31/03/2022
(UN News)* — As the world focuses its attention on the war in Ukraine, the UN reminded the international community on Thursday [31 March 2022] to remember Afghanistan as it kicked off a pledging conference to save the lives and livelihoods of those in the landlocked country.
© UNOCHA/Sayed Habib Bidel | A young girl in a child friendly space for internally displaced children, in Herat, Afghanistan.
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Despite persistent humanitarian needs sparked by years of conflict and recurring drought, the current situation in Afghanistan is unparalleled, with more than 24.4 million people requiring humanitarian assistance to survive,
according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (
OCHA).
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Food security levels have plunged at an alarming rate, leaving half the population facing acute hunger, including nine million in a state of emergency food insecurity – the highest number in the world.
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30/03/2022
Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 29 2022 (IPS)* – Even as COVID-19 brought Africa’s already fragile health care and economic systems to the brink, wealthy states colluded with corporate giants to dupe people with empty slogans and false promises of a fair recovery from the ongoing health pandemic, a newly released report by Amnesty International finds.
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30/03/2022
(UN News)* — Nearly half of all pregnancies, totalling 121 million each year worldwide, are unintended, according to a new report published on Wednesday
[30 March 2022] by the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA.
© UNFPA/Ruth Carr | Despite her unplanned pregnancy, a teenage girl in Thailand is determind to get into university.
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30/03/2022
(UN News)* — Now entering its third year, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to hold back some 405 million school children wordlwide from a full return to the classroom, according to a new report released on Wednesday [29 March 2022] by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
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© UNICEF/Tanya Bindra | A young boy studies at home in Dori, Burkina Faso.
And as 23 countries have yet to fully re-open schools, many children are at risk of just dropping out.
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29/03/2022
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 29 2022 (IPS)* – The spectre of ‘stagflation’ threatens the world once again. This time, the risk is the direct consequence of political provocations and war, and not simply due to inexorable economic forces.
Stagflation?
Stagflation is a composite word implying inflation with stagnation. Stagnation refers to weak, ‘near zero’ growth, inevitably worsening unemployment. Inflation refers to price increases – not high prices, as often implied.
Anis Chowdhury
The term ‘stagflation’ was supposedly first used in 1965 by Iain Macleod, then UK Conservative Party economic spokesperson.
He later became Chancellor of the Exchequer, or finance minister, in 1970 for little over a month, the shortest tenure in modern times.
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29/03/2022
(UN News)* — The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General on Monday [28 March 2022 ] called on countries in Asia and the Pacific to speed up the shift from fossil fuels to new, low-carbon development models, in a just and inclusive way.
ESCAP/Suwat Chancharoensuk | UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed delivers special remarks to the opening of the ninth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD).
“Moving away from coal and fossil fuels in a region that accounts for 75 per cent of global coal-fired generation capacity will not be easy. But it is essential for our common future, and it is financially and technologically possible,” Amina Mohammed said.
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26/03/2022
The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions.
Russia says half its gold assets were frozen – is this for real or a slick play by Moscow? Photo Credit: The Cradle
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15 Mar 2022 – It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed.
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25/03/2022
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25 2022 (IPS)* – When North and South Yemen merged into a single country ushering in the Republic of Yemen back in May 1990, a British newspaper remarked with a tinge of sarcasm: “Two poor countries have now become one poor country.”
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25/03/2022
While millions have been hurt by surging gas prices, a new report from a government watchdog group shows 25 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel corporations in 2021 collectively pulled in $205 billion in profits. Now, fossil fuel giants are trying to “cash in on inflation and the crisis in Ukraine,” said one critic.
15 Mar 2022 – While millions of working people have been hurt by surging gas prices, a new analysis out today shows that 25 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel corporations collectively pulled in an “eye-popping” $205 billion in profits last year — and Big Oil is exploiting Russia’s war on Ukraine to charge even more at the pump in 2022 and advance its financial interests.
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24/03/2022
MADRID, Mar 24 2022 (IPS)* – Following 20 long years (2011-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, which ended up in delivering the country to the Taliban in August 2021, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.
A mother and her children fled conflict in Lashkargah and now live in a displaced persons camp in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. Credit: UNICEF Afghanistan
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