26/06/2018
25 June 2018 (Wall Street International)* — Being a popular tourist destination can be overwhelming. Many business-minded people would take advantage of it – which, actually, is human nature. But oftentimes, in our hunger to gain more profits, we can become greedy and insatiable. We tend to oversee the essential things that give us the opportunity to make it big in our endeavor.
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I’m referring to what’s currently happening in Boracay Island in Central Philippines. The tourist destination famous for its powdery white sand, turquoise waters, and wonderful views is now under a state of calamity.
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26/06/2018
25 June 2018 (UN Women)* —
Papiya Parvin from Debhata Upazilla, Bangladesh, has just bought a cow to start her own farm.
Papiya Parvin poses with her cow, purchased with a small loan as part of UN Women’s Empowered Women, Peaceful Communities programme. Photo: UN Women/Snigdha Zaman
She is also the first woman from her village who travelled to Tokyo to share her experience as part of a UN Women and BRAC programme that is empowering women to curb the rising tide of extremism in rural communities.
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26/06/2018
GENEVA, (WHO)* —
The World Health Organization (WHO) on 18 June 2018 released its new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
The ICD is the foundation for identifying health trends and statistics worldwide, and contains around 55 000 unique codes for injuries, diseases and causes of death. It provides a common language that allows health professionals to share health information across the globe.
“The ICD is a product that WHO is truly proud of,” says Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “It enables us to understand so much about what makes people get sick and die, and to take action to prevent suffering and save lives.”
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26/06/2018
Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa have a new digital weapon in their agricultural armoury to take on the Fall Armyworm– a crop pest that’s threatening the food security of 300 million people – the United Nations on Monday 25 June 2018 said.
FAOLesotho/Lechoko Noko | Armyworm eating on maize cob in Lesotho. (file)
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26/06/2018
Atrocity crimes – genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing – are not “inevitable”, the United Nations Secretary-General on 25 June 2018 said, stressing that the international community must do more to end violence against innocent people.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Secretary-General António Guterres (left) addresses the UN General Assembly meeting on the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.
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25/06/2018
Close to 1.4 million people will need resettlement in countries free from war and persecution in 2019, the UN refugee agency, said on Monday 25 June 2018, citing growing forced displacement across the globe.
UNHCR/Gordon Welters | In Germany, a UN resettlement programme gives families hope. Here, an immigration officer stamps the passports of a Syrian family that has just landed at Hanover airport on a charter flight from Egypt.
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25/06/2018
Ambassadors in the Security Council have been urged by the United Nations Secretary-General to find ‘much-needed consensus’ to resolve the myriad challenges in the Middle East and North Africa.
UNHCR/Phil Moore | A Chadian man waits at the Egyptian border at Sallum, having fled the conflict in Libya, where ongoing instability has been affecting neighboring countries since the fall of Muammar Gadaffi in 2011. (file)
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António Guterres issued the call during a debate in the chamber on Monday
25 June 2018,
focusing on the various fault-lines in the region.
“Decades-old conflicts, together with new ones, as well as deep-rooted social grievances, a shrinking of democratic space and the emergence of terrorism and new forms of violent extremism, are undermining peace, sustainable development and human rights,” he said.
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25/06/2018
24 June 2018 (openDemocracy)* — Only when myths are revealed as myths can there be a clear-eyed conversation about the best ways forward.
“Self-reliance.” Credit: Flickr/Taiwan ICDF.CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
The last few months have been a season of myth-busting around NGOs like Oxfam and Save the Children—myths like ‘bad things don’t happen in organizations with good intentions,’ and ‘charities have better management than other types of organization because their staff are so committed.’
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25/06/2018
By Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate*
25 June 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Speech Delivered at the British Embassy in Dublin, Ireland on 19 Jun 2018
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire called on UK government to free Julian Assange and end their cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment which amounts to torture, as defined by international law. She said,
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“I know of no other country where an asylee is held with no sunlight, no exercise, no visitors, no computer, no phone calls, yet all this is happening in the heart of London at the Ecuadorian Embassy to an innocent man, Julian Assange, now in his 8th year of illegal and arbitrary detention by the United Kingdom government. “
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25/06/2018
22 June 2018 (UNRWA)* — Roula is 16 years-old and from Yarmouk, the now largely destroyed Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Just as she was preparing for her 9thgrade exams, intense fighting broke out in the camp, destroying her home. This is not the biggest challenge she has come to face.
UNRWA students use their mobile phones to keep learning and defy Islamic State Group
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