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The 15 members of the United Nations Security Council adopted on Tuesday [11 June 2019] the very first ever resolution focused on the issue of missing persons in armed conflict. The aim is to encourage countries to fulfil their obligations, take action to step up prevention, and tackle the issue earlier, so that ultimately families separated by conflict can be reunited, or at least given answers as to the fate of their loved ones.
11 June 2019 (UN)* — Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams. Yet today, 152 million children are still in child labour. Although child labour occurs in almost every sector, seven out of every ten is in agriculture.
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Mohammed, 14, a Syrian refugee from Kobani, works underneath a car at a repair shop in Erbil, Iraq in March 2016. An ILO study shows, there is a strong correlation between child labour and situations of conflict and disaster. UNICEF/UN020145/Yar
10 June 2019 (UN Environment)* — The era of carbon offsets is drawing to a close. Buying carbon credits in exchange for a clean conscience while you carry on flying, buying diesel cars and powering your home with fossil fuels is no longer acceptable or widely accepted.
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Photo by Wikipedia (from UN Environment).
Carbon credits are increasingly coming under fire for essentially allowing some to continue on their polluting ways while the rest of us are left scrambling to contain the climate crisis.
Executive Summary
This paper looks at some of the most important impacts of the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US government since August of 2017.
It finds that most of the impact of these sanctions has not been on the government but on the civilian population.
The sanctions reduced the public’s caloric intake, increased disease and mortality (for both adults and infants), and displaced millions of Venezuelans who fled the country as a result of the worsening economic depression and hyperinflation.
Nearly 100 people were reportedly killed during an attack on a traditional Dogon hunters’ village in Mali on Sunday [0 June 2019], prompting a call from UN chief António Guterres for authorities to act fast and “bring the perpetrators to justice”.
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The Centenary International Labour Conference got underway on Monday [10 June 2019] at the UN in Geneva, with ILO chief Guy Ryder, calling on hundreds of delegates from around the world to help “construct a future of work, with social justice for all”.
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