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12 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Last night, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Peace People activist house hosted a Burma talk. I spoke on the urgent need to inform and mobilize grassroots communities about Myanmar genocide in order to build pressure on respective EU governments, as well as others to help end the genocide and support the Rohingyas’ NEED–not simply RIGHT–to a protected homeland.
These survivors of Myanmar genocide have always had a historical and official homeland of Mayu Frontier region, pre-Burma Northern Arakan, from where they have been expelled in waves since 12 Feb 1978.
16 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — Several alarming recent events ought to awaken citizens of Europe and the United States to the fact that their insane governments have driven the world to the brink of an all-destroying thermonuclear war.
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Recently Donald Trump has made three highly worrying appointments: He appointed John Bolton as his National Security Advisor.
Bolton who has already moved into the White House, is a notorious advocate of war with Iran and with North Korea. He appointed former CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State.
This appointment has not yet been confirmed by the Senate, so there is still a chance of blocking it. To replace Pompeo as CIA Director, Trump appointed former torture chief Gina Haspel.
Secondly, in what can only be interpreted as an attempt to demonize Russia, the United Kingdom’s government under Theresa May claimed that the former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who were living in the UK, had been poisoned by a Russian nerve agent.
An appeal that raised some $2 billion to help millions of people in Yemen was a “remarkable success of international solidarity” for the country’s war-weary people, but aid alone will not provide a solution to the conflict, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on 3 April 2018 said.
9 March 2018 — A senior United Nations official has stressed the need to ensure survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Iraq are fully protected and that perpetrators are brought to justice.
Agriculture will continue to generate employment in Africa over the coming decades, but businesses around farming, including processing, packaging, transportation, distribution, marketing and financial services, could also create jobs for young people, especially those in rural areas, a senior United Nations official on 22 February 2018 said.
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16 February 2018 — Countries need to strengthen the effectiveness of their tax regimes to unleash much-needed domestic resources to ensure the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the promotion of inclusive economic growth, United Nations and as key international economic and financial organizations have urged.
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Cox’s Bazar, 16 February 2018 (IOM)* – When 10-year-old Ansarullah was asked to draw his dream and greatest wish, he drew a house.
Rohingya refugee children draw their dreams at an IOM psychosocial support workshop in the Kutapalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. © IOM
So did almost every other of the 25 Rohingya refugee children who took part in a recent drawing activity session run by IOM’s psychosocial support team in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Children account for around 60 per cent of the 688,000 Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar to Bangladesh in the past six months.
By David Krieger and Rick Wayman*
5 February 2018 – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service – The 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), released on 2 February 2018, represents a reckless realignment of an already dangerous U.S. nuclear policy.
Source of photo: ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
The review specifically calls for the development of new, low-yield nuclear weapons that have lower explosive force. Many experts warn that such smaller weapons would blur the distinction between nuclear and non-nuclear weapons, representing a significant and dangerous increase in the likelihood of their use.
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