10/10/2018
Climate-related and geophysical disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis have killed 1.3 million people over the last 20 years and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless or in need of emergency assistance, UN experts said on 10 October 2018.
© UNICEF/Arimacs Wilander | View of damaged cars and houses at Balaroa National Park, West Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia after the earthquake and tsunami that struck there on September 28, 2018.
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10/10/2018
The conflict in Afghanistan continues to exact a terrible toll on civilians, with the highest number of fatalities recorded for the first nine months of this year, since 2014, a United Nations report has revealed.
UNAMA/Fraidoon Poya | A woman along with her children runs across a dusty street in Herat, western Afghanistan. Civilians across the country continue to bear the brunt of the conflict.
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10/10/2018
The Brazilian audience responded with roars when the name of Bolsonaro appeared on the giant display among other right-wing politicians around the world.
Bolsonaro discute violência contra mulheres na Câmara. | Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil | CC BY 3.0 br
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10 October 2018 (teleSUR)* – Pink Floyd ex-drummer Roger Waters declared Brazilian presidential candidate
Jair Bolsonaro as the South American country’s “neo-fascist on the rise,” on Tuesday
[10 October 2018].
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10/10/2018
6 October 2018 (openDemocracy)* – In a matter of days, 2.5 million Brazilian women had gathered on Facebook to discuss how to best present their case against Bolsonaro and how to take their action offline and organise themselves locally. Español
Demonstration against presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro in Porto Alegre, Brazil. 29 September 2018. By Caco Argemi CPERS / Sindicato | CPERS Sindicato | Source | Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 2.0 Genericlicense.
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10/10/2018
8 October 2018 (Wall Street International)* – I would like to tell you something about human depravity and illustrate just how widespread it is among those we often regard as ‘responsible’. I am going to use the Democratic Republic of the Congo as my example.
As I illustrate and explain what has happened to the Congo and its people during the past 500 years, I invite you to consider my essential point: Human depravity has no limit unless people like you (hopefully) and me take some responsibility for ending it.
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10/10/2018
8 October 2018 (UN Environment)* –
The tundra is a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America where the subsoil is permanently frozen – or that, at least, used to be the case.
“The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and climate,” says a new study published in the journal Nature.
The huge study spanned over three decades and involved 180 scientists analyzing 56,048 trait records and 117 vegetation survey sites across the tundra.
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10/10/2018
9 October 2018 – North Korea’s humanitarian situation remains dire, with widespread chronic food insecurity and malnutrition, the United Nations emergency food relief agency has warned, urging greater and sustained funding for its aid operations there.
WFP/Silke Buhr | Children at a World Food Programme (WFP)-supported children’s nursery and Hasong Kindergarten in Sinwon County in South Hwanghae Province, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 9 May 2018.
According to Herve Verhoosel, a spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN agency is staring at a massive 73 per cent shortfall in funding for 2018, hurting critical programmes such as nutritional support for children.
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10/10/2018
Efforts to assist the tens of millions who’ve been forced from their homes are being increasingly constrained by severely limited funds, a new report from the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has warned, urging greater international attention and support. Funds available to help refugees and migrants are steadily falling, said the agency on 9 October 2018, while the number of those displaced has been rising by the year.
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UN Photo/Mark Garten | An aerial view of Zaíatri refugee camp near Mafraq, Jordan, host to tens of thousands of Syrians displaced by conflict. 7 December 2012.
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