Archive for January 6th, 2019

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06/01/2019

Thanks Mr Trump for Showing What a Brexit “Shutdown” Would Look Like

Human Wrongs Watch

By Silvia Swinden*

London, 5 January 2019 (Pressenza)* –  Weeks into Trump’s border wall tantrum “talks were due but as the nation digested the president’s rambling, contradictory and combative remarks at a White House press conference on Friday, [4 January 2019] potentially devastating effects of the shutdown were coming into focus. This post is also available in: Spanish

Thanks Mr Trump for showing what a Brexit “shutdown” would look like

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides dietary assistance to 38 million low-income Americans and is colloquially known as food stamps, will soon face cuts and will run out of funds in March. Tax refunds totalling billions of dollars and due in April to millions may be delayed.

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06/01/2019

Fate of Corals Hangs in the Balance

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4 January 2019 (UN Environment)* — In November 2018, a new coral reef communication effort involving inter-governmental organizations, international conservation organizations, and private foundations was announced at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Egypt to send a message about the need for bold leadership to save coral reefs from near-extinction by mid-century.

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Photo by Fabrice Dudenhofer/CRIB. | Photo from UN Environment.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published in October 2018 predicts that even with the strongest actions required to stabilize global surface temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, 70–90 percent of coral will be lost in the next few decades.

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06/01/2019

‘Miraculous’ Music Made by Hearing-Impaired Children

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4 January 2019 — A group of deaf and hard-of-hearing Syrian refugee and local Lebanese children have sung in a choir in Beirut giving a performance that was “nothing short of miraculous,” according to conductor Pascal Khairallah.

© UNHCR/@Diego Ibarra Sanchez | Children sing in the Christmas choir at the FAID, which welcomes Lebanese and Syrian youngsters with hearing disabilities from different religious backgrounds.

 

The children, who practiced for six months for a Christmas carol concert held in the capital Beirut, attend a specialist school for young people with hearing disabilities which is supported by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR.

Twenty-four Syrian refugees are enrolled in the school.

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06/01/2019

Palestinian Students ‘Compelled to Drop Dreams Because of Financial Cuts’

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4 January 2019 — For students attending schools funded by the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees, (UNRWA), uncertainty over the future has become a constant worry, said the agency’s Director of Operations in Gaza, Matthias Schmale.

UNRWA/Khalil Adwan | UNRWA students from Ar Rimal and A-Zeitoun schools, during an interview with UN News in Gaza.

UNRWA faced an unprecedented financial crisis during 2018 that threatened the provision of essential services to millions of Palestine refugees, including more than 500,000 school students. Although sufficient funds were provided to reopen classrooms in September, there are no guarantees that 2019 will be any easier.

The agency’s 711 schools provide free basic education for Palestinian refugee children in the West Bank – including East Jerusalem – Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. But despite reopening after a long summer break, UNRWA was forced to take some difficult decisions which had a direct impact on the students’ daily lives.

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