11/07/2012
If current economic policies do not change quickly, the Eurozone may lose 4.5 million jobs over the next four years, the United Nations warned in a new report, adding that this would increase the risk of social unrest and would further erode citizen’s confidence in their governments, the financial system and European institutions.
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Young people have protested around the world for more jobs and equality. Photo: ILO
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Produced by the International Labour Organization
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Eurozone job crisis: Trends and policy responses– stresses that there is “mounting evidence” that a prolonged labour market recession may be in the making, with labour markets in Europe not having yet recovered from the global crisis that hit the world economy in late 2008.
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“Without a prompt policy turn – to address the crisis and to regain the trust and support of workers and enterprises – it will be difficult to implement the reforms necessary to put the Eurozone back onto a path of stability and growth,” the report states.
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09/07/2012
Today, 9 July 2012, South Sudan marks its first year as an independent country after a popular referendum last year massively approved the division of Sudan into two states. But in spite of national flags and official statements, the dramatic fact is that this “new” country has been suffering from mounting poverty, food shortages, refugee crisis and violent clashes, after long decades of wars between the North and the South of Sudan that killed around two million people.
*Children attending a class at the Muniki Center Basic School in the Muniki Payam, a sub-district of Juba, South Sudan. Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2007-0862/G. Cranston
South Sudan extends over 700 sq. kms., over one fourth of Sudan’s totalsurfacee of 2,5 million sq.kms. Its 2000 kilometres long borders limit with Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, RD Congo and Central Africa Republic. And of course also with (North) Sudan itself.
Its population, estimated in around 9 million inhabitants, is composed of more than 200 ethnic groups and is, along with the adjacent Nuba Hills, one of the most linguistically diverse regions of Africa. However, many of the languages are small, with only a few thousand speakers.
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08/07/2012
By Michael Igoe, (EurasiaNet)* – For Nurlan Kenenov’s three-year-old daughter, the symptoms started with yellowing eyes. Then a fever set in. Fortunately, she got well on her own, but now his nephew is in the hospital, fighting hepatitis. “There were at least 20 children” there when they checked him in, Kenenov said. “Many more had been there before we arrived.”
**Photo: Michael Igoe
Kenenov and the 1,000-odd residents of Djide – a hamlet perched above the Ferghana Valley in southern Kyrgyzstan – face a health threat plaguing, by some estimates, more than half their region’s rural population: lack of access to safe drinking water.
For years, people in Djide got their drinking water from a dilapidated, Soviet-built canal running alongside the village.
But in 2009 provincial authorities dammed the canal two kilometers upstream to create an irrigation reservoir that has turned into a bathing pool. Ever since then, say the villagers, they have been getting ill, with this year the worst so far.
No one has tested the water, according to Djide residents, so they cannot prove the illnesses are related to it. But local nurses say they often see an increase in water-borne illnesses during the summer and a EurasiaNet.org correspondent suffered from bleeding in his digestive tract after a few days in Djide.
To make matters worse, some villagers are skeptical about the benefits of boiling drinking water.
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08/07/2012
“The process of surrounding Russia with military bases continued unabated through successor US administrations with various “color revolutions” financed by the US National Endowment for Democracy, regarded by many as a front for the CIA.”
Gorbachev and Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House in 1987. Author: White House Photographic Office | Wikimedia Commons
By Paul Craig Roberts*, TRANSCEND – When President Reagan nominated me as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, he told me that we had to restore the US economy, to rescue it from stagflation, in order to bring the full weight of a powerful economy to bear on the Soviet leadership, in order to convince them to negotiate the end of the cold war.
Reagan said that there was no reason to live any longer under the threat of nuclear war.
The Reagan administration achieved both goals, only to see these accomplishments discarded by successor administrations. It was Reagan’s own vice president and successor, George Herbert Walker Bush, who first violated the Reagan-Gorbachev understandings by incorporating former constituent parts of the Soviet Empire into NATO and taking Western military bases to the Russian frontier.
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06/07/2012
If added together, there would be a nation of nearly 700 million people—the third most populated one on Earth after China and India. Its population is made of over 210 million jobless, 215 million children obliged to work; 21 million victims of forced labor, and 228 million working poor youth living on less than the equivalent of US$ 2 per day.
*An unemployed youth. Photo: ILO
These are the key figures that appear in recent reports elaborated by the International Labor Organization (ILO), which also alerts that up to 40 per cent of the jobless worldwide are young people.
