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The Government of Greece has been urged by the United Nations to do more to help thousands of asylum-seekers and migrants who have been “crammed” into island reception centres, amid reports that children have tried to take their own lives there.
SOKORU, Ethiopia, 29 August 2018 (UNFPA)* – Two years ago, 16-year-old Salia Shemsu waited to be married off.
She had just failed the national exam, barring her from pursuing the education she longed for. As the first-born girl in her family, Salia was now consigned to household chores – and even this, she knew, would not last long enough.
Salia’s parents did not have the financial means to support her. Like many young girls in Ethiopia, it was only a matter of time before she would need to leave her family for a husband.
Then an opportunity she never expected arrived.
Q&A with Pasquale Steduto this World Water Week
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A Palestinian herdsman watering his donkey at a rehabilitated cistern. ©FAO/Marco Longari
30 August 2018 (FAO)* – The Middle East and North Africa is the world’s most water-scarce region and the situation is worsening due to the impacts of conflict, climate change and economic downturn.
The water crisis threatens the region’s stability as well as its human development and sustainable growth.
(UNHCR)* – Volker Türk explains the global compact on refugees.
© Ariane Rummery, producer / Alex St-Denis,camera-editor
We’re having different conversations about immigration, race and community. They are successful, and fun, and they could change the world.
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In 2004, Belfast was rocked by a series of unprovoked racist attacks on its Filipino community, a significant proportion of whom worked in the city’s hospitals.
At the time, misinformation about immigration, sensationalised by tabloids, was rife. In a population still reeling from decades of civil conflict, mistrust of minorities remained close to the surface.
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These are the recollections of Sara, one of thousands of Nigerian women who have been fooled by traffickers and sent to Europe, West and Central Africa and the Middle East for domestic labour or sexual exploitation.
For the past three years, the majority of people arriving in Italy by sea were Nigerian. Fifty nine per cent of all victims of trafficking (VoT) assisted by IOM, the UN Migration Agency, in 2016 were Nigerians; the Organization estimates that a staggering 80 per cent of Nigerian women and girls arriving by sea that year were trafficked for sexual exploitation.
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 30 August 2018 – Developing the tradition charted by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic The Power Elite, in his latest book, Professor Peter Phillips starts by reviewing the transition from the nation state power elites described by authors such as Mills to a transnational power elite centralized on the control of global capital.
Thus, in his just-released study Giants: The Global Power Elite, Phillips, a professor of political sociology at Sonoma State University in the USA, identifies the world’s top seventeen asset management firms, such as BlackRock and J.P Morgan Chase, each with more than one trillion dollars of investment capital under management, as the ‘Giants’ of world capitalism.
The seventeen firms collectively manage more than $US41.1 trillion in a self-invested network of interlocking capital that spans the globe.
This $41 trillion represents the wealth invested for profit by thousands of millionaires, billionaires and corporations.
As war and the mediation of peace have become increasingly complex, innovative thinking is needed to save and improve the lives of millions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 29 August 2018 told the Security Council.
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The United Nations on 29 August 2018 called for urgent action to address the human rights crisis in Nicaragua, where “repression and retaliation against demonstrators continue … as the world looks away.”
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