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10/12/2015

UN Security Council Adopts “First-Ever!” Resolution Recognizing Importance of Youth in Peace-Building

 Human Wrongs Watch

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

On Int’l Day, ‘Break the Corruption Chain, Take Action to End this Corrosive Crime’  

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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

‘Prevention, Best Hope for Eliminating Violence against Women’, UN

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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

Sahel – ‘Dire Climate Change Effects, Abject Poverty, Fast Population Growth and Tormenting Rise in Violence’

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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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09/12/2015

Seashore Thoughts

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By Uri Avnery*

5 December 2015

IT WAS wonderful.

I went to the seashore for the first time since my operation three weeks ago. A five minute walk from my home.

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Uri Avnery

The sea was placid, smooth. A mild sun was shining near the horizon, not too hot, not too cold, just as we like it. A cool wind, not too cold, was blowing.

I was sipping a cup of “americano” coffee, thinking that all was well with the best of all possible words.

BUT OF course it wasn’t. In fact, all was wrong with the worst of all possible worlds.

True, beyond the blue sea, in faraway Paris, the largest assembly ever of world leaders was deliberating on how to save the planet from climate disaster.

Our own Binyamin Netanyahu was there with a huge delegation, though most Israelis, including Netanyahu, have only contempt for the issue, which they consider a phony problem for pampered countries which have no real problems, as we have aplenty.

He went there only to shake hands and have his picture taken shaking the hands of all the world’s great leaders, including Arabs, giving the lie to all those who bemoan Israel’s growing isolation in the world.

But all this was sham. Israel, the country I love, is in grave danger. Actually, it is in more dangers than one.

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09/12/2015

Extinction Is Forever

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By Robert J. Burrowes*

9 December 2015 

What do the Pyrenean ibex, St. Helena olive, Baiji dolphin, Liverpool pigeon, Eastern cougar, West African black rhinoceros, Formosan clouded leopard, Chinese Paddlefish, the Golden Toad and the Rockland grass skipper butterfly all have in common but which is different from the Dodo?

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**A selection of diverse plant species | click on each image for its individual description | (Read details) | Author: Rkitko | GNU Free Documentation License | Wikimedia Commons

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09/12/2015

World’s Richest 10% Produce Half of Carbon Emissions While Poorest 3.5 Billion Account for Just a Tenth

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December 2015 (OXFAM)*– The poorest half of the world’s population – 3.5 billion people – is responsible for just 10 percent of carbon emissions, despite being the most threatened by the catastrophic storms, droughts, and other severe weather shocks linked to climate change.

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**”Wave of Change – Act Now!” – Source: Blog post by Natalie Brook, Oxfam Great Britain, Climate Change Campaigner

These are the findings of a new Oxfam report, released during the ongoing climate talks in Paris, which also shows the world’s richest 10 percent produce around half of all emissions.

The Oxfam report, “Extreme Carbon Inequality,” provides new estimates of the lifestyle consumption emissions of rich and poor citizens in different countries.

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08/12/2015

Unprecedented Human Suffering – 20.1 Billion Life-saving Dollars Urgently Needed for 2016

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Warning that global suffering has reached levels not seen in a generation, the United Nations and its partners on 7 December 2015 launched their largest ever humanitarian appeal, calling for 20.1 billion life-saving dollars for 2016, even as the 2015 appeal posts the largest funding gap on record – $10.2 billion.

 

Hopes and needs 2016. Credit: UN OCHA

 

“Conflicts and disasters have driven millions of children, women and men to the edge of survival. They desperately need our help,” Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien said as he launched the Global Humanitarian Overview 2016 in Geneva, calling the outlook for next year grim.

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08/12/2015

‘Latin America Faces Huge Task to Reverse Discrimination against More than 150 Million Afro-descendants’

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7 December 2015 – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, saying he was struck by the “enormity of the task” over the next decade to reverse five centuries of discrimination against the 150 million people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, has urged the region to draw on “the untapped potential in hitherto invisible communities.”

Afro-Colombian children displaced from their rural homes, find refuge near the city of Buenaventura

The top UN human rights official made those remarks in a speech to the first Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean on the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) held in Brasilia, Brazil, last week and which bought together States, regional organizations, national human rights institutions, equality bodies and civil society, particularly those of people of African descent, as well as UN bodies from the region.

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07/12/2015

The Clouds Are Getting Dark

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By Johan Galtung*

7 December 2015 – TRANSCEND Media Service – The process has now gone full circle, from Sykes-Picot Agreement negotiated from 1915 to 16 May 1916, about control of the Ottoman Empire, when beaten, to England now joining France in bombing Syria.

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Johan Galtung

“Violence In and By Paris” two weeks ago was wrong about England wanting to stay out: the House of Commons on 02 Dec 2015 voted 397 to 223 for bombing; 56 Labor MPs for, only 7 Conservative MPs against.

Russia played a minor role in Sykes-Picot as now also in bombing maybe mainly the opposition to Assad.

As Robert Savio points out, “They all fight to the last Syrian.”

The likelihood of an atrocious Paris 13 November type violence in London went up many points. And Russia had a civilian plane bombed.

The USA is as addicted to bombing as a hammer to a nail, not only to use allies and train locals.

James A. Lucas, “The United States has killed more than 20 million people in 37 nations since WWII”, in 1945 (jlucas511@woh.rr.com) seems not to be enough; they just go on and on.

More than a million Muslims killed in West Asia mainly by the USA since 1991. In San Bernardino, somebody may have killed 14 in revenge.

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