08/03/2018
By IOM Director General William Lacy Swing*
Switzerland – Women and girls represent a significant proportion of people on the move worldwide, all of whom carry with them a heart full of hope, a mind filled with ideas, and a diverse range of migration experiences.
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A participant of IOM’s SIRIRI project to support community stabilization in the Central African Republic, celebrating her participation in the cash-for-work component of the project. Photo: IOM/Amanda Nero
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, stands with each and every one of them on International Women’s Day 2018 and embraces the official United Nations theme: Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives.
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08/03/2018
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 8 Match, 2018 — Anyone reading the scientific literature (or the progressive news outlets that truthfully report this literature) knows that homo sapiens sapiens is on the fast track to extinction, most likely some time between 2025 and 2040.
Robert J. Burrowes
For a taste of the evidence in this regard focusing on the climate, see ‘Climate Collapse and Near Term Human Extinction’, ‘What They Won’t Tell You About Climate Catastrophe’, ‘Release of Arctic Methane “May Be Apocalyptic,” Study Warns’ and ‘7,000 underground [methane] gas bubbles poised to “explode” in Arctic’.
Unfortunately, of course, the climate is not the only imminent threat to human survival. With an insane leadership in the White House in the United States – see ‘Resisting Donald Trump’s Violence Strategically’ – we are faced with the prospect of nuclear war.
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08/03/2018
A “radical transformation” of food systems and food habits is critical to combat the growing scourge of overweight and obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean, the United Nations food security agency on 7 March 2018 said.
Jamie Martin/World Bank | Children in line for a daily meal in Ecuador. | Source: UN News Centre
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08/03/2018
By secondary-level education, refugee girls are only half as likely as their male peers to enrol in school – even though they make up half of the school-age refugee population, according to a new study released on 7 March 2018 by the United Nations refugee agency.
UNHCR/S. Otieno | Young refugee girl sits for the end of term exams at Mogadishu Primary School in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.
“It is time for the international community to recognize the injustice of denying refugee girls and women an education,” said Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (
UNHCR).
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08/03/2018
Despite notable progress on closing gender gaps over the past 20 years, women have less access to jobs, are more likely to take low-quality employment, and face barriers to management positions, a United Nations labor report has found.
World Bank/Dominic Chavez | Young factory workers producing shirts in Accra, Ghana. | Source: UN News Centre.
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08/03/2018
This year, International Women’s Day comes at a pivotal moment, and with a wave women’s activism – from the #MeToo movement to #TimesUp and beyond – exposing the structures that have allowed women’s oppression to flourish, the United Nations is urging the world to stand with rural and urban women activists to topple the remaining barriers to gender equality and empowerment.
UN Women/Bruno Spada | Women in Brazil march for women’s rights.
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08/03/2018
In a scathing address to the Human Rights Council, the top United Nations rights official on 7 March 2018 warned political leaders who stoke fear and intolerance among their followers for the sake of their own ambitions are merely copying the behaviour of previous generations of once strong, but ultimately catastrophic, leaders and politicians.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein addresses the 37th Session of the Human Rights Council.
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