08/03/2013
New York, 7 March 2013 – Between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, according to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). “If current levels of child marriages hold, 14.2 million girls annually or 39,000 daily will marry too young.Furthermore, of the 140 million girls who will marry before the age of 18, 50 million will be under the age of 15.”
Tahani, 8, is seen with her husband Majed, 27, and her former classmate Ghada, 8, and her husband, outside their home in Hajjah, Yemen, 26 July, 2010. Photo Credit: © Stephanie Sinclair/VII/Tooyoungtowed.org | Source: UN WOMEN
“Despite the physical damage and the persistent discrimination to young girls, little progress has been made toward ending the practice of child marriage.”
In fact, the problem threatens to increase with the expanding youth population in the developing world, according to Joint press release by UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, UN Women, the United Nations Foundation, World Vision, Girls Not Brides, Every Woman Every Child, World YWCA and The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.*
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08/03/2013
Amman, 8 March 2013 – Arab women are once again taking a step towards equality, addressing the social and institutional forces that are colluding to exclude women from the process of change and political transition in the Middle East and North of Africa (MENA) region, says the Amman-based Foundation for the Future* (FFF).
Source: Foundation for the Future
“On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we especially honor Arab women’s continuing struggle for freedom and equality, and note that women’s status in the region has not improved in the past year.”
Today, the Foundation for the Future bears witness to an unprecedented feminist activism, one which is united in decisively denouncing patriarchal aggression and demanding full inclusion for women in the emerging democracies.
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08/03/2013
If current child marriage rates continue, more than 140 million girls will become child brides between 2011 and 2020, the United Nations said*, warning that little progress has been made towards ending this harmful practice.
Photo: UNFPA/Stephanie Sinclair
Of these 140 million girls, 50 million will be under the age of 15, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), which added that young girls who marry before the age of 18 have a greater risk of becoming victims of intimate partner violence than those who marry later.
“Child marriage is an appalling violation of human rights and robs girls of their education, health and long-term prospects,” said UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin.
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08/03/2013
“Ending violence against women is a matter of life and death,” Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told the opening of the two-week session of the Commission on the Status of Women on 4 March in New York. “The problem pervades all countries, even in the most stable and developed regions.”
A gathering to promote the rights of girls and education for all in Barrod village of Rajasthan’s Alwar district (2012). Photo: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh Chandok
“Violence against women pervades war zones as well as stable communities, capitals as well as the countryside, public space as well as the private sphere,” Eliasson said. “Since it is an unacceptable feature of daily life, we have to respond everywhere and on every level.”
According to the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), up to 70 per cent of women in some countries face physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime.
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07/03/2013
By Roberto Savio*, Rome, March 2013 – For those who think that “Occupy Wall Street”, the “Indignados” in Spain, the “World Social Forum ” and the hundreds manifestation of protest worldwide are expressions without concrete outcome, the result of the recent Swiss referendum (Sunday 3 March) on capping the salaries and bonuses of banks executives should make them think twice.
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Like it or not, two-thirds of the Swiss, who are not exactly a revolutionary people, have given the shareholders of financial institutions the right to decide salaries and bonuses of their executives, which is thus no longer to the cosy mutual enrichment of their boards, and another referendum is due shortly on limiting the salaries and bonuses of executives of companies of all sectors to a figure that does not exceed 15 times that of the average salary of their employees.
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07/03/2013
By Uri Avnery*, TRANSCEND – Is this the third intifada? This question was raised this week by a number of Israeli security experts. And not only by them – their Palestinian colleagues were almost as perplexed.
**Second Intifada | Israeli soldiers in Nablus, during Operation Defensive Shield | Photo credit: Israel Defense Forces from Israel | Source:Standing Guard in Nablus | Wikimedia Commons.
All over the West Bank, Palestinian youth threw stones at Israeli soldiers. All the 4500 Palestinians in Israeli prisons took part in a three-day hunger strike.
The immediate reason was the death of a young Palestinian man during interrogation by the Shin Bet. The autopsy showed no reason for the death. It was no heart attack, as first (and automatically) claimed by Israeli officials and their stooges, the so-called “military correspondents”. So was it torture, as practically all Palestinians believe?
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07/03/2013
A United Nations independent expert urged the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom to release the findings of confidential inquiries into the detention and interrogation practices of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the administration of President George W. Bush, the UN reports*.
Source: Socialistworker.org
In a report to the UN Human Rights Council on 6 March 2013, the Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, said US authorities must “publish without delay, and to the fullest extent possible, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report into the CIA’s secret detention and interrogation programme.”
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07/03/2013
By Bustar Maitar* , Greenpeace, 7 March 2013 – In February we reported how Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) had stopped all deforestation in its suppliers’ concessions and committed to protect all remaining areas of rainforest in its global supply chain. However, there is another pulp and paper company in Indonesia that is now the leading driver of deforestation in the sector: APRIL.
Credit: WWF | Source: Greenpeace
Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited, or APRIL, is Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper producer. Its website boasts: “Go to a supermarket, stationery store, bookstore or many other types of consumer outlets in dozens of countries and the chances are you will happen to come across an item made from an APRIL product.”
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06/03/2013
Senior humanitarian aid workers, United Nations organizations and civil society members are meeting this week in Norway to discuss what the international humanitarian community can realistically do to prepare for and to respond to the humanitarian impact of a nuclear weapon detonation.
Hibakusha around the world: 50 places devastated by nuclear weapons, nuclear accidents or nuclear pollution | IPPNW
“The humanitarian consequences of a nuclear attack or an accidental nuclear blast are potentially devastating and catastrophic,” the Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva, Rashid Khalikov, on 4 March told the press on the margins of the International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Oslo, Norway.
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05/03/2013
By John Loretz, IPPNW*, March 4, 2013 – “We’ve been listening to the same story about nuclear weapons since the 1950s…and we’re getting bored.”
IPPNW co-president Ira Helfand addresses the Oslo conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons | IPPNW
So said Jacob Romer of Germany, one of 10 ICAN campaigners from as many countries who talked about bringing the abolition message to their national decision makers and to the public during a fast-paced session on the closing day of ICAN’s civil society forum in Oslo.
Two things about Jacob: he’s barely into his twenties but is already a veteran of the abolition movement, having started as a teenager conducting interviews for NPT-TV some eight years ago; and he didn’t exactly stand out from the crowd of 500 people in the Chateau Neuf auditorium.
This event has been characterized by a youthful energy among the participants and the organizers.
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