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24/02/2019

Another Somber Milestone for Afghanistan: 2018 Saw Record-High Civilians Killed in Decade – UN Report

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With over 3,800 civilian women, children and men killed in just one year, Afghanistan has hit yet another “deeply disturbing and wholly unacceptable” record, according to a new report issued on Sunday [24 February 2019] by the UN political mission in the country (UNAMA) and the UN human rights office (OHCHR).*

Reuters/Omar Sobhani | A group of journalists and first responders are caught in a downtown Kabul suicide attack on 30 April 2018. | Photo from UN News.

Fighting and brutal violence claimed exactly 3,804 civilian lives in 2018 – including 927 children, another tragic record for the year – according to data carefully collected by the UN. The number represents an increase of 11 per cent compared to 2017.

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24/02/2019

Women and Human Rights – Front and Centre at the Oscar Ceremony this Year

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23 February 2019 — Gender equality, the marginalization of indigenous languages, migration, the refugee crisis, the lives of domestic workers, poverty… All these issues which are at the heart of the United Nations’ work, are also front and centre in some of the films celebrated this year at the Academy Awards.*

Cate Blanchett (right), a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, at "Capernaum" film screening with director Nadine Labaki (left), in London, UK.

© UNHCR/Tom Pilston | Cate Blanchett (right), a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, at “Capernaum” film screening with director Nadine Labaki (left), in London, UK.

Two women, Yalitza Aparicio and Nadine Labaki, could make history during the 91st Oscar ceremony taking place this Sunday [24 February 2019] in Los Angeles, in the United States.

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23/02/2019

Global Assault on NGOs Reaches Crisis Point as New Laws Curb Vital Human Rights Work

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By Amnesty International* — Governments across the world are increasingly attacking non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by creating laws that subject them and their staff to surveillance, nightmarish bureaucratic hurdles and the ever-present threat of imprisonment, Amnesty International said in a new report released on 21 February 2019.

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Amnesty International / Photo: Henning Schacht

Laws Designed to Silence: The Global Crackdown on Civil Society Organizations reveals the startling number of countries that are using bullying techniques and repressive regulations to prevent NGOs from doing their vital work.

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23/02/2019

US Plans to Deliver Arms to Venezuelan Opposition, Russia Warns

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‘The United States hidden actions against Venezuela could unleash an internal armed struggle.’

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova at a press conference in Moscow, Russia, Mar. 15, 2018.

22 February 2019 (teleSUR)* — The Russian government warned Friday that the United States and its allies from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of planning to deliver arms to the Venezuelan opposition.

“We have evidence that U.S. companies and their NATO allies are working on the issue of acquiring a large batch of weapons and ammunition in an Eastern European country for their subsequent transfer to Venezuelan opposition forces,” the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said.

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23/02/2019

Venezuelan Refugees Now number 3.4 Million; Humanitarian Implications Massive, UN Warns

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As the number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela continues to rise – hitting the 3.4 million mark this month – United Nations agencies sounded the alarm on Friday [22 February 2019] over the humanitarian needs these women, children and men face, and the strain this represents for communities hosting them.

Venezuelan refugees and migrants cross the Simon Bolivar Bridge into Colombia, one of seven legal entry points on the Colombia-Venezuela border.

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

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the UN migration agency (IOM) issued statements based on data from national immigration authorities and other sources, showing that, on average, in 2018, 5,000 people left Venezuela every day in search of protection or a better life.

The vast majority of them – 2.7 million – are hosted in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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23/02/2019

“Alarming” Food Insecurity Threatens Seven Million People in South Sudan

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“Alarming” food insecurity threatens nearly seven million people in South Sudan, according to a new report by three United Nations agencies appealing for greater assistance and better access to humanitarian relief.*

The lean season in South Sudan has left many families with little food and mothers are scrambling to survive, Aweil, South Sudan, January 2018.

