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27/11/2018

‘Dire Consequences’ for a Million Children in the Middle East, North Africa, as Funding Dwindles

Human Wrongs Watch

Amidst a $33 million funding shortfall, plunging temperatures in the Middle East and North Africa pose a major threat to children in the region, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday [27 November 2018].

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UNICEF/Anmar | Students in West Mosul, Iraq, attend the UNICEF-supported Ithar School, which runs a shift for boys and a shift for girls. During the last war, many children dropped out of school.

With cold and rainy weather sweeping through, nearly one million children affected by crises across the region face the risk of life-threatening or debilitating illness.

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27/11/2018

Suffering of Thousands of War-Affected Syrian Children ‘Unprecedented and Unacceptable’

Human Wrongs Watch

Well over 7,000 child casualties in Syria’s brutal armed conflict have been verified over the last five years, but this is just “the tip of the iceberg,” the United Nations Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the crisis lamented on Tuesday [27 November 2018], with thousands more cases likely going unreported.

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UNICEF/NYHQ2012-0218/Romenzi | Syrian children shelter in the doorway of a house, amid gunfire and shelling, in a city affected by the conflict.

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27/11/2018

CO2 Emissions on the Rise for First Time in Four Years, UN Warns

Human Wrongs Watch

A new report released on Tuesday [27 November 2018] by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose again during 2017 after a three year hiatus, highlighting the imperative for countries to deliver on the historic Paris Agreement to keep global warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

World Bank/Jutta Benzenberg|Countries like Romania are pursuing low carbon development using green energy sources. (February 2017) | Photo from UN News).

The report comes just days before the key UN climate change conference known as COP 24, taking place in Katowice, Poland, with the agency urging nations to triple their efforts to curb harmful emissions.

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27/11/2018

Global Wage Growth Lowest Since 2008, While Women Still Earning 20% Less than Men

Human Wrongs Watch

The latest ILO Global Wage report finds global wage growth has been weak while the gender pay gap, at about 20 per cent globally, remains unacceptably high.

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GENEVA, 26 November 2018 (ILO)* – Global wage growth in 2017 fell to its lowest rate since 2008, far below levels before the global financial crisis, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report.

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27/11/2018

Violence against Women a ‘Mark of Shame’ on Our Societies – UN Chief 

Human Wrongs Watch

25 November 2018 – Violence against women and girls is not only a fundamental human rights issue but also a “moral affront” against them and a “mark of shame” on all societies, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said, calling greater action by everyone around the world to root out the scourge.

Denis Bocquet | “No more femicides,” reads this graffiti, scrawled on a wall in Mexico City, where public outcry has been mounting against gender-motivated killings.

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27/11/2018

Johan Galtung and Amy Goodman Talk Peace, Justice, Empire, Occupation

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American Friends Service Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service*

A dialogue between sociologist Johan Galtung, “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” and Amy Goodman of Democracy NOW! Sponsored by the Envision Peace Museum, American Friends Service Committee.

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25/11/2018

7 Reasons So-Called ‘Renewable’ Gas Is Just Smoke and Mirrors

As the EU responds to the latest climate science report, here’s why it shouldn’t listen to the gas industry.

Image: CC0.

22 November 2018 (openDemocracy)* — The European Union has been bigging up its 2050 climate strategy lately. Next week it will set out how the EU can meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement and keep global temperature rises below 1.5oc.

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25/11/2018

Fighting a Silent Battle: The Unspoken War

24 November 2018 (UN Environment)* — “Before, we had firewood nearby, but nowadays we have to travel far to look for wood, women tend to come back from the bush late.” These are the words of a community of women in the region of Barh el Ghazal, in Chad, a land-locked country in Central Africa. 

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Photo by Victor Tsang | Photo from UN Environment. 

“Recently, there have been attempts of rape, but people have intervened in time,” added the women from another community.

“We still hear that women are raped in neighboring villages while they are out fetching wood or at the market. To avoid this, we leave in a group when we are travelling long distances.”

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24/11/2018

Facts and Figures: Various Forms of Violence against Women

Human Wrongs Watch

By UN Women*

It is estimated that 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner (not including sexual harassment) at some point in their lives. However, some national studies show that up to 70 per cent of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime.

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Interactive – Explore the facts: Violence against women►

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24/11/2018

Orange the World, #HearMeToo

Human Wrongs Watch

24 November 2018 (UN Women)* — Emmanuella was seven years old when she was raped. At 17, Tabasum was kidnapped and forced to marry an older man, who went on to burn her. Helen was bullied at school because she liked girls and not boys. Elisa was dragged to the town square and beaten, because she dared to participate in politics. Nana escaped being raped by an acquaintance and went on to start conversations about consent well before #MeToo hit global headlines.

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Orange the world: #HearMeToo

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