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17/06/2024

Digital Remittances by Migrant Workers Reduce Poverty and Drive Rural Transformation by Connecting Millions of ‘Unbanked’ Women and Men

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Rome (IFAD)* -– In celebration of the International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) on 16 June, the G20’s Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) has on 14 June 2024 unveiled a new report that provides evidence of the transformative impact of digital remittances, as a driver of financial inclusion and poverty reduction worldwide.

© IFAD/Purnima Shrestha

Despite persistent gender gaps, the hard-earned money sent back home by migrant workers remains a vital lifeline for over 800 million people, particularly for women and vulnerable populations.

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17/06/2024

By 2030 More Than US$ Trillion Will Have Been Sent Home By Migrants to Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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smiling woman sitting in a garden

Joanita and her husband live in two different countries to support their family and remittances sent back home have been a lifeline for them. Migrant workers sent US $669 billion back to their families in remittance-reliant countries in 2023. PHOTO:IOM/Maulana Iberahim

(United Nations)* — It is projected that by 2030 more than US$ 5 trillion will have been sent home by migrants to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with much of this money going directly to rural areas where 80 percent of the world’s poor live, facing food shortages and the impacts of climate change.

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16/06/2024

What Does the Plastics Crisis Have to Do with Desertification?

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By Gerance Mutwol | Greenpeace International*

It is World Environment Day, a United Nations day dedicated to creating awareness and action for protecting the environment. This year’s theme focuses on land restoration, desertification, and drought resilience under the slogan “Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration.

Soil Investigation in Karahan, Adana Province, Turkey. © Ihsan Yalcin / Greenpeace

Soil samples taken in Adana/Karahan, Turkey. The report “Game of Waste”, prepared by Greenpeace Mediterranean, assesses the impact of the dumping and open burning of suspected imported plastics in five different illegal dumpsites across Southern Turkey. It identifies a wide range of toxic chemicals in the ash and soil of all five sites, many of which are associated with plastic packaging or the burning of plastics. © Ihsan Yalcin / Greenpeace

But what is desertification and what does the plastics crisis have to do with it? Let’s delve into and understand this multifaceted crisis together.

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16/06/2024

Stop ‘Vandalising’ Earth and Help the Planet Thrive, United Nations Chief Urges

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(UN News)* — As nearly 40 per cent of land across the planet is degraded with more acres lost every second, governments, businesses and communities must galvanize action to reverse the damage and protect Earth, the UN chief said in a strong message for the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, marked annually on 17 June.

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Agriculture in volcanic soils in the Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands UNESCO Global Geopark in Spain.
© UNESCO | Agriculture in volcanic soils in the Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands UNESCO Global Geopark in Spain.
 
“Every second, around four football fields of healthy land are degraded,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
 
“The security, prosperity and health of billions of people rely on thriving lands supporting lives, livelihoods and ecosystems, but we’re vandalising the Earth that sustains us.”

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16/06/2024

Fake Climate Solutions Spread Across Latin America

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By Humberto Márquez

CARACAS, Jun 14 2024 (IPS)* –– Government and private initiatives and programmes to address the climate crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean are in fact a vast array of fake solutions, according to a new regional map made by environmental organisations in several of its countries. | En español
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A map of fake solutions shows projects with climate-friendly intentions or appearances but with counterproductive social and environmental impacts. Indigenous communities are one of the most affected population sectors. Credit: Platform for Climate Justice

A map of fake solutions shows projects with climate-friendly intentions or appearances but with counterproductive social and environmental impacts. Indigenous communities are one of the most affected population sectors. Credit: Platform for Climate Justice

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15/06/2024

Remittance Costs Too High from Belgium: International Organization for Migration

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Brussels (IOM)* —  The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on 14 June 2024 launched two new reports on Belgium’s remittances landscape and the impact of high transaction costs on remittance flows and development outcomes for 21 countries.
 

Kriticos who is originally from Zambia and Tanzania and Jason from Rwanda are two of the many diaspora members who have embraced a new life in Belgium as well as their roots. Photo: IOM/Moayad Zaghdani

In Belgium, where one third of the population has a migrant background, over USD 7 billion (EUR 6.5 billion) in remittances were sent in 2023, but the costs of sending are high.  

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14/06/2024

Forced Displacement Surged to Historic New Levels across the Globe: 120 Million

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UNHCR warns against apathy and inaction amid spike in forced displacement.

GENEVA, 13 June 2024 (UNHCR)* — Overall numbers rise to 120 million by May 2024; conflicts from Sudan to Gaza and Myanmar are creating new displacement and urgently require resolution.

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Habiba Shoaib, a community representative and internally displaced person from Sudan’s Blue Nile State.© UNHCR/Ala Kheir

Forced displacement surged to historic new levels across the globe last year and this, according to the 2024 flagship Global Trends Report from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. 

The rise in overall forced displacement – to 120 million by May 2024 – was the 12th consecutive annual increase and reflects both new and mutating conflicts and a failure to resolve long-standing crises.

The figure would make the global displaced population equivalent to the 12th largest country in the world, around the size of Japan’s.

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12/06/2024

Pakistan’s Dirty, Open Secret —Manual Scavenging

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By Zofeen Ebrahim

KARACHI, Jun 12 2024 (IPS)* – A dark head emerges, followed by the torso. The balding man heaves himself up, hands on the sides of the manhole, as he is helped by two men. Gasping for breath, the man, who seems to be in his late 40s, sits on the edge, wearing just a pair of dark pants, the same color as the putrid swirling water he comes out from.
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A sewer worker who is popularly known as Mithoo emerges from the sewer. Credit: Zofeen T. Ebrahim/IPS

A sewer worker who is popularly known as Mithoo emerges from the sewer. Credit: Zofeen T. Ebrahim/IPS

This is an all-too-familiar sight in Karachi, with its over 20 million residents producing 475 million gallons per day(MGD) of wastewater going into decades-old crumbling sewerage-systems.

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11/06/2024

UN Refugee Agency Urges Global Response to Neglected Humanitarian Crisis in the Sahel

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This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Alpha Seydi Ba – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at 7 June 2024’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

 

 

 

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Displaced families arrive in Gao, Mali, after being forced to flee their homes because of violence. | © UNHCR/Abdoulatif Halido

GENEVA – (UNHCR)* — UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned about the fast-growing humanitarian crisis in the Sahel Region.

In the Central Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, over 3.3 million people are forcibly displaced due to relentless conflict, exacerbated by the worsening effects of the climate crisis, according to April 2024 data. This staggering forced displacement of civilians demands immediate international action to prevent it worsening.

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10/06/2024

Millions of Migrant Farm Workers Exploited in Europe’s Fields: Oxfam

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By OXFAM*

  • Approximately 1 in 4 workers in Europe’s agriculture sector are migrants. 
  • Migrant workers face violence, long working hours, and routine underpayment. 
  • The new EU supply chains law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, is a tool to combat this exploitation.

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Europe’s agriculture industry is exploiting the at least 2.4 million migrants who harvest Europe’s fruits and vegetables. This is according to a new report published on 4 June 2024 by the University of Comillas and Oxfam researchers titled “Essential but invisible and exploited.” 

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