Lagos, 19 June 2019 (UN Environment)* – An ambitious new project launched in Lagos today is aiming to reform the electronics sector and put an end to the toxic toll improper management of electronic waste is taking on Nigeria.
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21/06/2019
‘Before 2006, There Were Always Work Opportunities in Gaza. Nowadays, Whenever I Look for Work, I Am Refused. I Have Children to Feed and a Sick Mother to Care For’
21 June 2019 (UNRWA)* — “Before 2006, there were always work opportunities in Gaza. Nowadays, whenever I look for work, I am refused. I have children to feed and a sick mother to care for.” Hussein al-Najjar is a 40-year-old Palestine refugee from Gaza and was working as a construction labourer before Israel imposed the blockade on Gaza. He is solely responsible for his family of nine, which includes his wife, six children and his ailing mother who requires constant care.
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Hussein al-Najjar is a Palestine refugee from Gaza and a beneficiary of the UNRWA Cash for Work Programme supported by the Czech Republic.©2019 UNRWA Photo by Khalil Adwan
21/06/2019
‘Born A Refugee, I Dream of a Place Called Home’
Human Wrongs Watch
On World Refugee Day, personal reflections of a young Palestinian from the Gaza Strip
Mohammed Eid* is from Rafah Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip.
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– I am a refugee, born to a refugee family. I was granted that status on the day I came into this world. I was not aware of what had happened before then. I did not fight any battle, I did not threaten anyone. I did not even choose my own race or ethnicity. I just came to this world to find myself a displaced person.
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21/06/2019
Teachers Need More Training to Support Traumatized Refugee and Migrant Students UNESCO on World Refugee Day
Human Wrongs Watch
On World Refugee Day, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is calling for more support to fill the gaps in training for teachers on trauma and psychosocial assistance for migrant and refugee students.
21/06/2019
Persistent Threat of War Erodes Prospects for Middle East Peace, Senior UN Envoy Warns
Human Wrongs Watch
Developments in the Middle East cannot be divorced from Israel’s military occupation of Palestinian territory and settlement-building, or Hamas’ hold over Gaza and its militant activity, a senior United Nations envoy told the Security Council on Thursday [20 June 2019], warning that these actions “collectively erode the prospects of a two-State solution”.*
21/06/2019
From Tony Blair to Mette Frederiksen
Human Wrongs Watch
By Roberto Savio*
21 June 2019 (Other News)* — Social Democrats, who had been steadily disappearing following the crisis of 2008, have been making a small comeback in the last year. Now they are in power in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland and, most recently, in Denmark.
Roberto Savio
But the statistics are daunting. The recent European elections gave members of the Socialist group 20% of the vote, against 25% in 2014, and the erosion from the 34% achieved in 1989 and 1994 is clear.
The latest success, in Denmark, with 25.9% of the vote, was lower than in 2015. In Finland, they received 17.7% of the vote, just two-tenths more than the Alt-Right.
And in Sweden, Stefan Löfven won his mandate with the lowest vote in decades. In countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, they are becoming irrelevant.
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