Archive for July, 2018

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25/07/2018

Dalit Rights Activists Break New Grounds in South Asia

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Moni Rani Das speaking to a Journalist about the situation of her colony situated at Ganaktuli, Dhaka. Photo: Nagorik Udyog

Moni Rani Das speaking to a Journalist about the situation of her colony situated at Ganaktuli, Dhaka. Photo: Nagorik Udyog | From UN Women.

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25/07/2018

Don’t Forget Ukraine’s Rural Donbas

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By Brian Milakovsky*

War has taken its toll on rural areas under Ukrainian government control in Luhansk region. There’s little sign of relief or policy.

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Map of the Donbass region within eastern Ukraine. Names of neighbouring oblasts are included. Crimea is hashed to represent the ongoing territorial dispute between Russian and Ukraine. | 13 March 2015 | RGloucester | CC BY-SA 3.0

24 July 2018 (openDemocracy)* – The armed conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas has divided the region into government- and separatist-controlled areas.

In Luhansk Oblast, the frontline for most of its length is the Siversky Donets River, which is also a historical dividing line.

To the south is the coal-rich Donets Upland, the “true Donbas” that was largely unsettled before industrial development in the 19th century. Today almost all of this territory is part of the unrecognised “Luhansk People’s Republic.”

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25/07/2018

Ukraine’s Donbas Bears the Brunt of Toxic Armed Conflict

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25 July 2018 (UN Environment)* — Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is an area with a fairly favourable climate, home to high plant biodiversity. In spring, several species of the feather, sheep fescue, blue, forget-me-nots, and yellow cress grass, blossom in its steppes. It also possesses a wealth of mineral resources which include deposits of rock salt, gypsum, raw cement materials, flux limestone, and dolomite as well as granite and clays.

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Photo from UN Environment.

But Donbas is hardly famed for its biodiversity. For years it has been one of the country’s most polluted regions – as toxic waste from nearly two centuries of intensive coal mining, and chemical and metal industries accumulated in its soils.

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25/07/2018

Ending Marginalization of Persons with Disabilities ‘a Matter of Justice’ – Global Disability Summit

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Inclusive education, economic empowerment and technological innovations were the focus of discussion on 24 July 2018 as world leaders gathered in London for the first-ever United Nations-backed Global Disability Summit.

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UNICEF/Khudr Al-Issa 8 year old girl, who was paralysed by an exploding bomb and lost the use of her legs, sits in a wheelchair next to her 5 year old sister, near their home in east Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic. 11 December 2017.

Ahead of the Summit, Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed cited the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and a universally-adopted UN Convention as well-established commitments for advancing the rights of persons with disabilities.

“But too often,” she said, “this political commitment has not translated into significant improvements in the lives of the 1.5 billion persons with disabilities across the world.”

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25/07/2018

Emergency Cash Transfers Are a Lifeline for Yemeni Families Living in War and Poverty

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By Ana Seixas, Ansar Rasheed and Ibrahim Shamakh*

As the conflict rages in Yemen, cash transfers are the only source of income for many of the most vulnerable families. 

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UNICEF Yemen/2018/Rasheed. | Salwa Sadam sits with her two children as they study. Using the money she received from the cash transfers, she was able to buy supplies for her children so they could re-enrol in school.

Yemen, 23 July 2018 (UNICEF)* – The war in Yemen has caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world with a devastating toll on the most vulnerable children and families.

As part of its ongoing response with funds and support from the World Bank, UNICEF is delivering unconditional emergency cash transfers to around 1.5 million families, reaching an estimated 9 million people.

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25/07/2018

UN, Egypt Help Avert Another Israel-Palestine War in Gaza that Was ‘Minutes Away’ – UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process

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Intense diplomatic efforts by the United Nations and Egypt have helped avoid another Israeli-Palestinian war in Gaza that appeared just “minutes away” over the past weekend, a senior UN official on 24 July 2018 said.

UNICEF| A Palestinian girl inside her family’s partially destroyed home, looks at the destruction outside, in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.

“After intense efforts by the United Nations and Egypt, I can report that the situation is calming down, although tensions remain,” Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process, told the Security Council via video link from Jerusalem. He said that “last Saturday we were minutes away from another devastating confrontation between Israel and Hamas in Gaza”.

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25/07/2018

Strategy and Conscience: Subverting Elite Power So We End Human Violence

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By Robert J. Burrowes*

DAYLESFORD, Australia, 25 July 2018 — Given the overwhelming evidence that activist efforts are failing to halt the accelerating rush to extinction precipitated and maintained by dysfunctional human behavior, it is worth reflecting on why this is happening.

Of course, you might say that the rush to extinction is being slowed. But is it?

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24/07/2018

As HIV Infections Continue to Rise, More ‘Political Commitment’ Needed Urgently for Prevention – UNAIDS

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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.

World Bank/Trevor Samson | Gloria who is HIV positive in Khayelitsha township outside Cape Town, South Africa, where the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) held an AIDS awareness campaign, August 2007.| Photo from UN News Centre.
Around 1.8 million people became newly infected with HIV and around 50 countries experienced a rise in new HIV infections during last year, according to Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, who was speaking at the ongoing International AIDS Conference in the Netherlands.

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24/07/2018

Over 1,000 New Shelters Built for Rohingya Refugees Threatened by Landslides

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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.

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24/07/2018

EU Members May Be Paid to Keep Migrants in ‘Controlled Centers’ – Reports

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The European Union is looking for a political answer to managing the tens of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

This file photo taken on September 28, 2016 shows people gathering on the quay as a wreck of a migrant boat raised by the Egyptian navy and maritime rescuers arrives in the Egyptian port city of Rosetta. An Egyptian court on March 26, 2017 sentenced 56 people to prison terms of between seven and 10 years over the deaths at sea of at least 202 migrants in September, judicial officials said© AFP 2018 / STRINGER | Photo from Sputnik News.
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EU countries could be offered €6,000 ($7,000) for each migrant they keep in “controlled centers” on their territory, to ensure the “orderly and effective processing” of asylum claims of people rescued from the Mediterranean Sea, according to a European Commission paper published on Tuesday [24 July 2018], The Guardian wrote.

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