Emergency measures are being stepped up by the UN and partners in northern Mozambique, amid fears that another devastating tropical storm could batter coastal areas on Thursday [25 April 2019] evening, weeks after Cyclone Idai claimed hundreds of lives and flooded vast swathes of the south of the country.
“We are expecting that heavy rain will provoke flash floods and landslides impacting the north-eastern provinces of Cabo Delgado and Nampula,” Word Food Programme (WFP) spokesperson Herve Verhoosel said.
USPANTÁN, Guatemala, Apr 23 2019 (IPS)* — In the stifling heat, Diego Matom takes the bread trays out of the oven and carefully places them on wooden shelves, happy that his business has prospered since his village in northwest Guatemala began to generate its own electricity. | En español
Diego Matom, a member of the Ixil indigenous community, poses happily with his family, surrounded by fresh loaves of bread which were baked thanks to community electricity generation, which has given his business a big boost, in the 31 de Mayo village in the mountainous ecoregion of Zona Reina, in northwestern Guatemala. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPS
And it managed to do so against all odds, facing down big business and the local authorities.
The ‘Free Land Camp’ is gathering thousands to protest against neoliberalism and racism.
Kayapo men dance to defend indigenous land and cultural rights in Brasilia, Brazil, April 24, 2019. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.
24 April 2019 (teleSUR)* — Indigenous peoples from all over Brazil occupied Wednesday the ‘Ministries Esplanade’ in the capital Brazilia, the square where most ministries are located, to stage the 15th edition of the Free Land Camp (ATL), a meeting called this year to fight President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies.
Located in the Great Lakes Region, Burundi is one of the world’s poorest nations, faced with a fragile humanitarian situation mainly due to recurrent natural disasters, chronic vulnerability and food insecurity.
COPENHAGEN, 25 April 2019 (International Work Group for indigenous Affairs – IGWIA)* – Rising tensions between states and indigenous peoples are reaching a tipping point, and with an ever-shrinking civic space worldwide, the topics of criminalisation of Indigenous Rights Defenders’ activities and their organisations; land rights issues; and access to justice are more important than ever.
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The Indigenous World 2019 adds to the documented records, highlighting the increase in attacks and killings of indigenous peoples while defending their lands and other natural resources.
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The 62 country reports and 13 reports on international processes in this edition underscore this global trend, and includes a special focus on Indigenous Rights Defenders at risk.
24 April 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Intimacy with the other, with contexts is what characterizes relationships regarding presence and the present.
Perceiving the other and what happens through mediating referrals does metamorphose situations.
In the succinct, total moment, to be with the other, with what happens, is to have no mediating referrals. Direct contact is communication that allows for intimacy and familiarity. This encounter is to stand before, to perceive (know), which leads to categorizations, that is, recognitions that are significant and determinant.
Toddlers should spend no more than 60 minutes passively watching a screen every day, while babies under 12 months should have none, to ensure that they grow up fit and well, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday [24 April 2019], as part of a campaign to tackle the global obesity crisis.
UNICEF | A 6 year-old and 4 year-old in front of a laptop, in the city of Podgorica, Montenegro, as part of the promotion of the “End Violence Online” campaign (2016)
In recommendations specifically ai\med at under-fives for the first time, the UN health agency said that some than 40 million children around the globe – around six per cent of the total – are overweight. Of that number, half are in Africa and Asia, it noted.
Despite repeated appeals by the United Nations human rights system, Saudi Arabia’s decision to go ahead with the beheading of 37 men, drew strong condemnation on Wednesday [24 April 2019] from UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.*
UN Photo/Laura Jarriel | United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet (file).
“I strongly condemn these shocking mass executions across six cities in Saudi Arabia yesterday in spite of grave concerns raised about these cases by numerous UN Special Rapporteurs, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and others,” she said in a statement.
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 25 April 2019 — Whenever, in ordinary circumstances, the subject of violence comes up, most people throw up their hands in horror and comment along the lines that it is ‘in our genes’, ‘nothing can be done about it’ or other words that reflect the powerlessness that most people feel around violence.
Robert J. Burrowes
It is true that violence is virtually ubiquitous, has a near-infinite variety of manifestations and, at its most grotesque (as nuclear war or run-away climate catastrophe), even threatens human extinction in the near-term.
Nevertheless, anyone who pays attention to the subject of violence in any detail soon discovers that plenty of people are interested in tackling this problem, even if it is ‘impossible’.
Moreover, of course, at least some people recognize that while we must tackle each manifestation of violence, understanding the cause of violence is imperative if we are to successfully tackle its many manifestations at their source.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 