28/06/2018
Forty seven year-old Fayza Lafi, a Palestine refugee from Rafah and a livestock trader, attended a business training through the ‘Empowerment Programme for Female-Heads of Households’ project, implemented by the UNRWA Gender Initiative © 2018 UNRWA Photo by Khalil Adwan
27 June 2018 (UNRWA)* — Against the backdrop of the dire socioeconomic situation in Gaza Strip and one of the highest unemployment rates in the world, finding a job in Gaza can be very daunting.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the overall unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2018 increased to 49.1 per cent from an average rate of 43.6 in 2017; women and youth face even higher unemployment rates.
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28/06/2018
New ILO report highlights inadequate policy responses to the rising demand and quantifies the extent of the care burden on women.
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28/06/2018
Eymi
Just a couple of months after her wedding, Eymi decided to leave her home country of Cuba for Romania.
“I got married to a Romanian journalist who came to Cuba when I was 18,” she said.
“We separated after seven years because things didn’t work out between us. But I chose to stay in Brasov. At 18 you are just starting your social life, and that is when I had left Cuba.”
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28/06/2018
There are 1.9 million people living in Gaza and 72 per cent of them are refugees. Samia Asaf and her family have lived as refugees across three generations now. After a devastating injury, Asaf found her bearings through a UN Women-supported programme. Today she is an inspiration to many others.
Jabalia refugee camp, the largest of the eight refugee camps in Gaza, hosts almost 120,000 refugees in 1.4 square kilometres. Photo: UN Women/Eunjin Jeong
June 2018 (UN Women)* — If you meet Samia Asaf* today, you wouldn’t know the ordeal she has suffered, unless she told you. She is an active member of a psychosocial support group at the Hayat Centre in Gaza, Palestine, and supports women who come to the centre to overcome the trauma of violence.
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28/06/2018
27 June 2018 — Concerned with the ongoing human tragedy in which almost 1,000 refugees and migrants have perished while being smuggled across the Mediterranean this year, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, the UN Migration Agency, are today appealing to European Union countries for concerted, region-wide action to greatly reduce needless loss of life at sea.
A fishing boat heads to sea on the southern Mediterranean. Thousands of refugees and migrants have died while trying to reach Europe on rubber dinghies or small wooden boats like this one. © UNHCR/Scott Nelson
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28/06/2018
By Aline Robert| EURACTIV.fr| translated by Freya Kirk
28 June 2018 (EURACTIV)* — The political crises in Germany and Italy revolve around a longstanding debate on migration at European level, which is set to overshadow all other issues during the European Council in Brussels, on 28-29 June. EURACTIV.fr reports.
The European Council’s agenda may be loaded, but the issue of migration is set to take centre stage as it has risen to the top of the political agenda in recent weeks.
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28/06/2018
Image: Max Pixel, CC0. (from openDemocracy)
There seems to be a settled – almost – acceptance that levels of income and wealth inequality are unacceptably high. And that such levels do
serious harm– to people across the income spectrum, to the functioning of society, to democracy, to innovation and institutions, to economic activity, and to the environment.
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28/06/2018
Norway and FAO will scale up innovative forest monitoring tool
Ecuador as never seen before, by SEPAL. | Image from FAO.
27 June 2018, Oslo and Rome (FAO)* — Access to satellite data and cutting-edge geospatial technologies will be broadened thanks to deeper collaboration between FAO and Norway, whose International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) agreed to scale up an innovative FAO digital platform that helps countries measure, monitor and report on their forests and land use.
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28/06/2018
Notwithstanding “the continued adherence by Iran” to its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement is “at a crossroads” the United Nations top political official on 27 June 2018 said.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Rosemary A. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, addresses the Security Council meeting on non-proliferation.
“On 8 May 2018, the United States announced its withdrawal from the agreement. The Secretary-General … believes that issues not directly related to the Plan should be addressed without prejudice to preserving the agreement and its accomplishments,” Rosemary A. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, told the Security Council.
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28/06/2018
A stand-by drug used to prevent potentially-fatal bleeding after childbirth has some new competition – with improved benefits, according a United Nations health agency-led report.
UNICEF/Ilvy Njiokiktjien | Mother Celia Virginia Flores Mamani, 37, holds her seven-day-old baby daughter Priscilla Solamita Meza Flores, who was born at the health centre in Yaurisque District, Paruro Province, Peru, Saturday 10 February 2018.
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Excessive bleeding after childbirth still kills around 70,000 mothers a year and currently, Oxytocin is the first-choice medication, but it must be kept cold, unlike the new drug, Carbetocin.
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