28/03/2018
Yemen’s education system has been devastated by the country’s brutal conflict, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 27 March 2018 said, reporting that at least half a million children have dropped out of school since the 2015 escalation of the war.
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“An entire generation of children in Yemen faces
a bleak future because of limited or no access to education,” said Meritxell Relaño, UNICEF Representative in Yemen. “Even those who remain in school are not getting the quality education they need.”
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28/03/2018
More than 1,700 people have reportedly been killed in military operations and airstrikes on Eastern Ghouta since late February, the United Nations aid chief on 27 March 2018 said, describing the past few months of relentless bloodshed as “some of the worst yet” for civilians inside war-torn Syria.
UNICEF/Penttila | Devastation in the city of Homs, eastern Syria. According to estimates, about 33 per cent of housing across the country have been destroyed in the conflict.
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Mark Lowcock said attacks on critical civilian infrastructure like medical facilities continue to be reported with at least 28 reported attacks on health facilities since mid-February and more than 70 verified incidents since the beginning of this year.
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27/03/2018
By Moin Qazi*
26 Mar 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
“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.
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27/03/2018
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.
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27/03/2018
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.
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27/03/2018
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.
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It became the largest massacre committed on European soil since the end of the Second World War.
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27/03/2018
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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Johan Galtung and the TMS staff take the opportunity at this momentous celebration to THANK ONE AND ALL for your support.
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27/03/2018
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.
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27/03/2018
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.
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27/03/2018
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.”
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