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– “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work” will provide concrete, practical and action-oriented recommendations that will cover significant new ground, on overcoming structural barriers to gender equality, gender-based discrimination and violence against women at work, a senior UN official stressed.
Wide view of the Human Rights Council. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré
Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are entitled to protection, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 31 January 2017 said, expressing concern at decisions around the world that have undermined the integrity of the international refugee protection regime.
Secretary-General António Guterres. Photo: World Economic Forum/Boris Baldinger (file) | Source: UN News Centre
“Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are finding more and more borders closed and increasingly restricted access to the protection they need and are entitled to receive, according to international refugee law,” Guterres said in a statement.
If you are similar to me, you might be starting this article with a feeling of optimism that defies countless experiences. After your curiosity was sparked by the image of the French painter Joseph Ducreux’s 1783 Self-Portrait, Yawning or the peculiar title, you clicked on this piece hoping it would pass a few empty moments on the train or waiting for a bus or before you have begun more important tasks.
1 February 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Attacking the Affordable Care Act; the “global gag rule” against abortion; the federal regulation and hiring freeze; canceling the TPP; restarting the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline; limiting entry with the Mexican Wall; the 90-day travel ban on seven countries; more undocumented people prioritized for deportation; no federal funding for cities refusing to cooperate; communications blackout from federal agencies; Guantánamo torture continued–What does it add up to?
Johan Galtung
A very strong white state centered on a president with absolute power and control over life (birth) and death (care) of the citizens. Not regulating police racism. So far, no order on the military.
Fascism? Too early to say; but in that direction. It opens for questions about the inner workings of Donald J. Trump. Who is he?
Once fertile agricultural land in Kenya is being degraded by encroachment and the effects of climate change. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPS
**Photo: Official portrait of President Donald Trump. | Author and source: White House | public domain | Wikimedia Commons: “This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.”
Donald Trump unleashed a furious storm on his newly inaugurated presidential head when he decided to put ink to paper and sign off on what the world refers to as the infamous “Muslim ban.”
And just like that, America … and most of the Western world flocked to the defense of Muslims, arguing Washington’s vile immigration policy and fascist streak!
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 