05/01/2019
Minhaj Uddin Ahmed explains how UNHCR has stepped up efforts in Bangladesh to address the massive water and sanitation needs of Rohingya refugees and their hosts.
Minhaj Uddin Ahmed, UNHCR assistant water, sanitation and hygiene officer in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNHCR
4 January 2019 (UNHCR)* — More than 900,000 Rohingya refugees live across 36 different locations in Cox’s Bazar area, in south-eastern Bangladesh. Water is scarce in most locations. It is challenging to secure adequate water sources for the whole refugee population – most of whom fled to Bangladesh in late 2017.
This is why UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and partners have stepped up their efforts throughout 2018 to address the massive water and sanitation needs.
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05/01/2019
Greta Thunberg at COP24 in Poland © Greenpeace
The world’s youth have finally seen and heard enough from the deplorable political process, from compromised delegates, corrupted political appointees, and criminal corporations who sabotage these critical international discussions.
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05/01/2019
4 January 2019 (UN Environment)*– “Rewilding” is the buzzword among conservationists these days. It means helping nature heal by restoring the missing species, biodiversity, and natural processes to areas affected by human activity.
The world’s wildlife has collapsed in the past 100 years as human population and economic activity, especially commercial farming, has mushroomed. But now there is a growing realization that the survival of humans on the planet requires well-managed protected areas where diverse flora and fauna can flourish.
Nature provides an array of ecosystem services, which in many parts of the world are being rapidly degraded by human exploitation of natural habitat.
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05/01/2019
The criminal trial in Saudi Arabia of individuals suspected of being involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi does not meet the requirements of an independent and international probe requested by the UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, her office said on Friday [4 January 2019].*
UN Photo/Laura Jarriel | Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks to the press at UN Headquarters in New York.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Ravina Shamdasani from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), confirmed that her office was aware that the trial was under way.
“We, as you know, have been pressing for justice in the Khashoggi case for months now. We have been calling for an investigation, an independent investigation, with international involvement, and this has not happened yet.”
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05/01/2019
4 January 2019 — The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has called for the immediate release of a prominent human rights defender in Bahrain, after the country’s highest court rejected a final appeal for his release on Monday. Nabeel Rajab was jailed in 2016 for tweeting criticism of Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes on Yemen and allegations of torture inside one of Bahrain’s prisons.*
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UN News/Vibhu Mishra| Manama, the capital of Bahrain. (file)
“We urge the Government of Bahrain to stop criminalizing dissenting voices,” the statement read. Mr. Rajab’s comments online were made in 2015, when Saudi Arabia formed a coalition siding with the pro-Government fight in Yemen against Houthi rebels.
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04/01/2019
3 January 2019 (UN Environment)* — While most of us are not aware of it, sand is – after air and water – the third most used resource on the planet. Every house, dam, road, wine glass and cellphone contains it. Even a seemingly endless resource like sand cannot keep up with current demand.
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Photo from UN Environment.
“Sand is not infinite,” says Kiran Pereira, founder and chief storyteller at SandStories.org and one of the experts participating in the very first round-table focusing on sand, organized by UN Environment, GRID (Global Resources Information Database )-Geneva and the University of Geneva in mid-October.
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04/01/2019
AMMAN, 3 January 2019 (UNICEF)* – Children continue to pay the heaviest price due to the escalation in violence in northwest Syria. UNICEF received alarming reports of 80 people killed, including one child.
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Many families are fleeing their homes as conflict intensifies, with no place to go but to already overcrowded camps hosting displaced families.
Floods swept through the area on 26 December, affecting nearly 10,000 children in Atmeh, Qah, Deir Ballut, Albab, Jisr Ashughur among other areas.
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04/01/2019
3 January 2019 – Women and activists have been reflecting on the progress made across the world in 2018 in reducing discrimination and inequalities based on gender and what hopes they have for 2019.
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UN Women/Carlos Rivera | A group of young women graffiti artists painted orange murals in Guatemala City in support of UN Women and the UNiTE campaign to End Violence against Women, December 2018.
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The United Nations gender-focused agency, UN Women, has outlined some of the most urgent issues facing women including human rights, genital mutilation and using sex as a weapon of war.
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03/01/2019
2 January 2019 (Wall Street International)* —
Absolutely together, as infinitesimal particles, we hurled out of the stillness of Being in search of the paradise of self-consciousness. Bouncing on the boundaries of nothing we expanded space with our cosmic dance as we held hands most intimately in our quantumness. A hunting party we were, amongst numberless others, sent out by Being to explore and arrive at the knowledge of Oneness.
Rebounding with each other we coalesced into forms more settled and rearranged our possibilities in more elaborate filigrees of matter and energy, as we built more complex bodies to experience qualities of essence, like melting and flowing. We were endlessly connected by most intimate nuclear forces.
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03/01/2019
3 January 2019 (FAO)* — Abdul Jabbar, a farmer in Bangladesh, had an epiphany a few years ago. He and his fellow farmers travelled to Kenya, the Philippines and India to learn from other farmers. The trips were organized by FAO as part of a larger programme to assist smallholder farmers in Bangladesh, and what Abdul and his colleagues learned would go on to transform their lives and livelihoods.
- Abdul Jabbar and fellow farmers discuss vermi-composting businesses in Jatrapur, Bangladesh. Photo: ©FAO/Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
“Before, our condition was just like a frog living in a cave,” Abdul explains. “When we came back from these countries we realized that we had been in the darkness. We accumulated so much knowledge.”
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