28/05/2020
27 May 2020 (Wall Street International)* — In the ancient days of the golden age of computer nerds, hacking was as much an art as it was a science. It required a special set of skills, capabilities and abilities. Today EVERYBODY can do it, without a doubt: attack services are purchased and sold in Clearnet and Darknet, there are many YouTube tutorials for executing whatever kind of payload or technique, and automated tools are doing a lot of the stuff. This is truly a sad phenomenon that is closing the gap between “skilled digital jedis” and amateurs, while fueling an exponential increase in asymmetric threats.
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28/05/2020
(UN News)* — Innocent civilians trapped in violence now face “a new and deadly threat” from COVID-19, the UN chief told the Security Council on Wednesday [27 May 2020], warning that the pandemic is “amplifying and exploiting the fragilities of our world”.
UN Photo/Hervé Serefio | The protection of civilians is a key mandate for many United Nations peacekeeping operations including in the Central African Republic.
Citing conflict as one of the greatest causes of that fragility, Secretary-General António Guterres told a high-level videoconference on the protection of civilians in armed conflict that the coronavirus is causing “enormous human suffering” and additional stress to vulnerable health systems, economies and communities already been weakened by years of armed conflict.
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28/05/2020
KYIV, Ukraine, 21 May 2020 (UNFPA)* – Oleksandra’s* ex-husband was waging a quiet war against her, she says, one that escalated under quarantine.
Amid a surge in calls for help, counsellors and police are pivoting to new modes of communication. Image courtesy of Ternovyy Viktor
She lives in the same apartment as her ex-husband and their two children. Sharing that space has always been fraught; she faced constant harassment, humiliation and physical abuse, she said.
But after the lockdown, she felt like she had no escape, and she was afraid to seek help, knowing he might eavesdrop on her phone calls.
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28/05/2020
By Mirjana Milenkovski in Belgrade | UNHCR*
A new project run by a refugee from Iran now in Serbia lets people learn refugee languages by video chat during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Español | Français | عربي
Afsaneh, a refugee from Iran, holds online Farsi classes for students in Serbia where she now lives.© UNHCR/A.Bergazar
Language learning has played a big role in Afsaneh’s life. As an Iranian, she grew up speaking Farsi. As an adult, she became an English teacher, and on arrival in Belgrade as a refugee in 2018 she started learning Serbian.
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28/05/2020
(UN News)* — Despite efforts to stop the harmful promotion of breast-milk substitutes, countries are still falling short in protecting parents from misleading information, according to a new UN report released Wednesday
[27 May 2020].
© UNICEF/Zahara Abdul | Lucy Atokoru, 28 breastfeeds her baby at her home in Omugo, Arua District.
Titled
Marketing of Breast‐milk Substitutes: National Implementation of the International Code – Status report 2020, the study highlights the need for stronger legislation to protect families from false claims about the safety of breast-milk substitutes or aggressive marketing practices, findings that take on increased importance during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
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27/05/2020
The ILO’s latest analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 exposes the devastating and disproportionate effect on young workers, and analyses measures being taken to create a safe return to work environment.
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27/05/2020
26 May 2020 (UN Environment)* — Remote mountainous regions of Nepal are harsh places in which to survive and make a living.
Photo by D. Gauchan, Bioversity International, 2017
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Economic, social and environmental challenges include lack of market access, outmigration, dependency on imports and subsidies, women’s drudgery, malnutrition, unpredictable weather, pests and diseases.
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27/05/2020
(UN News)* — Humanitarian aid projects to war-torn Yemen are reaching breaking point, and some $870 million is needed to continue giving life-saving assistance to millions of vulnerable people for the next six months, the World Food Programme (WFP), warned on Tuesday [26 May 2020].
© UNICEF | A family from Amran Governorate in Yemen shares lunch (file)
The appeal for a fresh cash injection comes after more than five years of fighting in the Arabian peninsula country, between the Government of Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now based in the south, and the mainly Houthi-led opposition, which occupies the capital, Sana’a, in the north.
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27/05/2020
UNITED NATIONS, May 26 2020 (IPS)* — A future repetition of the current COVID-19 pandemic is preventable with massive cooperation on international and local levels and by ensuring biological diversity preservation around the world, experts recently said.
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