27/06/2018
27 June, 2018 (UN Women)* — Today, UN Women launched a new report that examines the use of gendered messaging by the terrorist group, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as its control and governance tactics. The report, based on analysis of ISIL’s magazines in Arabic, English and French, was released at an event in New York, co-organized by UN Women, the United Kingdom Mission to the UN and the Permanent Mission of Finland to the UN.
Empowerment or Subjugation: A Gendered Analysis of ISIL, generously funded by the Government of Finland, shows how ISIL strategically crafted its messages to women to persuade them to travel to its territory and to adhere to its moral code and governance model, which include women’s strict obedience to their husbands.
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27/06/2018
23 June 2018 (Wall Street International)* — We are surrounded by systems of astonishing complexity – the immensity of the cosmos with stars, galaxies, black holes…- to the complexity of life in its various forms. And generally, we assume that this complexity has its roots in simpler forms which, in the course of time have accumulated material arriving up to the present form.
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27/06/2018
27 Jun 2018 — Driving through the rolling hills and farming villages of western Kenya’s Kakamega County, it’s apparent why the region is known as the country’s green jewel. Agriculture is the most visible industry, and the primary source of jobs. But off the main roads, hidden out of sight, is a growing industry: small-scale, informal gold mining.
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Photo from UN Environment.
Problems abound with these unregulated worksites which release toxins such as mercury and cyanide into the environment.
But jobs are scarce in Kakamega, a county where over 800,000 people live below the poverty line.
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27/06/2018
27 June 2018 (FAO)* — Growing crops, fishing, harvesting fruits and nuts from the forests are just some examples of the activities that millions of people do daily to get food to eat or to earn a living. But when their rights to that land or those natural resources aren’t recognized, livelihoods and food sources can disappear from one day to the next.
Sometimes because of custom or law, women do not have equal rights to land and other resources. Tenure rights help to enforce women’s equality. ©FAO/B. Geers
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27/06/2018
A ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia may have officially ended at the weekend, but on 27 June 2018, nine United Nations experts called for the immediate release of a number of women’s rights defenders who were imprisoned following a government crackdown which began in mid-May.
UN Photo/Elma Okic | Human Rights Council special session on “the deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem” on 18 May 2018, United Nations Office in Geneva.
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27/06/2018
The United Nations rights expert on Myanmar is “strongly” recommending that the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate and prosecute those allegedly responsible for “decades of crimes” in the form a grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law inside the country.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre | Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar Yanghee Lee.
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27/06/2018
By Franklin Lamb*
25 Jun 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
“You could qualify for U.S. and Western aid to salvage Lebanon or you can cede what’s left of your country’s sovereignty to Iran. But you cannot do both.”
— A US Congressional staffer after his boss recently introduced legislation to cut off all aid to Lebanon until it “cleans its house of Iranian militia and restores Lebanese sovereignty.”
Franklin P. Lamb
Increasingly these days on Beirut’s streets of Hamra and across much of Lebanon one hears a Sanskrit like mantra that: “Lebanon was never a real country, it is not now a real country and will not be a real country during the lifetimes of its current citizenry.”It’s become a bit of a truism worth some contemplation.
A couple of days ago there was reportedly bit of a kafuffle at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri Airport, which fortunately did not come to blows. It occurred as travel weary Lebanese and tired international travelers arrived in Beirut for the beginning of tourist season and queued for the normally long wait to have their passports stamped.
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27/06/2018
Defence and security forces along with the Kamuina Nsapu and Bana Mura militias have committed “crimes against humanity and war crimes” in the of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kasai region, United Nations experts on 26 June 2018 said following an investigation.
UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau | Children in the village of Benakuna, Kasaï region, Democratic Republic of Congo. 27 January 2018.
“We are shocked by this disastrous situation that has claimed the lives of several thousand people and continues to rage in the region, without provoking national or international attention,” said Bacre Waly Ndiaye, President of the Team of International Experts appointed by the Human Rights Council.
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