17/09/2015
By Amantha Perera*
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KARADIYANARU, Sri Lanka, 16 September 2015 (IRIN)* – Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war ended six years ago, but it’s not over for many victims who suffered permanent injuries during the conflict.
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**Photo: Amantha Perera/IRIN | Mayuran Sivachandran, seen here in August 2015 in Mulaittivu District where fighting raged between Sri Lanka government forces and the Tamil Tigers, lost his leg in 2008 to a war-related injury
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Government soldiers can receive assistance packages for injuries sustained in service, including the continuation of salaries for those able to work at desk jobs, or long-term care in military-run facilities for those severely disabled. But there is no programme to help civilians and former Tamil Tigers who remain permanently affected by injuries during the war.
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17/09/2015
15 September 2015 (UNICEF)* – Every five minutes, somewhere in the world, a child dies as a result of violence. Read the testimony of young survivors of violence and their plea to world leaders to act now to put an end to the violence that threatens millions of children.
Credit: UNICEF/Imperato
Dear world leaders,
Every five minutes, somewhere in the world, a child dies as a result of violence.
We are young people from 18 different countries; survivors of violence who have experienced pain and abuse.
There are millions of children just like us.
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17/09/2015
16 September 2015 – A political commitment to manage hydrofluorocarbons under the Montreal Protocol – a huge environmental success that agreed to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals – could be one of the biggest climate change wins in the lead-up to the December’s climate conference, says United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Credit: UNEP
“Let us ensure that we protect our climate the way we have preserved the ozone layer,” Ban said in his message for the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, observed annually on 16 September.
“Not so long ago, humanity stood on the brink of a self-inflicted catastrophe,” he recalled.
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17/09/2015
A new report released on 16 September 2015 by the United Nations human rights office has identified patterns of grave violations in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2011, and recommends the establishment of a hybrid special court to ensure that justice is served.
**Relatives of missing persons from Sri Lanka’s 26-year long civil war hold their pictures during a meeting in the capital Colombo. Photo: IRIN/Amantha Perera
“Our investigation has laid bare the horrific level of violations and abuses that occurred in Sri Lanka, including indiscriminate shelling, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, harrowing accounts of torture and sexual violence, recruitment of children and other grave crimes,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said in a news release.
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17/09/2015
A “heinous” attack against a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Yola, north-eastern Nigeria, where some 32,000 people have found refuge, was on 16 September 2015 strongly condemned today by an independent United Nations human rights expert.
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Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Yola, Nigeria, waiting for a food distribution. Photo: OCHA/Nick Horne
“IDPs are amongst the most vulnerable persons and according to international human rights and humanitarian law they must be protected against any direct and indiscriminate attacks or other acts of violence against them or their camps or settlements,” Chaloka Beyani, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of IDPs, said in a news release.
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16/09/2015
16 September 2015 (RT)* – In a rare interview with Russian media outlets, RT among them, Syrian leader Bashar Assad spoke about global and domestic terrorism threats, the need for a united front against jihadism, Western propaganda about the refugee crisis and ways to bring peace to his war-torn nation.
Question 1: Mr. President, thank you from the Russian media, from RT, from Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Channel 1, Russia 24, RIA Novosti, and NTV channel, for giving us all the opportunity to talk to you during this very critical phase of the crisis in Syria, where there are many questions that need to be addressed on where exactly the political process to achieve peace in Syria is heading, what’s the latest developments on the fight against ISIL, and the status of the Russian and Syrian partnership, and of course the enormous exodus of Syrian refugees that has been dominating headlines in Europe.
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16/09/2015
By Marjanna Bergman*
Geneva 15 September 2015 (UNHCR)* – Tragedy marked the Mediterranean again last weekend as two more boats capsized in Greek waters, killing 39 people, including 15 children and four babies.
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© UNHCR/I.Prickett | A Syrian woman cries in relief as she embraces her three young children after a very rough crossing of the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.
The boats, which capsized on Saturday and Sunday off the coast of Farmakonisi and Samos, had Syrians, Iraqis and other people fleeing war and conflict on board and looking for safety in Europe.
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15/09/2015
15 September 2015 (RT)* – Islamic State has designs on the holy cities of Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem and endangers Europe and Russia, Vladimir Putin said. Moscow is concerned about IS-trained jihadists returning to EU countries, the CIS and Russia.
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The situation is very serious, Putin said, adding that Moscow is very worried that IS terrorists are publicly announcing their designs on Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. The jihadists also plan to spread their activities to Europe, Russia, central and southeastern Asia.
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15/09/2015
By Zamzami*
11 September, 2015 (Greenpeace)* – Smoke caused by forest fires and peatland destruction, is covering about 80% of Sumatra, Indonesia. And it seems like no matter how far you try to escape, the smoke follows.
My wife and daughter should be at our home in Pekanbaru, Riau on the east of Sumatra right now. It’s been more than a month since we moved, or rather escaped to my parent’s house in West Sumatra.
But like a dark cloud over my head I’ve since discovered that wherever I go, smoke follows.
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15/09/2015
By Nick Beams*
15 September 2015 (WSWS)* – The bankruptcy of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers seven years ago today signalled a breakdown of the global capitalist economy and financial system that continues to deepen.
**Lehman Brothers Headquarters on Bankruptcy Day | New Yoork City, 15 September 2008 | Author: Robert Scoble | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. | Wikimedia Commons
Within hours of Lehman’s demise, it became clear this was not simply the failure of an individual bank, but the expression of a crisis engulfing the entire US and global financial system.
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