Archive for January 9th, 2019

09/01/2019

Amid Troop Build-Up in Rohingya’s Home State, UN Appeals to Myanmar for Peaceful Solution

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Major fighting in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state has so far been avoided following clashes between armed separatists and national security forces who are increasing troop numbers there, a top UN humanitarian official there said on Wednesday [9 January 2019].

UNICEF/Ruslana Sirman | A young child sleeps in a shelter at the Kyein Ni Pyin camp in Rakhine province, Myanmar. Over 700,000 members of the Rohingya community have been forced from their homes as a result of widespread and systematic violence.

In an interview with UN News, Knut Ostby, Acting Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Myanmar, reiterated calls for all sides “to find a peaceful solution to the situation”, amid concern “that there could be a quite immediate escalation of fighting”.

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09/01/2019

Stories from the Steppe – How Early Action Helped Save Mongolian Herders’ Livelihoods

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9 January 2019 (FAO)*Mongolians and their livestock have lived on the steppe for centuries. And although the steppe may seem like vast and open land, more than 60 million animals graze on its pasture. Raising livestock is the most important livelihood in Mongolia – and is the sole source of income for 35 percent of households.

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Early distribution of feed helped livestock remain in good condition, allowing herders to harvest and sell more cashmere in the spring when prices were at their highest. ©FAO/K.Purevraqchaa

09/01/2019

Thought on Palestine/Israel: Acquisition and Dispossessions Is Theirs, Return from the Internal and External Transfers Is Ours

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By Walid Salem – TRANSCEND Media Service*

You are trying hard to probe the behavior of the colonized settler. Look at the faces and hear the loud voices as you walk through the old town of Jerusalem and ask yourself: Who are these, and why are they behaving as if this is their country?

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Walid Salem

First of all, to the founding myths of the State of Israel (legends according to Roger Garaudy, superstitions according to Ilan Pappe, and inventions according to Shlomo Sand), you understand from these writings that these myths and superstitions  are only what is invented in order to form a “people”.

But there are two parts of the question that remain afterwards, the first of which relates to how this people consists, “and the second relates to the evolution of the mentality and behavior of this” people. ”

The country has a history, a language and a culture of the indigenous population inherited from the fathers and grandfathers?

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09/01/2019

Bolsonaro Shuts Down Official Indigenous Cryptocurrency Project

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The move is another pushback against Indigenous people’s rights by Brazil’s new president, who has said they should be “integrated” into society.

One week into his presidency, Bolsonaro has begun to undo protections for Indigenous communities.

One week into his presidency, Bolsonaro has begun to undo protections for Indigenous communities. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.

8 January 2019 (teleSUR)* — In another blow to Brazil’s Indigenous people just one week after taking office, the newly-elected President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration has blocked an initiative of the previous government that would create a cryptocurrency intended to facilitate transactions between Indigenous communities.

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09/01/2019

The Uighur Question: A Civil Society Solution

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By Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service*

In the last few months, the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) like so many other civil society groups in various parts of the world has been inundated with videos and articles from different sources alleging  cruel persecution and harsh oppression of the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang province in the Western part of China.

Re-education camps in China’s ‘no-rights zone’ for Muslims. | Xinjiang Explainer | SupChina

It is alleged that the Chinese government views the Uighur and also some other Muslim groups such as the Kazakhs and Kyrgyzas as threats to national security given their purported links to terrorism and separatist insurgency.

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09/01/2019

Grim Milestone as Migrant Deaths, Disappearances Top 4,000 for Fifth Consecutive Year

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Berlin, 8 January 2019 (IOM)*  For the fifth consecutive year more than 4,000 people are believed to have died or gone missing on migratory routes across the globe, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project (MMP) reports. 

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Photo: IOM Archive.

While final data collection for 2018 is still being compiled from several jurisdictions, at least 4,592 migrants reportedly died or disappeared during their journeys, down 20 per cent from the previous year, and over 8,000 in 2016.

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