17/02/2019
February 2019 (UNHCR)* — A growing number of cities around the world are embracing refugees. This series looks at how they are helping the displaced to help themselves.
© Mapics/Shutterstockcom | Photo from UNHCR.
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A majority of the world’s 25.4 million refugees live out of camps and in cities and urban areas across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Finding themselves on the frontlines of the global refugee response, an increasing number of cities are choosing to empower refugees and embrace the opportunities they bring.
Reported in cities around the world, these stories look at the steps they are taking to help refugees, and the impact they have of the lives of the forcibly displaced.
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17/02/2019
14 Fbruary 2019 (UN Environment)* — World to Zero in on Solutions for the Future at UN Environment Assembly
- UN calls for governments, public and private sector to take a critical look at their consumption and production patterns, urging to “Think Beyond, Live Within.”
- Countries to make measurable commitments toward stimulating innovation and implementing circular economy systems.
- Resolutions expected to cover the mainstreaming of biodiversity and the sound management of chemicals and waste, the use of big data, information management, indigenous knowledge solutions, the promotion of sustainable lifestyles and the efficient use of resources.
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17/02/2019
Barkissa Fofana, a young microbiologist from Burkina Faso, is confident that science can help combat climate change and desertification. ©FAO/Gideon Vink
“Something has to be done to tackle the environmental problems caused by climate change, desertification and population growth,” says Barkissa from an Acacia field just outside the city of Djibo in Burkina Faso’s northern Sahel region.
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16/02/2019
14 February 2019 (UN Environment)* — The students at Kingani school in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo used to have two choices for drinking water at school: get sick or remain thirsty.
Rising sea levels, increased drought and reduced or erratic rainfall made the drinking wells so salty it would cause headaches, stomach aches and ulcers. To make matters worse, the water that students would spend time fetching from watering holes was so dirty that it spread disease.
Ismat Hassan, who came from Tanzania’s capital Dar es Salaam to study and board at Kingani, got stomach ulcers from drinking the well water, typhoid from the water collected from watering holes, and pain and exhaustion when she chose to drink neither.
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16/02/2019
16 February 2019 (FAO)* — In a vast world of 7 billion people where all you hear about are our differences, there are some important things that connect us, and one of these is food. Food connects us all. We all need it, depend on it, survive because of it and derive happiness from it.
The story of food begins with a farmer. Why do we give our chefs stars and awards, but we forget about the part our food producers play? ©135pixels/Shutterstock | Photo from FAO.
In fact, food is part of who we are. It’s part of our habits and cultures. Hundreds of TV shows, movies and podcasts revolve around the topic of food, and cookbooks always sit among the bestsellers.
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16/02/2019
15 February 2019 — A surge in sexual violence in South Sudan’s Unity state targeting victims as young as eight years old, has prompted a call from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, for urgent Government measures to protect victims, and bring perpetrators to justice.
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UNMISS/Isaac Billy | The intensification of road patrols followed shocking .incidents of rape and sexual assault, reported in the area in recent weeks.
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16/02/2019
15 February 2019 — Fawaz, just 18-months old, suffered from severe acute malnutrition and was on the brink of death. In war-torn Yemen, he was one of hundreds of thousands of children, more likely to die, than survive.
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15/02/2019
A “peaceful and just solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict can “only be achieved” through two States “living side-by-side in peace and security”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated on Friday [15 February 2019].
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UN News/Reem Abaza | A Palestinian woman selling olives, olive oil and other food items outside the Damascus Gate, one of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. November 2018.
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15/02/2019
With more than 745,000 Rohingya having fled violence in Myanmar to settle in Bangladesh, joining roughly 200,000 others already sheltering there, United Nations aid agencies and partners launched an appeal on Friday [15 February 2019] to help meet their “dire needs”.
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© UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo | Bangladesh. The Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to safety in Cox’s Bazar
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15/02/2019
14 February 2019 (Wall Street International)* — The current situation in Venezuela is a tragedy in the making, and it will very likely cause the death of many innocent people. Venezuela is on the verge of foreign military intervention, and the ensuing bloodbath may take on dramatic proportions. This much has been stated by Henrique Capriles, the best-known leader of the opposition to Nicolas Maduro, when he said that puppet-president Juan Guaidó is turning Venezuelans into “fodder for cannon”. He knows what he’s talking about.
President Donald Trump with Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo at the United Nations Security Council in New York City | Photo from Wall Street International.
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