FAO/Stefanie Glinski | The lean season in South Sudan has left many families with little food and mothers are scrambling to survive, Aweil, South Sudan, January 2018.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with the Government of South Sudan, released on Friday [22 February 2019] the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which indicated that acutely food insecure people there has shot up by 13 per cent since January last year.

“The projections are alarming and food security continues to worsen,” said Pierre Vauthier, FAO’s interim Representative in the country. “Together with the people of South Sudan, we need to act urgently to reverse this trend.”

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23/02/2019

Migrant Crisis in Europe? Look at Yemen

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BY HELEN LACKNER*

Just to be clear, this means that more desperate people crossed the Red Sea into Yemen in 2018 than crossed the Mediterranean heading for Europe.

Euronews screenshot.Dozens of Somali refugees killed in Saudi airstrikes off Yemen, 2017. Youtube.| Image from openDemocracy.

19 February 2019 (openDemocracy)* — While Brexit is giving UK residents a break from media focus on desperate people attempting to reach wealthy Europe by crossing the Mediterranean by sea, a few figures should help to put things in perspective, as the issue will surely soon re-emerge in the headlines.

Xenophobia remains a fundamental rallying cry of the right throughout Europe, including the UK, and is all too frequently manifested through Islamophobic populism.

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23/02/2019

Stopping Fish Bombing

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February 2019 (UN Environment)* — Sabah, Malaysia: George Woodman’s first experience of fish bombing in Sabah—a Malaysian state in the northern part of the island of Borneo—was in 1994 during an underwater survey of the area’s renowned coral reefs.

Photo by Scubazoo | Photo from UN Environment.

“It’s not so much something you hear, but something you feel,” said Woodman, a founding member of the Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization Stop Fish Bombing!.

“At a range of a few kilometres, a fish bomb going off feels like you’ve been kicked in the chest by a horse,” he said.

Over the course of the four-month survey carried out by divers, his team experienced this extremely destructive fishing practice a few times a week.

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22/02/2019

“I’m really proud of what she is doing”

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Challenging gender norms by providing equal opportunities for both men and women

Calista Maguramhinga is a lead farmer in FAO’s Livelihoods and Food Security Programme in Zimbabwe. She is teaching other farmers to benefit from conservation agriculture. ©FAO

21 February 2019 (FAO)* — When Calista Maguramhinga shows visitors a section of her half-hectare farm, she keeps a small notebook clutched in her hands with details of how she is growing her food.

On her farm, the maize plants are tall with green leaves and chunky cobs nearly ready to harvest. She points to one section: “Maize variety 633,” she says. “Plot prepared with tine ripper plow, planted 20 December with organic compost; fertilizer applied on 3 January and again on 20 January.”

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22/02/2019

The Biodiversity that Is Crucial for Our Food and Agriculture Is ‘Disappearing by the Day’, Putting the Future of Our Livelihoods, Health and Environment under ‘Severe Threat’

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FAO launches the first-ever global report on the state of biodiversity that underpins our food systems

Many associated biodiversity species, such as bees, are under severe threat.

ROME, 22 February 2019 (FAO)* – The first-ever report of its kind presents mounting and worrying evidence that the biodiversity that underpins our food systems is disappearing – putting the future of our food, livelihoods, health and environment under severe threat.

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Another Somber Milestone for Afghanistan: 2018 Saw Record-High Civilians Killed in Decade – UN Report

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Women and Human Rights – Front and Centre at the Oscar Ceremony this Year

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Global Assault on NGOs Reaches Crisis Point as New Laws Curb Vital Human Rights Work

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US Plans to Deliver Arms to Venezuelan Opposition, Russia Warns

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Venezuelan Refugees Now number 3.4 Million; Humanitarian Implications Massive, UN Warns

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“Alarming” Food Insecurity Threatens Seven Million People in South Sudan

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Migrant Crisis in Europe? Look at Yemen

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BY HELEN LACKNER*

Stopping Fish Bombing

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“I’m really proud of what she is doing”

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