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Lead exposure killed more than one million people in 2017, according to data cited by WHO, which is why the UN agency and partners are this week urging countries to take action to ban lead paint.
$4 Billion Humanitarian Appeal Nearly 50 Per Cent Unfunded Heading into Final Auarter of 2019
NEW YORK (UNICEF)* – Millions of children living in areas affected by conflict and disaster are at risk because of substantial shortages in funding for lifesaving humanitarian programmes, UNICEF said today [22 October 2019].
Photo from NRC.
“The crushing effect of drought has stripped rural communities of their crops, livestock and water sources, while armed conflict closes in on their homes. We are now likely to see 2.1 million Somali people suffering from hunger by December and into 2020,” said Victor Moses, Country Director for NRC.
The Management of Savagery by Max Blumenthal, 2019, Verso
Destination Afghanistan was known as the big easy back in the halcyon days of the late 1960s.
Hippies from throughout the affluent West hitchhiked to the capital, Kabul, where crash pads and hashish were cheap, and the locals were tolerant.
Life appeared to be mellow in the scenic shadow of the Hindu Kush Himalayans. That was then.
Now Afghanistan is engulfed in year 18 of the forever US war with no end in sight.
The Yugoslav civil war, 1991-2001: 150,000 dead in Europe
21 October 2019 (Wall Street International)*
A women crying before a coffin | Image from Wall Street International.
The future does not belong to globalists, but to patriots …. We are the most powerful power in the world, but I hope I will never have to use that power.
A new freely downloadable book
John Scales Avery
I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses himan emotions from an evolutionary perspective.
The book consists mainly of book chapters and articles that I have previously published, although some new material has been added.
It can be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link:
http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Passions-of-Mankind-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf
Today, our emotions seem to be driving us towards disaster. At first this seems to be a paradox. Our emotions have been produced by evolution, and Darwinian natural selection is supposed to produce traits that lead to survival, rather than to destruction.
IPS Correspondent Ed Holt speaks to PAULINE ADES-MEVEL, Head of European Union & Balkan desk at RSF*
Pauline Ades-Mevel, Head of European Union and Balkan desk at Reporters Without Borders, warns that press freedom in Europe is declining. Courtesy: Reporters Without Borders
Rising populism, anti-media rhetoric from politicians, cyber-harassment of journalists and physical attacks are among the reasons why press freedom in Europe is on the decline, according to the global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Syrian families fleeing air strikes and shelling in north-east Syria. Photo: Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP NTB Scanpix | Photo posted here from NRC.
18 October 2019 (UN Women)* –Olena Halkanova fled her home in the city of Pervomaisk after the start of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Now living on the contact line between government-controlled and non-government-controlled areas of Luhansk region, she has become a community mobilizer after UN Women-led training.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 