14/12/2016
A joint report launched 13 December 2016 by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) citied “unimaginable” human rights violations and abuses of migrants in Libya as a result of the breakdown in the crisis-riven country’s justice system.
“People smuggled or trafficked into Libya face torture, forced labour and sexual exploitation along the route, and many while held in arbitrary detention,” Martin Kobler, the Secretary General’s Special Representative for Libya and Head of UNSMIL in a news release.
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14/12/2016
12 December 2016 – According to the National Security Archive more files will be released as they are declassified even after Obama leaves office.
**Map of the States that took part in Operation Condor. Green: main active members. Light green: less active members. Blue: United States (cooperation). | Author: Sannita | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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14/12/2016
14 December 2016 (openDemocracy)* – UK-based finance firms will need far more than just ‘passporting’ rights to keep up their operations in the EU after Brexit, and the government will likely want something in return.
HSBC London Håkan Dahlström/Flickr. (CC 2.0 by) | Source: opnDemocracy
The result of June’s referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU has exposed limits in assumptions and concepts that strategic planners at financial services (FS) firms – from banks and insurers to dealers and asset managers – must recognise.
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14/12/2016
By Andre Vltchek*
11 December, 2016 (RT)* – On November 30, I walked into the historic building housing the Cuban Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam. Several Vietnamese guards stood silently at the entrance. Flowers were everywhere and a big black photo of Comandante Fidel was facing a busy street.
I explained who I was, and an embassy official first let me into a courtyard decorated with more flowers and images, and later into a room with a beautiful book, into which I penned several sentences of grief, but also admiration and hope.
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14/12/2016
By Dr Ravi P Bhatia*
12 December 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service – our men had to go to their office on the 20th floor of a tall tower in a big city. When they reached the staircase they were disappointed to see that both the elevators were out of order. What to do?
Dr Ravi P Bhatia
They had to go to their office for some urgent work. One of the men said, ‘let us relate some stories or events in our lives and that way we will slowly climb up to our office’.
The other three agreed and it was decided that youngest of the four would start relating his story for the first 5 floors and the next older person the next five and so on.
The first man (let us call him A) said that we all need peace and happiness in our lives. The question is how should be obtain it?
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14/12/2016
By Vânia Alves*
The Brazilian government is planning a series of dams that would flood portions of the Amazon rainforest and threaten their way of life.
Maria Leusa Munduruku spoke with Vânia Alves from Greenpeace Brazil about the journey from her home to Brasília to demand protection of their traditional lands. Here is her story:
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14/12/2016
13 December 2016 – Despite major progress in the fight against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains an acute public health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 90 per cent of the world’s malaria cases, according to an annual flagship report by the World Health Organization (WHO).
A home-based caregiver in a village near Kayar, Senegal, provides basic healthcare services, including malaria treatment for patients living in areas where there are no healthcare facilities. Photo: The Global Fund/Nana Kofi Acquah
“We are definitely seeing progress,” said Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme, in a news release on the World Malaria Report 2016.
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14/12/2016
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Flash floods carried away everything except the clothes on their backs. People take emergency food in plastic bags in a coastal village in India’s eastern state Odisha. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS
She remembers how she and her husband fretted about the river getting closer and closer to their thatched hut and tiny farm in Bangladesh’s Beparikandi village until, on that fateful day, they watched it engulf all their hopes and dreams.
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