17/10/2018
Food Costs Should Cause ‘Shock and Outrage’ as Countries in Conflict See Spiralling Prices
17/10/2018
The Importance of Alternative Media
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*
John Scales Avery
The Superficiality of Today’s Television
Social critic Neil Postman contrasted the futures predicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World in the foreword of his 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. He wrote:
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”
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17/10/2018
Congolese Migrants Expelled from Neighbouring Angola “Are Returning to a Desperate Situation” – UN Refugee Agency
Human Wrongs Watch
Congolese nationals forced back across the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after being expelled from neighbouring Angola, “are returning to a desperate situation,” a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesperson said on 16 October 2018.
17/10/2018
The Struggle over Natural Resources – ‘In Africa, 75 Per Cent of Wars Since 1990 Have Been Partially Funded by Resources Such as Diamonds and Valuable Minerals’
Human Wrongs Watch
Conflict diamonds and climate change: Cooperate, don’t compete over natural resources urges Guterres.
The struggle over natural resources often lies at the heart of violent conflicts, fuelling strife in many parts of the world, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on 16 October 2018, urging governments and everyone with a stake in valuable resources, to think hard about how they are managed and exploited.
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16/10/2018
Business ‘Dragging Its Feet’ on Human Rights Worldwide – UN Experts Report
Human Wrongs Watch
Too many businesses are putting profit above human rights and “ignoring” their obligations, while governments fail to “regulate and lead by example”, according to a United Nations human rights report, published on 16 October 2018.
In the report drawn up by a group of UN rights experts, companies are being urged to comply with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights , which provides a framework for how States and investors, should address shortcomings in board rooms and business practice at all levels.
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16/10/2018
Top UN Human Rights Official Urges Transparent Probe into Khashoggi Disappearance
Human Wrongs Watch
16 October 2018 – The top United Nations human rights official has called on Saudi Arabia and Turkey to “reveal everything they know” about the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
16/10/2018
Young Rohingya Girls, Largest Group of Trafficking Victims in Camps – International Organization for Migration
Human Wrongs Watch
More than a year into the crisis in Cox’s Bazar, the number of Rohingya refugees has reached nearly one million, with young girls in Bangladesh refugee camps sold into forced labour accounting for the largest group of trafficking victims, reported the UN Migration Agency (IOM) on 16 October 2018.
16/10/2018
2018 State of Food and Agriculture: What You Didn’t Know about Migration – Test Your Knowledge!
QUESTION 1.
Choose the correct statement
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Migration is a modern phenomenon
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Migration has occurred throughout human history
Although international migration is today the subject of great concern and attention, migration has always been a part of the history of humankind and accompanies the evolution of societies. Between 1990 and 2015, the number of international migrants has increased from 153 million to 248 million.
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16/10/2018
‘Policies Should Not Stem Migration, But Maximize Its Potential and Minimize Negatives’
Human Wrongs Watch
New report analyses links between rural and international migration
A forest-dependent mother walks through the brush with her child in Tanzania. The State of Food and Agriculture 2018 explores the links between agriculture, rural development and migration.
ROME, 15 October 2018 (FAO)* – A new report on migration launched today by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization urges that policies should not stem or accelerate migration but maximize the contribution of rural migration to economic and social development while minimizing the costs.
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16/10/2018
Benefits of Rural Migration Effect Often Overlooked — New Report
Human Wrongs Watch
Agricultural policies should work to maximize the contributions of rural migration to economic and social development, while minimizing the costs, says a major new report released on 15 October 2018 by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The agency’s annual report titled, The State of Food and Agriculture 2018 (SOFA), points to migration as a choice, its costs and benefits, and lays out the implications arising from important investment decisions surrounding rural development.
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