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Every year, close to 800,000 people commit suicide, the second leading cause of death amongst people aged 15-29 in 2016.
Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September, a toolkit to help communities to prevent suicides has been released by the World Health Organization, WHO, and the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Corruption is present in all countries, “rich and poor, North and South, developed and developing,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 10 September 2018 told the Security Council, at a session on tackling corruption for the sake of peace and international security.
“Numbers show the startling scope of the challenge,” the UN chief said, citing World Economic Forum estimates that corruption costs at least $2.6 trillion – or five per cent of global gross domestic product.
The world risks crossing the point of no return on climate change, with disastrous consequences for people across the planet and the natural systems that sustain them, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 10 September 2018 warned, calling for more leadership and greater ambition for climate action, to reverse course.
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A medieval engraving of the persecution of witches: historians are increasingly demonstrating that belief in witchcraft survived in Western Europe well into the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries.Wikimedia Commons
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Yad Vashem, May 2017 | U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv | Public Domain
8 September 2018 (teleSUR)* – U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered that US$25 million earmarked for the care of Palestinians in East Jerusalem hospitals be directed elsewhere as part of a review of aid, a State Department official said on Saturday [8 September 2018].
A delegation of South Sudanese refugees tells the country’s leaders what they expect from revived peace talks in Sudan.
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South Sudanese refugees collect water from a water truck in Rhino Camp settlement, Uganda, May 2017. © UNHCR/Rocco Nuri
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, 5 September 2018 (UNHCR)* – Driven from his land by conflict in South Sudan, farmer Singira Mirihewari traveled for 18 hours to tell leaders negotiating peace in Sudan what millions of refugees like him need.
President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017 | U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv | Public Domain | cc-by-2.0
The previous column in this series looked at the Israeli government’s concern about the risk of the pro-Palestinian leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, winning a general election and becoming prime minister.
Israel’s worry contrasts with an otherwise more favourable international environment, its most reassuring element the strong support from Trump and Pence’s White House (see “Netanyahu’s Corbyn problem“, 31 August 2018).
Dler left Iraq in the summer of 2016, hoping to make a better living for himself and his family in Germany. Here is his account of the journey to Europe, and the decision to come back home.
7 September 2018 (IOM)* – “We wanted to go to Germany by any means necessary; I had heard that [they were] good to refugees. I had a car in Iraq and I owned a store for repairing bicycles and motorbikes; I sold everything to collect US$20,000.
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