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10/06/2018

‘We Face a Global Emergency’ Over Oceans — UN Chief Sounds the Alarm at G7 Summit

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9 June 2018 — Unless there is a change of course, the amount of plastic waste in the world’s oceans will outweigh the fish that live in them, by 2050, said the United Nations Secretary-General on Saturday, declaring that the world now faces a “global emergency” over the oceans.

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UN Photo/Martine Perret | Plastic bottles and garbage waste from a village in Timor-Leste wash on the shores of a river and then spill into the sea.

“The facts are clear. Our oceans are a mess,” said António Guterres at an outreach event, that was part of the Group of Seven – or G7 – Summit of industrialized nations, taking place over two days, in Charlevoix, Canada.

The G7 group of advanced economies, consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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09/06/2018

Celebrate World Meat Free Week – For a Healthy Planet and a Healthy You!

Vegetarian Cooking in Slovenia © Mitja Kobal / Greenpeace

Young adults preparing vegetarian food together with vegan cuisine maestro Domen Kavcic. © Mitja Kobal / Greenpeace

Why World Meat Free Week?

Intensive meat and dairy production is destroying our forests, polluting our water, and warming our planet. It is causing deforestation on a massive scale, with over a quarter of the earth’s landmass currently being used for livestock grazing!

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09/06/2018

Amid Strong Outlook for U.S. Economy, Risks Abound

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6 June 2018 (OECD)* — The U.S. economy is experiencing one of the longest expansions on record, but the scars left by the Great Recession, as well as challenges posed by globalization and automation shocks, remain visible across the country, according to a new report from the OECD.

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09/06/2018

“I Want to Live in Peace” – Rohingya Women in Bangladeshi Refugee cCamps Share Stories of Loss and Hopes of Recovery

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By UN Women*

After a week of walking barefoot, Senu and her three sisters reached Bangladesh, tired, hungry and thirsty, having left their home in fear of the escalating violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar.

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09/06/2018

Building Upon the Ruins…

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By George Perendia*

Donald Trump e Hassan Rouhani | Photo from Wall Street International.

7 June 2018, (Wall Street International)* — As I was sitting in a cafe of the Vienna’s 19th Century glamorous Palais Coburg (a.k.a. Palais Saxe-Coburg), built in the neoclassical style upon the ruins of the, once, strong Vienna’s bastion-style, 16th C. fortification, nowadays turned a five-star hotel featuring the old fortification ruins in its foyer, trying to renegotiate a deal for getting a tea and a cake at a combined discounted price, I could not but feel humility in face of the fact that a historic deal of almost world-wide importance was recently also negotiated in the same palace.

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09/06/2018

Are YOU Brainwashed?

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By Uri Avnery*

9 June 2018

IT’S FRIGHTENING. Unprincipled psychologists, in the service of a malignant regime, use sophisticated techniques in order to control the mind of a person from afar.

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The term “brainwashing” was born in 1950. It is a Chinese word (“xinao”, literally wash brain).

Originally it served to describe a technique used – so it was claimed – by Chinese masterminds to manipulate the minds of American prisoners in the Korean War.

They changed their unconscious mental processes and turned them into agents of sinister forces.

Many books and movies purported to show how this works. For example, the classic film “The Manchurian Candidate” shows how the communists take an American prisoner-of-war in the Korean war, an officer, manipulate his mind and give him an order to kill the US presidential candidate.

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09/06/2018

The Migrant-Led Activism Stamping Out Racial Hostility in the UK

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By Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead*

8 June 2018 (openDemocracy)* — Meet the pro-migrant individuals, groups and organisations who are working tirelessly to counter this government’s anti-immigrant policies, pro-Brexit propaganda, and ‘hostile environment’.

Image: IWGB picketing outside University of London. Credit: IWGB.

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09/06/2018

Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, Dominican Republic, Belgium, Elected New Non-Permanent Members to Security Council

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In a single round of voting on 8 June 2018, the United Nations General Assembly elected five new non-permanent Members of the Security Council, who will each serve two-year terms on the body that sets the UN’s whole peace and security agenda.

UN Photo/Manuel Elias | UN staff carry ballot boxes with votes cast during the election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council.

Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, the Dominican Republic and Belgium, will take up their seats from 1 January 2019. They will fill the seats being vacated by Bolivia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Netherlands and Sweden at the end of this year, having each served two-year terms on the 15-member Security Council.

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09/06/2018

Security Council Imposes Sanctions on AdditionL Six Human Traffickers in Libya

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The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called for more accountability for human traffickers in Libya, after the UN Security Council on 7 June 2018 added six individuals accused of leading smuggling and trafficking networks in the country, to its Sanctions List.

UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi | Migrants lie on mattresses inside a detention centre, located in Libya. (file)

The unprecedented sanctions against the leaders of trafficking networks, follow widespread international outrage at the end of last year, when the CNN television network broadcast pictures of migrants being auctioned off in a modern-day slave market, in the suburbs of the Libyan capital.

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08/06/2018

Our Oceans Are Haunted — How “Ghost Fishing” Is Devastating Our Marine Environments

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8 June 2018 (FAO)* — Ghost fishing. Sounds eerie, right? Unfortunately, it is indeed as eerie as it sounds. Ghost fishing occurs when lost or abandoned fishing gear stays in the ocean and traps fish or other marine life, indiscriminately killing whatever it catches.

“Ghost fishing” happens when lost or abandoned fishing gear stays in the ocean and traps fish or other marine life. © World Animal Protection | Photo from FAO.

Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), as it is known officially, is being recognized as a topic that we must tackle now for the sake of our marine environment and the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on it.

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