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June 2018 (UN Women)* — Today, 50 per cent of refugees uprooted from their homes from conflict, persecution or natural disasters are women and girls. This translates to more than 11 million refugee women and girls.
29/06/2018
‘Fall Armyworm Could Leave 300 million People Hungry in Sub-Saharan Africa, Having Already Infested Maize and Sorghum Fields across 44 Countries’
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FAO calls for $23 million to scale up Fall Armyworm campaign – target is to reach more than 500 000 farmers in 2018
Fall Armyworm feeding on maize in Malawi. | FAO.
ROME (FAO)* – Fall Armyworm keeps spreading to larger areas within countries in sub-Saharan Africa and becomes more destructive as it feeds on more crops and different parts of crops, increasingly growing an appetite for sorghum and millet, in addition to maize.
The pest could spread to Northern Africa, Southern Europe and the Near East, warned the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 28 June 2018.
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29/06/2018
‘Global Care Crisis’ Set to Affect 2.3 Billion People by 2030, Warns the International Labour Organization
A “global care crisis” is looming which could affect 2.3 billion people by 2030, United Nations work experts on 28 June 2018 warned, highlighting the potential for greater inequality in a sector where women already perform “more than three-quarters” of all unpaid work.
The potential impact could be huge, with 16.4 billion hours per day already spent in unpaid care work, according to the report, which cites data from 64 countries, representing two-thirds of all workers.
29/06/2018
EU Leaders Compromise to Share Refugees and Establish Migrant Centers on ‘Voluntary’ Basis
**Since 2017, the Europa building, seen here, has been the seat of the Council. | European Council | EU2017EE Estonian Presidency | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Pressed by Italy’s concerns, eventually the 28 leaders agreed to reform the asylum system by consensus and to include a clause on hosting migrants across EU countries on a voluntary basis.
Part of the agreement gives Italy and Greece options to set up migrant centers on their soil if they so choose.
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29/06/2018
De-Escalation of Fighting in Hodeida Is Key to ‘Long-Overdue’ Restart of Yemen Peace Talks: Special Envoy
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28 June 2018 — “Events on the battlefield” are the main spoiler to the peace process in Yemen, but political negotiations are the top overall priority for resolving the conflict, according to the UN’s envoy for the country.
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28/06/2018
‘If others can do it, I can too’
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
ILO Urges Action to Prevent ‘Looming Global Care Crisis’, Says Women Perform More than Three-Quarters of the Time Spent in Unpaid Care Work
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New ILO report highlights inadequate policy responses to the rising demand and quantifies the extent of the care burden on women.
GENEVA, 28 June 2018 (ILO)* – Investment in the care economy needs to be doubled to avert a looming global care crisis, says a new ILO report.
Sweeping changes in policies should address the rising need for care and tackle the huge disparity between women’s and men’s care responsibilities.
The figures show that women are performing more than three-quarters of the time spent in unpaid care work.
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28/06/2018
“In Romania, you can’t do certain things in public. In Cuba, we sing on the streets, we dance on the streets, we are different.”
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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
Healing from Trauma in Conflict-Affected Gaza
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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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