11/04/2018
By Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D.*
9 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – While conflict theories and resolution processes advanced dramatically during the second half of the 20th century, particularly thanks to the important work of several key scholars such as Professor Johan Galtung – see ‘Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means (the Transcend Method)’ – significant gaps remain in the conflict literature on how to deal with particular conflict configurations. Notably, these include the following four.
read more »
Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords |
Leave a Comment »
11/04/2018
Armed groups in Libya are holding thousands of people in detention where they are being submitted to torture and other human rights violations, according to a United Nations report published on 10 April 2018.
.
UNHCR/Iason Foounten | In Libya, dozens of migrants sleep alongside one another in a cramped cell in Tripoli’s Tariq al-Sikka detention facility.
.
The study, by the UN human rights office,
OHCHR, and the UN Support Mission in the country, known as
UNSMIL, estimates that some 6,500 people are being held in official prisons while thousands more are in facilities nominally under the authorities or that are directly run by armed groups, some of which are affiliated with the State.
Posted in Africa, Asia, Market Lords, Middle East, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords |
Leave a Comment »
11/04/2018
The United Nations migration agency on 10 April 2018 launched a regional action plan to bolster its response to massive population outflows from Venezuela, amid the worsening political and socio-economic situation in the South American country.
UNHCR/Reynesson Damasceno | More than one million Venezuelans have left their country, many, like this family, are seeking shelter at Simon Bolivar Square in Boa Vista, Roraima, northern Brazil.
As the exodus has considerably increased over the last two years, an estimated 1.6 million Venezuelans were abroad in 2017, up from 700,000 in 2015, with 1.3 million in the Americas, according to the International Organization for Migration (
IOM).
Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples |
Leave a Comment »
11/04/2018
10 April 2018 — In earthquake-hit Papua New Guinea, United Nations agencies on the ground are warning of a new looming threat: water-borne disease outbreaks, such as that of diarrhoea and measles.
.
UNICEF/Bell | A UNICEF health official gives safe drinking water and oral retardation salts to a mother for her one-year-old child suffering from diarrhoea. They are living at temporary shelter along with at least 600 other persons after their homes were destroyed in the Papua New Guinea earthquakes.
Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples |
Leave a Comment »
11/04/2018
10 April 2018 — Amid a resurgence of yellow fever outbreaks, the United Nations together with partners, has begun an ambitious campaign to vaccinate close to one billion people against the deadly disease across 27 high-risk African countries.
UNICEF/Dejongh | Women along with their new-born children wait to see doctors at a local hospital in north-east Côte d’Ivoire. The infants are to be vaccinated against a number of diseases, including Yellow Fever. In addition, families will be provided with mosquito nets, which are an important protection against mosquito-borne diseases.
.
Posted in Africa, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords |
Leave a Comment »
11/04/2018
The United Nations Security Council on 10 April 2018 called for an end to the recurring cycles of violence and instability in Africa’s Great Lakes region, as a senior UN official reported that some armed groups are continuing attacks on civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Said Djinnit, Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, briefs the Security Council on the situation in the Great Lakes region.
“The negative forces, including the Allied Democratic Forces, continue to attack and terrify the population, causing suffering and displacement, and fuelling mistrust between the countries of the region,” said the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, Said Djinnit.
Posted in Africa, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords |
Leave a Comment »
10/04/2018
By Paul Vrieze*
Civilians hurt as violent clashes spread to the west of Kachin State, displacing thousands of women, children and men.
Ethnic Rawang villager Ah Ning, 70, looks after her grandchildren in a UNHCR tent at Ka Bu Dam camp Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar. © UNHCR/Paul Vrieze
MYITKYINA, Myanmar, 9 April 2018 (UNHCR)* – Mother-of-two Ah Chang and her family were jolted out of their sleep when gunfire ruptured the night’s calm in Ting Kok Village.
read more »
Posted in Asia, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords |
Leave a Comment »
10/04/2018
Tuberculosis (TB), one of the world’s leading causes of death, often strikes people in their prime working years. Workplaces have a critical role to play in its prevention, treatment and care.
Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples |
Leave a Comment »
10/04/2018
University of California Television, 9 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
A noted pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world.
.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/16YiLqftppo?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&modestbranding=1&iv_load_policy=3&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark
.
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 9 Apr 2018: TMS: Johan Galtung: Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict
Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords |
Leave a Comment »
10/04/2018
The United Nations on 9 April 2018 launched an initiative to connect judges around the world so that they can learn from each other about ways to strengthen integrity in courts, such as by preventing corruption and undue political interference into judicial appointments and decisions.
Photo: UNODC
“This Network brings together lead institutions responsible for upholding the rule of law, and as such for attaining peace and justice,” UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said in a video message to a two-day event in Vienna organized by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to launch the Global Judicial Integrity Network.
read more »
Posted in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Market Lords, Middle East, Mother Earth, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples, War Lords |
Leave a Comment »
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 