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Over 4,000 families have fled the city since June 1, according to the latest report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that describes people losing their entire livelihood after airstrikes destroyed their farms.
There will be hard times ahead, unless you are a cisgendered, heterosexual, white man. The new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, told undocumented immigrants: “Get ready to pack your bags.”
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But the experience taught her a valuable lesson: ingredients for truly sustainable products must be sourced locally.
Fast-forward five years, and twenty-eight-year-old Kagetsu, now Chief Executive Officer of Saathi pads, has teamed up with co-founder, twenty-six-year-old Tarun Bothra, to turn their attention to a more pressing environmental and social problem.
17 June 2018, Quito, Ecuador (UNCCD)* — More than 3.2 billion people, or 2 in every 5 people, are impacted by land degradation today and up to 143 million people could move within their countries by 2050 to escape water scarcity and falling crop productivity due to the slow onset impacts of climate change.
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KATHMANDU, 14 June 2018 (ILO)* – When Jumrati Miya Mansuri travelled to Malaysia, he paid a middleman who promised him work in the garment sector. But he ended up working in road maintenance, in appalling conditions.
“It was a tough job that was labour intensive. I was not paid what I was promised, nor did I get enough food to eat,” he says.
He eventually returned to Nepal, determined he would never migrate again. But he is now set to leave once more, this time after going through a fair recruitment process.
Mansuri will be joining a group of workers who will be employed at a garment factory in Jordan.
17 June 2018 (UNCCD)* — A wise investment in land supports you and your future. Your choices determine future scenarios for sustainable growth.
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The 2018 World Day to Combat Desertification (#2018WDCD) urges you to move away from unsustainable land use and make a difference by investing in the future of land under the slogan, “Land has true value – invest in it.”
We often use land as if it were a limitless resource, ignoring its role in our everyday lives. This negligence threatens food and water supply, biodiversity and even human security itself.
**Matteo Salvini in May 2018. | Presidenza della Repubblica | Wikipedia
After almost three months of jumping up and down in place, the newly invested Italian interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has hit the ground running in the worst possible direction.
The head of the anti-immigrant party, the League, Salvini has positioned himself as the strongman in the unlikely coalition government recently formed with the ideologically fungible Five Star Movement.
In a speech to supporters on May 31, the night before he was sworn in, Salvini upped the inflammatory rhetoric and doubled-down on the League’s worst campaign promises.
He announced plans to cut the budget for reception centers for asylum seekers and, in an unnerving call-and-responsewith the excited crowd, said that sending all irregular migrants back home was a top priority.
After three years of relentless conflict, it has been estimated that out of a population of 27.4 million, 22.2 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian assistance, 17 million are food insecure, 14.8 million lack basic healthcare, 4.5 million children are suffering malnourishment, while 2.9 million people are internally displaced. As for dead and injured, the toll stands at almost 10,000 and 50,000 respectively.
Decades of rights violations on both sides of the Line of Control in Kashmir have “claimed or ruined numerous lives” and should be the subject of a high-level international probe, the UN’s human rights chief said on 14 June 2018.
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