19/03/2022
Doris Martínez gets ready to start cooking at her food kiosk in Valles del Tuy, an area of small dormitory towns near Caracas. CREDIT: Humberto Márquez/IPS
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19/03/2022
18 March 2022 (UNHCR)* – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with 102 humanitarian and development partners is appealing for US$1.2 billion to deliver much-needed humanitarian assistance and protection to 2.3 million South Sudanese refugees and local communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda. | Español | Français | عربي
Samuel (right), 9, a refugee from South Sudan, shares a textbook with Congolese refugee David, 11, at a school club in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp. © UNHCR/Pauline Omagwa
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19/03/2022
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Across Yemen, 2.2 million children are acutely malnourished, including nearly more than half a million children facing severe acute malnutrition, a life-threatening condition, according to new IPC report. Credit: United Nations.
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18/03/2022
Tripoli, 17 March 2022 (IOM)* – At least 70 migrants are missing at sea and presumed dead off the Libyan shore in the past two weeks, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
On 12 March, a boat reportedly carrying 25 migrants capsized near the Libyan coast of Tobruk. Authorities rescued six migrants and recovered seven bodies while 12 remain missing.
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18/03/2022
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 2022 (IPS)* – The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF), which is expected to provide retirement, death, disability and related benefits for staff, upon cessation of their services– has a staggering portfolio amounting to over $81.5 billion ranking far, far ahead of the UN’s annual budget of $3.1 billion and its average peacekeeping budget of over $6.4 billion.
The thousands of UN retirees and their beneficiaries, numbering over 71,000 at last count, who depend on their pensions for economic survival, are relentlessly protective of the Fund—while protesting all attempts at risky investments.
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16/03/2022
MELBOURNE, Australia, Mar 16 2022 (IPS)* – The recently published “No 1 central policy document” (“No 1 document”), China’s national blueprint for rural policy, further demonstrates Beijing’s commitment to safeguarding food security and advancing rural revitalisation.
Genevieve Donnellon-May
The document’s release comes against an increasingly complicated geopolitical environment which, along with factors, such as disruptions to the global food chain supplies and worsening climate change impacts, have forced Beijing to rethink how its national goals can be achieved.
For the past few decades, safeguarding food security has been a critical goal for the Chinese central government.
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16/03/2022
(UN News)* — Almost one child per second in Ukraine is becoming a refugee of the war, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday [15 March 2022], as the total number of people who have now fled the country since the Russian invasion began, passed three million.
© WFP/Marco Frattini | Thousands of Ukrainians seek safety in neighbouring Poland.
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We have now reached three million mark in terms of movements of people out of Ukraine to neighbouring countries. And among these people there are some 157,000 third-country nationals,” said Paul Dillon, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (
IOM), speaking in Geneva.
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16/03/2022
(UN News)* — Security forces in Myanmar have killed at least 1,600 people and detained more than 12,500, since the military coup last year, the UN rights office said on Tuesday [15 March 2022].
Unsplash/Pyae Sone Htun | Protesters attend a march against the military coup in Myanmar.
In a new report warning that serious rights abuses uncovered in Myanmar may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, appealed to the international community to take “concerted, immediate measures to stem the spiral of violence” there.
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16/03/2022
MADRID, Mar 15 2022 (IPS)* – More than 60 percent of the world’s adult labour force –or about 2 billion workers– work in the informal economy. “They are not recognised, registered, regulated or protected under labour legislation and social protection. The consequences can be severe, for individuals, families as well as economies.”
Women sell fruit and vegetables on a sidewalk in the Philippines. Credit: ILO/Minette Rimando
The International Labour Organization (ILO) on 18 February 2022 on this issue reported that despite major efforts over the years, there are few signs of the informal economy shrinking in size.
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