24/01/2016
22 January 2016 – Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous arms on earth. Just one can destroy an entire city – potentially killing millions, jeopardizing the natural environment and threatening future generations through its long-term catastrophic effects.
On 18 December 2015, Yasuaki Yamashita, an atomic bomb survivor (hibakusha) from Nagasaki who now lives in Mexico, met with UN Tour Guides and interns in New York to share his testimony of the horrors he experienced 70 years ago. Credit: UN/Jihye Shin
Seventy years ago, the United Nations General Assembly’s first resolution, adopted on 24 January 1946, established the goal of eliminating atomic weapons and all other major weapons “adaptable to mass destruction…”
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Yasuaki Yamashita, a 76-year-old who makes his home in Mexio, is among the dwindling number of hibakusha – people alive today who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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22/01/2016
20 January 2016 – Senior United Nations officials for the occupied Palestinian territory have called for an immediate end to Israeli plans to transfer Bedouin living in the Jerusalem area for a settlement expansion, long recognized as a violation of international law and an obstacle to realizing a two-state solution to the Middle East crisis.
Israeli authorities demolished Bedouin homes in the vulnerable community of Abu Nwar, Area C, near East Jerusalem in the West Bank. Photo: UNRWA
“I am once again deeply alarmed to witness Israel’s relentless push towards removing Bedouin Palestine refugees from their homes, destroying their livelihoods and their distinct culture,” said Felipe Sanchez, Director of Operations in the West Bank for UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
“The children in these communities should not be experiencing the trauma of displacement that preceding generations already experienced,” he added.
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22/01/2016
21 January 2016 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for “substantial policy changes on the ground” by Israel, voicing deep concern at reports that the Government has declared of 370 acres in the occupied West Bank south of Jericho as so-called “state land.
Two young residents from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Acqba Jaber camp for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank. The camp is located just outside of Jericho. UN Photo/Stephenie Hollyman
“If implemented, this declaration would constitute the largest land appropriation by Israel in the West Bank since August 2014,” a statement issued by his spokesman said last night.
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22/01/2016
“We should be the change we want to see… Women should be change agents … to transform, not to conform,” Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) stressed at an African Union high-level meeting to prepare for the 26th African Summit in the Ethiopian capital on 21-31 January 2016.
AUC chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma | Credit: ourtesy of the African Union Commission
Addressing over 400 civil society, AU and national and international experts and women leaders participating in the 8th Gender Pre-Summit in Addis Ababa on 17-21 January, Dlamini Zuma reiterated that the year 2016 marks “an important milestones in the continent” as well as the global women’s development agenda.
“We should be the change we want to see… Women should be change agents …. to transform, not to conform,” she said.
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22/01/2016
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 21 January 2016 announced the first-ever High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment to provide leadership and mobilize concrete actions aimed at closing economic gender gaps that persist around the world.
Source: UN Women
“The empowerment of the world’s women is a global imperative,” said Ban in a press release, issued while he attends dozens of events at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“Yet despite important progress in promoting gender equality, there remains an urgent need to address structural barriers to women’s economic empowerment and full inclusion in economic activity,” he added.
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21/01/2016
By Baher Kamal*
20 January 2016 (IPS) – Africa is clearly one of the most negatively impacted regions by the increasingly dominant trend among the mainstream media to focus on tragic news, this way following a self-imposed rule that says: “if it bleeds it leads.”
2016, the African Year of Human Rights with Parcular Fcus on the Rights of Women. Credit: Courtesy of the African Union Commission
Famine; hunger; malnutrition; indebtedness; piracy; wars; massacres; tribal fights; terrorist attacks; Boko Haram; Al Qaeda Maghreb; Islamic State; Western military interventions; corruption; human rights abuses, and repeated operations of humanitarian assistance, among others, are pure adrenalin for most media outlets.
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20/01/2016
19 January 2016 (openDemocracy) – ‘Traumatised into feminism,’ Mona Eltahawy speaks of her decision to unveil and understanding that ‘Muslim women’s bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved, be it through headscarves or cutting.’
Mona Eltahawy, the author of ‘Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution’. | Source: openDemocracy
She is fast. She is furious. She is a runaway train. But she is not off her rails.
That is what I tweeted after hearing Mona talk about her new book, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution at an event organised by the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University.
Whether she was talking about her decision to veil and then, not to veil, her condemnation of sexual assaults on women in Egypt, or Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim racism in the wake of the San Bernadino killings she was articulate and angry with a breathtaking skill for crafting a clever soundbite.
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20/01/2016
Despite falling unemployment in some developed economies, the global jobs crisis is likely to continue for at least the next two years, especially in emerging economies, topping 200 million by 2017, the United Nations labour agency on 19 January 2016 warned, calling for urgent steps to boost jobs.
Workers in a Ready-made Garments factory in Bangladesh. Photo: ILO Bangladesh
“The significant slowdown in emerging economies coupled with a sharp decline in commodity prices is having a dramatic effect on the world of work,” UN International Labour Organization (ILO) Director-General Guy Ryder said of the latest report.
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20/01/2016
With children now accounting for more than one in three of the tens of thousands of refugees and migrants flooding into Europe, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 19 January 2016 voiced concern at the impact recent sub-zero temperatures and snowy conditions were having on them.
A young girl stands outside a tent at the Vinojug reception centre for refugees and migrants in Gevgelija, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Photo: UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson VII
The children arriving into a harsh winter in south-eastern Europe are physically exhausted, scared, distressed and often in need of medical assistance, UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulierac told the regular bi-weekly news briefing in Geneva.
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19/01/2016
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But human activity threatens their very existence, despite their importance to people and the environment. Whether due to mining in northern and central Chile or climate change in southern Chile, these unprotected glaciers are under serious strain.
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