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We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter 9: Percy Bysshe Shelley
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/15/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-9-percy-bysshe-shelley/>
*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 9: Percy Bysshe Shelley. The
others will follow successively.*
*A pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny*
Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Shelley is today considered to be
one of the major English-language poets.
Less well known is the fact that he was a pioneer of non-violent resistance
to tyranny, whose ideas influenced Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy and
Mahatma Gandhi.
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We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter 8: Thomas Robert Malthus
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/15/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-8-thomas-robert-malthus/>
*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 8: Thomas Robert Malthus. The
others will follow successively.*
*A debate between father and son*
T.R. Malthus’ “Essay on The Principle of Population”, the first edition of
which was published in 1798, was one of the the first systematic studies of
the problem of population in relation to resources.
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“Modern” Business Owns You
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/14/modern-business-owns-you/> *Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Johan Galtung and Malvin
Gattinger **
*10 July 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service — <https://www.transcend.org/tms>*Let
us start with an example.
The senior author bought an apartment in a nice housing complex in the
little town of Manassas, Prince William County, half an hour from the
center of Washington DC.
There was a little center with an office and a small staff always there,
and a meeting room that could be let was also used for the annual general
assembly of house-owners.
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Reforming the International Financial System
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/14/reforming-the-international-financial-system/>
*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>** By **Jomo Kwame Sundaram**
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/jomo-kwame-sundaram/>
*KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 13 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net>) – When we fail to
act on lessons from a crisis, we risk exposing ourselves to another one.
The 1997-1998 East Asian crises provided major lessons for international
financial reform. *
*Two decades later, we appear not to have done much about them. The way the
West first responded to the 2008 global financial crisis should have
reminded us to do more. But besides accumulating more reserves, Southeast
Asia has not done much else.*
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Abe, Izzy & Bibi
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/15/abe-izzy-bibi/> *Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Uri Avery**
*15/07/2017*
*THE WHOLE thing could have been a huge practical joke, if it had not been
real.*
All of Israel was taken in. Left, right and center. All the newspapers and
TV networks, without exception.
There it was: UNESCO has declared that the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron is a
Palestinian heritage site.
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G20’s Record Does Not Inspire Hope
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/09/g20s-record-does-not-inspire-hope/>
*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
* By Anis Chowdhury <http://www.ipsnews.net/author/anis-chowdhury/> and
Jomo Kwame Sundaram* <http://www.ipsnews.net/author/jomo-kwame-sundaram/> *
*SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net>) – The
G20 leaders meeting in Hamburg, Germany, on 7-8 July comes almost a decade
after the grouping’s elevation to meeting at the heads of state/government
level. *
*Previously, the G20 had been an informal forum of finance ministers and
central bank governors from advanced and emerging economies created in 1999
following the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.*
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‘Billions around the World Lack Safe Water, Proper Sanitation Facilities’
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/14/billions-around-the-world-lack-safe-water-proper-sanitation-facilities/>
*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*12 July 2017 – Some three in ten people around the world lack access to
safe and readily available water at home, and almost six in ten to safely
managed sanitation, a new United Nations report has warned, calling on
countries to do more to fulfil these basic human needs*.
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Worsening Hunger in East Africa amid Third Consecutive Failed Rainy Season
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/15/worsening-hunger-in-east-africa-amid-third-consecutive-failed-rainy-season/>
*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*14 July 2017 – The third consecutive failed rainy season in East Africa
has seriously eroded families’ resilience, and urgent and effective
livelihood support is required, the United Nations agricultural agency has
warned.*
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Asia-Pacific Moving in ‘wrong Direction’ on Some Development Targets – UN
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/14/asia-pacific-moving-in-wrong-direction-on-some-development-targets-un/>
*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*11 July 2017 – Despite an impressive track record, the Asia-Pacific region
will need to scale up development efforts to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs>) by
2030, the target envisioned, the United Nations development arm for the
region has said.*
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Five Years into South Sudan’s Independence, ‘Children Denied Childhoods’
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/09/five-years-into-south-sudans-independence-children-denied-childhoods/>
*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*8 July 2017 – As South Sudan enters its sixth year of independence, the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF <http://www.unicef.org/>) is calling
the situation in the country “a catastrophe for children” and cautioned
that they are being denied a childhood in nearly all aspects of their
lives.*
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UN Urges Concrete Action to End Yemen Conflict, Ease ‘Appalling’
Humanitarian Situation
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/14/un-urges-concrete-action-to-end-yemen-conflict-ease-appalling-humanitarian-situation/>
*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*12 July 2017 – As the war in Yemen grinds on, the increasing battles of
attrition are extracting a terrible toll on the country’s women, men and
children, senior United Nations officials told the Security Council,
calling for concrete action to end the fighting.*
*PLEASE DON'T MISS THESE NEWS AND VIEWS*
We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter (7) The Marquis de Condorcet
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-7-the-marquis-de-condorcet/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 7: The Marquis de Condorcet. The
others will follow successively. *
*A vision of human progress*
In France the Marquis de Condorcet had written an equally optimistic book,
“Esquisse d’un Tableau Historique des Progres de l’Esprit Humain”.
