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07/01/2019

In a politically-surcharged atmosphere, no one should doubt that the appearance of Lord Ram’s idol in the mosque on the night of December 22, 1949 was an act of God.

An idol of Ram and Sita together in a temple.

3 January 2019 (openDemocracy)* — Foreign reporters coming to cover India’s general election in a few months ought to dive deep into the sea of mythology that has sustained this ancient civilisation. Apart from India’s secular and democratic Constitution, they must read the great Hindu epics such as the Ramayan.

To understand the modern India, they have to go back billions of years for the epochs whose memory is rekindled in poll campaigns.

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07/01/2019

“I’m Proud to Have Brought the Rain Back” – Reforestation Revives Cambodian Mountains

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7 January 2019 (UN Environment)* — During the 12th century, people came to Cambodia’s Kulen mountain, a sacred place associated with fertility, to cut huge chunks of stone that would have to be hauled down by elephants.

cambodia photo 1

Photo from UN Environment.

In recent decades, despite Kulen becoming a protected area, people have come not just to pick the sweet lychee fruits from which the mountain derives its name, but to cut trees to sell for luxury hardwood or charcoal in towns further down.

The illegal logging of Kulen national park has laid bare vast patches of forest.

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06/01/2019

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

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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.

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.

Children sing in the Christmas choir at the FAID, which welcomes Lebanese and Syrian youngsters with hearing disabilities from different religious backgrounds.

© 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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05/01/2019

Tackling Human Trafficking in Myanmar

In 2005, Myanmar passed an anti-trafficking law, but trafficking is still rampant in the conflict-affected state, especially in the northern region, where it borders China. A UN Women programme is supporting local partner, Htoi Gender and Development Foundation, in providing legal support and vocational training to survivors. According to Htoi, in 8 out of 10 cases, women are trafficked as brides and another 20 per cent are trafficked to birth babies.

Khawng Nu, now 24, was duped by a woman from her rural village in Myanmar, who sent her to a birth trafficking ring in China. Photo: UN Women/Stuart Mannion

Khawng Nu, now 24, was duped by a woman from her rural village in Myanmar, who sent her to a birth trafficking ring in China. Photo: UN Women/Stuart Mannion

3 January 2019 (UN Women)* — Khawng Nu* was 22 years old when she was trafficked from the state of Kachin, northern Myanmar, to China.

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05/01/2019

UKRAINE – The Cold Reality of Europe’s Forgotten Conflict

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By Ingebjørg Kårstad*

4 January 2019 (Norwegian Refugee Council)* — This year the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine will enter its fifth year. So far, the conflict has taken 3,000 civilian lives, displaced 1.5 million people and left 3.5 million in need – over 30 per cent of these are above the age of 60.

Despite the high numbers of civilians affected, the crisis remains neglected with the humanitarian response plan funded by only 38 per cent so far this year.

Parties to the conflict also continue to disregard the ceasefire agreement.

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05/01/2019

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Seeks to Grant Police Impunity Over Violence

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Critics argue those ideas only risk inflaming Brazil’s violent streets and worsening Brazil’s murder tally, nearly 64,000 people in 2017, a record.

T-shirts of the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro on sale in Brasilia, on Oct. 27, 2018.

4 January 2019 (teleSUR)* – Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro urged Friday the urgent approval of a bill to protect police officers in the country from being prosecuted over crimes committed while on duty.

The far-right president, elected on a law-and-order platform, warned in a tweet that sky-high violence would only slow if laws were passed to provide police and soldiers freedom from prosecution when on active duty.

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05/01/2019

God, Religion and Dogma – Voltaire and Russell, a Comparison

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By DAVID LORIMER*

4 January 2019 (Wall Street International)* — A comparison of the two men’s views on God may throw some light on how the affirmation of the mystery of existence may lead to a declaration of its meaninglessness.

Voltaire’s Candide | Image from Wall Street International.

While Russell rejects all proofs for the existence of God, Voltaire rejects only the ontological argument. He maintains that we know God only by His effects, we cannot know Him by his nature, which is inscrutable to human reason; thus he urges men to adore God without wishing to ‘pierce the obscurity of His mysteries.’

While rejecting revealed religion, he claims that the rational man need only open his eyes to nature to perceive God for ‘all is art in the universe, and art announces an Artisan.’

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Divine Players in Indian Politics

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“I’m Proud to Have Brought the Rain Back” – Reforestation Revives Cambodian Mountains

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

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By Silvia Swinden*

Fate of Corals Hangs in the Balance

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‘Miraculous’ Music Made by Hearing-Impaired Children

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

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Tackling Human Trafficking in Myanmar

UKRAINE – The Cold Reality of Europe’s Forgotten Conflict

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By Ingebjørg Kårstad*

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Seeks to Grant Police Impunity Over Violence

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God, Religion and Dogma – Voltaire and Russell, a Comparison

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