23/02/2018
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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23/02/2018
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.
(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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22/02/2018
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 22 February, 2018 — Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why.
Birds scavenging for food amidst the debris at the landfill in Danbury, Connecticut in the United States. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider
.To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by humans or the locations into which each of these is dumped is a staggering task beyond the scope of one article.
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22/02/2018
22 February 2018 — Toward Freedom* — As the global demand for fossil fuels rises and the Arctic sea ice continues to melt, multinational corporations and governments are deepening efforts to expand oil exploration and trade routes in the region. While corporations see a profit, environmentalists see a crisis.
Merely a couple of years after a Greenpeace-led global campaign managed to prevent the oil company Shell from drilling in the Northern Pole, the world’s two nations most responsible for global warming – China and the US – have announced plans that will further accelerate the agony of the Arctic.
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21/02/2018
19 February 2018 (Wall Street International)* — The classical and popular questions of “where do we come from?”, “where are we going?” and “what are we?” still permeate all philosophical and psychological approaches to the human being.
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It is not possible to dissociate these questions and their possible answers from the epistemological background that is very explicit and summarized in the antagonism between dialectical and teleological questions.
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21/02/2018
After over a century of hostilities including 50 years of continued military occupation, Israelis and Palestinians are still no closer to peace, a United Nations special envoy on 20 February 2018 said, warning that even as many in the region have lost hope for positive change, the enemies of peace are growing more confident by the day.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Secretary-General António Guterres addresses a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East.
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Process
Nikolay Mladenov delivered his latest monthly briefing to the Security Council, noting that he was doing so at a time when “regional tensions are taking an
increasingly perilous turn.”
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21/02/2018
Critical health services must be scaled up for nearly 1.3 million people – Rohingyas and their surrounding host communities – in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, where vulnerable populations in crowded settlements and ‘mega camps’ are at risk of a host of waterborne diseases, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) on 20 February 2018 warned.
UNICEF/Roger Lemoyne | UNICEF supplies vaccines for a massive cholera vaccination campaign targeting all Rohingya refugees that have arrived in Bangladesh.
“Commendable efforts have been made by the Government of Bangladesh and partner agencies to provide health services; prevent diseases such as cholera; and rapidly control outbreaks of measles and diphtheria. However, the challenges are huge, multiple and evolving,” said Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director for (WHO) South-East Asia.
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21/02/2018
UNICEF/UN0155835/Zammit | National Health Center for Mother and Child in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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2.6 million newborns around the world do not survive their first month of life. One million of them die the day they are born,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
“We know we can save the vast majority of these babies with affordable, quality health care solutions for every mother and every newborn. Just a few small steps from all of us can help ensure the first small steps of each of these young lives,” she added.
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20/02/2018
20 February 2018 (Wall Street International)* — The issue is tough, very tough. It is about the good, the bad and the ugly of the use – and misuse – that humans make of Internet.
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On the one hand, users find quick answers from what you may call “Saint Google” or “Santa Wikipedia”. On the other, Internet is being glowingly misused and abused for steeling private information, bullying, sexual exploitation and even human trafficking.
And the issue has just jumped to the news again now that the United Nations informs that every half a second, every day, a child goes online for the first time – tapping into all the great opportunities the Internet has to offer, but facing grave risks.
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20/02/2018
14 February 2018 (openDemocracy)* — The UK has a long and inglorious history of political and military support for dictatorships. Ministerial statements suggest Brexit will make it even worse.
**Photo: Manchester Brexit protest for Conservative conference, October 1, 2017 | Author: Ilovetheeu | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
It was one year ago that a triumphant Theresa May proudly announced from Ankara, Turkey, that the UK is “open for business.” She had reason to be upbeat.
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