10/12/2015
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Evelyn Nguleka, World Farmer’s Organisation Chief Warns the World to Look Out for Farmers at the Paris conference COP21. Credit: A. McKenzie/IPS
“The earth feeds us and farmers are responsible for feeding the world. We need to protect both,” says Nguleka, President of the Zambia National Farmers’ Union and also of the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO), an international body of agricultural producers.
The WFO and other groups, as well as individual farmers from around the world, are in Paris to argue that a binding agreement on climate change must take agriculture into account.
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10/12/2015
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At COP21 entrance are situated the ‘Wind Trees.’ Each “aeroleaf” generates energy by harnessing the power of the wind. Credit: IISD.ca | Source: IPS
Cities are undeniably one of the key players in the global warming arena, being the leading source of greenhouse gases, of population settlements and of energy consumption, grouping three highly interconnected driving factors of global warming.
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10/12/2015
By Pepe Escobar*
9 Deceber 2015 (RT) – Turkey’s “incursion” into Iraq is a cold, calculated move. And once again, the name of the game is – what else? – Divide and Rule.
**Map of Kurdistan Autonomous Region (Kurdish Autonomous Region) in Iraq in 1975. | Author: PANONIAN | Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. | Wikimedia Commons
Turkey sent to Iraqi Kurdistan – which is part of the state of Iraq – no less than a 400-strong battalion supported by 25 M-60A3 tanks.
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10/12/2015
By Imogen Foulkes and Heba Aly*
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Geneva, 9 December 2015 (IRIN) – A US airstrike in September obliterating a hospital in Afghanistan renewed concerns about accountability in conflict. However, a proposal to strengthen compliance with the rules of war is meeting significant resistance at a conference this week of the states party to the Geneva Conventions.
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Photo: MSF | The aftermath of the US airstrike on an MSF hospital in Kunduz
A resolution, drafted by Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross, proposes an annual meeting of states to review thematic and technical issues of international humanitarian law as well as voluntary self-reporting on compliance to it.
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10/12/2015
By Thomas Gaist*
10 December 2015 (WSWS) – The US Congress witnessed new heights of anti-Muslim hysteria and warmongering on Wednesday [9 December 2015], as US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs General Paul Selva testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the ongoing escalation of US military operations in Iraq and Syria.
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter | Source: PressTV
Leading US senators and top US military officials issued fervent calls for yet another round of sweeping escalations of the US air, ground and special forces operations throughout the Middle East, while invoking the prospect of future terror attacks by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in every second breath.
Carter unveiled proposals to send Apache attack helicopters to provide close air support and military advisers for ongoing Iraqi military operations aimed at retaking the city of Ramadi.
These deployments would represent a major escalation of the US intervention, further making a mockery of President Barack Obama’s pledges against placing US boots on the ground.
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10/12/2015
The UN Security Council on 9 December 2015 adopted a historic resolution on youth, peace and security that urges greater representation by young men and women in the prevention and resolution of conflict amid “the rise of radicalization to violence and violent extremism amongst youth, which can be conducive to terrorism.”
UN Security Council adopts historic resolution on youth, peace and security. UN Photo/Amanda Voisard
Along with positioning youth and youth-led organizations as important partners in the global efforts to counter violent extremism and promote lasting peace, the resolution also gives impetus to the youth-led peace-building and conflict-prevention interventions to build peaceful communities and underpin democratic, inclusive governance.
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10/12/2015
To mark International Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December 2015 , the UN has called for people to join a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about this “corrosive” scourge, and encouraging people from all walks of life to take action against this crime.
UNODC and UNDP have developed a joint global campaign calling for people to ‘Break the Corruption Chain.’ Credit: UNODC/UNDP
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP), under the slogan Break the Corruption Chain, are urging Governments, the private sector and the general public to jointly tackle this issue by changing their attitudes towards the problem.
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10/12/2015
9 December 2015 – On a December evening in 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was beaten and brutally raped by five men and a youth on board an off-duty bus in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
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Daughters, mothers, grandmothers, midwives, ministers, academics, activists, domestic workers and a diverse range of women take part in the Black Women’s March against Racism and Violence in Brasilia, Brazil (18 November 2015). Photo: UNDP/Tiago Zenero
The injuries she sustained were so severe that she succumbed to them 13 days later, setting off protests in India and around the world for ending the scourge of violence against women.
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10/12/2015
Warning of dire effects of climate change, abject poverty, fast population growth and a tormenting rise in violence and insecurity in Africa’s Sahel region, UN agencies and partners on 9 December 2015 Launched the Sahel humanitarian appeal for 2016, which includes a regional plan that calls for $1.98 billion to provide vital assistance to millions of people in nine countries across the region.
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Hadjara, 8, fled a Boko Haram attack against Baga in Nigeria with her family. She was shot during the attack and her arm had to be amputated at Baga-Sola hospital in Chad. Photo: OCHA/Caroline Birch
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