31/07/2019
“The easy movement of high ranking military officers into jobs with major defense contractors and the reverse movement of top executives in major defense contractors into high Pentagon jobs is solid evidence of the military industrial-complex in operation.”
I was utterly stunned when I read these words of former Wisconsin senator William Proxmire, quoted in an essay by William Hartung, not because of the point he was making — like, what else is new? — but because he said them in . . . 1969.
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Oh my God, 50 years ago!
This is basically the span of my adulthood. I was so young and revved up in 1969 — a hippie and idealist, a true believer in social change.
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31/07/2019
Out-of-Control Military Spending Since Eisenhower’s Presidency May be the Primary Reason Why the US National Debt is $23,000,000,000,000 (23 trillion) and Counting.
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Illustration by Ben Jennings
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31/07/2019
With an unprecedented number of children affected by the Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday [30 July 2019] said it would need to triple its budget to tackle the complex crisis, which included intensifying the overall public health response and launching measles vaccinations.
UNICEF/Hubbard | On 6 December 2018, at a UNICEF supported crèche in Beni, in the eastern DRC, Kavira Langa Jemima, an Ebola survivor, bathes 6 month old Josue, who’s mother is undergoing treatment for Ebola.
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30/07/2019
A new UN report has found that 2018 was the worst year on record for children caught up in armed conflict; the year saw the highest numbers killed or maimed since the United Nations began monitoring the violation.
UNMISS/Isaac Billy | Former child soldiers are released in Yambio in South Sudan in February 2018.
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30/07/2019
This story was originally published on Medium.com/@UN_Women
Luiza Karimova. Photo: UN Women Europe and Central Asia/Rena Effendi Luiza Karimova. Photo: UN Women/Rena Effendi.
29 July 2019 (UN Women)* — Across the world, millions of women and girls live in the long shadows of human trafficking. Whether ensnared by force, coercion, or deception, they live in limbo, in fear, in pain.
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29/07/2019
“I felt shaky and uneasy all day, preparing for this talk.”
— Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian from the territory of Gaza
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Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the United States, grew up in Gaza. In Chicago last week, addressing activists committed to breaking the siege of Gaza, he held up a stack of 31 papers. On each page were names of 1,254 Palestinians living in Gaza who had been killed in just one month of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” attacks five years ago.
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29/07/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 2019 (IPS)* – Human trafficking for sexual exploitation has been steadily increasing in Canada. The most recent statistics indicate that 2016 had the highest recorded rate of human trafficking, with one police-reported incident for every 100,000 people in Canada. Despite these staggering numbers, reported cases make up just a small part of a larger, secretive industry where most incidents of sex trafficking fall under the radar.
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29/07/2019
By António Guterres, UN Secretary-General*
30 July 2019 (United Nations)* — Human trafficking is a heinous crime that affects every region of the world. Some 72 per cent of detected victims are women and girls, and the percentage of child victims has more than doubled from 2004 to 2016, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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Most detected victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation; victims are also trafficked for forced labour, recruitment as child soldiers and other forms of exploitation and abuse.
Traffickers and terrorist groups prey on the vulnerable, from people in poverty to those caught up in war or who face discrimination.
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29/07/2019
Graziano da Silva receives award for lifelong commitment to eradicating malnutrition
Children in Syria collect spinach from their school garden established by FAO.
ROME (FAO)* – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva on 26 July 2019 made his strongest appeal yet for tougher measures to combat the global obesity pandemic, urging the use of concrete fiscal and legal policies to promote healthier diets.
“It’s unbelievable, but it’s difficult to find and buy healthy food in our cities today,” Graziano da Silva said, adding that there are numerous policy tools to improve the accessibility and affordability of healthier diets.
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29/07/2019
The UN General Assembly has urged the international community to step up efforts to eradicate forced labour and child labour, and declared 2021 as the Year for the Elimination of Child Labour. | Español | Français
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