14/11/2018
The global prevalence of adult diabetes has nearly quadrupled since 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on 14 November 2018, World Diabetes Day, with the call to “eat healthily, be physically active and avoid excessive weight gain.”
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WHO/T. Habjouqa | Raghad who lives in a refugee camp in Jordan, suffers from type 1 diabetes and requires daily administration of insulin, but finds it hard to keep the insulin cool in the summer with limited electricity in the camp. She exercises to stay healthy.
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14/11/2018
Eating habits start young. By providing advice on nutrition, dietary guidelines empower families to take charge of their own diets and health. ©FAO/Mia Cusack
While many countries are still dealing with undernutrition, more and more people around the world are eating energy-dense, high-fat, high-sugar and high-salt foods.
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14/11/2018
Dhaka, 13 November 2018 (IOM)* – The UN Migration Agency (IOM) is partnering with Bangladesh’s largest online job portal Bdjobs.com Ltd. to provide the latest information to job seekers on overseas employment opportunities and connect them directly with employers. The two agencies on Sunday (11/11) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create a new online portal that expects to go live within six months.
Photo by Muse Mohammed | Photo From IOM.
In Bangladesh, every year nearly two million people join the working age population, while only 200,000 jobs are created locally.
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14/11/2018
13 November 2018 (UNHCR)* — Four years after the launch of a decade-long campaign to eradicate statelessness globally, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on 13 November 2018 called on states to take faster and more resolute action to help meet the campaign goal. | Español | Français | عربي
Formerly stateless Makonde community member Amina shows off her Kenyan identity card, Kwale, Kenya, March 2017. © UNHCR/Modesta Ndubi
Important results have been achieved since November 2014 when UNHCR’s #IBelong campaign began. More than 166,000 stateless people have acquired or had their nationality confirmed, 20 states have acceded to the Statelessness Conventions bringing the total number of parties to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons to 91 and 73 to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
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14/11/2018
By Helen Womack and Jan Kapic in Zagreb, Croatia*
Two citizens of former Yugoslavia found themselves stateless in Croatia after a series of bureaucratic mishaps. Español | Français | عربي
Boro Topolic was refused Croatian citizenship, denying him the right to own his own flat. © UNHCR/Zsolt Balla
13 November 2018 (UNHCR)* — Bedri Hoti knows what it means to be stateless. For years, he led a marginal existence in poverty because the country where he spent most of his life did not acknowledge his right to live there.
By contrast, Boro Topolic lived a perfectly normal life for decades, only to wake up one day and discover he had become stateless.
They are among nearly 3,000 people in Croatia who are stateless, or at risk of statelessness, most of them Roma.
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14/11/2018
13 November 2018 (Wall Street International)* – Everyone remembers the catastrophic consequences on human rights of broad trade embargoes imposed under the authority of the United Nations in the 1990s, especially with respect to Iraq. This was widely documented at the time. It prompted a shift away from comprehensive to so-called ‘smart’ sanctions.
The past months, unfortunately, have witnessed increased recourse to economic sanctions, some of which are clearly not ‘targeted’ nor intended to be ‘smart’ – but clearly comprehensive, as in the case of the measures re-introduced by the United States against Iran. I noticed that the US Secretary of State openly spoke of the ‘strongest sanctions in history’.
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14/11/2018
12 November 2018 — British author and social commentator H.G. Wells may have coined the expression that originally popularized World War I as The War that Will End War, as his book, based on articles written during that vast military conflict, was titled. In any case, in one version or another, the expression was one of the most common catchphrases of the Great War of 1914-1918 and has survived as an expression, often used with a grimace of sarcasm, ever since.
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14/11/2018
13 November 2018 — There is “terror and panic” among Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, who are at imminent risk of being returned to Myanmar against their will, the United Nations top human rights official has said, warning that the returns would seriously endanger the lives of those sent back.
UNICEF/Brown | Over 720,000 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya community have sought refuge in Bangladesh after widespread ethnic violence erupted in the country’s Rakhine province.
According to the UN human rights office, OHCHR, some of the refugees have threatened suicide if they are forced to return, and two elderly men in Cox’s Bazar have already attempted suicide.
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