23/03/2018
22 March 2018 — Driven largely by climate disasters and conflict, levels of acute hunger surged in 2017, leaving some 124 million people across 51 countries facing hunger crises –11 million more than the previous year, according to a new United Nations report.
OCHA/Meridith Kohut | This young mother walked 20 days from Diinsoor, Somalia, with her seven children to Hagadera refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. After her husband’s livestock died because of the drought in Somalia, he sent her to Dadaab because he was unable to feed them. (file photo)
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23/03/2018
The United Nations on 22 March 2018 launched a decade for action on water that seeks to forge new partnerships, improve cooperation and strengthen capacity to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
UNICEF/Parelkar | A woman in rural India carries containers of water to her home. Women in developing countries have to spend a lot of time fetching water due to lack of infrastructure. The decade for action on water aims to address this and other problems.
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Most directly linked to
Sustainable Development Goal 6, safe water and adequate sanitation are indispensable for healthy ecosystems, reducing poverty, and achieving inclusive growth, social well-being and sustainable livelihoods – the targets for many of the 17 Goals.
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22/03/2018
22 March 2018 (Wall Street International)* — A new alarm has been now sounded, this time on the occasion of the World Water Day marked on 22 March.
It is about the proven fact that climate change has been steadily aggravating an already on-going water crisis, its scarcity and the deterioration of its quality, this further leading to more poverty and more famine and thus more conflicts and more migration, a crisis that the world has flagrantly failed to address.
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22/03/2018
22 March 2018 — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the singing of a continental free trade agreement in Africa that has created one of the world’s largest trading blocs with over 50 countries.
Jonathan Ernst/World Bank | A ship being uploaded at a port in Ghana. Source: UN News Centre.
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“I congratulate African leaders for taking the leap into history by signing the African Continental Free Trade Area,” said Guterres in a
statement on 22 March 2018. “This is an important step towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and delivering on the African agenda of peace and prosperity.”
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22/03/2018
With two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in urban areas by 2050, forests are critical part of the solution to the unprecedented demand for water, food and energy that these cities will face, senior United Nations officials on 21 March 2018 said on the International Day of Forests.
FAO/Rudolf Hahn | Forests play a critical role for many countries in their ability to mitigate climate change.
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22/03/2018
21 March 2018 — The world needs the spirit of Nowruz to bring all populations together in the most noble values of peace, justice and understanding, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said commemorating International Nowruz Day.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi | Afghans celebrate Nowruz – New Year – with special meals, decorations and gifts and it’s a time for renewal and for promoting peace and solidarity.
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22/03/2018
21 March 2018 The security services and defence forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) killed at least 47 people during anti-government protests over a 13-month period through 31 January 2018, a United Nations human rights report has found.
MONUSCO | A group of people gather in Kinshasa during demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 19 and 20 December 2016.
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22/03/2018
20 March 2018 (openDemocracy)* — We’ve ended up with an internet built not for us – but for corporations, political parties, and the state’s increasingly nebulous ‘security’ demands. We need to better understand this problem so that we can challenge it.
Image: Big Brother Monitoring. Master Tux, Creative Commons.
Over the weekend, allegations emerged surrounding the use of Facebook user data by a data analytics firm called Cambridge Analytica. But while they have allegedly broken Facebook’s rules, the real problem is Facebook’s business model. And it’s a model that isn’t unique to Facebook.
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21/03/2018
The United Nations on 20 March 2018 called on Turkey to end its 18-month-old state of emergency, saying that the routine extension of emergency powers has resulted in “profound” human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people and may have lasting impact on the country’s socio-economic fabric.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré | High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
“One of the most alarming findings of the report […] is how Turkish authorities reportedly detained some 100 women who were pregnant or had just given birth, mostly on the grounds that they were ‘associates’ of their husbands, who are suspected of being connected to terrorist organizations,” said Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a news release announcing the findings.
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21/03/2018
People worldwide are being encouraged by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to think about how they can better promote tolerance, inclusion and respect for diversity.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the commemorative meeting on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
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