Archive for January, 2022

31/01/2022

Attacking Iran Is a Recipe for a Catastrophe

Human Wrongs Watch

NEW YORK, Jan 31 2022 (IPS)* – Regardless of a success or failure to reach a new agreement with Iran, Israel must not attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and must work closely with the US to develop a joint strategy to curb Iran’s ambition to acquire nuclear weapons and potentially end the conflict with Iran on a more permanent basis

Righting the Wrong

Israel’s repeated threats to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities irrespective of any outcome in the negotiations in Vienna between the P5+1 (France, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, the US, and Germany) and Iran is a recipe for disaster.

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29/01/2022

Northern Ethiopia: A Record 9 Million Now Need Food Assistance

(UN News)* — After 15 months of conflict in Ethiopia, almost 40 per cent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food, according to data released by the World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday [28 January 2022].

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© WFP/Claire Nevill | A displaced mother cooks for her family in Afar, Ethiopia.
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Meanwhile, across all three conflict-affected regions of the north, more than nine million people now need humanitarian food assistance, the highest number so far, since conflict erupted in November 2020, between Government and rebel forces.

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29/01/2022

Attacks on Democracy in the United States

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The Republican Party has become irresponsible

Capitol under siege
Capitol under siege | Image from Wall Street International.

27 January 2022 (Wall Street International)*vIn recent years, and especially since Donald Trump’s term as president, the Republican party has become irresponsible. Republican Senators and members of the House of Representatives no longer act to promote whatever is best for their country and the planet. Instead, they block whatever the Democratic Party tries to achieve.

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28/01/2022

70,000 Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania, face Another Forceful Eviction

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26 January 2022 (IWGIA)* — According to reliable information received by Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania is currently planning the eviction of the Maasai Indigenous people from a 1,500 km2  area in their ancestral land located in the Loliondo Division of Ngorongoro District, Arusha Region, east of the Serengeti National Park.

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28/01/2022

2022 Intentional: Human Completeness

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By Martha R. Bireda*

Now is the time for Americans to recognize the crucial need to treat and act more “human” to each other

Edward Hopper, Hotel By A Railroad, detail
Edward Hopper, Hotel By A Railroad, detail | Image from Wall Street International.

28 January 2022 (Wall Street International)* — Between the Covid-19 pandemic, racist actions, and the beginning of the racial reckoning, we thought we had confronted our worst societal issues in 2020. However, 2021 proved to be even more chaotic and scary.

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28/01/2022

A Special Adviser to Probe Racism and Discrimination at UN

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UN staff in New York. Credit: United Nations

“The diversity of our personnel is a source of profound richness. Yet I am fully aware and deeply concerned that colleagues have experienced the indignity, pain and consequences of workplace racism and racial discrimination. This is unacceptable,” says Guterres in a message to UN staffers January 25.

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28/01/2022

Nature Conservation Funding Must Triple Globally this Decade 

(UN News)* — G20 leading industrialized nations must embrace their role as influential leaders against climate change, by aligning development and economic recovery with international nature and climate goals, according to a new UN report, published on Thursday [27 January 2022].

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CIFOR/Axel Fassio | Woman plant peanuts in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In its joint report on finance for nature in the G20 countries, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Economic Forum (WEF)  and the Economics of Land Degradation Initiative, examined how wealthy nations can better support nature-based solutions (NbS).
28/01/2022

Food Insecurity Soaring across 20 Countries and Regions

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(UN News)* — Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions – “hunger hotspots”, where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at risk, UN agencies highlighted on Thursday [27 January 2022].

© UNOCHA/Michele Cattani | A young woman carries water in a camp for displaced people in Tillaberi region, Niger.
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According to the Hunger Hotspots Report from the World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen remain the countries of highest concern.
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According to the most recent assessments, all four countries had areas where people were experiencing, or projected to experience, starvation and death (IPC Phase 5), requiring the most urgent attention.
27/01/2022

Palestine/Israel: The Smearing of Emma Watson

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By Sut Jhally and Roger Waters | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service*

A Classic Blunder and Smear against an Outspoken Activist

Emma Watson – UOL

Anyone who has ever been critical of Israeli actions toward the Palestinian people knows what to expect next—an avalanche of pit-bull attacks and smears that their criticisms of Israel are motivated by racism and anti-Semitism.

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27/01/2022

Battle for Palestine: And the Day When David Felled Goliath with a Stone

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Credit: United Nations

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