09/02/2018
Over the past 25 years, Somalia has experienced a cycle of protracted droughts, culminating in the most recent one in 2016 and 2017, when rains failed for three seasons in a row.
Tragically, drought images from the country are so familiar that they rarely make the headlines.
But the situation in Somalia has grown desperate. The recent drought has caused spikes in food scarcity, malnutrition, and cholera and other diseases; it has also driven people from the rural areas into the cities. In 2017, 1.2 million children were projected to be acutely malnourished; 80,000 children were forced to stop attending school; and 120,000 risked dropping out.
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09/02/2018
8 February 2018 – Bollywood is highlighting the issue of menstrual hygiene in a new comedy-drama that aims to break taboos around sanitary pads.
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Actor Akshay Kumar on the set of Pad Man. Courtesy of Pad Man
Pad Man is inspired by a rural welder in southern India, Arunachalam Muruganantham, who devoted 20 years of his life to creating a machine which made low-cost sanitary pads.
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09/02/2018
Ongoing conflicts and climate-related shocks have left millions of people on the brink of starvation, the United Nations agriculture agency on 8 February 2018 warned as it launched a $1.06 billion appeal to save lives and livelihoods, and tackle acute hunger in 26 countries.
An elderly woman begs for food at a camp for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of Dinsoor, Somalia. Photo: Giles Clarke for Getty/OCHA
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08/02/2018
5 February 2018 (openDemocracy)* — The main threat to democracy in Brazil is posed by part of the judiciary; a dangerous, well-born, conservative class of mostly white men. And Lula da Silva is their worst nightmare. Español
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**Lula in June 2015. | Valter Campanato/ABr Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Brazil license.
The tenth edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index ranks Brazil as a “flawed democracy.” The magazine has lowered its score from 7.38 in 2014 to 6.86 in 2017.
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08/02/2018
By Finian Cunningham*
6 February 2018 (RT)* — Washington’s latest Nuclear Posture Review imperils global security in three ways: it inflates perceived threats to the US, it conflates conventional & nuclear war and it pushes for the development of low-yield nuclear weapons.
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© Wikipedia | Source: RT.
These three new moments in US policy increase the risk of nuclear war rather than lowering it, as American Defense Secretary James Mattis claimed in signing off on the Nuclear Posture Review published last week.
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08/02/2018
8 February 2018 (Wall Street International)* — All was ready for landing and the six astronauts could not hide their nervousness. It has been a two-month traveling in that small explorer space ship, and the main problem was, that they did not know what they would find in Ciclope-34.
This was one of the many Earth-like planets, discovered long ago, and a human colony had been implanted there 500 years earlier. However, contacts had stopped since almost one century, and nobody knew why.
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08/02/2018
By Robert J. Burrowes*
8 February 2018 — The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’.
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Robert J. Burrowes
The Executive Summary of the NPR is also available, if you prefer. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018 Executive Summary’.
Several authors have already thoughtfully exposed a phenomenal variety of obvious lies, invented threats, strategic misconceptions and flaws – such as the fallacious thinking behind ‘deterrence’ and significantly increased risk of nuclear war given the delusional ‘thinking’ in the document – as well as the political fear-mongering in the NPR.
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07/02/2018
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, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 6 February 2018 said, calling for urgent action to protect them from sexual exploitation, cyberbullying and the misuse of their private information.
A student at St. Francis of Assisi School, and other girls, check their smart phones after classes in the Central Visayas city of Cebu, Philippines. Photo: UNICEF/Estey
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06/02/2018
By David Krieger and Rick Wayman*
5 February 2018 – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service – The 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), released on 2 February 2018, represents a reckless realignment of an already dangerous U.S. nuclear policy.
Source of photo: ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
The review specifically calls for the development of new, low-yield nuclear weapons that have lower explosive force. Many experts warn that such smaller weapons would blur the distinction between nuclear and non-nuclear weapons, representing a significant and dangerous increase in the likelihood of their use.
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06/02/2018
6 February 2017 – Female genital mutilation denies women and girls their dignity and causes needless pain and suffering, with consequences that endure for a lifetime and can even be fatal, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said, stressing that the UN Sustainable Development Agenda promises an end to this practice by 2030.
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Composite photograph. Credit: UNFPA
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