29/03/2022
(UN News)* — The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General on Monday [28 March 2022 ] called on countries in Asia and the Pacific to speed up the shift from fossil fuels to new, low-carbon development models, in a just and inclusive way.
ESCAP/Suwat Chancharoensuk | UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed delivers special remarks to the opening of the ninth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD).
“Moving away from coal and fossil fuels in a region that accounts for 75 per cent of global coal-fired generation capacity will not be easy. But it is essential for our common future, and it is financially and technologically possible,” Amina Mohammed said.
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29/03/2022
28 March 2022 (UN News)* — The Horn of Africa is experiencing the worst drought since 1981, and a shortfall in aid funding is putting the lives of millions of Somalis in danger.
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UN Photo/Fardosa Hussein | A mother and her child pass by carcasses of goats and sheep in Luuq, Somalia on 21 March 2022.
Standing in front of his makeshift home in a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in southern Somalia’s Luuq district, Ahmad Hassan Yarrow looks out towards what remains of the Juba River and shakes his head forlornly.
“Of all the droughts I have experienced in my 70 years, I have not seen anything as severe as this,” he says as he contemplates the scenery before him.
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29/03/2022
(UN News)* — Many of Libya’s migrant detention centres remain places of terrible and systematic abuse, that may amount to crimes against humanity, top rights investigators said on Monday [28 March 2022].
© UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi | Migrants from Nigeria who were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard as their boat was capsizing, crouch in a courtyard at a detention centre, where they are being held, in Libya. (file)
On the sidelines of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, head of the Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, Mohamed Auajjar, told journalists that investigators had uncovered further evidence of serious rights violations, which they first made public last October.
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26/03/2022
The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions.
Russia says half its gold assets were frozen – is this for real or a slick play by Moscow? Photo Credit: The Cradle
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15 Mar 2022 – It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed.
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26/03/2022
(UN News)* — Around three per cent of Costa Rica’s population is now made up of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday [25 March 2022].
© UNHCR/Kai Odio | A UNHCR staff member assists Nicaraguan asylum seekers in Upala, near Costa Rica’s border with Nicaragua.
Doubling in number over the last eight months, the agency now estimates that there are more than 150,000 Nicaraguans who have crossed over the southern border, seeking refuge in Costa Rica.
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26/03/2022
(UN News)* — A deepening crackdown on civil society in Libya, has prompted the concern of the UN human rights office, which noted on Friday [25 March 2022] that arbitrary arrests and a campaign of social media vilification are having “a seriously chilling effect on human rights defenders, humanitarian workers, and other civil society actors.”
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© UNICEF/Juan Haro | A Sudanese man in Libya was abducted by armed elements and conscripted into forced labour.
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25/03/2022
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25 2022 (IPS)* – When North and South Yemen merged into a single country ushering in the Republic of Yemen back in May 1990, a British newspaper remarked with a tinge of sarcasm: “Two poor countries have now become one poor country.”
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25/03/2022
While millions have been hurt by surging gas prices, a new report from a government watchdog group shows 25 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel corporations in 2021 collectively pulled in $205 billion in profits. Now, fossil fuel giants are trying to “cash in on inflation and the crisis in Ukraine,” said one critic.
15 Mar 2022 – While millions of working people have been hurt by surging gas prices, a new analysis out today shows that 25 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel corporations collectively pulled in an “eye-popping” $205 billion in profits last year — and Big Oil is exploiting Russia’s war on Ukraine to charge even more at the pump in 2022 and advance its financial interests.
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25/03/2022
KONSO, Ethiopia, March 2022 (UNFPA)* – “I was discharged from the health facility after the stillbirth of my baby without any medication or treatment. I have been bleeding ever since,” said Asnaketch, sitting in her tent at Haylota IDP (internally displaced persons) site in Konso, a zone in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR).
Asnaketch, 25, had already lost her first baby after ethnic conflict broke out in their village, Gerchi, in Konso zone. “The whole village was burnt to the ground. When the clashes erupted, we had to move here,” says Asnaketch, in visible pain. “I lost my first son due to a complication when we were fleeing.”
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24/03/2022
MADRID, Mar 24 2022 (IPS)* – Following 20 long years (2011-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, which ended up in delivering the country to the Taliban in August 2021, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.
A mother and her children fled conflict in Lashkargah and now live in a displaced persons camp in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. Credit: UNICEF Afghanistan
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