04/08/2018
From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
3 August 2018 (openDemocracy)* – Saudi Arabia’s ongoing crackdown on women’s rights activists undermines Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s own reform agenda.
It reveals a disconnect between this young leader who styles himself as a reformist and a women’s rights advocateand the new reality in the Muslim world today.
Increasingly, Muslim women are reclaiming an Islam that has long espoused equality, justice and freedom for all.
These women are leading change from within their communities.
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26/07/2018
25 July 2018 (Wall Street International)* — The current policy of separating children from parents seeking the asylum in the United States has caused a moral and political uproar in America. Protests, marches, political opponents demonizing the other. This crisis has turned the United States into a moral and political battleground.
The separation of children from their parents is the historical policy practiced by the United States for children of color.
Enslaved African children were torn from their mothers as they given as gifts to relatives and mothers were sold to a new plantation. These mothers wept the bitter salty tears that could never dry as they were never united with their children.
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23/07/2018
23 July 2018 (Wall Street International)* – As it is nowadays commonly accepted, based on astrophysics data (in particular the Kepler space mission data), our astrophysics colleagues arrived at the conclusion that there are several hundred exo-planets (see for instance Figure 2), where life in principle may be possible.
Difficult, and till now impossible, to prove experimentally. But let us assume that life may exist in some of these planets – and that somedays our astronauts are going there. How should they demonstrate that life, in a form which may not be familiar to us, exists?
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13/07/2018
11 July 2018 (Wall Street International)*—
It is reported that there are roughly 20,000 empty homes in London and several times more across the UK. While in some cases inheritance issues or huge damages might keep properties out of the market, quite often they stay empty just because their owners are waiting for a rise in their values before selling them.
In wealthy boroughs like Chelsea and Kensington foreign investors purchase properties and leave them empty as their value increases.
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06/07/2018
6 July 2018 — Time is running out for the world’s forests, warns a new report by the United Nations agriculture agency, urging governments to foster an all-inclusive approach to benefit both trees and those who rely on them.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | A resident of the National Tapajos Forest in Brazil collects wild foliage for preparing a meal.
Halting deforestation, managing forests sustainably, restoring degraded forests and adding to worldwide tree cover all require actions to avoid potentially damaging consequences for the planet and its people, according to the State of the World’s Forests 2018, referred to as SOFO 2018.
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06/07/2018
5 July 2018 — It’s eight o’clock in the morning and fifty-year-old Falmata Mboh Ali paddles her small dugout canoe to the shores of a tributary of Lake Chad in Bol, a small town 100 miles north of the capital of Chad, N’Djamena.
UN News/Dan Dickinson | Fisherwomen like Falmata Mboh Ali (right) hard at work on Lake Chad, which has shrunk to a tenth of its original size over the past decades leaving dwindling stocks of fish.
In her nets she has perhaps fifty fish, a good enough catch, given she started fishing just five hours earlier. But, it is not sufficient to feed her eleven children.
“I can sell this fish and use that money to buy grain to feed my family,” she said, “but the grain doesn’t go far. I have been fishing for twenty years and it is becoming more difficult to catch fish.”
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23/06/2018
Women’s rights are under threat from a “backlash” of conservatism and fundamentalism around the world, a United Nation panel on 22 June 2018 warned.
UN Women/Bruno Spada | Women in Brazil march for women’s rights.
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Alarming pushbackshave been progressing across regions of the globe”, through what the Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice described as “alliance of conservative political ideologies and religious fundamentalisms,” in its
report to the
Human Rights Councilin Geneva.
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20/06/2018
A senior United Nations official on 19 June 2018 urged Israel to reverse course over illegal settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land, and for both parties to return to the negotiating table in pursuit of a lasting peace deal.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, briefs the Security Council. (file photo)
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18/06/2018
14 June 2018 (UN Environment)* — In a remote village of the Himalayas, Kristin Kagetsu was struggling with a recipe. Not your average recipe for cooking up a delicious meal. This one was for making sustainable colored crayons. After trial and error, resulting in crayons of different shapes and sizes, Kagetsu finally hit on the right recipe and the crayons are still sold today.
But the experience taught her a valuable lesson: ingredients for truly sustainable products must be sourced locally.
Fast-forward five years, and twenty-eight-year-old Kagetsu, now Chief Executive Officer of Saathi pads, has teamed up with co-founder, twenty-six-year-old Tarun Bothra, to turn their attention to a more pressing environmental and social problem.
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06/06/2018
By Ann Garrison*
4 Jun 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — Syria has long dominated international headlines while the big powers discuss the possibility of dividing it into smaller, more homogeneous states along ethnic or religious lines.
Ann Garrison
The Democratic Republic of Congo is rarely if ever at the top of the Western headlines, but heads of state and so-called experts have long made similar proposals to carve out new, smaller, more homogeneous nations in Congo’s resource-rich eastern provinces.
I spoke with Congolese scholar and activist Boniface Musavuli about the plans.
Ann Garrison: Boniface, can you summarize the history of proposals to divide up the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Boniface Musavuli: Attempts to break up the Congo began as soon as the country became independent in 1960. First there was the Katangese secession, from 1960 to 1963, led by Moïse Tshombe with the support of Belgium, the colonial power that Congo had just freed itself from, in name at least.
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