A group of frogs were walking through a forest. Suddenly, two of them fell into a hole. All the other frogs gathered around the hole and looked down over the edge.
When they saw how deep it was, they told the unfortunate frogs, “You will never get out of here alive. Don’t even try. Just give up and die.”
One of the frogs tried a few times in vain to jump out, then gave up and lay on the ground. The other frog kept trying again and again, jumping as hard as he could.
The crowd of frogs shouted to him, “Stop it! End the pain. You have no hope; you are as good as dead!”
A new ILO report shows that 2 billion people work informally, most of them in emerging and developing countries. The majority lack social protection, rights at work and decent working conditions.
GENEVA, 30 April 2018 (ILO)* – Two billion people – more than 61 per cent of the world’s employed population – make their living in the informal economy, the ILO said in a report, stressing that a transition to the formal economy is a condition to realize decent work for all.
30 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — This past week has seen three major discussions in part related to nuclear weapon issues. Progress has been made, but there is still a rocky road ahead.
René Wadlow
The representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and peace researchers may play a role in lifting some of the rocks on the way. The three meetings:
The Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in Geneva, 23 April to 4 May 2018.
The discussions in Washington, DC between Presidents Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron which concerned in part the nuclear accord with Iran, followed by meetings on 27 April between President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during which the Iranian issue was also discussed.
The meeting between the Presidents of North and South Korea with nuclear weapon issues certainly in the background.
Lucica’s story is part of the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) series: “i am a migrant“.* Lucica’s country of origin is Romania and she currently lives in Switzerlands, 1,300 kms from home. She is currently Doctor and Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership
“I grew up in a small town in Romania. We did not have a lot of money but because of the educational system under the Ceaușescu regime, we could go to school and learn and build a future. But it also taught that you have to work hard to get anything, everything was so competitive, there were so many children in my generation!
Although world leaders have been quick to condemn attacks on Syrian civilians, many of those same nations have maintained a discriminatory and dangerous policy of keeping out Syrian refugees.
Thanks to the ‘Humanitarian corridors’ program wich Oxfam is part of, the Al Jarrah family now lives safely in Italy. Syria will always be their home, but here they have found a new hope for their future.
Yet, things can be done in a different, more human way. Oxfam is part of a program called ‘Humanitarian corridors’ that helped 1000 Syrians find refuge in Europe without having to risk their lives in perilous sea crossings or long and dangerous journeys over land.
Munggah aq Amaq Genap, a 58-year-old farmer from Sekaroh Village in Indonesia, looks serious but content. He has the build of someone who has been a farmer for all his life. Amaq planted corn once a year. If there was rain, his harvest was good. If there wasn’t, his harvest was poor. But with the changes in climate, he was finding that he could hardly grow enough maize to meet his family’s needs.
(Greenpeace)* — The equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the ocean every single minute. Plastics never go away, they simply break apart into smaller and smaller pieces, killing marine life and choking our oceans. And tiny microplastic particles have even been found in our drinking water and food.
Earth Day Break Free from Plastic Activity in Hong Kong | Source: Greenpeace
But not for long — people all over the world are putting the pressure on corporations and retailers to break free from plastic.
(Greenpeace)*— The Munduruku are Indigenous People who have lived on the area around the Tapajós River, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, for centuries. Today, there are more than 12,000 Munduruku living in the region. They depend on the river for food, transportation and the survival of their cultural and spiritual practices, and they’ve been fighting to protect their traditional land for more than three decades.
We hope so, because raising awareness of what plastic waste is doing to our oceans, our wildlife and ourselves is what UN Environment’s #CleanSeas campaign has been all about since its launch in February 2017.
We’ve given ourselves five years to build a global movement to tackle the excessive use of single-use plastics and get rid of dangerous microplastics in our toiletries and cosmetics.
UK PM Theresa May has accepted the resignation of Amber Rudd as Home Secretary after new evidence suggested her knowledge of a migrant removal target system.
**Amber Rudd | Government of UK |Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL v.3).
Rudd has been under increased pressure to resign for more than a week since she was accused of misleading Parliament over whether her department had targets for the removal of immigrants.
In a letter to May, Rudd said she was standing down on Sunday night, once again claiming that she mistakenly misled parliament and had no knowledge of the target system.
“I feel it is necessary to do so because I inadvertently misled the Home Affairs Select Committee over targets for removal of illegal immigrants,” Rudd said in a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May as cited by Reuters. “I should have been aware of this, and I take full responsibility for the fact that I was not.”
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