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19 March 2018 — At a time when resources for refugees from Syria is declining, the top United Nations humanitarian official in Lebanon, the country host to some 1.5 million Syrian and several thousand Palestinian refugees, has launched a funding allocation to ensure that critical relief programmes can be sustained.
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19 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming? by Johan Galtung, TRANSCEND University Press (2009) ISBN: 978-82-300-0492-0
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“Decline and Fall” of the US Empire. What is an empire?
Not just power, but power–economic, military, cultural, political–also exercised by the client states for the empire.
Never put so clearly and briefly as on New York license plates: New York: The Empire State.
GreenFreeze – ozone friendly refrigerator © Greenpeace / Robert Visser
In 1992, multinational chemical corporations were selling us stuff that depleted the ozone layer.
Stuff that was used to cool your refrigerator. Stuff that was also a powerful greenhouse gas. Protecting the ozone layer was one of our biggest missions at the time, so we decided to take them on.
Paul Ehrlich, American biologist, educator and the president of Stanford’s Center for Conservation Biology. © Paul Ehrlich / Wikimedia CC 2.5 | Source: Greenpeace.
12 March 2018 (FAO)* — Schools are an ideal setting for teaching basic skills in food, nutrition and health. In many communities, they may be the only place where children acquire these important life skills
14 March 2018 | Geneva (WHO)* – After seven years of conflict in Syria, WHO has renewed its call for the protection of health workers and for immediate access to besieged populations.
Photo: WHO
Attacks on the health sector have continued at an alarming level in the past year. The 67 verified attacks on health facilities, workers, and infrastructure recorded during the first two months of 2018 amount to more than 50% of verified attacks in all of 2017.
“This health tragedy must come to an end,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
**Two destroyed Syrian Army tanks in Azaz, August 2012 | Author: Christiaan Triebert | Source: Flickr: Azaz, Syria | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Beware the Ides of March, the old saying goes. The 15th of March down the ages has seen not only the assassination of Julius Caesar and the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia; it was also the day, in 2011, that the conflict in Syria began.
Dozens of children have been killed since fighting began in the north-western Syrian town of Afrin, where people are under bombardment, hospitals have been shut down and water supplies cut off, the United Nations has reported.
“We have been receiving deeply alarming reports from Afrin in Syria about civilian deaths and injuries due to airstrikes and ground-based strikes,” Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), told reporters in Geneva on Friday 16 March 2018.
Ghudia’ story is part of the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) series: “i am a migrant“.* Ghudia’s country of origen is Nigeria and currently lives in Niger–792 km from home.
Ghudia | IOM
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