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26/02/2019

‘End Rising Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War’ – Joint UN-Red Cross Appeal for More Funding and International Action

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Sexual violence in conflict – and the stigma that survivors often face – must be addressed urgently, UN chief António Guterres said on Monday [25 February 2019], in a joint appeal for more funding and international action, together with the head of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer.

Aubrey Graham/IRIN | Women sit together outside a dormitory at the Heal Africa Transit Center for victims of sexual violence.

Describing how he was “frequently horrified” by the first-hand accounts of survivors in his previous role as head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, Mr. Guterres said that only last year, Rohingya refugees who had fled into Bangladesh spoke of the mass gang-rape of women and girls in their homes, before they fled northern Myanamar.

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25/02/2019

Modern Day Slavery Rated World’s Largest Single Crime Industry

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By Thalif Deen*

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 2019 (IPS)* – After an exhaustive study of modern day slavery, the Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded there are over 40 million people who are victims of slavery, including 25 million in forced labour and 15 million in forced marriages – with at least 71 percent of them comprising women and girls.

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Modern Day Slavery. Credit: UN images

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25/02/2019

Hate-Fest in Warsaw

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By Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Warsaw, Poland is not a fun place to visit in darkest February, but that is where the US just staged an anti-Iranian jamboree of 60 client states that brought derision and scorn from Europeans and much of the Mideast.

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Eric S. Margolis

The point of this cynical exercise was to lay the diplomatic groundwork for an anti-Iranian coalition to act as a fig-leaf for an upcoming attack on Iran planned by President Donald Trump and his close ally, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

The real question is who is calling the shots in bleak Warsaw, Trump or Bibi Netanyahu? It seems to many that the Israeli tail is again wagging the American dog.

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25/02/2019

Yemen – In World’s Worst Humanitarian Emergency, Situation Remains “Horrific” for Millions of People. UN Prepares for a $4.2 Billion Appeal to Scale Up Help

24 February 2019 – Preparations are being finalized at the UN for a $4.2 billion appeal to scale up help to millions of people in Yemen, where years of war have created the world’s worst humanitarian emergency.
WFP/Reem Nada | When fighting broke out in 2015, Yemen was already considered one of the world’s poorest countries.

But the situation remains “horrific” for people everywhere in the war-torn country, according to Jens Laerke, spokesperson from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):

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25/02/2019

Tensions Escalate in Venezuela, Civilians Killed and Injured – Top UN Officials Appeal for Calm

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As tensions escalated on Saturday [24 February 2019] at various points along Venezuela’s borders with Colombia and Brazil, as well as within the country itself, resulting in the death and injury of various civilians, the United Nations chief, António Guterres, and the head of the UN human rights office (OHCHR), Michelle Bachelet, expressed their shock and appealed for calm.

 

© UNHCR/Siegfried Modola | Colombia. Venezuelan refugees and migrants cross the Simon Bolivar Bridge, one of 7 legal entry points on the Colombia-Venezuela border.

 

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24/02/2019

A Journey across Russia’s Desolate Oil Region

Aerial view of Kushor © Igor Podgorny / Greenpeace

Aerial view of some the destruction caused by the heavy seismic vehicles in the forest © Igor Podgorny / Greenpeace

Seismic testing is a geophysical study of the earth’s crust to look for valuable minerals and oil. The tests are being conducted carelessly and hastily.

In 2017, villagers from Ust-Usa and Novikbozh demanded an end to oil exploration works in the lower lands of the Pechora River.

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24/02/2019

PODCAST: Why Biodiversity’s Loss Is Your Loss

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Listen to the latest FAO podcast that focuses on biodiversity and what its loss will mean for humankind.*

Bees, soils, trees – even the tiny organisms we can’t even see – all play a vital role in producing the world’s food. Yet, this biodiversity that supports our food and agriculture is in serious decline. So what does that mean for our future food? Dan Leskien from the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture explains.*

Interview: Charlotta Lomas, FAO.

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24/02/2019

Origin, Beginning and Causality

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By Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos*

24 February 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Wassily Kandinsky used to say that everything starts from a dot. He simplified, or forgot, that a dot is an intersection of lines.

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Wassily Kandinsky’s dots | Image from Wall Street International.

Kandinsky’s statement emphasizes ideas of beginning, of origin, of causality. When one thinks of beginning, of start, one looks for origins, for causes of the existing.

Discovering the beginning is the great question of science, it embraces every idea of creator and creature, referring to an absolute, an explanatory cause of everything.

Where does the self begin? When does the world begin? What is the cause of great passions and unfulfilled, interrupted encounters? What is the abysmal instant that collapses perspectives, the point responsible for change, for the contingent continuity that creates intersection?

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24/02/2019

Surviving Ebola: “I was so afraid to die and be put in a body bag”

Jémima Masika was infected with Ebola and survived. © UNFPA DRC/Brigitte Kiaku
Jémima Masika was infected with Ebola and survived. © UNFPA DRC/Brigitte Kiaku

“I did not believe in the existence of Ebola,” she said. “Like many, I took the disease for a [story] made up by politicians.”

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to Ebola. This is the country’s tenth Ebola outbreak – but it is the first time the densely populated province of North Kivu, an active conflict zone, has been affected.

Ms. Masika contracted the disease while taking care of her sick aunt.

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24/02/2019

“Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change,” UN Women Urges World Leaders on International Women’s Day

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The United Nations’ gender equality entity puts spotlight on public services, income security, safe spaces and technology to advance progress for women and girls.

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International Women's Day 2019: Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change

 

New York (UN Women)* –  In celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March, UN Women is celebrating its 2019 theme of “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”, along with hosting hundreds of festivities around the world through the organization’s global network.

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