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Dr. Tsebaot Meles, social entrepreneur and founder of Ngat Reusable Sanitary Solution based in Addis Ababa. Photo: IOM 2024/Yonatan Teffera Mekonen
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28/01/2025
Breaking the Flow of Stigma for Displaced Women and Girls
27/01/2025
A World Where Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer — and Billionaires Rise
Human Wrongs Watch
– Perhaps one of the UN’s most ambitious and longstanding projects – the launching of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)– is aimed, among other things, at helping developing nations eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. But that elusive goal has made little or no significant progress.
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Credit: UN Women
And now comes a new report from Oxfam, “Takers Not Makers” which finds that in 2024 alone, billionaires amassed $2 trillion in wealth, and nearly four new billionaires were minted every week.
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25/01/2025
Nearly a Quarter of a Billion Children’s Schooling Disrupted by Climate Crises in 2024 – UNICEF
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Education in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Pakistan and the Philippines most severely affected by heatwaves, cyclones, floods and storms
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NEW YORK (UNICEF)* – At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning crisis, according to a new UNICEF analysis released on 24 January 2025.
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23/01/2025
‘Africa Tragically Remains the Epicentre of Global Terrorism’
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(UN News)* — Africa tragically remains the epicentre of global terrorism, and more action is required to implement international commitments to combat this scourge, the UN Deputy Secretary-General told the Security Council on Tuesday [].
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22/01/2025
Food Systems Worsen Diets, Health
Human Wrongs Watch
– Corporate-dominated food systems are responsible for widespread but still spreading malnutrition and ill health. Poor diets worsen non-communicable diseases (NCDs), now costing over eight trillion dollars yearly!
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Unhealthy food systems
A recent UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) study of 156 countries found that such food systems account for unsafe food and diet-related NCDs.
FAO estimates related ‘hidden costs’ at about $12 trillion annually, with 70% ($8.1 trillion) due to NCDs such as heart disease, strokes and diabetes. Such costs significantly exceed these food systems’ environmental and social costs.
FAO’s annual State of Food and Agriculture 2024 (SOFA) investigated hidden costs worldwide. These were primarily health-related, followed by environmental degradation, mainly in more ‘industrialised’ agri-food systems in upper-middle and high-income countries.
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22/01/2025
Trump’s Executive Orders Threaten Broad Range of Human Rights
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By Human Rights Watch*
Vulnerable Populations Most at Risk of Grave Abuses
United States President Donald Trump, on his first day in office on January 20, 2025, issued numerous executive orders that threaten to undermine respect for international human rights both in the US and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today [22 January 2025].
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22/01/2025
Protect the Earth’s Ice and Glaciars, the Vital Source of Freshwater to over 2 Billion People
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By World Meteorological Organization (WMO)*
Melting glaciers | Melanie Biausque/WMO Photo Competition
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21 January 2025 – UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have officially launched the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation on January 21st, 2025, marking a crucial milestone in global efforts to protect these essential water towers that provide freshwater to over 2 billion people worldwide.
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20/01/2025
African Countries Urged to Plug Wealth Loss, Stop Illicit Financial Flows
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– Africa loses billions of dollars annually through illicit financial flows, resulting in the continent failing to improve the lives of millions of people despite vast mineral wealth, according to experts.
Plugging illicit financial flows are among solutions mooted by experts to bring the poverty rate of Africa down. Credit: Ignatius Banda/IPS
Agencies say more needs to be done to turn the continent’s natural resources into prosperity at a time governments are struggling to address challenging economic conditions that have spawned high poverty levels.
According to the African Development Bank (AfDB), poverty levels increased in 2022, with 281 million people affected by hunger, up by 11 million the previous year.
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20/01/2025
Billionaires Dangle Free Speech like a Bauble–We Gawp like Open-Mouthed Babes
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By Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Zuckerberg, Trump, Musk. None care about free speech, least of all yours or mine. They care about power and remaining billionaires – or, better still, becoming trillionaires.
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8 Jan 2025 – A few observations on Mark Zuckerberg’s astonishing volte face today, declaring that he will end the crushing climate of censorship on his Meta platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, in time for Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House.
It should not have taken a video admission from Zuckerberg for us to appreciate the degree to which we have been living for many years under a regime of political censorship on social media, with Meta leading the pack.
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18/01/2025
Trillions in Dirty Money: How Hidden Loopholes Fuel Corruption and Inequality
Human Wrongs Watch
– It is no longer a secret that at major global summits there are more lobbyists than official delegates. There, they participate as ‘guests,’ and most of them work for big business corporations. Their goal? To deter the adoption of policies that conflict with their employers’ interests.
Transparency International revealed alarming findings in December 2024 about the siphoning of public funds in Africa. Credit: Shutterstock
Their persuasion exercise quite often helps water down the urgency of taking decisive actions, the need to cut the private business staggering profits, the financial dues of the industrialised powers to the impoverished nations that bear the heaviest brunt of their policies, and so on.
To achieve such a purpose, lobbyists often quietly show different sorts of ‘gratitude.’
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