ESCUINTLA, Guatemala, 5 July 2018 (UNFPA)* – Marta Leiva, 7 months pregnant, leaned against two bags of donated clothes in her shelter in Guatemala’s Escuintla Department. She lost everything when her house was destroyed during the eruption of the Volcan de Fuego, or “Volcano of Fire,” last month.
She fled with her two young daughters, husband and sister as hot ash and debris flowed into their village, El Rodeo. Her mother-in-law and brother-in-law did not make it.
8 July 2018 (Wall Street International)* –While conflict theories and resolution processes advanced dramatically during the second half of the 20th century, particularly thanks to the important work of several key scholars such as Professor Johan Galtung – see Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means (the Transcend Method) – significant gaps remain in the conflict literature on how to deal with particular conflict configurations. Notably, these include the following four.
First, existing conflict theory does not adequately explain, emphasize and teach how to respond in those circumstances in which parties cannot be brought to the table to deeply consider a conflict and the measures necessary to resolve it.
6 July 2018 (RT)* — There are many reasons the bipartisan US establishment hates Trump. His heresies from neoliberal orthodoxies on immigration and trade are prominent. But top among them is his oft-stated intention to improve relations with Russia.
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That’s fighting words for the Deep State and its mainstream media arm, for which demonizing Russia and its president Vladimir Putin is an obsession.
July 2018 (UN Women)*— Birtukan Fekadu, 22, and her husband struggled to find a way to support themselves until Fekadu joined a women’s savings and credit cooperative. Through the cooperative, she learned about agriculture productivity, business skills, leadership and women’s rights, and received a small loan. Now she earns enough to feed her family, and no longer worries about money to send her son to school.
Birtukan Fekadu inside her home with sacks of grains she helped produce. Photo: UN Women
6 July 2018 (UN Environment)* – China’s decision to ban imports of foreign waste, including some plastics, has reverberated around the world, with recycling operations in other countries struggling to deal with the new reality. But is this an opportunity wrapped in a crisis?
Some experts argue that developed nations will, at last, have to face up to the true cost of their plastic addiction instead of shipping the problem to China, which has taken nearly half the world’s waste since 1992.
Since South Sudan became the world’s youngest country in 2011, 2.6 million of the 3.4 million babies have been born in war, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 7 July 2018 revealed.
UNICEF/Sebastian Rich | Two children released by armed groups in South Sudan stand during a release ceremony in Yambio before beginning a reintegration process.
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“As South Sudan turns seven, a seemingly endless war continues to devastate the lives of millions of children,” said Henrietta H. Fore, UNICEF’s Executive Director who visited Juba, Ganiyel and Bentiu in the war-ravaged country earlier this year.
The role of women in leadership positions is critical to the future of a peaceful Niger according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson | President Mahamadou Issoufu of Niger (c) welcomes a high-level joint UN-AU delegation including the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed (l) and the Foreign Minister of Sweden, Margot Wallström (r)
Mohammed was speaking at a meeting with the Nigerien president, Mahamadou Issoufu, on 7 July 2018 in the capital Niamey which was part of a joint United Nations -African Union (UN-AU) mission to the country.
7 July 2018 — Each year on the first Saturday in July, the international community celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives– successful businesses based on ethical values and principles. This year, the Day focuses on the theme “Sustainable consumption and production of goods and services.”
FAO/Alessandra Benedetti | A market at a food cooperative in Orto Sole cooperative farm in Fiumicino and Torrimpietra, Italy. Photo: FAO/Alessandra Benedetti.
On 7 July 2018, UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the first anniversary of the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, previously calling it an “essential pillar” of international peace and security, and the “heart” of the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime.
IAEA | The IAEA verifies that nuclear materials at the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant in the Czech Republic are used solely for peaceful purposes.
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