16/07/2018
Johan Galtung on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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By Amy Goodman | Envision Peace Museum – TRANSCEND Media Service
16 July 2018 — Johan Galtung is widely considered the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies.” A Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, Galtung has taught around the world, helped found many institutions dedicated to building peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award. He serves on the advisory board of Envision Peace Museum.
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16/07/2018
Between Three Summits: Brussels, England, Helsinki
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By René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
16 Jul 2018 — This TMS issue comes in the middle of three summit conferences of significance: a NATO summit held in Brussels, and two bilateral summits: US-UK and US-Russia.
René Wadlow
Albert Einstein was often quoted saying that the A-Bomb had changed everything except our way of thinking.
We can say somewhat the same thing about the end of the Cold War in 1990 with the Treaty on the New Europe in Paris.
Some hoped that the A-Bomb would indicate clearly that the type of international organization which was the League of Nations was inadequate.
The United Nations should be stronger – a form of real collective security. “One World or None” was the cry.
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16/07/2018
Lebanon Puts In an Extra Shift to Get Syrian Refugees into School
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By Rima Cherri and Houssam Hariri in Bar Elias, Lebanon*
(UNHCR)* — Some 350 schools across the country squeeze two days of lessons into one, providing a vital education lifeline for some 150,000 Syrian refugee children.
Syrian refugees attend lessons in Bar Elias School in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. © UNHCR/Houssam Hariri
16/07/2018
Intelligent Drones Crack Down on illegal Fishing in African Waters
Today, thirty-seven-year-old Idrissi, from Morocco, is CEO and co-founder of ATLAN Space, a deep technology startup using drones and artificial intelligence to crack down on illegal fishing and protect natural resources in Africa.
16/07/2018
“This route is deadly. I wouldn’t take it again. I said to myself that my life was more precious than Italy.”
Photo credit: IOm/Monica Chiriac
“My dad was 65 when he died. He woke up early every morning to go to work, and since he didn’t have a car, every day was a struggle for him.
As he got older, I tried to convince him to stop working.
After I graduated in banking and finance, I tried finding a job in my field in Sierra Leone, but it proved to be impossible. I ended up teaching IT for a while at a school.
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16/07/2018
‘Don’t Agree on Europe over Heads of Europeans’ – Finnish Media Pens Open Letter to Trump and Putin
16/07/2018
Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan ‘Hit Record High’
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The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan hit a record high in the first half of the year, despite last month’s unprecedented ceasefire between the Afghan Government and the Taliban, the United Nations on Sunday 15 July 2018 reported.
According to the latest figures released on Sunday [15 July 2018] by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, known as UNAMA, there were 5,122 civilian casualties (1,692 deaths and 3,430 injured) in the first six months of 2018 – a three per cent overall decrease in casualties from last year.
16/07/2018
In Gaza, Special Envoy Urges Israel, Palestinian Factions to Step Back from Brink of a War that ‘Everybody Will Lose’
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With a ceasefire largely holding after a day-long flare-up in fighting between Israel and Gaza militants, the United Nation envoy on the Middle East peace process was in the enclave on 15 July 2018 urging Israelis and Palestinians to pull back from the brink of a confrontation “that nobody wants…and everybody will lose.”
UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Nickolay Mladenov
Telling Palestinians in Gaza that he knew the difficult conditions they lived in and how hard it was to believe anyone who tells them that their lives would be improved, Mladenov appealed “to all Palestinians, to all parents of all children in Gaza today to step back and keep the protests peaceful.”
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15/07/2018
Dalit Women – “We Are Seeking Nothing More than Our Due Share of Services and Opportunities”
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12 July 2018 (UN Women)* — Beena Pallical is the Executive Director at the Asia Dalit Rights Forum and the current Manager of a programme seeking to strengthen Dalit Women’s Economic Rights across South Asia [1].
Portrait of Beena Pallical, India, National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), 2017. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
The Dalit community in this region is still considered the lowest of the historical castes and suffers widespread discrimination, despite recent legislation and initiatives.
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Within the community, the specific problem of women’s economic empowerment has received little attention, but is now the focus of a two-year programme funded by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality.
What are the fundamental challenges facing Dalit women?
Across Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, there are around 201 million Dalit men, women and children.
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