25/04/2019
Emergency measures are being stepped up by the UN and partners in northern Mozambique, amid fears that another devastating tropical storm could batter coastal areas on Thursday [25 April 2019] evening, weeks after Cyclone Idai claimed hundreds of lives and flooded vast swathes of the south of the country.
© UNHCR/Luiz Fernando Godinho | Families affected by the Cyclone Idai leave temporary shelter of IFAPA, in Beira, to a transit center closer to their places of origin in the district of Buzi, Mozambique (20 April 2019).
“We are expecting that heavy rain will provoke flash floods and landslides impacting the north-eastern provinces of Cabo Delgado and Nampula,” Word Food Programme (WFP) spokesperson Herve Verhoosel said.
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25/04/2019
USPANTÁN, Guatemala, Apr 23 2019 (IPS)* —
In the stifling heat, Diego Matom takes the bread trays out of the oven and carefully places them on wooden shelves, happy that his business has prospered since his village in northwest Guatemala began to generate its own electricity. | En español
Diego Matom, a member of the Ixil indigenous community, poses happily with his family, surrounded by fresh loaves of bread which were baked thanks to community electricity generation, which has given his business a big boost, in the 31 de Mayo village in the mountainous ecoregion of Zona Reina, in northwestern Guatemala. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPS
And it managed to do so against all odds, facing down big business and the local authorities.
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25/04/2019
Here are five things you need to know about this often forgotten country.
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25/04/2019
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The Indigenous World 2019 adds to the documented records, highlighting the increase in attacks and killings of indigenous peoples while defending their lands and other natural resources.
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The 62 country reports and 13 reports on international processes in this edition underscore this global trend, and includes a special focus on Indigenous Rights Defenders at risk.
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25/04/2019
24 April 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Intimacy with the other, with contexts is what characterizes relationships regarding presence and the present.
Perceiving the other and what happens through mediating referrals does metamorphose situations.
In the succinct, total moment, to be with the other, with what happens, is to have no mediating referrals. Direct contact is communication that allows for intimacy and familiarity. This encounter is to stand before, to perceive (know), which leads to categorizations, that is, recognitions that are significant and determinant.
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25/04/2019
Toddlers should spend no more than 60 minutes passively watching a screen every day, while babies under 12 months should have none, to ensure that they grow up fit and well, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday [24 April 2019], as part of a campaign to tackle the global obesity crisis.
UNICEF | A 6 year-old and 4 year-old in front of a laptop, in the city of Podgorica, Montenegro, as part of the promotion of the “End Violence Online” campaign (2016)
In recommendations specifically ai\med at under-fives for the first time, the UN health agency said that some than 40 million children around the globe – around six per cent of the total – are overweight. Of that number, half are in Africa and Asia, it noted.
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25/04/2019
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 25 April 2019 — Whenever, in ordinary circumstances, the subject of violence comes up, most people throw up their hands in horror and comment along the lines that it is ‘in our genes’, ‘nothing can be done about it’ or other words that reflect the powerlessness that most people feel around violence.
Robert J. Burrowes
It is true that violence is virtually ubiquitous, has a near-infinite variety of manifestations and, at its most grotesque (as nuclear war or run-away climate catastrophe), even threatens human extinction in the near-term.
Nevertheless, anyone who pays attention to the subject of violence in any detail soon discovers that plenty of people are interested in tackling this problem, even if it is ‘impossible’.
Moreover, of course, at least some people recognize that while we must tackle each manifestation of violence, understanding the cause of violence is imperative if we are to successfully tackle its many manifestations at their source.
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24/04/2019
Nearly three weeks since fighting began near the Libyan capital Tripoli, the UN health agency warned on Tuesday [23 April 2019] that “large numbers” of people are sheltering in medical clinics, while civilians continue to be killed or injured, and refugees and migrants remain exposed to clashes.
UNOCHA/Giles Clarke | Former Parliament Speakers Chamber in Tripoli, Libya.
“The latest figure as of last night is 264 dead and 1,266 wounded”, World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told journalists.
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23/04/2019
Over the course of the past decade, there has been “a paradigm shift” in understanding the devastating impact of sexual violence in conflict on international peace and security, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council during a high-level debate on Tuesday [23 April 2019].
UNMISS/Isaac Billy | A South Sudanese rape victim narrates her ordeal at an undisclosed location near Bentiu town. (December 2018)
“Local civil society organizations, many of them women’s organizations, are on the frontlines of our efforts to prevent and provide redress for this crime, and they deserve our strong and consistent support” he said at the meeting marking the 10th anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1888, which created the mandate of the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
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23/04/2019
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22 April 2019 (teleSUR)* — The Constitution of Bolivia will recognize three more Indigenous languages, namely, Joaquiniano, Paunaka, and Kumsa. They will be added to the 36 recognized Indigenous languages, local media reported Monday [22 April 2019].
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