15/07/2014
15 July 2014 – A new United Nations survey has found that over 10 million Yemenis – more than 40 per cent of the population – do not know where their next meal will come from.![[In 2013, WFP provided preventative nutrition support for 325,000 children under two, nutrition treatment for 200,000 children under five, and nutrition support for 157,00 pregnant and nursing mothers. Photo: WFP/Fares Khoailed] In 2013, WFP provided preventative nutrition support for 325,000 children under two, nutrition treatment for 200,000 children under five, and nutrition support for 157,00 pregnant and nursing mothers. Photo: WFP/Fares Khoailed](https://baherkamaleng.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/07-15-yemen.jpg?w=370&h=241)
[In 2013, WFP provided preventative nutrition support for 325,000 children under two, nutrition treatment for 200,000 children under five, and nutrition support for 157,00 pregnant and nursing mothers. Photo: WFP/Fares Khoailed]
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The Comprehensive Food Security Survey, conducted by the UN World Food Programme
(WFP) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), shows that Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rates in Yemen are serious across most of the country and at emergency levels in some areas.*
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15/07/2014
DAKAR, 15 July 2014 (IRIN)* – At least 750,000 people are stateless in West Africa, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which is calling for governments to do more to give or restore the nationality of stateless individuals, and improve national laws to prevent statelessness.
**Photo: Anna Jefferys/IRIN | Nigerien returnees fleeing violence in Nigeria face citizenship challenges
Many in the region are both stateless and refugees, said Emmanuelle Mitte, senior protection officer on statelessness with UNHCR in Dakar, but 80 percent of West Africans are stateless within their own country, lacking proof of the criteria required to guarantee their nationality.*
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Statelessness can block people’s ability to access health care, education or any form of social security. In the case of children who are separated from their families during emergencies, the lack of official documentation makes it much harder to reunite them, says the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
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Lack of official identification documents can mean a child enters into marriage, the labour market, or is conscripted into the armed forces, before the legal age.
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15/07/2014
“Not only is human trafficking one of the most grotesque violations of human rights, it is a lucrative crime for perpetrators… With annual profits as high as $36 billion per year, it ranks as the world’s third most profitable crime after illicit drug and arms trafficking'” according to the president of UN General Assembly John Ashe.
Forced labour often means unpaid wages, excessively long work hours without rest days, confiscation of ID documents, little freedom of movement, deception, intimidation and physical or sexual violence. ILO/A. Khemka
Human trafficking has no place in the modern world, Ashe on 14 July 2014 declared at a special event at United Nations Headquarters ahead of the observance of the first ever World Day against Trafficking in Persons.*
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15/07/2014
Human Wrongs Watch
Geneva, 14 July 2014, (ILO News)* – Around 60 per cent of all child laborers work in farming or a related industry, a sector where cooperatives hold a significant market share.
Photo: ILO/Joseph Fortin 2014
“Given that the total size of the cooperative economy worldwide is something over two and half trillion US dollars, cooperatives have considerable clout when it comes to making a difference,” says Simel Esim, head of the
Cooperatives Unit for the ILO.
Simel Esim, head of the Cooperatives Unit for the ILO
Cooperatives, as democratic member-led businesses, can help bring about changes in the way work is organized and how wealth is distributed — both important steps in helping bring about an end to child labour.
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15/07/2014
By Roberto Savio*
Rome, July 2014 – The latest figures from UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, show that in 2013 the total number of refugees worldwide had reached the staggering figure of 51 million people – we are close to the trauma of the Second World War, when the number of refugees was estimated at 55 million.
**180 degree rotated map of the world |Date 6 June 2008 | Source: Wikimedia Commons | Author: CaseyPenk, Vardion
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Now, while the Third World War has not been formally declared, this means that conflicts throughout the world are reaching levels unseen since 1944.
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Of course, for the large majority of people throughout the world, news about these conflicts is just part of our daily news, even though it should be insane to ignore the increasing spending on arms everywhere.
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Another share of our daily news is about the mess in our countries, but this is so complex and confusing that many people have given up the effort to attempt any form of deep understanding.
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