There will be nearly 75 million unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 in 2012, an increase of nearly 4 million since 2007. The youth unemployment crisis can be beaten but only if job creation for young people becomes a key priority in policy-making, ILO informs.
“The world is facing a worsening youth employment crisis: young people are three times more likely to be unemployed than adults and over 75 million youth worldwide are looking for work.”
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06/07/2012
Around three years ago, the U.S-born world financial crisis forced five European Union member countries to receive a really little honorable “title” — the PIGS. These were Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. With Ireland added to the group, the acronym became PIIGS. More recently came Cyprus, the current EU president. And now another EU member country–Slovenia seems to come on board with a new austerity package.
Bilingual Slovene-Italian edition of the Slovenian passport. Photo: Sstonchy
Report by Markus Salzmann (WSWS*) With Slovenian banks heavily in debt, the right-wing government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa is acceding to the demands of the European Union and international financial institutions for tougher austerity measures.
The banking sector of Slovenia (formerly a part of the Yugoslav Republic) notched up its third successive year of losses in 2012. The country’s three biggest banks are now calling for injections of capital by the state.
State-owned Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB) must raise 320 million euros to meet the requirements of the European Banking Authority. Last April credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded the NLB’s rating, along with those of several other Slovenian banks.
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06/07/2012
Johannesburg, (IRIN*) – Only 13 diseases or infections transmitted from animals to humans like tuberculosis (TB) and Rift Valley fever, are responsible for around 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths per year, mostly in low- and middle-income countries.
**Photo: Zofeen Ebrahim/IRIN. Poultry is often kept and sold in unhygienic conditions in south Asian countries like India
In the least developed countries, 20 percent of human sickness and death was due to zoonoses – diseases that had recently jumped species from animals to people – according to a new study by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), based in Nairobi, Kenya, the Institute of Zoology in Britain, and the Hanoi School of Public Health in Vietnam.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has noted that at least 61 percent of all human diseases, and 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases, are zoonotic or caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus or other communicable disease agent picked up from an animal source.
While zoonoses can be transmitted to people by either wild or domesticated animals, and at times domestic animals also crossbreed with those in the wild, most human infections are acquired from the world’s 24 billion livestock, including pigs, poultry, cattle, goats, sheep and camels.
The new study mapped poverty, livestock-keeping, hunger and zoonoses, and found a strong link between them.
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04/07/2012
By Simone Richmond (Waging NonViolence)* – In recent months, the United States’ policy of drone attacks to kill suspected militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen has come under heated criticism. The extrajudicial targeted killings of suspects, including American citizens, is in itself a stark violation of international law.
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03/07/2012
New York – More than 140 countries have passed counterterrorism laws since the attacks of September 11, 2001, often with little regard for due process and other basic rights, Human Rights Watch said in a new report.
UN Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 1373, mandating member states to pass wide-ranging counterterrorism laws, on September 28, 2001.© 2001 UN PHOTO
The 112-page report, “In the Name of Security: Counterterrorism Laws Worldwide since September 11,” says that while terrorist attacks have caused thousands of deaths and injuries, that is no justification for counterterrorism laws that violate the basic rights of suspects and that are also used for politically motivated purposes.
“Terrorist acts are a repudiation of human rights, but overbroad laws that ignore basic rights only compound the harm,” said Letta Tayler, senior terrorism and counterterrorism researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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02/07/2012
Quthing, (IRIN*) – At the age of 15 and with no money for school shoes or a uniform, Linda* was forced to accept that her education was over and it was time to look for a job. In Lesotho’s southern Quthing District, where she lived, it is accepted wisdom that finding a job means crossing the border into South Africa, which completely surrounds this mountainous kingdom of 1.8 million people and dwarfs its tiny economy.
***Photo: Mujahid Safodien/IRIN. Linda and Mahleki were trafficked by a woman they knew from their village
Linda’s own mother made the move five years ago and never returned. “I don’t know where she is,” said Linda, whose sister also lives in South Africa.
In May 2011, Linda was approached by a woman she knew from her village who had a business about 50km across the border in the town of Sterkspruit. “She invited me to come and stay with her and work for her as a shop assistant,” recalled Linda.
She did not question why she and her new employer had to cross a freezing river to enter South Africa instead of using the nearest border post, and for the first three months she was treated well enough and received a small salary.
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