17/05/2020
Vienna (Austria) (UNODC)* – COVID-19 travel and movement restrictions are not stopping the movement of people fleeing conflict, human rights abuses, violence and dangerous living conditions, while the economic consequences of the pandemic are likely to lead to an increase in smuggling of migrants and trafficking in person flows from the most affected countries to more affluent destinations, according to a report launched by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on 14 May 2020.
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17/05/2020
The Asia Pacific region has one of the highest number of people in modern slavery, but the growing awareness of modern slavery in the region has led to the implementation of legislations to combat it. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that about 152 million children, aged between 5 and 17, were subject to child labour in 2016, out of which 62 million were in Asia and the Pacific. This is the first of a 2-part series on trafficking and modern slavery in the region.
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16/05/2020
Dalit & pastoral women of Deccan Development Society carrying sacred seeds at mobile fest, Feb 2020 © Ashish Kothari
We don’t have any food shortages in our villages, despite the lockdown.
(Dalit women farmers, Telangana)
We saved up enough in our village fund over the last few years, by sustainable harvest of forest produce, to provide for people who have lost their jobs in cities and returned home during the corona crisis.
(Kukdel Village, Maharashtra)
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16/05/2020
Fatima is now the sole breadwinner for three children. With assistance from FAO and its partners, she has returned to beekeeping to earn a living. FAO has reached 500 people in various Syrian governorates, helping to restart livelihoods and return self-reliance. ©FAO/Salma Hakki
15 May 2020 (FAO)* — The improvement of the security situation in Daraa Governorate in southwest Syria has allowed thousands of displaced families to return to their homes. However, it has not been an easy return for the families who lost their income, resources or their breadwinners.
Many returnees are women and people with disabilities, groups vulnerable to poverty or food insecurity.
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16/05/2020
15 May 2020 (UN News)* — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched an urgent $7 million appeal on Thursday [14 May 2020], to ease the impact of COVID-19 on migrant communities in five Central Asian countries and the Russian Federation, where the pandemic is pushing a growing number of migrant workers into poverty.
OCHA/Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia | Children play at the multi-ethnic Krupskaya School in the town of Nookat, Osh oblast, Kyrgyzstan. (November 2010)
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The appeal aims to help thousands who are stranded in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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16/05/2020
(UN News)* — Chronic violence, insecurity and now COVID-related restrictions have put tens of thousands of Central Americans at risk of increased hardship and even death, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday [15 May 2020].
©UNICEF/Tanya Bindra | Seventeen-year-old mother leaves Honduras with her one-year old son, hoping to get a visa for the United States. (File)
By the end of last year, violence in the region forced some 720,000 people to flee their homes, almost half of whom currently remain displaced within their own country, according the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (
UNHCR).
And with COVID-related lockdowns in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, community leaders and some internally displaced people (IDPs) are reporting that organized criminal groups have been exploiting the confinement, to strengthen their control over local communities.
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16/05/2020
(UN News)* — After confirmation that the first cases of COVID-19 infection have been identified in a vast and overcrowded refugee camp in Bangladesh, UN humanitarians on Friday [15 May 2020] announced additional measures and appealed for funds to prevent the disease from spreading.
© UNHCR | Rohingya refugees use a handwashing station, installed to help combat the spread of COVID-19 at a settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
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15/05/2020
13 May 2020 (Wall Street International)* — One of the most beautiful examples of the brilliance of God’s creations can be found in nature. More specifically, the food we consume, which comes from nature, is, in many ways, God’s blessings to humanity.
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15/05/2020
By Tarik Argaz in Tripoli, Libya*
A Sudanese teenager survived brushes with death in a quest for asylum, but rising insecurity and COVID-19 restrictions drove him to risk all on the open seas.
UNHCR staff distribute bottled water to refugees and migrants whose vessel was intercepted attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea and returned to Libya on April 9. © UNHCR/Noor Elshin
15 May 2020 (UNHCR)* — Since before he can remember, 18-year-old Siddik’s* life has been shaped by violence, hardship and displacement. He was just a baby when fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region forced his family from their home, and only seven when he lost his mother to the conflict.
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15/05/2020
The wisdom of our mothers and mothers’ mothers from the dawn of time is reverberating throughout the cosmos, “What part of share the resources of the earth don’t you understand? Why aren’t you challenging the sanctity of private property rights at the top and making sure nobody is too rich or too poor?”
Marilyn Langlois
Our mothers carried us in the womb and brought us into this world, introducing us to the magical healing power of tender human touch.
They immersed us in unconditional love, empowering us to face the many challenges of life.
They taught us to communicate with words and actions, to resolve conflicts without inflicting pain on others. Our mothers taught us to share with our brothers and sisters.
Well, maybe not all mothers were able to do all of that, but they did their best. We forgive them and still love them.
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