24/11/2018
24 November 2018 (UN Women)* — From 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world. The international campaign originated from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute coordinated by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership in 1991.
For far too long, impunity, silence and stigma have allowed violence against women to escalate to pandemic proportions—one in three women worldwide experience gender-based violence. The time for change is here and now.
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24/11/2018
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence
Young school girls organize themselves before the March to End Gender-Based Violence in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. One sign reads: “Refrain from using abusive language for Women and Children” Photo: UN Women/Deepika Nath
21 November 2018 (UN Women)* — The 16 days of Activism spanning from International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November, through Human Rights Day on 10 December, is an annual campaign against gender-based violence.
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24/11/2018
Denouncing the dangers faced by migrants and asylum seekers in Libya, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) called on Friday [23 November 2018] for an end to their detention and advised those intercepting or rescuing them at sea against returning them to a country where they face “squalid conditions”.
© UNHCR/Noor Elshin | Refugees waiting at Tripoli International Airport, Libya, for their evacuation flight to Niger on 16 October 2018.
“Refugees in Libya are faced with a nightmarish scenario,” said Roberto Mignone, UNHCR’s Chief of Mission in Libya. “They have fled their homes in search of safety and protection only to end up incarcerated, languishing indefinitely in squalid conditions.”
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24/11/2018
23 November 2018 – To bring the voice of the people to the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Poland (known by the shorthand ‘COP 24‘, from 2 to 14 December), the United Nations has launched the ‘People’s Seat’ initiative, calling millions of change advocates worldwide to submit messages for an address that will be delivered to leaders attending the conference, by renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
UNDP Chad/Jean Damascene Hakuzim | Aerial view over Lake Chad from the aeroplane, clearly shows patched of desertification. In the past 50 years, Lake Chad basin shrank from 25,000 square kilometers to 2,000 square kilometers.
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23/11/2018
For the first time in a decade, the number of people falling into poverty in rural Latin America and the Caribbean has increased by two million, according to a new United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, which called the worrying trend a “historical reversal.”
World Bank/Scott Wallace | Rural laborers in Bahia State tend to manioc crop in Brazil’s parched Northeast. | Photo from UN News.
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23/11/2018
Presented at the International Conference against US/NATO Military Bases, 16-18 Nov 2018, Dublin, Ireland
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Dear Friends,
It is good to be here with you all. I would like to thank the organizers for inviting me to address the conference. Firstly I thank you all for your work for peace.
It is good that we will have an opportunity in the next few days to get to know each other and together discuss what kind of a world we want to live in?
There will be many different perspectives on this and the way forward, but let us agree to respect each other and to engage in deep listening and conversation no matter how hard and where the dialogue might take us!
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23/11/2018
Protecting the planet rests on this generation’s youth and their inclination “to hold leaders and decision-makers accountable,” especially in the combat against climate change, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on 21 November 2018 told university students in China.“Do not take this planet for granted – it is the only one we have,” she said, addressing Tsinghua University students.
UNMISS/Eric Kanalstein | Trees donated by the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, UNMISS are planted at the Exodus Junior Academy in the capital, Juba. (October 2018)
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23/11/2018
Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to a report. issued on 22 November 2018 by the United Nations weather agency, which reveals that there is no sign of reversal of this trend, responsible for climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification and extreme weather.
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Photo: FAO/Joan Manuel Baliellas| Forest loss contributes to 1/6 of annual greenhouse gas emissions.
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“The science is clear. Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases, climate change will have increasingly destructive and irreversible impacts on life on Earth. The window of opportunity for action is almost closed,” said World Meteorological Organization (
WMO) Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
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21/11/2018
By Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
19 November 2018 (UNDP)* — The lack of women’s empowerment is a critical form of inequality. And while there are many barriers to empowerment, violence against women and girls (VAW) is both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality.
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