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ILO Director-General Guy Ryder highlighted the importance of addressing the root causes of child labour, including in unpaid family work in agriculture. He spoke at a panel on child labour held on the sidelines of the International Labour Conference.
Despite ample food supplies, persistent conflicts and adverse climate shocks are taking a toll on global food security, according to a new report launched on 7 June 2018 by the United Nation’s agriculture agency.
Refugees’ life jackets in Parliament Square, London. Howard Lake/Flickr. CC (by-sa)
Have you ever stopped to consider what happens to the bodies of undocumented migrants when they die trying to reach the shores of Europe? Who they are, who mourns their loss, where and how they are buried?
Yemen, 6 June 2018 (IOM)* – Tragedy struck migrants trying to cross from the Horn of Africa to find employment in Yemen and the Gulf, when their vessel capsized in high waves as it approached its destination in the early hours of 6 June.
IOM Yemen staff assist a migrant who survived drowning. Photo: IOM
UN Migration Agency staff were on the scene providing assistance to the traumatized survivors. IOM staff reported that 46 migrants had drowned, 37 men and 9 women. A further 16 remain missing, presumed dead.
At least 100 migrants crammed onto a smuggler’s boat that left the port of Bossaso, Somalia on 5 June.
The alleged extra-judicial killing of suspected drug offenders must be “immediately halted” and their perpetrators brought to justice, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on 6 June 2018 said.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré
In his appeal to the government of Bangladesh, Zeid described official declarations that none of the victims was innocent as “dangerous… and indicative of a total disregard for the rule of law”.
Everyone has the right to life, the High Commissioner continued in his statement, and people “do not lose their human rights, because they sell drugs”. In addition to those allegedly killed in the anti-narcotics drive, 13,000 people have also been reportedly arrested.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 