16/12/2017
The number of Americans living in poverty and the already high income inequality could worsen further in the days to come, making the United States the most unequal society in the world, the United Nations expert on extreme poverty and human rights on 15 December 2017 warned.
A homeless man sits at the steps of a store in lower east side, Manhattan, New York City. (File) UN Photo/Pernaca Sudhakaran
“The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Illusion, as the US now has the lowest rate of social mobility of any of the rich countries,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, on 15 December 2017, at the end of a fact finding mission to the country.
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16/12/2017
Some 50 million children are on the move worldwide, and if countries follow best practices to ensure their safety and well-being, 2018 could be a landmark year for migrant children the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 15 December 2017 said.
A young child eats a sandwich next to the tarpaulin that serves as a makeshift shelter, close to the town of Gevgelija, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on the border with Greece (September 2015). Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2015-2191/Georgiev
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16/12/2017
By Uri Avnery*
16/12/2017
FOR GOD’S SAKE, are they crazy?
Uri Avnery
They congregate in the marketplace, boys of 15, 16 years, take stones and throw them at our soldiers, who are armed to the teeth.
The soldiers shoot, sometimes over their heads, sometimes straight at them. Every day there are wounded, every few days there are dead.
What for? They do not have the slightest chance of changing the policy of the Israeli occupation. Only very rarely do the boys hit a soldier and cause him a slight injury.
Yet they go on. Why?
A FRIEND of mine sent me an article by a respected Palestinian. He described his first demonstration, many years ago.
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16/12/2017
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 15 December 2017 said that he is deeply concerned over the risk of military confrontation on the Korean Peninsula, “including as a result of miscalculation
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the Security Council on non-proliferation / DPRK. UN Photo/Manuel Elias
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16/12/2017
Expressing deep shock at a mass execution of 38 men at a prison in the Iraqi city of Nassiriya, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called on the country to establish an immediate moratorium and carry out an urgent and comprehensive review of its criminal justice system.
“The mass execution […] once again raises huge concerns about the use of the death penalty in the country,” Liz Throssell, an OHCHR spokesperson, told the media at a regular news briefing in Geneva on 15 December 2017.
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