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11/05/2021

‘Free Up Bottlenecks Stifling Africa’s Agri-Food Sector’

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(UN News)* — The UN agriculture chief on 10 May 2021 warned that severe underfunding of Africa’s agri-food sector has boosted food insecurity and was hampering the future development of countries across the continent. 

© FAO/Alessandra Benedetti | A farmer works in a rice field in Bagré, Burkina Faso.
 
“Let’s unblock the bottlenecks that are holding back potential by increasing coordination and upskilling human capacity in African nations”, urged QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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10/05/2021

Middle East/North Africa: End Violent Punishment of Children

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By Human Rights Watch*

Human Rights Watch Introduces Country Index Based on Laws, Policies

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© 2020 Dadu Shin for Human Rights Watch

Beirut  – Governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) should outlaw the violent discipline of children, Human Rights Watch said today [10 May 2021], introducing an index categorizing countries in the region based on their laws and policies.

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10/05/2021

This Secretive Industry Is Putting Sea Creatures at Risk

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By Louisa Casson*

(Greenpeace International)* — Climate breakdown. Plastic pollution. Overfishing. The oceans are facing more threats than ever – and yet, there’s a new baddie in town. A secretive industry is ramping up that would put even more pressure on our oceans: deep sea mining.

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Image from Greenpeace International.

The deep sea mining industry is planning to send monster machines to plunder the seabed and extract polymetallic nodules – potato-sized lumps of rocks loaded with metals and minerals. Deep sea mining isn’t happening yet, but the kinds of metals this industry is targeting are used in phones, laptops and batteries.

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10/05/2021

Sakina’s Story: From Teenage Widow to Confident Working Mother

10 May 2021 (IOM)* — Gender inequality is magnified in situations of conflict. Women are disproportionately disadvantaged in terms of personal safety, access to employment, resources and basic services in fragile, conflict-ridden environments. They are most affected by poverty and the value of the support they provide at home is mostly rendered invisible.

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Photo: IOM Afghanistan

In a society like Afghanistan, traditional norms often make it difficult for women to access employment, get a loan or start a business. Yet, when women are given an opportunity, they make significant contributions to the growth and development of their families and their communities at large.

Sakina was born in a small village in Helmand in 1995. She was 5 years old when her family fled Afghanistan in 2000 and migrated to Pakistan.

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10/05/2021

From the Non-Aligned Movement to Active Non-Alignment

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By Roberto Savio*

8 May 2021 (Wall Street International)* — This paper is not going to be academic or conceptual, but a long article. I thought that my best contribution would be to give a testimony I have lived through of the triple process of decolonisation, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Group of 77, in which I actively participated.
Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., was the location of the conference in 1944
Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., was the location of the conference in 1944 | Image from Wall Street International.

I believe that I am one of the few survivors left from the Bandung Conference (1955) and that communicating my experience of the process of the creation and development of the Third World, its vision and values, may be the most useful thing I can do.

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09/05/2021

Many Stateless in UK Face a Tortuous Road to Recognition

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By Matthew Saltmarsh*

UNHCR study shines light on a hidden national issue that, despite recent progress, still affects millions of people around the world.  |  Español   |  Français   |  عربيUnited Kingdom. StatelessnessA recognised stateless person in the UK sits on a park bench in east London.  © UNHCR/Katie Barlow

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LONDON, UK (UNHCR)* – For more than seven decades, Benjamin has lacked something that most people take for granted: a nationality.

Born in Namibia, then part of South Africa, he did not acquire nationality at birth because at the time neither of his parents had citizenship or permanent residency in the country.

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09/05/2021

‘I Am Alive, But I Feel Like I Am Dead’: A Migrant Grieves the Drowning of 3 Children

© IOM/Olivia Headon. Migrants who survived the capsizing of a smugglers boat in the Gulf of Aden were brought ashore in Obock in Djibouti.
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“I have lost everything,” says Misrah, as she struggles to recount the most traumatic of events, witnessing the deaths of her three children.
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The 27-year-old Ethiopian woman, her husband and children – Aziza, five; Rachar, three; and Ikram, two – and at least 55 other migrants and refugees were aboard a boat controlled by smugglers crossing the Gulf of Aden from Yemen to the Horn of Africa via Djibouti, on 12 April.

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08/05/2021

Birdsong, a Balm for Pandemic Anxieties, Is under Threat

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7 May 2021 (UNEP)* — Since the start of the pandemic a growing number of people have turned to nature – including visible and audible nature in urban settings in the form of birds and birdsong – to soothe the angst brought about by COVID-19.

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Photo: Sergey Dereliev / 07 May 2021

And bird watching seems to be becoming more popular. Starting in April 2020, eBird began to see a notable increase in contributions of bird observations. April 2020 eBird checklist submissions increased by 41 per cent compared to April 2019.

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08/05/2021

New Stage of Remote Warfare Further Diminishes Military Accountability

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By Paul Rogers*

Thousands of boots on the ground have been replaced by multiple deployments of smart bombs that stay under the radar of public debate

Fewer boots are on the ground compared with Iraq in 2007 | Mike Pryor, US Army (Copyright-free)

8 May 2021 (openDemocracy)* — In the black and white TV schedule of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Western drama series reigned supreme. One of the most popular was ‘Have Gun, Will Travel’, starring Richard Boone as a mercenary in the late 1800s.

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08/05/2021

International Food Prices Continued to Rise in April for the 11th Consecutive Month

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ROME (FAO)* – International food commodity prices rose for the 11th consecutive month in April, with sugar leading the increase and cereals resuming their upward trend, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 6 May 2021 reported.

Photo: ©FAO

Loading sugarcane in Nigeria.

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 120.9 points in April, 1.7 percent higher than March and 30.8 percent higher than its level in the same month last year.

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