20/01/2019
You get to choose which of the 15 documentary films on the Festival’s website will win the People’s Award (for the film which receives the most votes) and the Favourite Film Award (for the most-viewed film).
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The 2019 selection is a look at the environmental challenges we all must tackle. They highlight practical solutions and citizen initiatives underway worldwide.
Happening for 15 days only, the Festival is aimed at anyone who wants to learn about the environmental crises we’re facing.
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20/01/2019
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, stated on Saturday [19 January 2019] that “no effort should be spared” in saving lives at sea, following reports of two new shipwrecks on the Mediterranean Sea, in which some 170 people either died or went missing.
© UNHCR/Markel Redondo | Refugees from countries in Sub-Saharan Africa await assistance and a health-screening by the Spanish Red Cross in the port of Malaga, after disembarking from a Spanish rescue ship. 19 September 2018.
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20/01/2019
Geneva, Switzerland, 20 January 2019 (World Economic Forum)* – A global opinion poll published today by the World Economic Forum finds that a clear majority of people in all regions of the world say they believe cooperation between nations is either extremely or very important. Deutsch I Français I 日本語 I 中文
The big picture view: People are supportive of an interconnected world | Image from World Economic Forum.
It also finds that a large majority rejects the notion that national improvement is a zero-sum game, and that most people feel that immigrants are mostly good for their adopted country.
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19/01/2019
18 January 2019 — Amid reports that Cameroon is forcing several thousand Nigerians to return to Borno state in the country’s crisis-gripped north-east, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) deplored the move, saying it has put lives “at risk”.
OCHA/Leni Kinzli | New arrivals in Teacher’s Village in Maiduguri, Nigeria, after the attack in Baga at the end of December 2018.
“We are gravely concerned for the safety and well-being of all these people”, UNHCR said in a statement. On 16 January, 267 Nigerian refugees, who had crossed into Cameroon in 2014, were forcibly returned.
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19/01/2019
Despite years of promises to address the “vulnerable heart” of Libya – the country’s south – conditions around its water and oil resource wealth have continued to deteriorate at “an alarming rate”, the United Nations envoy for the country told the Security Council.
Iason Athanasiadis/UNSMIL | Clouds over the desert in southern Libya. Deserts form a large part of the country and human settlements are mostly found around oases.
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19/01/2019
Warning against the dangers of widespread fear and mistrust in our planet, the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, told journalists on Friday [18 January 2019] he wants to reaffirm the UN as a “platform for action to repair broken trust in a broken world.”
UN Photo/Manuel Elias | Press conference by the Secretary-General António Guterres (right) on 18 January 2019, with his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric (left).
“The best-selling brand in our world today is indeed fear,” stated Mr. Guterres. “It gets ratings. It wins votes. It generates clicks,” he added, during the press conference, held at UN headquarters in New York.
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18/01/2019
I. The year 2019 will be characterized by a shifting mix of two forms of leadership that Plato once called Timocracy and Plutocracy way back in 380BC.
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18/01/2019
Washington’s wars are unendable as well as unwinnable
17 January 2019 (openDemocracy)* — President Trump’s sudden decisions in December to withdraw United States forces from Syria and halve the number of troops in Afghanistan caught almost all his advisors by surprise. They led to the resignation of defense secretary James Mattis, and hasty backtracking in the state department as Turkey vigorously protested.
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18/01/2019
17 January 2019 — After fleeing her home in Macina, a small village in central Mali, where she was due to be forced into marriage against her will, 16-year-old Fatouma took shelter with her brother.
UN Women/Sandra Kreutzer | Fatouma in Mali with her mother, brother, his wife and their children. Her family knows how important education is for the 19-year-old’s future.
Having failed the national high school exam twice, coupled with expensive school fees, Fatouma had little choice but to drop out to become a cleaner, earning around $17 a month.
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18/01/2019
17 January 2019 — Global risks are intensifying but the will to tackle them collectively is eroding, as forces across the planet call for “taking back control”, the World Economic Forum warned in its latest report published on Wednesday (16 January).
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