27/01/2018
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 26 January 2018 (IOM)* – “The reason we have the mirror is that after everything that has happened to them, many of the women cannot bear to look at themselves,” says Lufta Bokshi, a psychosocial support officer who is helping Rohingya women refugees in Bangladesh come to terms with life after fleeing deadly violence and rape in Myanmar.
The UN Migration Agency (IOM) opens a new women’s safe space for Rohingya women in one of Cox’s Bazar’s refugee camps. Photo: Fiona Macgregor / UN Migration Agency (IOM) 2018
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27/01/2018
By Neil Clark*
26 January 2018 (RT)* –
– The Swiss resort of Chateaux-d’Oex is known for its hot air balloons. The Swiss resort of Davos is known for hot air. Or at least for one week a year, when some of the world’s biggest windbags meet to discuss ‘significant’ issues.
**Photo: A sports shop has turned into a temporary informal reception location “Caspian week”, WEF 2018 | Author: Anidaat | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
This year, the cool and trendy thing to express concern over at the World Economic Forum is ‘inequality.’ OK, ya?
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27/01/2018
At least 30 refugees and migrants drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Aden, Yemen, the United Nations on 26 January 2018 reported, saying the overcrowded vessel was believed to have been operated by unscrupulous smugglers who were trying to extort money from the passengers.
Somali refugees wait on Yemen’s Red Sea coast for transport to Aden. Photo: UNHCR/R. Nuri
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed outrage and sadness over the incident, which occurred Tuesday [25 January 2018].
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27/01/2018
Geneva, 26 January 2018 –– IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are outraged and saddened at the drownings of at least 30 refugees and migrants off the coast of Aden, Yemen earlier this week.
Survivors of the incident have reported to UN and partner staff that an over-crowded boat packed with at least 152 Somalis and Ethiopians departed 23 January from the Al Buraiqa coast in Aden in a boat headed across the Gulf of Aden towards Djibouti.
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26/01/2018
Maids prepare a room for a guest in a wealthy Kenyan household, 2011. Ph Guillaume Bonn | Photo from Wall Street International.
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See what is at stake.
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26/01/2018
The United Nations, the Security Council and the wider international community all have fallen into a pattern of “managing, rather than resolving” the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the UN envoy on the Middle East peace process on 25 January 2018 warned, saying it was time to end this paralysis, show political leadership and push for policies on the ground that rebuild trust.
On large screen: Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov briefs the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question. UN Photo/Kim Haughton
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25/01/2018
24 January 2018 – With world leaders converging in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum, a group of United Nations human rights experts has called on government and business leaders to use the occasion to decide on concrete actions to bring about positive change.
Preparing for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Photo; World Economic Forum/Mattias Nutt | Photo from UN News Centre
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25/01/2018
Some unavoidable, pressing questions, however, impose themselves while the world’s business pundits meet (23-26 January 2018) in the icy resort of Davos in Switzerland, pronouncing thousands of ‘politically correct’ words about inequality, gender and the future of the youth.
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25/01/2018
In an increasingly fractured world, change will not happen if the current model of corporate greed continues to dominate the future, 2018 World Economic Forum co-chair Sharan Burrow told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.
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24/01/2018
22 January 2018 (Wall Street International) — Being in the same place, in the same family, in the same city is to live with the other, to live with others. Simple proximity is what defines the coexistence between people, between beings.
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Proximity also encompasses temporality and is so comprehensive in this sense that it explains the concepts of contemporaneity and antiquity. Coexistence scenarios are experienced (nurtured) now, before and after, both near and far.
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