05/09/2014
4 September 2014 – More than 800,000 people commit suicide every year – around one person every 40 seconds – according to the United Nations health agency’s first global report on suicide prevention, which was published today.
**Photo: Lime on rails after a suicide in Mainz-Laubenheim | Date: 7 December 2008 | Author: Wikimedia-User Jivee Blau | Wikimedia Commons
“This report is a call for action to address a large public health problem which has been shrouded in taboo for far too long,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
The report also notes that the most common methods of suicide globally are pesticide poisoning, hanging and firearms. Evidence from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and a number of European countries reveals that limiting access to these means can help prevent people dying by suicide.
Another key to reducing deaths by suicide is a commitment by national Governments to the establishment and implementation of a coordinated plan of action, WHO said in a news release. Currently, only 28 countries are known to have national suicide prevention strategies.
read more »
Like this:
Like Loading...
Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords |
Leave a Comment »
05/09/2014
DHAKA, 4 September 2014 (IRIN)* — Bangladesh announced this week that it will send back over 2,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, stoking concerns about the prospect of returning them to an increasingly dire situation.
**Photo: Kyle Knight/IRIN | Announcements that Bangladesh’s Rohingya will go home met with mixed emotions.
“Myanmar has agreed to repatriate some 2,415 Myanmar nationals who are living in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar [southeastern Bangladesh],” Shahidul Haque, secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka, told IRIN. “We consider it a major breakthrough. They have remained verified [for repatriation] since 2005.”
The Rohingyas have long faced persecution and discrimination, including being stateless in the eyes of Burmese law. Myanmar’s government claims that historically they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and labels them ‘Bengalis’, vehemently denying the existence of any people called ‘Rohingya’. The Bangladesh government would like the Rohingya refugees on its territory repatriated.
Outbursts of violence – called ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya by some – in Myanmar in 2012 led to 140,000 people (mainly Rohingyas) living in camps in Rakhine State, where they remain today.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Posted in Asia, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples |
3 Comments »
05/09/2014
Violence against children is universal – so prevalent and deeply ingrained in societies it is often unseen and accepted as the norm – according to new, unprecedented data presented by the United Nations on 4 September 2014.
A young rape survivor at a safe house in Monrovia, Liberia. UN Photo/Staton Winter
A new UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report, Hidden in plain sight: A statistical analysis of violence against children, draws on data from 190 countries in order to shed light on a largely undocumented issue.*
The report found that about two thirds of children worldwide between ages 2 and 14 (almost 1 billion) are subjected to physical punishment by their caregivers on a regular basis. And yet, only about one third of adults worldwide believe that physical punishment of some kind is necessary to properly raise or educate a child.
read more »
Like this:
Like Loading...
Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords |
4 Comments »
05/09/2014
BANGKOK, 3 September 2014 (IRIN)* — Activists warn of a harmful regression in the World Bank’s safeguard policies, claiming that proposed changes being considered this autumn could weaken the rights of indigenous people, and others in danger of displacement and abuse as a result of Bank-funded development projects.
**Photo: Dana MacLean/IRIN | Indonesia’s Dayak people remain unrecognized as indigenous, and now might lose the World Bank’s backing
“This [version of the safeguards] will be dangerous backsliding into their bad legacy of treatment against indigenous people if it is approved,” said Joan Carling, secretary-general of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), a network that operates in 14 Asian countries.
According to the World Bank, “the proposed Environmental and Social Framework builds on the decades-old safeguard policies and aims to consolidate them into a more modern, unified framework that is more efficient and effective to apply and implement.”
Like this:
Like Loading...
Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples |
1 Comment »
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 