17/01/2018
As the Bay of Bengal region gears up for cyclone and monsoon seasons, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is warning that more than half-a-millon Rohingya children already living in “horrific” conditions in makeshift settlements in Bangladesh may face compounded risks of disease and displacement.
A seven-year-old Rohingya girl carries a pot of water to her family’s makeshift shelter after filling it at a hand operated water pump at the Bormapara makeshift settlement in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: UNICEF/Sujan
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17/01/2018
By Amos Gvirtz*
15 January 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — According to the ruling by Beer Sheva MagistrateMagistrate Magistrate Court Judge Yoav Atar, Sheikh Sayah Abu Medigham Al Touri is a criminal who deserves a ten-month prison sentence because he invaded lands that he claims are his.
Amos Gvirtz
This sentence was given before the court even reached a ruling about the ownership issue of the said land.
The judge ruled that Sheikh Sayah be sent to prison for ten months and pay a 36,000 shekel fine, in addition to a suspended sentence of five months in prison effective if and when he enter the area of Al Araqib again.
These are lands that Sheikh Sayah’s great-grandfather purchased in 1905 from someone in the Al Uqbi tribe around the area of Al Araqib.
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17/01/2018
As the brutal conflict in Yemen nears its grim third anniversary, malnutrition and disease are running rampant in the country and virtually every child there is dependent on humanitarian aid to survive, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 16 January 2018 said.
With up to 20 people sharing a room, diseases such as measles and respiratory infections are a significant threat in Yemen, especially for children already reeling from malnutrition and dealing with inadequate water and sanitation facilities. Photo: OCHA/Eman
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17/01/2018
On top of the already-desperate conditions in Syria’s war-ravaged East Ghouta and north-west Idlib governorate, a violence upsurge is intensifying insecurity, the United Nations food relief agency on 16 January 2018 said.
Inter-agency convoy to Duma, east Ghouta in the buffer-zone crossing the conflict line. Photo: OCHA/Ghalia Seifo (file)
“Since the end of last year, airstrikes have destroyed numerous civilian buildings, killing hundreds of people in both places and, in the case of Idlib, displacing some 100,000 people,” said UN World Food Programme (WFP) Senior Communications Officer Bettina Luescher in Geneva.
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16/01/2018
By Kathy Kelly*
15 January 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjecting many of them to torture and arbitrary detention.
Witness Against Torture demonstrators marching to the White House. Credit: Justin Norman
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16/01/2018
15 January 2018 (RT)* — Rudyard Kipling once wrote that “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” The poet was referring to his experiences in India and Britain, but the line could increasingly apply to modern Europe.
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**Map: Continental territories of the Member States of the European Union in 2009 | Author: Ssolbergj | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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16/01/2018
14 January 2018 – As part of an intensified response to the current diphtheria outbreak, United Nations agencies are working to vaccinate more than 475,000 children in Rohingya refugee camps, temporary settlements and surrounding areas in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar.
UNICEF is on the ground in Bangladesh, immunizing Rohingya refugee children to fight the spread of disease, and delivering life-saving nutrition to the tens of thousands of children who are malnourished. Photo: UNICEF/Brown
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16/01/2018
(IOM)* — While the world’s attention is drawn to the plight of migrants and refugees and Asia and Africa, a small but significant number of irregular migrants continue to arrive in central European countries like Bosnia and Herzegovina, placing huge strains on local authorities.
IOM staffer works with a newly arrived family in Bosnia. Photo: UN Migration Agency (IOM)
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16/01/2018
By Marilyn Langlois*
15 January 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s prophetic words, uttered April 4, 1967, continue to haunt and challenge us. 
The wisdom, commitment to humanity, and charisma he embodied during his fleeting 39 years on this earth are badly needed now amid the ongoing proliferation of military aggression, killing machines and fomenting hate.
Dr. King would be 89 years old today, January 15, had his life not been taken prematurely 50 years ago.
Thanks to Dr. William Pepper’s tireless and meticulous efforts over several decades, we have solid evidence that he was killed by agents of the US Army and Memphis Police, the jury’s unanimous conclusion after hearing months of testimony in a little-known 1999 civil trial brought by the King family.
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16/01/2018
By Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D.*
15 January 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — Ladies and Gentlemen, I write to you today from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, birthplace and national shrine of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), clergyman, civil rights leader, social activist, Nobel Prize Laureate, and martyr to the cause of justice.
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D.
I write to welcome you to the land where one man made the word ‘‘justice’’ a living reality, where one man’s relentless and indomitable pursuit of “justice” for his people, and for people everywhere, changed history through nonviolent protest.
I write to welcome you to the land where one’s man’s vision changed a nation’s identity, conscience, heritage of slavery and abuse of African-Americans, and of all people living in bondage, seeking opportunity, screaming for dignity.
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