04/12/2018
4 December 2018 (Wall Street International) – A “With law shall our land be built up, but with lawlessness laid waste.” — (Njal’s Saga, Iceland, c 1270 AD)
The present United Nations Charter
After the unspeakable horrors of World War II, delegates from 50 Allied nations met in San Francisco California. The purpose of the conference, which took place between 25 April and 26 June, 1945, was to set up an international organization that would be able to abolish the institution of war. However, the Charter which the delegates produced was too weak to achieve this goal.
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04/12/2018
Geneva, 4 December 2018 (IOM)* – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that 107,583 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 28 November.
This is the fifth straight year during which the arrival of irregular migrants and refugees has topped the 100,000 threshold – although 2018’s total is low compared to those recorded at this time in 2017 (164,908) and 2016 (351,076).
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04/12/2018
With thousands gathered in Katowice, Poland, for the ‘COP24’ meeting to chart the way forward for climate action, United Nations chief António Guterres presented his longer-term vision on 4 December 2018 for the 2019 Climate Change Summit.
Photo: UNEP The Earth’s protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades.
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04/12/2018
Conflict has pushed tens of millions of people into a situation where they are in urgent need of help, the UN’s relief chief said on 4 December 2018, in an appeal for funds that could top $25 billion to support life-saving aid projects in over 40 countries next year.
MDF/M. Hudair | Displaced Yemeni boys sit on mattresses distributed as part of UNHCR’s emergency relief effort in Sirwah,Yemen. More than two million Yemenis have been uprooted by the civil war which began in March 2015.
Speaking at the launch of a major annual analysisof global humanitarian needs, Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said that a total of 132 million people will need assistance next year.
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04/12/2018
4 December 2018 (FAO)* — The reports are out and the message is clear: we all need to make decisions with the climate in mind. Agriculture is one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters, but it is also one of the climate’s greatest allies. The agriculture sector can play a large role in mitigation by reducing emissions and avoiding further loss of carbon stored in forests and soil. Keeping soils and forests healthy also helps fight climate change as both of these act as “sinks” that sequester carbon.
Projects such as the Great Green Wall Initiative in the Sahel (left) and floating gardens in Bangladesh are both benefitting farming communities and working toward SDG13 of combatting climate change and its impacts. ©FAO/Giulio Napolitano
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04/12/2018
Two Big Words, “Future” and “World”; one small word, “notes”.
To think about a dialectic holon, the world, to speak it, act it. For sure it will act upon us, so let us try a word on us upon it.
Johan Galtung
The Tetralateral World. But what world are we talking about? First, one known to all: the tetralateral world divided into four parts, Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast. Also known as the First, Second, Third and–usually left out, forgotten–Fourth world.
The first three have dominated the discourse for decades and made us blind to the fourth, with very important parts: China, put in the Second as communist; Japan, put in the First as developed, even in G7.
No doubt there has been a North-South division of the world holon with North dominating, and a West-East division with West dominating. Making the world Northwest–US-Canada and EU-Western Europe–dominant.
But divisions of holons are dialectic with force/counter-force.
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04/12/2018
3 December 2018 – The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan has condemned a series of brutal sexual assaults on women and girls, travelling on the road to Bentiu, a town in the north of the war-ravaged country.
UNMISS Photo | In this file photograph, an UNMISS peacekeeper patrols a road near Bentiu, Unity state, South Sudan. Patrols such as these serve to show a presence and to provide protection in the area.
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04/12/2018
Obesity affects millions of people, and several billion suffer from diseases caused by vitamin- or mineral-deficient diets, known as micronutrient deficiencies, according to the UN agriculture chief, who called on 3 December 2018 for “transformative changes” to our food systems.
World Bank/Curt Carnemark | Buying food at the market. | Photo from UN News.
“The coexistence of undernutrition, obesity and micronutrient deficiencies – what we know as the triple burden of malnutrition – is spreading and affecting almost every country in the world”, José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in his opening address to the agency’s executive body, the FAO Council.
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