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16/02/2018

More than 10,000 Civilians Killed or Injured in (Liberated) Afghanistan Conflict Last Year – UN

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More than 10,000 civilians were killed or wounded in the Afghanistan conflict during 2017, a nine per cent drop over 2016, according to a United Nations report out 15 February 2018,  which also revealed rising casualties caused by suicide bombings and attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Rafi Alkozai/UNAMA | Launch of the 2017 Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict Report, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo: Rafi Alkozai/UNAMA
“The chilling statistics in this report provide credible data about the war’s impact, but the figures alone cannot capture the appalling human suffering inflicted on ordinary people, especially women and children,” said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan.

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16/02/2018

Human Nature and Human Destiny

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By John Scales Avery*

15 February 2018 — When he was between the ages of 11 and 16, Paul Gauguin attended a Catholic boarding school in France. At the school, the Bishop of Orléalns himself taught the class in liturgy. The bishop had devised a catechism in which three main questions were asked: “Where does humanity come from? Where is it going? How do we proceed?”

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It is possible that these questions influenced Gauguin when, many years later, he began an enormous painting whose title asked very similar questions.

By this time Gauguin had become an influential post-impressionist artist, the leader of the symbolist movement.

Gauguin was admired by a small circle of artists but, like his close friend Vincent van Gogh, he was unrecognized by the larger public until after his death.

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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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14/02/2018

Big Agriculture’s Brexiteers Are Pulling the Wool over Our Eyes

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By Adam Ramsay*

12 February 2018 (openDemocracy)* — Big Agriculture wants wholesale deregulation, New Zealand-style – and is buying influence and positive news coverage to skew the debate.

Image: We’re being sold a post-Brexit picture of a bucolic utopia. The truth is rather different.

The European Union is, perhaps more than anything else, a farming union.

About 40% of its budget goes on the Common Agricultural Policy, which has guided food production and land use across the continent throughout a 55-year period which has been marked by changes in farming practice as great as any since the Neolithic revolution.

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14/02/2018

How China’s Ban of Plastic Waste Imports Can Help Beat Pollution

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By Verena Balke*

7 February 2018 (UNEP)* ––  When China decided to ban imports of plastic waste at the end of last year, it left major exporters of plastic waste unprepared.

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According to the Worldwatch Institute, the average North American or European consumes 100 kilograms of plastic every year. Globally, only 14 per cent of our plastic waste is being recycled.

Current recycling machines are unable to separate plastics into reusable forms, so plastic waste has previously been pressed into bales and sent to China, where recyclable plastic was manually picked and reused.

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14/02/2018

‘Causes of Rohingya Refugee Crisis Originate in Myanmar; Solutions Must Be Found There’

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Nearly six months after an outbreak of violence drove almost 700,000 minority Rohingyas from Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh, senior United Nations officials on 13 February 2018 said it is time to address the root causes – including decades of repression inside Myanmar – so those who fled feel safe enough to return to their homeland.

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UNICEF/LeMoyne | Pictured here, Rohingya refugees including women and children cross from Myanmar into Bangladesh at Palong Khali in Cox’s Bazar district.

“We are now in a race against time as a major new emergency looms,” United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told the Security Council via videolink from Geneva, Switzerland.

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13/02/2018

Me Too! — Times Up!

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By Ellyn Kaschak*

10 February 2018, (Wall Street International)* – There is much in the news these days that is, in fact, no news at all to women and to most men. The cauldron of sexual assault of women and sometimes men mostly by powerful men and, once in a while by a powerful woman, is boiling over and, thus impossible not to see.
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Sexual harassment | Photo re-posted from Wall Street International.
 Everyone can see the mess it is making as more and more (mostly) women come forward to say “Me too.” I do not want to ignore the experiences of young boys, also molested by adult men, but I also don’t want the experiences of women to disappear from view one more time.

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13/02/2018

IOM Chief: There Is No Migration Crisis But a Political Emergency

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By Daniela Vincenti | EURACTIV.com*

12 February 2018  — EU leaders need to find the courage of unity to manage migration, which has the potential to help the EU economy grow more than expected. But the window of opportunity is closing fast, William Lacy Swing said in an exclusive interview with EURACTIV.

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Political leaders sometimes seem to be fearful of public attitudes to migration. [Freedom House/Flickr] | Source: EURACTIV

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