Archive for February 15th, 2018

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15/02/2018

Taliban Says Afghan War Could Continue for 100 Years with No Result, Calls on US to Start Peace Talks

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**Photo: Former Taliban fighters line up to handover their Rifles to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan during a reintegration ceremony at the provincial governor’s compound. | Author: isafmedia | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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15/02/2018

‘In 89 Countries, There Are 4.4 Million More Women than Men Living on Less than $1.90 a Day’

Without speedy progress on gender equality and real action to end pervasive discrimination against women and girls, the global community will not be able to keep the promise to ‘leave no one behind’ on the road to ending poverty, protecting the planet and advancing prosperity by 2030, according to a new United Nations report launched on 14 February 2018.
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Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank | Community meeting. Aurangabad, India ” Photo from UN News Centre
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“This is an urgent signal for action, and the report recommends the directions to follow,” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of UN Women, said on the launch of the new report, Turning promises into action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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15/02/2018

‘Child Marriage Cannot Be Allowed to Happen. Children Should Not Give Birth to Children’ — UN Youth Envoy 

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In this century, child marriage cannot be allowed to happen, and similarly, children should not give birth to children, the United Nations youth envoy on 14 February 2018told an African forum on reproductive health and rights.

Lindsay Barnes/UNFPA | Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Youth at the Opening Ceremony of the 8th Africa Conference on Sexual And Reproductive Health and Rights, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

“There are high levels of adolescent pregnancy virtually everywhere in the continent. Africa has the highest levels of teenage pregnancy in the world. The larger part of them occur within marriage,” said Jayathma Wickramanayake, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Youth.

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