01/05/2019
Strengthening both security and the Ebola response effort is essential to contain the growing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN health agency’s officials said on Tuesday [30 April 2019], following a visit to the epicentre of what is already the worst outbreak in the country’s history.
WHO/Junior Kannah | WHO delegation in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the Ebola situation is worsening (April 2019)
Following their visit to Butembo, to express gratitude and show support to staff, in the wake of the recent attack at a treatment centre that killed Doctor Richard Mouzoko and left two others injured, World Health Organization (
WHO) chief, Tedros Ghebreyesus and the agency’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr.
Matshidiso Moeti, reiterated their commitment to “defeat Ebola”.
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30/04/2019
Looking Backwards
In the Cold War Era there was a sharp polemical contrast drawn between the ‘liberal’ West and the rest of the world, which was regarded as either Communist or authoritarian, regardless of whether its constitution was framed in democratic language or not.
Richard Falk
And liberal in the West was used to signify the primacy of the individual citizen as well as policies and practices reflecting an overall commitment to an economy centered in the private sector, although unevenly modified by various measures of social protection.
In the latter stages of the Cold War, the Western effort to hold the moral and political high ground in the ideological struggle emphasized freedom versus totalitarianism.
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30/04/2019
April 29, 2019 (UN Women)* — Across the globe, women workers rise each day to power our world. They build, create, and drive progress across all sectors. Yet for millions of women, workplaces are sites of insecurity, abuse and vulnerability.
Photo: UN Women/Charles Fox
For far too long, the working world has been dominated by unequal power dynamics that endanger the safety and security of women, but change is underway.
Survivors have leveraged the power of solidarity, collective action, and social media to spur the most significant global movement to end harassment.
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30/04/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 2019 (IPS)* – The United States dropped a political bombshell when President Donald Trump announced his administration would withdraw from the historic Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) which the former Obama administration signed in September 2013.
“We are taking our signature back”, said Trump April 26, addressing a meeting of the National Rifle Association (NRA), one of the most powerful gun lobbies in the US.
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29/04/2019
29 April 2019 (UN Environment)* — In the world before modern medicine it was up to the local shaman, monk or wise woman to treat injury and disease, often with remedies based on local medicinal plants.
Today, many of these time-worn cures remain popular around the globe, but in some countries, traditional healers have extended their arsenal to include not only nature’s gifts, but the products of human industry, amongst them an oily liquid, clear to yellow in colour with neither smell nor taste, that often spills or leaks from electrical equipment.
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29/04/2019
Deaths caused by infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria will skyrocket over the next two decades, along with huge economic costs, without immediate, ambitious and coordinated action, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and partners warned on Monday [29 April 2019].
PAHO/WHO | Lab assistant growing culture viruses and bacteria in the “Infectious Room” of the Cancer Institute of Columbia.
According to a groundbreaking report, the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance warned that if no action is taken, drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.
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28/04/2019
28 April 2019 — Imagine a world in which practically everyone works in jobs that are helping to transform the global economy, and bring about a world where business can thrive and the needs of the most vulnerable people are met.
ILO/Marcel Crozet | Women in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia work in a greenhouse they built to increase the production capacity of vegetables they sell on the local market. (file 2015)
For the UN, these “green jobs,” play an important role in realising the vision of the future that practically all countries signed up to when they adopted the landmark Paris Agreement in December 2015, an international commitment to combat climate change, and significantly reduce human activity contributing to global warming.
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28/04/2019
BASOLIBEN, Ethiopia, 27 April 2019 (UNFPA)* – When Fikre Molla was preparing to have her baby, she wanted the childbirth traditions she had grown up with, but the safety of professional care in a proper health facility.
Fikre Molla was happy to receive professional care before, during and after childbirth, without having to forgo traditions. © UNFPA Ethiopia
Yet she lived in Ethiopia’s rural Amhara Region, 31 km from the nearest health centre. For her safety, she spent the weeks leading up to her due date at a UNFPA-supported ‘maternity waiting home’ close to the health centre.
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28/04/2019
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And the volcano says:
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And from me, they create fairytales and tell legends; they say that in my hollows the goddess waits silently, like the radiant sap flowing through my lanes, slipping between my walls, my slopes and my plains; because I am an entrance and at the same time an exit… , as every day I offer it to them; to those who love me, to those who live in me..
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