12/12/2018
WHO/Yoshi Shimizu | An elderly patient receives rehabilitation care in Japan (file)
Because that’s the target date for completion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of which (SDG3), calls for the promotion of healthy lives and well-being for all.
The International Day is supported by UHC 2030, a global partnership consisting of Member States, several UN Agencies – including the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Children’s’ Fund (UNICEF), and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) – and civil society organizations.
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12/12/2018
We should cherish dissenters trying to stop human rights abuses – not imprison them under anti-terrorism laws designed to prevent further Lockerbie bombings.
Image: Stansted 15 activists. Credit: @Edeportations/Twitter.
11 December 2018 (openDemocracy)* – In March 2017, fifteen people tried to stop a secretive mass deportation to Nigeria and Ghana from Stansted Airport.
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12/12/2018
Panama City, 11 December 2018 (IOM)* – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) last week presented the #SomosLoMismo (We are the same) campaign, aiming to promote respect, solidarity, and empathy between Panamanians and foreigners.
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12/12/2018
Some 5.6 million Syrians need help outside the war-torn country and one million of them are children born in exile, UN agencies and partners said on 11 December 2018, in an appeal for $5.5 billion to cover humanitarian needs for 2019.
UNICEF/Romenzi | Seated on a rug atop the dirt ground, two girls complete homework outside their tent home, in the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, west of Erbil, Iraq.
Since conflict erupted in Syria in 2011, host communities in neighbouring countries have supported those who have fled, despite the significant impact on their own development, The UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) Amin Awad, Regional Refugee Coordinator for Syria and Iraq, told journalists in Geneva.
“We are appealing this year for $5.5 billion, that is to support neighbouring countries, but also to support operations assisting refugees in the areas of health, water, sanitation and food, education, psycho-social support, community services and so on and so forth.”
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12/12/2018
Several thousand people march in the climate march at COP24 in Katowice, Poland. © Greenpeace
Climate change has a greater impact on those parts of the population that depend the most on natural resources for their livelihoods and who have the least capacity to respond to environmental disasters. Women face higher risks and greater burdens from the impacts of climate change in situations of poverty – the majority of the world’s poor are women.
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12/12/2018
11 December 2018 (Wall Street International)* —
If sleeplessness was wealth, we would live in palaces alongside the moon. From our windows, we would see a gracious spilling of light, over everything that crawls and flies. A sidereal breeze would herald mornings, sprinkling stars on window sills, and music, delightful like smiles, would spring in lover’s lips and dreams.
We would walk all night, awake while everyone else is asleep. Imagining ways to dare to let go those impulses of forever to dissolve the tribal context of our minds -the spaces of our ignorance.
We would dance with the svelte night, elegantly dressed in her dark cloak, adorned with sounds of mystery, stories of love, shadows and memories. Tender rains would pour on us; maternal woos, sensual lips, laughter of children in eternal play -a total feminine display.
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12/12/2018
From Tuesday [11 December 2018] on, close to 100 Government ministers are due be involved in negotiating a final deal on moving forward with climate action here at the United Nations COP24 conference in Poland. So, what is the goal? To agree a concrete plan to implement the historic 2015 Paris climate deal by mid-century. The stakes are high with numerous different pressure points.
UNFCCC Secretariat An Earth Council Flash Mob at COP24 in Poland to remind all negotiators and leaders that everything is moving too slow and that we have to take action now.
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12/12/2018
11 December 2018 — From #MeToo to #HearMeToo, the fight to end violence against women continues as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, Nicole Kidman, joined survivors, activists and other Hollywood celebrities to spotlight the lack of resources that exist to help women push back against violence and abuse.
UN Women/Kyle Espeleta | UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman speaks at the UN Trust Fund fundraising luncheon.
On Monday [10 December 2018], Human Rights Day, the UN Women-managed global grant-making mechanism to eradicate all forms of violence against women and girls, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, held a fundraising luncheon in Santa Monica, California, one of the hubs of the #MeToo movement that rose up last year against sexual harassment and abuse, by powerful men in the entertainment industry.
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11/12/2018
11 December 2018 (FAO)* — In some countries, mountains are considered deities. In others, mountains are peaks to climb. In others still, mountains, like volcanoes, are spirits that can be angered. In countries around the world though, mountains provide life-sustaining water, energy and food for over half the world’s population.
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Because of their altitude, slope and orientation to the sun, mountain ecosystems are easily disrupted by climate variations: native plants and animals are quickly losing their habitats and are struggling to survive in ever diminishing areas, and mountain glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates.
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11/12/2018
11 December 2018 (UN)* – Almost one billion people live in mountain areas, and over half the human population depends on mountains for water, food and clean energy. Yet mountains are under threat from climate change, land degradation, over exploitation and natural disasters, with potentially far-reaching and devastating consequences, both for mountain communities and the rest of the world.
Meme Lé and his herd, looking for water, Tibet. Photo from the #MountainsMatter Photo contest 2018 organized by Mountain Partnership at FAO. Photo: Helene Copin/FAO.
Mountains are early indicators of climate change and as global climate continues to warm, mountain people — some of the world’s hungriest and poorest — face even greater struggles to survive.
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