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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28/06/2018
A “full-scale” ground and aerial offensive in southwest Syria could inflict an even heavier toll on civilians than the suffering caused by previous devastating battles in the war-ravaged country, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria has warned.
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UNHCR/Susan Schulman | Relentless fighting has left much of Syria in ruins.
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“Let us be aware of what this would mean, if the southwest sees a full-scale battle-to-the-end: it could be like eastern Aleppo and eastern Ghouta combined together,” Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, on 27 June 2018 told the Security Council.
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28/06/2018
More than 10,000 children were killed or maimed in conflict last year while more than 8,000 youngsters were recruited or used as combatants, the United Nations on 27 June 2018 reported.
UNICEF/Ahmed Abdulhaleem | On 15 March 2018 in Aden City, Yemen, children are displaced from the city of Taiz because of the conflict.
These violations contributed to the overall rise in the number of children globally affected by fighting in 2017, as documented in the
annual report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC).
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28/06/2018
In Burundi, opponents of constitutional reform supported by the Government have faced torture and execution amid a “continuing environment of threats and intimidation”, senior UN investigators on 27 June 2018 said.
The dossier compiled by the three-member panel encompasses events surrounding the national referendum last month on constitutional reform which could extend President Pierre Nkurunziza’s term in office well beyond 2020.
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27/06/2018
27 June, 2018 (UN Women)* — Today, UN Women launched a new report that examines the use of gendered messaging by the terrorist group, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as its control and governance tactics. The report, based on analysis of ISIL’s magazines in Arabic, English and French, was released at an event in New York, co-organized by UN Women, the United Kingdom Mission to the UN and the Permanent Mission of Finland to the UN.
Empowerment or Subjugation: A Gendered Analysis of ISIL, generously funded by the Government of Finland, shows how ISIL strategically crafted its messages to women to persuade them to travel to its territory and to adhere to its moral code and governance model, which include women’s strict obedience to their husbands.
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27/06/2018
23 June 2018 (Wall Street International)* — We are surrounded by systems of astonishing complexity – the immensity of the cosmos with stars, galaxies, black holes…- to the complexity of life in its various forms. And generally, we assume that this complexity has its roots in simpler forms which, in the course of time have accumulated material arriving up to the present form.
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