Archive for February 23rd, 2018

23/02/2018

Standing with Rohingya Women: Three Peace Laureates in Bangladesh

Human Wrongs Watch 

By Nobel Women’s Initiative*

Source: Nobel Women’s Initiative

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23/02/2018

‘Job Creation Around Agriculture Can Spur Youth Employment in Africa’

Human Wrongs Watch 

Agriculture will continue to generate employment in Africa over the coming decades, but businesses around farming, including processing, packaging, transportation, distribution, marketing and financial services, could also create jobs for young people, especially those in rural areas, a senior United Nations official on 22 February 2018 said.

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FAO/Giulio Napolitano | Women of the Batwa community tilling the soil with hoes in preparation for planting potatoes, in Gashikanwa, Burundi.
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 “Countries need to promote a rural and structural transformation that fosters synergies between farm and non-farm activities and that reinforces” the linkages between rural areas and cities, José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), told a regional conference on employment being held from 19 to 23 February in Khartoum, Sudan.

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23/02/2018

Refuting Nuclear Winter Denial

Human Wrongs Watch 

By John Scales Avery* 

22 February 2018 — We are all familiar with the climate change denial of Donald Trump and the US Republican Party. Motivated by the greed of giant fossil fuel corporations, climate change denial contradicts the research of the vast majority of scientists and endangers the futire of human civilization and the biosphere.

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(Don’t Want Your) Nuclear Umbrella | ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

There exists another very similar greed-motivated denial: It is the denial of the peer-reviewed scientific research on the environmental effects of a nuclear war. In this case, the greed is that of the military-industrial complex against which US President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned in his famous farewell address.

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