17/07/2021
NEW DELHI, Jul 16 2021 (IPS)* – Ongoing online sexual harassment of Muslim women through ‘Sulli Deals’, an auctioning app hosted by GitHub, has been reported to the authorities – but not before it called untold trauma to the targeted women.
Sania Ahmed found her photograph uploaded on ‘Suli Deal’ auctioning app. Credit: Handout
Cyber Cell registered the case in Delhi, India, despite GitHub having shut the open-source app Sulli Deals down.
Sulli is a derogatory term that often used by abusive right-wing trolls for Muslim women in India.
Previously similar profiles and handles were found on Twitter and YouTube.
These platforms were used to harass Muslim women using a similar ‘Sulli Deals’ modus operandi to auction pictures of the women.
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17/07/2021
By Blaise Sanyila in Kitchanga and Sanne Biesmans in Beni, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
As more families flee the DRC’s Beni Territory, shelter needs are mounting – over 100,000 families who have found safety in North Kivu urgently need a place to stay.
Elodie, a displaced Congolese woman, cooks outside her durable shelter in Beni, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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16 July 2021 | (UNHCR)* — Elodie Kavugho, 41, and her eight children lived in a leaking tent for months before they had a secure roof over their heads again.
The single mother fled with her children in March 2020 after her village was attacked by one of the most dangerous armed groups in Beni Territory, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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17/07/2021
(UN News)* — There is a “bloody surge” impacting humanitarian crises around the world, with civilians in conflict zones paying the highest price, the UN deputy chief told the Security Council on Friday 16 July 2021.
UN Photo/Marco Dormino | Security and humanitarian challenges plague Mali, considered the UN’s most dangerous peacekeeping mission.
Briefing on behalf of the UN chief, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, painted a grim picture of civilian executions, arbitrary arrests, detentions, forced displacement and sexual violence against children, on a massive scale, in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
She also spoke of “brutal attacks” in Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, where 20 million people are living “face-to-face” with hunger.
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16/07/2021
Nairobi, 16 July 2021 (UNEP)* — The Western Indian Ocean region has declared 143* marine and coastal areas as protected – an area covering 553,163 square kilometers, representing 7 percent of the total Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for the region – according to a new publication by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)-Nairobi Convention and the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association.
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16/07/2021
(UN News)* — COVID-19 deaths in Africa have risen sharply in recent weeks, amid the fastest surge in cases the continent has seen so far in the pandemic, the regional office for the World Health Organization (WHO) on 15 July 2021 said.
IMF/James Oatway | A volunteer carer called Trinity is working in a COVID-19 field hospital in Nasrec, Johannesburg.
Fatalities are rising as hospital admissions increase rapidly as countries face shortages in oxygen and intensive care beds.
COVID-19 deaths rose by more than 40 per cent last week, reaching 6,273, or nearly 1,900 more than the previous week. The number is just shy of the 6,294 peak, recorded in January.
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16/07/2021
Students of Fajar University in Makassar, South Sulawesi, are learning how the television transmitter system works. CC BYNC-SA 3.0 IGO © UNESCO-UNEVOC/Bahauddin Raja Baso
Young people were already facing disproportionate levels of unemployment and under-employment before the pandemic. More than one out of five youth were not in employment, education, or training, the majority of them young women.
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16/07/2021
World Youth Skills Day, 15 July 2021
15 July 2021 (ILO)* — On World Youth Skills Day 2021, ILO Senior Youth Employment Specialist, Susana Puerto, speaks about the impact of COVID-19 on young people’s education and job prospects and the skills that are in demand by employers and a changing world of work.
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16/07/2021
World Youth Skills Day, 15 July 2021
NEW YORK, 14 July 2021 (UNICEF)* – Nearly 40 per cent of migrant and displaced youth identified education and skills training as their top priorities, while 30 per cent named employment opportunities, according to a new UNICEF poll announced on the eve of World Youth Skills Day.
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These findings were revealed through a U-Report poll of more than 26,000 people, including almost 9,000 young people (aged 14-24), across 119 countries.
The poll, conducted between 6 May and 1 June 2021, asked respondents about their aspirations to learn and earn, and the unique barriers they face – as a girl or as a refugee, trying to access the labour market with or without legal status.
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