07/03/2018
8 March 2018 (Wall Street International)* — While women worldwide have organised massive demonstrations to claim for their due legitimate rights on the occasion of the International Women’s Day tens of thousands of women and girls are “silenced” victims of sexual violations and all kinds of abuses without being protagonists in the news.
Kapaeeng Foundation – Photo Hiran Mitra Chakma
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This is the dramatic case of indigenous women.
While totalling over 370 million self-recognised indigenous peoples, and in spite of the very fact that their lands guard 80 per cent of the world’s biodiversity, the original inhabitants of planet Earth, in particular women and girls, have been systematically falling victims of natural resources and land grabbers.
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07/03/2018
Although the prevalence of child marriage is decreasing worldwide, action will need to be stepped up to achieve the global target of ending the practice by 2030, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 6 March 2018 said.
UNICEF/Vishwanathan | Girls who have fought child marriage go to school using a transport facility provided in the village of Berhabad, India.
Progress over the last decade meant 25 million child marriages were prevented, the agency reported.
Overall, the proportion of women who became brides before age 18 decreased by 15 per cent during this period: from one in four to approximately one in five.
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07/03/2018
7 March 2018 (EURACTIV.com) — Belgian pharmacies will provide radiation-busting iodine tablets free-of-charge to anyone as part of the country’s new nuclear strategy, while Benelux partner Luxembourg has come out fighting against atom-smashing.
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07/03/2018
World Bank/Curt Carnemark | Tree stumps in Indonesian forest | Source: UN News Centre
“Those who
struggle to protect planet and people should be celebrated as heroes , but the sad fact is that many are paying a heavy price with their safety and sometimes their lives,” Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (
UNEP) said Tuesday [6 March 2018], launching the UN Environmental Rights
Initiative in Geneva.
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07/03/2018
6 March 2018 — The brutal conflict in Syria has not only claimed civilians as unintentional victims but has seen all warring parties deliberately target them with complete impunity employing unlawful methods of warfare, a new report by a United Nations-mandated inquiry on the war-ravaged country has said.
UNICEF/UN0145425/Charbonneau | A boy walks past severely destroyed houses in a neighborhood in eastern Aleppo, Syria.
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Drawing from over 500 interviews, the latest report from of the
Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria – established by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate and record all violations of international law since March 2011 – documents deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and protected objects, starvation, unlawful internment, and the use of chemical weapons.
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07/03/2018
Latest data on development progress for children reveals that more than half a billion live in countries where the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are “quickly falling out of reach,” the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 6 March 2018 warned.
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UNICEF/UNI126514/Khan | A child stands beside a wall at his family’s home in rural Bangladesh.
“More than half the world’s children live in countries where we either can’t track their SDG progress, or where we can and they are woefully off-track,” said Laurence Chandy, UNICEF Director for the Division of Data, Research and Policy.
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07/03/2018
6 March 2018 — The “frenzied” scale of unspeakable violence against the minority Muslim Rohingya community in Myanmar has shifted to a “lower intensity campaign of terror and forced starvation,” seemingly intended to drive the remaining Rohingyas from their homeland, a senior United Nations human rights official has warned.
UNICEF/UN0136205/LeMoyne | A group of Rohingya refugees including women and small children cross into Bangladesh at Palong Khali in Cox’s Bazar district.
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The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya from Myanmar continues. I don’t think we can draw any other conclusion from what I have seen and heard in Cox’s Bazar,” Andrew Gilmour, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, said at the end of a four-day visit to Bangladesh which is hosting more than
800,000 Rohingya refugees, most of whom fled Myanmar this past August in the wake of a crackdown by the country’s security forces.
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