**Photo: Graffiti reading “Die Arab Sand-Niggers!” reportedly sprayed by settlers on a house in Hebron | Author: CPT-Hebron. | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Davos-Klosters, Switzerland (World Economic Forum)* – Decades of prioritizing economic growth over social equity has led to historically high levels of wealth and income inequality and caused governments to miss out on a virtuous circle in which growth is strengthened by being shared more widely and generated without unduly straining the environment or burdening future generations.
Davos, Switzerland, 23 January 2018 (World Economic Forum)* – The flood of refugees into Europe in recent years has led to the collapse of the continent’s screening and reception process, according to Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Unprecedented numbers flee as CAR violence surges | UNHCR
The conflict in Syria alone has driven nearly 10 million of its citizens to seek refuge abroad. Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon host over 90 per cent of these refugees.
22 January 2018 (Oxfam International)*— Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth, according to a new Oxfam report released on 22 January 2018.
Photo from Oxfam International
The report is being launched as political and business elites gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
**Photo: World Economic Forum headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. | Author: Alexey M. | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
While the global economy has kept up modest growth, the total number of unemployed people will likely remain high in 2018 – at above 192 million – and it will be harder to find a decent job, the United Nations labour agency on 22 January 2018 reported.
A worker sorts a green leaf tea before it reaches the main processing floor at the Kitabi Tea Processing Facility in Rwanda. Photo: A’Melody Lee / World Bank | Source: UN News Centre
22 Jan 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — There are many reasons for persons with very different worldviews to feel disillusioned by, if not angry at, the United Nations.
Richard Falk
These negative feelings arise usually because the UN stands idly by the sidelines while terrible national and human tragedies unfold as the world media visually narrates horrific events in real time.
At other times the hostile feelings toward the UN arise because the Organization is seen as a plaything of geopolitics, as bowing to crude leverage wielded by major funding governments, and in the process violating the letter and spirit of the UN Charter.
Such behavior undermines the UN’s constitutional foundations and casts doubt on the central claim that the Organization is dedicated to the cause of war prevention.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on 22 January 2018 launched a global fundraising campaign to sustain resources for its education, health and other assistance programmes.
Pierre Krähenbühl, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, speaks at the launch of the fundraising campaign. UNRWA Photo by Khalil Adwan
(Jerusalem) Israeli authorities should abandon a new policy that could lead to the indefinite detention of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals for refusing to leave Israel for Rwanda or Uganda, Human Rights Watch on 22 January said.
**Photo: The entrance to Holot immigration detention center, Negev desert, Israel. | Author: TrickyH | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
23 January 2018(Wall Street International) — The international order that emerged in 1989 left the United States as the sole global power, which has since then been making itself felt by asserting hard power: political, economic and military.
However, the current international scenario and the complexity of the interests of the great powers, as well as the so-called ‘regional powers’, are causing a process of mutation or readjustment of an international scene influenced by new threats to security that have alarmed the inhabitants of the big cities throughout the globe.
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