“In general, the rural moneylender as a species has proved surprisingly resilient, even in countries such as India and Indonesia where it has been a declared objective of state intervention in financial markets to suppress him.”
— Hulme and Mosley, Finance Against Poverty
Moin Qazi
Almost every farmer in India’s massive rural swathes is tethered, in one way or another, to the sahukar, the Indian variety of the moneylender, the ubiquitous, ravenous loan shark.
For centuries, moneylenders have monopolized rural Indian credit markets.
Families have lost land, farmers have been asked to prostitute their wives to pay off debts, and, when all else has failed, they have tied the noose to end their misery.
March 22, 2018 (EURACTIV.com)*— Extreme weather events are on the rise due to man-made climate change, according to a consensus report by Europe’s scientific academies, which called for urgent action to make sure infrastructure and society itself is ready to adapt to the new climate.
A flooded mosque is seen near Shkoder, Albania, 20 March 2018, caused by heavy rains that hit the country in previous days. [ EPA-EFE/MALTON DIBRA] | Photo Re-posted fromEURACTIV.com‘s article.
26 March 2018 – “It is a splendid city, beautifully built; the climate is pleasant, the water healthy,” the 10th-Century Muslim geographer al-Muqqadasi once described the Iraqi city of Mosul.
In July 2017 the city was liberated from the stranglehold of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after several months of intense fighting.
27 March 2018(Wall Street International)* — The massacre of Srebrenica will enter human history as one of our darkest chapters. From 11 to 22 July 1995, Bosnian Serb military forces massacred approximately 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks.
26 March 2018 — 520 Weeks, 25 thousand Posts, 6 thousand Comments. We are proud of our record: never missed a single week! Prof. Johan Galtung’s first Editorial was on 3 Mar 2008.
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A United Nations spokesman on 26 March 2018 said that Secretary-General António Guterres is shocked at reports of remarks attributed to Myanmar Senior General U Min Aung Hlaing. “He urges all leaders in Myanmar to take a unified stance against incitement to hatred and to promote communal harmony,” said Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq.
UN Photo/Mark Garten (file) | Secretary-General António Guterres.
Media reports suggest that at a military gathering, Hlaing said Rohingyas had nothing in common with the country’s other ethnic groups.
26 March 2018 — There needs to be a “massive global coalition of conscience” to enshrine the values of racial equality and human rights for all, declared civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at the United Nations.
UN News/Matt Wells | Rev. Jesse Jackson at UN Headquarters in New York after speaking at an event celebrating “A Decade of Recognition for the Contributions, Achievements and Challenges of People of African Descent Worldwide.”
The veteran leader of the struggle for racial justice was at UN Headquarters last week to speak at an event marking the Decade of Recognition for the Contributions, Achievements and Challenges of People of African Descent Worldwide.
Reporting that over the past three months, Israel has advanced 22 plans for some 1,200 housing units for one area of the West Bank, a UN envoy on 26 March 2018 warned that such ongoing settlement expansion is eroding the prospect of a two-state solution to the long-standing Middle East conflict.
UN Photo/Manuel Elias | Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (screen) addresses the Security Council via videoconference on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
In a briefing to the Security Council focused mainly on implementation of its resolution 2334, Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said the text urged Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.”
26 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — “Positive Peace” as defined by Prof. Johan Galtung in over 50 years of uninterrupted research, refers to a very specific fait social that requires equally specific political measures. This presentation is an effort to make the concepts and specificities underpinning the notion of Positive Peace more widely understood.
To directly discuss issues pertaining to Positive Peace and other themes raised in this video with Hanno Heynitz and his colleagues, visit: https://www.galtung-institut.de/en/ne…
Three years after a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the Yemen war, and hours after reports that Houthi rebels fired missiles at cities in Saudi Arabia, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday [26 March 2018] said military escalation is not the solution and urged restraint on all sides.
OCHA/Philippe Kropf | The Yemeni city of Sa’ada has been heavily hit by airstrikes since conflict in the country. Here, aid officials stand amid the rubble of a market in the old city of Sa’ada.
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The UN has also dispatched an envoy to meet with warring parties in its quest to facilitate a negotiated political settlement to the crisis, which has left an estimated 22.2 million people in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
