21 July 2019 (Wall Street International)* – The rivalry between the great powers is best appreciated by examining them based on their respective power and in relation to how their political or moral actions are evaluated at the international level.
What is considered good, ethical or morally acceptable may be so for some, but not necessarily for others, and this is influenced by diverse factors, including cultural ones, in the way of conceiving societies as well as the international order.
On Monday [22 July 2019], the British parliament will debate whether the NHS [UK’s National Haelth System] should be included in US trade talks. Here’s how to decode the reassuring words we’ll no doubt hear from government.
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, pictured in 2017. | Flickr/The White House, public domain license.
18 July 2019 (openDemocracy)* — Boris Johnson promises if he becomes Prime Minister next week he’ll fly out at the earliest opportunity to seal a “trade deal” with the United States.
New York (IFRC)* – A new resource launched on 16 July 2019 in New York will help cities prepare for heatwaves – extreme weather events that are among the world’s deadliest types of natural hazard.
Red Cross urges public to check on neighbours as Europe braces for heatwave ” Photo fromIFRC.
Speaking at UN headquarters in New York, the President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Francesco Rocca, said: “Heatwaves are one of the deadliest natural hazards facing humanity, and the threat they pose will only become more serious and more widespread as the climate crisis continues…
A UNHCR survey finds that half of Venezuelans who have fled are particularly vulnerable due to their age, health issues, or the choices they had to make to survive. | Español
19 July 2019 (UNHCR)* — Recurring blackouts in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo took a terrible toll on the whole population. But they were particularly rough on Adrianna,* a 24-year-old woman with a cognitive impairment that stopped her intellectual development at around age six.
Without power, her mother Carolina* could no longer play Adrianna the music or TV shows she had long relied on to soothe her.
Severe drought has rendered more than a third of rural households in Zimbabwe – or around 3.5 million people – dangerously food insecure, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on 19 July 2019 revealed.
WFP/Deborah Nguyen | The World Food Programme (WFP) speeds up food distributions in the cyclone-ravished city of Beira, Mozambique.
Citing the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee’s recently concluded Rural Livelihood Assessment, WFP Spokesperson Herve Verhoosel, said that the situation was likely to last from now until September with a further deterioration into December that will widen the impact to more than 4.7 million people.
