22/12/2015
OXFORD, 21 December 2015 (IRIN) – In 2015, all eyes have been on the Mediterranean and Europe’s so-called migration crisis.
But people are being displaced in many other corners of the world away from the media’s glare.
According to the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, this year is likely to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first time.
See IRIN‘s full feature highlighting six under-reported migration stories.
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22/12/2015
The number of refugees and migrants fleeing to Europe in 2015 has topped an unprecedented one million – at least 3,600 died or went missing in the crossings – the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on 22 December 2015 reported, calling for much more to be done to receive and aid those uprooted by persecution, conflict and poverty.
Refugees, primarily from the Syrian Arab Republic, Afghanistan, and Iraq, pass through the Vinojug reception centre for refugees and migrants in Gevgelija, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on the border with Greece. Photo: UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson VII
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22/12/2015
By Uri Avnery*
19 December 2015
BY NOW EVERY ISRAELI has seen the TV clip several times – showing a 14-year old Arab girl being shot dead near the central market of Jewish Jerusalem.
Uri Avnery
The story is well known: two sisters, 14 and 16 years old, have decided to attack Israelis.
The clip, taken by a security camera, shows one of them, clad in traditional Arab garb, jumping around on the sidewalk, brandishing a pair of scissors.
The whole thing looks almost like a dance. She is jumping around aimlessly, waving the scissors, threatening no one in particular.
Then a soldier aims a pistol at her and shoots her. He runs to the girl and kills her while she is lying helplessly on the ground. The other girl is grievously wounded.
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22/12/2015
Violence and attacks against civilian populations in northeastern Nigeria and its neighboring countries have forced “a staggering” one million children out of school in a conflict that has dealt “a huge blow for education in the region,” the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 22 December 2015 reported.
Girls use their new school supplies during a class in an informal learning centre in a UNICEF-supported safe space for children in the Dalori camp for internally displaced people, in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri in Borno State. Photo: UNICEF/UNI193691/Andrew Esiebo
“Across Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, over 2,000 schools remain closed due to the conflict – some of them for more than a year – and hundreds have been attacked, looted or set on fire,” UNICEF said.
“In far north Cameroon, only one out of the 135 schools closed in 2014 has re-opened this year.”
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22/12/2015
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Juarez Saw is the chief of the Sawré Muybu village on the Tapajós River between the municipalities of Itaituba and Trairao in the state of Pará, Brazil. Credit: Gonzalo H. Gaudenzi/IPS
But the “evil spirit”, as they refer in their language to the Sao Luiz Tapajós dam, threatens to leave most of their territory – and their way of life – under water.
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22/12/2015
At the end of the first year of its transformation decade, the Afghan National Unity Government is struggling to project national unity, security has deteriorated as it grapples with intensified fighting with much less international support, and the economy remains a matter of concern, the top United Nations official in the country on 21 December 2015 warned.
Afghans start their journey to Europe in trucks on this road in Afghanistan’s Nimruz Province near the border of Iran in October 2015. Photo: Jim Huylebroek/IRIN
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22/12/2015
The United Nations refugee agency, together with two European partners, on 21 December 2015 urged Hungary to refrain from policies and practices that promote intolerance, fear and fuel xenophobia against refugees and migrants, including a campaign running through Christmas and into the New Year.
Syrian man carrying a baby along the highway with other refugees, several kilometres after leaving Budapest, Hungary, heading in the direction of Vienna, Austria. Photo: UNHCR/Mark Henley
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22/12/2015
Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21 December 2015 (IPS) – Many Europeans fear the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) because it could enable American companies to file claims against their states. The strange thing, however, is that Western Europe is becoming a big hub in this mechanism, called the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), leading to billion dollar claims against poorer countries.
**Anti-TTIP graffiti in Malmö, Sweden, June 2015. | The image shows Swedish politician Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, leading a Trojan horse, the rope forming the word “treachery”. The Swedish text in the speech bubble says “Regulations are not trade barriers, they protect our hard-won democratic rights”. US president Barack Obama is shown dipping a chicken in chlorine. | Author: Johan Jönsson (Julle) | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. | Wikimedia Commons
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