on humanitarian aid.”
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Is It Time to Bar Coup Leaders from the UN?
Thalif Deen | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – A rash of military coups in Africa has resurrected a long dormant question: should leaders who take power through armed insurrections be barred from addressing the United Nations—an institution which swears by, and promotes, multi-party democracy?
→ read full articleAsia-Pacific: Just 5% of the Region’s Population Owns 70% of Its Total Wealth
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – The Asia-Pacific region is experiencing growing inequality even while registering impressive economic growth and poverty reduction. Such sharp inequalities continue to be persistent in the region, with nearly 2 in 4 people still unable to afford a healthy diet.
→ read full articleFully Ready to Kill, Shockingly Unprepared to Save Lives
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – While absolutely ready to kill, with the biggest military powers spending in 2020 nearly two trillion US dollars on weapons, the world is shockingly unprepared to save the lives of millions of unarmed, innocent civilian victims of wars… and other man-made catastrophes.
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Big Power Rivalries: The Thugs of Myanmar
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
21 Dec 2021 – ASEAN leaders should explore a joint strategy with China, India and the US. By working together on a conflict that does not directly affect the three powers’ strategic interests, ongoing high tensions between China and US could cool down, and pave the way for additional small building blocks of cooperation and partnership.
→ read full articleWhat Would Europe, the US, Do with One Billion Climate Refugees?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
20 Dec 2021 – A bit of fiction. Or maybe not. If things keep going the way they are, the result will be that such a massive flux would create instability and tensions, impact the global markets, cause record prices of fossil fuels, food and everything else, and the bankruptcy of big private financial corporations…
→ read full articleSevere Water Stress, Absolute Scarcity for 2 to 4 Billion Humans by 2025
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – Up to four billion people–over half the population of the planet–are already facing severe water stress for at least one month of the year, while half a billion suffer from permanent water stress.
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‘Colourless’ vs ‘Coloured’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
25 Dec 2021 – In short: is it just a matter of ‘colourless’ versus ‘people of colour’? Or is it also a question of ‘full-pockets’ versus ‘empty-pockets’? By the way: aren’t all humans… African-descent?
→ read full articleAll Humans Are Born Equal in Rights? That’s Still Far from Being True
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – 6 Dec 2021 – “All Human, All Equal” is the slogan for the 2021 Human Rights Day, marked 10 December. The introduction to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights;” it proclaims the “inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”
→ read full articleCall It ‘Old’, ‘Contemporary’, ‘Modern’ or Whatever: It Is Slavery
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
1 Dec 2021 – No matter what it is called — it is the abhorrent daily life of a billion enslaved humans. The real number of “modern” slaves is understandably unknown. The International Labour Organisation estimates that more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery.
→ read full article1 in 2 Humans Cannot Celebrate World Toilet Day – This Is Why
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021 – Did you know that half of the world’s population do not have toilets? And that, globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with feces? And that every day, over 700 children under five die from diarrhea linked to unsafe water, sanitation and poor hygiene?
→ read full articleAntibiotics? Handle with Care
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
11 Nov 2021 – Antibiotics, like other antimicrobials, have become a threat to health rather than healing it. Why? Because their misuse and overuse have created such a strong resistance that they no longer respond to medicines…
→ read full articleDisarmament Week? But Hundreds of Nukes Can Be Launched within Minutes
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Hadn’t it been so worrisome, it would be ironic to hear that humanity is to mark the World Disarmament Week (Oct 24 to 30, 2021) barely six months after learning that the world’s biggest military powers had spent last year some 2,000,000,000,000 US dollars on killing machines.
→ read full articleAny End to This Suicidal War? (I)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – The Destruction of the Web of Life – Can yet another dispendious world gathering find a way to halt the ongoing suicidal war on Nature, which is leading to the destruction of all sources of life?
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Any End to This Suicidal War? (II)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
29 Oct 2021 – More Lethal Gases and Fewer, Weaker Sinks – Another Year Another Record! The emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise, the land and sea temperatures are higher than ever since there are records, and the ecosystems could fail their role as vital sinks absorbing carbon dioxide and as a buffer against larger temperature increases.
→ read full articleGrabbed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
22 Oct 2021 – Imagine that the land your family has worked for generations is suddenly stripped away from you, purchased by wealthy companies or governments to produce food, bio-fuels or simply as a profitable investment for far away people. Land grabbing is the purchase or lease of large tracts of fertile land by public or private entities. It involves millions of hectares, equivalent to an area as big as Spain, and it continues to spread relentlessly.
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The Spoils of War
Mary Kaldor | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Andrew Cockburn, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine (Verso) –
A chilling account of how corruption has become institutionalised at the heart of the U.S. war machine with consequences for us all.
Satellite Mega-Constellations’ Mega-Threats
Miguel Coma | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The Rise of Space Junk and the Fall of Reason – Above our heads, man-made satellites wage war against the stars. On Earth, a handful of CEOs plan to put hundreds of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit—in addition to the 5,000 satellites already launched. Altogether, these satellites will outnumber the stars visible to the naked eye tenfold.
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The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party
Walden Bello | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation. Reflecting on the meaning of the 100th anniversary on 1 Jul 2021 of one of the most important institutions of our time, the Chinese Communist Party, the first thing that entered my head was that the present does change the significance of the past.
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China: Key Player in a New World Game
Hazel Henderson | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
Today, our 21st Century global economy is no longer dominated by the USA, but is again a multi-polar world. According to The Economist, March 20, 2021, China now makes 22% of global manufactured exports and 15 of China’s tech firms are worth over $50 billion each. China is the world’s largest goods-trading partner of 64 countries versus 38 for the USA.
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