17/04/2018
ROME, 17 April 2018 (FAO)* – FAO has urged governments and the private sector to improve labour safety in agriculture and forestry, sectors whose back-breaking jobs are among the most dangerous.
Logging in Tanzania. Photo from FAO
In a bid to reduce health risks and even death, FAO has published two papers mapping ways to improve worker health and safety.
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17/04/2018
15 April 2018 (Wall Street International)*—
We all encounter a moment when we can‘t do something. Sometimes it‘s because we don‘t have the money. Sometimes it‘s because we don‘t have the physical ability. Sometimes it‘s because we don‘t live in the correct country. The reasons are many but every time this happens we‘re left longing even harder for that specific thing and feeling tremendously upset for not being able to do it.
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17/04/2018
16 April 2018 (openDemocracy)* — The problem with Lula’s conviction is the use of criminal proceedings as a political toolset with a long-standing authoritarian agenda.
Ministry of Culture – Opening of the II National Conference of Culture. Some rights reserved.
On April 4, the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) denied the habeas corpus petition filed by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a constitutional remedy to prevent his arrest before his conviction becomes definitive.
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17/04/2018
By Maung Zarni*
12 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Last night, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Peace People activist house hosted a Burma talk. I spoke on the urgent need to inform and mobilize grassroots communities about Myanmar genocide in order to build pressure on respective EU governments, as well as others to help end the genocide and support the Rohingyas’ NEED–not simply RIGHT–to a protected homeland.
These survivors of Myanmar genocide have always had a historical and official homeland of Mayu Frontier region, pre-Burma Northern Arakan, from where they have been expelled in waves since 12 Feb 1978.
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17/04/2018
Protecting the land and resource rights of indigenous peoples will not only provide security for historically exploited groups but also help the global fights against climate change and biodiversity loss, on 16 April 2018 said speakers at the annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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UN Photo/Evan Schneider | Tadodaho Sid Hill, Chief of the Onondaga Nation, delivers the ceremonial welcome at the opening of the seventeenth session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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In her opening remarks to the Forum in New York, the chairperson, Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, a medical doctor from Timbuktu, Mali, called the land husbandry of Aboriginal peoples “part of our history and heritage.”
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17/04/2018
The United Nations Security Council has failed to prevent the Rohingya refugee crisis, and the 15-member body must refer sexual violence and other crimes against the ethnic group to the world’s top criminal court, a Rohingya lawyer on 16 April 2018 said.
UN Photo/Mark Garten | Razia Sultana, human rights activist and lawyer, addresses the Security Council’s open debate on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security.
“Where I come from, women and girls have been gang-raped, tortured and killed by the Myanmar Army, for no other reason than for being Rohingya,” Razia Sultana said on behalf of non-governmental organizations during a Security Council open debate on
preventing sexual violence in conflict.
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17/04/2018
16 April 2018 — Internet users worldwide are becoming more worried about their privacy online and many question the protections offered by Internet and social media companies, a new United Nations survey has found.
Source: Video screen shot| UN News Centre| The exponential growth in number of Internet users offers opportunities but also raises privacy concerns.
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This waning of confidence could imperil the spread of online shopping even as newcomers to the Internet may be especially vulnerable to abuses because they are unaware of the risks.
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