04/08/2018
It is partly because the mainstream Western media persists with its hysteria on Trump’s failure to stand up to Putin on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US Presidential Election that other aspects of the meeting between the two men in Helsinki have yet to come to the fore. One of them is about the position that the two adopted on Israel.
Chandra Muzaffar
Some sections of the Zionist-linked media in particular are suggesting that as a result of the Helsinki Summit, Israel has now become “a joint American-Russian protectorate”.
The media conference that Trump and Putin addressed, according to these sources, underscored this. There is absolutely no truth to this claim.
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04/08/2018
3 August 2018 (UN Women)* – What does zero-tolerance to sexual harassment look like? Feminists, gender experts and UN officials came together to discuss promising practices to curb sexual harassment and assault in a UN Women-organized “Feminist Think Space” from 30 to 31 July in New York.
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04/08/2018
ILO chief, Guy Ryder, highlights the major contribution BRICS countries can make to social dialogue, social protection, gender equality and youth employment.
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04/08/2018
From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
3 August 2018 (openDemocracy)* – Saudi Arabia’s ongoing crackdown on women’s rights activists undermines Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s own reform agenda.
It reveals a disconnect between this young leader who styles himself as a reformist and a women’s rights advocateand the new reality in the Muslim world today.
Increasingly, Muslim women are reclaiming an Islam that has long espoused equality, justice and freedom for all.
These women are leading change from within their communities.
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04/08/2018
GAZA, 4 August 2018 (Sputnik)* –
The number of Palestinians injured in clashes with the Israeli forces on the Gaza border on Friday [3 August 2018]
has increased to 220, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Kidra told Sputnik.
Kidra told Sputnik earlier in the day that a Palestinian was killed and 120 others were injured in clashes.
“Today, a 25-year-old Palestinian was killed and other 220 people received injuries of various degrees at the eastern borders of the enclave,” Kidra said.
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03/08/2018
By Uri Avnery*
4 August 2018
Uri Avnery
YEARS AGO I had a friendly discussion with Ariel Sharon.
I told him: “I am first of all an Israeli. After that I am a Jew.”
He responded heatedly: “I am first of all a Jew, and only after that an Israeli!”
That may look like an abstract debate. But in reality, this is the question that lies at the heart of all our basic problems. It is the core of the crisis which is now rending Israel apart.
THE IMMEDIATE cause of this crisis is the law that was adopted in great haste last week by the rightist Knesset majority. It is entitled “Basic Law: Israel the Nation State of the Jewish People”.
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03/08/2018
3 August 2018 (UNHCR)* – UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, is ramping up its response to the urgent needs of nearly one million people displaced by recent violence in south western Ethiopia.
A group of people rest at the Yirga Chefe site for internally displaced people in Ethiopia. © UNHCR
Since April of this year, inter-communal clashes flared up in the border area of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region and the Oromia Region. The recent violence came on the heels of more than a year-long crippling drought and tensions over resources.
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03/08/2018
Yemen, 3 Aug 2018 (IOM)* The world’s worst humanitarian crisis deteriorated even further in June 2018 when a military offensive on Hudaydah led to the displacement of nearly half of the city’s 600,000 population.
Migrants stranded in Hudaydah are forced to wait for the resumption of IOM’s return assistance. Photo: IOM
Nearly two months later, the situation remains unstable and the displaced communities in and near Hudaydah are in desperate need of humanitarian aid.
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03/08/2018
Marginalized groups suffer unduly harsh consequences due to Brazil’s economic policies of austerity, prompting United Nations rights experts to urge the Government to instead prioritize human rights.
UNICEF/Raoni Libório | In inland Bahia, a northeastern state in Brazil, UNICEF and its partners found Yasmin and her sisters and took the girls to school.
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“People living in poverty, and other marginalized groups, are
disproportionately suffering as a result of the stringent economic measures in a country once considered as an example of progressive policies to reduce poverty and promote social inclusion,” said a statement released by a group of seven UN human rights experts on Friday
3 August 2018.
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