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Is Religion the New Colonial Frontier in International Development?
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/05/is-religion-the-new-colonial-frontier-in-international-development/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Azza Karam*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/azza-karam/>*
*UNITED NATIONS, Jul 4 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – A decade ago,
it was difficult to get Western policy makers in governments to be
interested in the role of religious organizations in human development. The
secular mind-set was such that religion was perceived, at best, as a
private affair. *
*At worst, religion was deemed the cause of harmful social practices, an
obstacle to the “sacred” nature of universal human rights, and/or the root
cause of terrorism. In short, religion belonged in the ‘basket of
deplorables’.*
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Peaceful Societies – Where Are They?
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/05/peaceful-societies-where-are-they/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Johan Galtung**
*3 July 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service –
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2017/07/peaceful-societies-where-are-they-2/>There
are many of them–of different kinds–in world geography. We can try to
identify the characteristics of their peacefulness.*
Or we can start by identifying belligerent societies and then see peaceful
societies as their negations. Let us try this one first.
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Climate Change-Poverty-Migration: The New, Inhuman ‘Bermuda Triangle’
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/climate-change-poverty-migration-the-new-inhuman-bermuda-triangle/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Baher Kamal
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/baher-kamal/>**
*ROME, Jul 7 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – World organisations,
experts and scientists have been repeating it to satiety: climate change
poses a major risk to the poorest rural populations in developing
countries, dangerously threatening their lives and livelihoods and thus
forcing them to migrate.*
Also that the billions of dollars that the major industrialised
powers—those who are the main responsible for climate change, spend on
often illegal, inhumane measures aiming at impeding the arrival of migrants
and refuges to their countries, could be devoted instead to preventing the
root causes of massive human displacements.
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U.S. “Dumping” Dark Meat Chicken on African Markets
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/06/u-s-dumping-dark-meat-chicken-on-african-markets/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Friday Phiri*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/friday-phiri/>*
*MPUMALANGA, South Africa, Jul 6 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – The
United States and Europe’s preference for white meat is hurting Africa’s
poultry industry, says Luc Smalle, manager at the agro firm Rossgro in
South Africa’s Mpumalanga area.*
With 3000 Ha of maize and 1000 Ha of soya, as well as 1,500 heads of beef
cattle, Rossgro mills its own feed, which also caters for millions of
chickens housed in 40 environmentally controlled houses.
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Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Adopted After 20 Years of Negotiations
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-adopted-after-20-years-of-negotiations/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <http://human-wrongs-watch.be/>*
*Countries meeting at a United Nations conference in New York on 7 July
2017 adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first
multilateral legally-binding instrument for nuclear disarmament to have
been negotiated in 20 years.*
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Rising Cholera, Diarrhoea and Malnutrition ‘Deadly’ for Children in Yemen,
South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/05/rising-cholera-diarrhoea-and-malnutrition-deadly-for-children-in-yemen-south-sudan-somalia-and-sudan/>
*Human Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*4 July 2017 – Access, funding and security are urgently needed to ensure
humanitarians can reach hundreds of thousands of children suffering from
cholera and diarrhoea across Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan, the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF <http://www.unicef.org/>) has said.*
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Gonorrhoea Becoming Harder to Treat due to Antibiotic Resistance – UN
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/gonorrhoea-becoming-harder-to-treat-due-to-antibiotic-resistance-un/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*Gonorrhoea is becoming harder to treat due to antibiotic resistance, the
United Nations health agency on 7 July 2017 cautioned, adding that there is
a need for better prevention and treatment of the disease that infects an
estimated 78 million people each year.*
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We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter (5) William Godwin
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/02/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-5-william-godwin/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 5: William Godwin. The others will
follow successively. *
*Political Justice*
In 1793 the English novelist and philosopher William Godwin published an
enormously optimistic book, “Political Justice”. As the eighteenth century
neared its end, this book became the focus of hopes for political reform
and the center of the debate on human progress.
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Southeast Asia: From Miracle To Debacle
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/02/southeast-asia-from-miracle-to-debacle/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Jomo Kwame Sundaram*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/jomo-kwame-sundaram/>*
*KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 29 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – The World Bank
and other influential international financial institutions and development
agencies have been touting Southeast Asian (SEA) newly industrializing
countries as models for emulation, especially by African developing
countries seeking to accelerate their development transformations. *
*But these recommendations are usually based on misleading analysis of
their rapid growth and structural transformation.*
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