29/05/2019
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 2019 (IPS)* – When the UN Security Council met last week to discuss the deaths and devastation caused to civilians in ongoing military conflicts and civil wars, the killings in Yemen and the air attacks on hospitals, schools, mosques, and market places—whether deliberate or otherwise– were singled out as the worst ever.
Children walk through a damaged part of downtown Craiter in Aden, Yemen. The area was badly damaged by airstrikes in 2015 as the Houthi’s were driven out of the city by coalition forces. Credit: UN OCHA/Giles Clarke
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29/05/2019
A local Tibetan woman talks to Greenpeace, she has five children and runs a busy guest house in the village of Zhang Zong. © John Novis / Greenpeace
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29/05/2019
“The culture of peace is universal. It is shared by people and nations Worldwide. Today’s “culture of war” is a US hegemonic project predicated on the creation of conflict and divisions within and between countries. It is this (unilateral) project of global warfare which is intent upon destroying civilization.”
— Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, “Towards a Culture of World Peace”
Warmongering Is Anti-Human Impulse
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja
The draconian ferocity of aggressive wars continues as we watch the unwarranted aggressive events unfolding against Iran in the Persian Gulf Region. One sees a contrast between a real issue and an imaginative problem.
The motivating factor signals one thing that American ruling elite thinks: “we are the most powerful nation on earth” and nobody else should challenge our supremacy – the naïve malignity mindset of the American current leadership.
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29/05/2019
28 May 2019 (UN Environment)* — As a global movement to tackle air pollution gathers pace, innovators are rising to the challenge, unveiling products and technologies that remove some of the dangerous toxins that are seeping into our lungs and accelerating climate change.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year around 7 million premature deaths are caused by air pollution. That’s 800 people dying every hour. But the good news is that there is a growing public understanding that action must be taken.
Here are four innovative businesses and their cutting-edge technologies to beat air pollution:
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28/05/2019
UNITED NATIONS, May 28 2019 (IPS)* – As it relentlessly pursues its strongly pro-Israeli policy – along with its disdain for multilateralism – the Trump administration continued to display its hostility towards the United Nations and its humanitarian agencies at a meeting of the UN Security Council focusing on the recent escalation of violence in Gaza.
The administration’s three hardline objectives were best reflected as they converged on a single political crossroad when the US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt told the Security Council May 22 it was time to dismantle the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which has supported Palestinian refugees since it began operations back in 1950.
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28/05/2019
A verdict from India’s Supreme Court has ordered 20 state governments to evict more than a million families living on forest land before the 27th of July. These families live in and around 500 wildlife sanctuaries and 90 national parks; but many live there sustainably and have protected the forests long before these areas were declared parks and sanctuaries.
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28/05/2019
27 May 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Human beings by nature are essentially territorial and emotionally sensitive. Depending on the person of course, under certain stress situations, or under the influence of certain behaviors of insecurity and paranoia, it is possible to develop very dangerous manners when dealing with interpersonal relationships, and wanting to control/manipulate others in the actual digital world can become something natural and overalls, frighteningly common.
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Of course, watching/spying implies a serious threat to privacy and individuality, but spy technologies today have ceased to be a Hollywood theme to become a reality within everyone’s scope.
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28/05/2019
Only immediate climate action can save the future. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world are on the horizon.
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A speech by Bill Moyers
At an April 30 conference entitled “Covering Climate Now”, co-sponsored by The Nation andColombia Journalism Review, Bill Moyers made a speech which included the following remarks:
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27/05/2019
22 May 2019 (UN Environment)* — When the sun’s first rays hit the green paddy fields in Ghagotpada in northern Bangladesh, fifty-year-old Mafruha is already hard at work in her kitchen. In this impoverished village, her home is a haven, always teeming with other women. While they mingle, Mafruha is whipping up delicacies for her visitors.
Photo by UN Environment/ Prashanthi Subramaniam
Travelling to Ghagotpada, one cannot miss the jarring sight of numerous brick kilns dotting the horizon. As the kilns noisily churn out harmful gases, polluting the air around them, the cramped kitchens of Ghagotpada fill up with smoke. The country is confronting a dire air pollution problem, with air quality index rankings pegging Dhaka as the third most polluted city in the world.
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27/05/2019
One-in-three girls or women will experience physical or sexual violence in her lifetime, and “the risk multiplies” during a conflict or natural disaster, the Executive Director of UNICEF told delegates attending the first-ever “Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Humanitarian Crises Conference” on Friday [24 May 2019], in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
OCHA/Giles Clarke | Jehan, 17, fled her hometown of Marib for the Khamir IDP settlement in Yemen at the beginning of the war in 2015. She lost her eyesight in the right eye after her husband beat and abused her before abandoning her. She’s now living with other family members in a dilapidated shelter. (14 April 2017)
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