17/11/2015
Geneva, 16 November 2015 (IPS) – South-South cooperation is usually seen as a poor second fiddle to North-South aid in the world of development assistance. Indeed, developing countries’ policy makers themselves insist that South-South cooperation can only supplement but not replace North-South cooperation.
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**World map showing Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe members. The members of this group resemble the traditional description of the ‘North’, defined as the old First and Second World. | Wikimedia Commons
However, this widespread view received a jolt recently when China announced it was setting up two new funds totalling a massive 5.1 billion dollars to assist other developing countries.
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17/11/2015
By Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate*
16 November 2015 – TRANSCEND Media Service
15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – Barcelona, 13-15 November 2015
I would like to thank the Major of Barcelona, Ada Colau I Ballano, the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit, and all those who have worked so hard to make this great event possible.
It is wonderful to see so many people here and in particular to see so many young people.
I hope you will enjoy the next few days making new friends and leave feeling joyful and enthusiastic about the great tasks and challenges ahead of you.
There are enormous challenges which will require all your energy, and enthusiasm, and above all, your creativity and imagination to dream of, and to build a disarmed, peaceful world starting with ending militarism and wars…
But in order to build a disarmed world, we need to analysis the root causes of the increasing violence and conflict, and take ownership of what has gone wrong.
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17/11/2015
The current El Niño, a weather pattern of devastating droughts and catastrophic floods that can affect tens of millions of people around the globe, is expected to strengthen further by year’s end, on track to be one of the three strongest in 65 years, according to the latest update from the United Nations weather agency.
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17/11/2015
16 November 2015 – With record numbers of child refugees and migrants – 700 a day seeking asylum in Europe –the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said it has identified five groups of vulnerable children and is mobilizing tailored actions to meet their needs.
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A young child, wearing a sweater and a knitted cap, eats a sandwich, next to a tarpaulin serving as a makeshift shelter, beside a railroad track on a rainy day, near the town of Gevgelija, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on the border with Greece. September 2015. Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2015-2191/Georgiev
These include babies and small children, children with disabilities and special needs, lost children, children who have been left behind, and unaccompanied adolescents on the move.
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17/11/2015
16 November 2015 – More than five years since the unrest in Syria began, senior United Nations officials today stressed to the Security Council that the status quo in the war-torn country cannot continue, highlighting the effects of the conflict on civilians, especially women and children.
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Tesreen Camp, Aleppo, Syria. Credit: OCHA/Josephine Guerrero
“The Syria crisis is a chronicle of missed opportunities by the Security Council, Member States with influence on the parties, and the broader international community to bring the conflict to an end,” Stephen O’Brien, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told the 15-member Council.
The meeting, which opened with a moment of silence in honour of the victims of the terrorist attacks Friday in Paris, also heard from UN special representatives dealing with sexual violence in conflict and children and armed conflict.
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17/11/2015
16 November 2015 – While recognizing Israel’s “serious security challenges,” a senior United Nations official today called its punitive demolition of the homes of alleged attackers “inherently unjust” and against international law, noting that 20 Palestinians, eight of them children, were made homeless in the past three days.
Israeli authorities demolished this residential structure in the Palestinian community of Al Jiftlik Abu Al Ajaj in Area C of the Occupied West Bank in April 2015. Photo: OCHA (file)
In operations to “deter others,” the family homes of five alleged perpetrators of attacks against Israelis in 2015 have been demolished by Israeli security forces since 14 November.
At least nine additional adjacent apartments have been damaged and rendered unsafe. The deaths and injuries occurred during the most recent operation this morning in Qalandiya refugee camp.
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17/11/2015
13 November 2015 (EurActiv) – With its Better Regulation agenda, the European Commission talks big about making EU decisions more transparent and increasing public participation. But the reality is very different, writes Anaïs Berthier.
European Commission meeting room [EurActiv]
With its Better Regulation agenda, the Commission talks big about making EU decisions more transparent and increasing public participation. But the reality is very different and ClientEarth’s case is a striking example.
In 2014, we took the Commission to court. We wanted to see the thinking behind a decision not to adopt a Directive underpinning the Aarhus Convention, despite a legal requirement to implement it.
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16/11/2015
By Andre Vltchek*
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14 November 2015 (RT) – For years it was a well known fact that ISIS had managed to infiltrate Beirut. It was not promenading its soldiers through the capital – far from it! It was lying low, appearing dormant, but ready to strike at any moment.
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While Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army have been locked in what could only be described as “epic battles” with ISIL in the north of the country near the border with Syria, countless deadly cells of this Sunni Muslim terrorist organization (ISIL) were increasing their presence in all major Lebanese cities, including the country’s capital Beirut.
“ISIL militants are living not only in the Sunni Muslim parts of the city,” a local academic explained to me. “They are residing even in some of the upscale Christian neighborhoods. They managed to infiltrate the entire country. They can strike anytime and anywhere they want.”
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16/11/2015
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VALLETTA, 12 November 2015 (IRIN)* – Are European leaders forcing their own migration agenda on Africa? Why are they conflating development aid with migration policy? What is wrong with introducing more safe and legal migration routes?
**A truck of smuggled migrants leaves Agadez to cross the Sahara desert into Libya and Algeria (Ibrahim Diallo Manzo/IRIN)
For refugee and migrant rights advocates, the action plan launched in Malta today at the end of a two-day meeting of 60 European and African leaders left more questions than answers.
The Valletta summit was meant to strengthen cooperation on tackling irregular migration, but critics saw it not only as a missed opportunity, but also as one-sided, secretive and wrong-headed.
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16/11/2015
11 November 2015 (UNODC) – The Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) and its Amendment are legally binding instruments that promote nuclear security and counter nuclear terrorism. Unfortunately, the Amendment to the CPPNM is one of the few international legal instruments against terrorism that has not yet entered into force.
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The adherence of two thirds of the Parties to the Convention, currently numbering 152 countries, plus Euratom, is required for the Amendment’s entry into force, but there are still 13 adherences needed for this to happen.*
“The entry into force of the Amendment to the CPPNM is the single most important step which the international community can take in strengthening nuclear security globally,” said the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, at the 59th General Conference of the IAEA.
This is important as terrorists are actively seeking nuclear and other radioactive materials, some of which are not always adequately protected – in some cases because of the lack of adequate legal frameworks, and in other cases because the legal frameworks are not being implemented.
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