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As HIV infections continue to rise, UNAIDS — the UN agency leading the global effort to end the public health threat posed by the virus — called on Tuesday 24 July 2018 for countries to boost prevention measures and continue facilitating access to treatment.
Rohingya refugees walk past new emergency shelters built by IOM shelter teams in the Camp 20 Extension, Cox’s Bazar. Photo: IOM July 2018.
Cox’s Bazar, 24 July 2018 (IOM)* – Shelter teams from IOM, the UN Migration Agency, working with over 19,000 Rohingya refugee and local labourers, this week completed the construction of over 1,000 new shelters as part of a rapid response project to help move refugee families most at risk from landslides during the monsoon.
The European Union is looking for a political answer to managing the tens of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
© AFP 2018 / STRINGER | Photo from Sputnik News.Geneva,24 July 2018 (IOM)* – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 53,269 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea through 22 July 2018. That total compares to 110,603 at this time last year, and 244,722 at this time in 2016.
Arrivals to Spain (see chart below) this month have overtaken those to Italy. To date just over 36 per cent of all Mediterranean irregular migrants have come via the Western Mediterranean route, whose irregular migration volume has more than tripled those registered at this time last year.
Arrivals to Italy are nearly identical, but still trail Spain by just over 1,600 arrivals. Greece counts about 29 per cent of all arrivals.
Dilla (IOM)* – Today (24/07), IOM the UN Migration Agency launched an appeal for USD 22,200,000 to respond to the internal displacement crisis in Ethiopia’s Gedeo (SNNPR region) and West Guji (Oromia region) zones.
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Since April 2018, some 970,000 people have fled their homes due to fighting between communities along the border of the two regions; the vast majority were displaced in June alone.
Ordinary Brazilians Suffer Health Effects, Retaliation for Speaking Out
São Paulo (Human Rights Watch)* – Rural residents are being poisoned in Brazil from pesticides sprayed near their homes, schools, and workplaces, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 20 July 2018.
Of the world’s 100 largest economies, 69 are transnational businesses. How can we control—and ultimately transform them?
Corporation by Nick Youngson. CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images.
22 July 2018 (openDemocrcay)* — Transnational corporations have become the dominant force directing our world. Humanity is accelerating toward a precipice of overconsumption, and the large transnationals are the primary agents driving us there.
We’re rapidly losing the earth’s forests, animals,insects,fish, even the topsoil we require to grow our crops.
Lidia | Photo from IOM.
“My current home is in Geneva, where I am a traveller, photographer and intern at UNFPA. I moved here from Russia at 22.
Before that, my first independent international travel was to the USA at the age of 18 — I was a part of a Work & Travel programme and worked in a beachwear shop in South Carolina, struggling with my very poor English.
Afterwards, I realized that I had the sense of belonging that is so present in the Russian cultural code but somehow in a different way than what was expected of me.
23 July 2018 (UN Women)* – UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on 23 July 2018 began an official visit to Senegal, to highlight the importance women’s economic empowerment in the agricultural sector, encourage the repeal of discriminatory laws and to promote women’s leadership and political participation across the country.
A mother and daughter removing fish scales and peeling off skins in Kafountine. Photo: UN Women Senegal.
Women farmers make up to 70 per cent of the workforce and produce more than 80 per cent of crops in Senegal, especially food crops.
Yet, women farmers lack access to land, skills, financial resources and markets, compared to their male counterparts.
As part of her stay, the Executive Director will visit Réseau des Femmes Agricultrices du Nord, a network of women farmers of the North, who produce and trade rice.
23 July, 2018 (UN Women)* — Matcha Phorn-in is the Executive Director of Sangsan Anakot Yaowachon, a civil society organization working with young people from marginalized communities, many of whom are indigenous, in disaster-prone Thai villages at the border with Myanmar. Phorn-in is from an ethnic minority and identifies as a lesbian feminist human-rights defender.
Matcha Phorn-in. Photo: UN Women/ Pathumporn Thongking
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