31/07/2018
Three-in-five babies, mostly born in low- and middle-income countries, are not breastfed within the first hour of life, placing them at higher risk of death and disease, according to a new United Nations report launched on 30 July 2018.
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UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi A newborn sleeps in his mother’s arms, in a health centre in Accra, Ghana.
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“When it comes to the start of breastfeeding, timing is everything,” said Henrietta Fore, the
UN Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) Executive Director, on the eve of World Breastfeeding Week. “In many countries, it can even be a matter of life or death,” she added.
In the report, Capture the Moment, UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) note that while newborns who breastfeed in the first hour of life are significantly more likely to survive, they estimate that 78 million newborns are excluded.
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30/07/2018
10 of the Most Lethal CIA Interventions in Latin America– teleSUR 18 Sep 2016 (minimal editing by Gary G. Kohls)
Note: In its 200 year history, the USA has intervened in, invaded or militarily occupied the following Western Hemisphere nations: Canada, Confederate States of America, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Surinam, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Grenada. The article below enlarges upon the 10 most lethal coups.
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30/07/2018
30 July, 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service*
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.” — Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993)
John Scales Avery
Why Are Economists Addicted to Growth?
Economists (with a few notable exceptions) have long behaved as though growth were synonymous with economic health.
If the gross national product of a country increases steadily by 4 percent per year, most economists express approval and say that the economy is healthy.
If the economy could be made to grow still faster (they maintain), it would be still healthier.
If the growth rate should fall, economic illness would be diagnosed. However, it is obvious that on a finite Earth, neither population growth nor economic growth can continue indefinitely.
But why do economists cling almost religiously to the idea of growth?
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30/07/2018
30 July, 2018 (FAO)* — Imagine living in one of the driest areas on the planet. What little rain there is falls over the space of a few months, yielding around 700 mm in total each year. A population of 1.2 million has to survive on 65 percent less water than the rest of their compatriots, on a traditional staple diet of corn and beans.
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30/07/2018
28 July 2018 (Wall Street International)*– Across the world, the major political events of recent years have left many people confounded and apprehensive. The rise of strong-man leaders and nationalism have surprised and shocked many who believed that increased democratization and global co-operation were inevitable.
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30/07/2018
“My name is Younes, I’m 10 years old and I come from Iraq. I live here, at the open accommodation center of Drama, with my mom, my sister and my brother. Our dad is not with us.
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30/07/2018
UN Women* — In the 1990s, Marija Andjelkovic worked at a call centre for girls experiencing violence, when she received a training on human trafficking. In those days, trafficking was not a known, researched and understood phenomenon in Serbia which left an institutional vacuum in addressing the needs of survivors.
Marija Anjelkovic. Photo: UN Women/ Ryan Brown
The training opened her eyes, says Andjelkovic, speaking to UN Women during an event at the 62ndsession of the Commission on the Status of Women:
“I realized that some of the girls I had spoken to were probably victims of trafficking!”
She was one of the first civil society activists to raise the issue of human trafficking in the Balkan region, and went on to become the founder and Director of the Serbian NGO, ASTRA-Anti trafficking action.
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30/07/2018
Biodiversity transformation: Preserving quality of life and urban spaces, Singapore style.
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30 July 2018 (UN Environment)* — You wouldn’t know it today, but in 1965 Singapore was a polluter’s paradise: mucky rivers, polluted canals and raw sewage running rampant.
It was a developing country, newly split from neighbouring Malaysia, an island surrounded by waters that now they had to govern on their own.
The incredible journey of Singapore, from a struggling polluted backwater into a global green powerhouse, was not automatic or easy.
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30/07/2018
Geneva, 30 July 2018 (IOM)* – On the occasion of World Day against Trafficking in Persons (30/07), new data released by IOM, the UN Migration Agency, show that in the last ten years, almost 80 per cent of journeys undertaken by victims trafficked internationally cross through official border points, such as airports and land border control points.
IOM/Amanda Nero Almost half of identified cases of child trafficking begin with some family member involvement, UN Migration Agency (IOM) reported.
Trafficking in persons is often seen as an underground activity, linked to irregular migration, and hidden from the authorities and the general public. IOM case data depict a different story, indicating that most trafficking is in fact happening through official border points.
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30/07/2018
By William Lacy Swing, IOM Director General*
30 July, 2018 (IOM)* — The world’s workforce has never been more mobile—from the gardener in California to the banker in Singapore. Whether it’s the dishwasher in Rome or the designer in London, we recognize human ambition is on the move; everyone—skilled or unskilled, with work permits or without—is seeking an identical goal: how to deploy their talents in those markets that reward them best.
Simple economics trigger those journeys that start with a dream of a better life and can result in enormous collective benefits for countries of both origin and destination when done in a safe and orderly way.
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