Are you overwhelmed by the depressing news coming at you daily? Conflict, forced migrants, famine, floods, hurricanes, extinction of species, climate change, threats of war … a seemingly endless list. It might surprise you, but you can really make a difference on many of these issues.
Monique BARBUT
Just like every raindrop counts towards a river and every vote counts in an election, so does every choice you make in what you consume.
With every produce you consume, you strengthen the river of sustainability or of unsustainability.
It is either a vote in favor of policies that spread social goods like peace and poverty eradication or social bads like – conflict or grinding poverty.
11 June, 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — You start by appropriating pieces of land in different places, followed by occupying the land and the territory, and then grab the country, change its space and landscape.
Dr. Walid Sal
All of this to be usually done on the name of modernization, and the transformation from underdevelopment to civilization..
Easy!
In order to do so, you get the support of a mother country, or mother Countries, who will give you supporting declarations, and offer you financial support and control over the so called “state land” and some economic privileges as well.
12 June, 2018 (RT)*— While most other western leaders fiddle and seethe, Donald Trump powers ahead as bully-in-chief. A genuine new world order is the only way to stop him.
**Photo: Negotiations with Trump and G7 leaders | Author: Sarah Sanders, Press Secretary | Wikipedia: “This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.”
12 June, 2018 (UN Women)*— For most people, the annual G7 meeting may just seem like an expensive photo-op that doesn’t connect with any concrete change in people’s lives. But for us, appointed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to sit on his G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council, it was a unique opportunity to push for strong commitments for girls’ and women’s rights.
The Gender Equality Advisory Council presented recommendations to G7 leaders at the G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Canada. Photo: Government of Canada
We had the opportunity to meet the seven leaders for breakfast and make a strong case for concrete commitments and accelerated action to achieve gender equality within a generation.
DAR PAING, Myanmar, 11 June 2018 (UNFPA)* – A deadly tropical storm, the first of the 2018 monsoon season, descended on Myanmar at the end of May, tearing apart hundreds of homes along the coast. As the storm pounded on her small shelter in Sittwe Township, 19-year-old Phu Tu Nee gave birth to her first baby.
12 June 2018 (ILO)* — “Children are more vulnerable to risk than adults. Urgent action is needed to ensure no child under the age of 18 is in hazardous child labour,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour.
On World Day Against Child Labour 2018, the spotlight is on ending hazardous child labour. It is a priority in the wider ILO campaigns against child labour and for safe and healthy work for youth of legal working age – “Generation Safe & Healthy .”
About 73 million children are in hazardous work – almost half of the 152 million children aged 5 to 17 still in child labour.
12 June 2018 (ILO)* — This year, the World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL)and the World Day for Safety and Health at Work (SafeDay)shine a spotlight on the global need to improve the safety and health of young workers and end child labour.
This joint campaign aims to accelerate action to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 8.8 of safe and secure working environments for all workers by 2030 and SDG target 8.7 of ending all forms of child labour by 2025.
Achieving these goals for the benefit of the next generation of the global workforce requires a concerted and integrated approach to eliminating child labour and promoting a culture of prevention on occupational safety health (OSH). Read more…
ROME, 12 June 2018 (FAO)*– After years of steady decline, child labour in agriculture has started to rise again in recent years driven in part by an increase in conflicts and climate-induced disasters.
The number of child labourers in agriculture worldwide has increased by more than 10 percent since 2012 driven in part by violent conflicts and disasters. ” Photo from FAO.
Two days of heavy monsoon rains have caused severe structural damage to camps in Bangladesh hosting one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on 11 June 2018 reported.
IOM 2018 | Flash flooding has damaged key infrastructure including this bridge in Balukhali camp.
So far, more than 9,000 have been affected and the number is expected to rise as the rains continue. Meanwhile, more than 30,000 camp residents are still living in areas considered to be at high risk of deadly flooding and landslides.
The situation inside Syria’s Idlib threatens to become “highly explosive” amid an uptick in conflict between armed groups and a spike in the number of people displaced inside the war-torn country, a top UN aid official on 11 June 2018 said.
UNICEF/Giovanni Diffidenti | Boys pass rubble and destroyed buildings on their way to a nearby school offering basic lessons, in the city of Maarat al-Numaan, Idlib Governorate.
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