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20/07/2021

The Fight for the “Lost Souls”

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By Rosi Orozco*

MEXICO CITY, Jul 19 2021 (IPS)* – In June, the Department of Homeland Security made a critical announcement. For the first time in U.S. history, more than 15 national and local agencies and civilian organizations conducted a simultaneous major binational operation to find missing children inside and outside the United States.

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They called it “Operation Lost Souls”. Its objective was to find girls and boys who were missing and possibly deceived or kidnapped by sexual exploitation gangs.

The secret operation lasted a week. And the result announced by Special Agent Erik Breitzke surprised even the organizers: 24 minors were recovered and, among them, three were located in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

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20/07/2021

Time to Rethink Our Technology Choices!

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By Hazel Henderson*

Remember the bumper sticker:

Technology is the answer! But what is the question?

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July 2021 (Wall Street International)* — In the 19th and 20th centuries most, new technologies were equated with our societies’ progress. We loved electricity, automobiles, airplanes, telephones, radio, television, the Internet and space exploration.

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18/07/2021

The Communist Party of China’s 100th Birthday

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By Mushahid Hussain*

The birth of new cold war

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The Communist Party of China has always surmounted difficulties with fortitude | Image from Wall Street International.

17 July 2021 (Wall Street International)* — The contrasts are apparent between the two poles of power in the world.

In Beijing, there were huge celebrations, with fanfare and fireworks, marking 100 years of the founding of what is today the world’s largest political party (95 million members), holding power for the longest duration (72 years), in the most populous country of the world (1.4 billion).

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17/07/2021

Summer of Extremes: Floods, Heat and Fire – World Meteorological Organization

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16 July 2021 (WMO)*— Heavy rainfall has triggered devastating flooding causing dozens of casualties in Western Europe. Parts of Scandinavia are enduring a lasting heatwave, and smoke plumes from Siberia have affected air quality across the international dateline in Alaska.
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The unprecedented heat in Western North America has also triggered devastating wildfires.

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17/07/2021

7 Billion Trees Outside Forests in Africa Reported for the First Time

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Pioneering environmental data collection initiative a world first for Africa

Photo: ©FAO/Giulio Napolitano/FAO

Africa Open DEAL initiative provides a detailed snapshot of the continent, captured through more than 300 000 sampling points between 2018 and 2020.

ACCRA, 16 July 2021 (FAO)* – A data collection and analysis initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the African Union Commission (AUC) has revealed 7 billion trees outside forests for the first time, among other findings.

The survey is the first consistent land use representation of the continent and discloses more forests and more arable lands than were previously detected.

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17/07/2021

A ‘Hurricane of Humanitarian Crises’

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(UN News)* — There is a “bloody surge” impacting humanitarian crises around the world, with civilians in conflict zones paying the highest price, the UN deputy chief told the Security Council on Friday 16 July 2021. 

Security and humanitarian challenges plague Mali, considered the UN's most dangerous peacekeeping mission.
UN Photo/Marco Dormino | Security and humanitarian challenges plague Mali, considered the UN’s most dangerous peacekeeping mission.

Briefing on behalf of the UN chief, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, painted a grim picture of civilian executions, arbitrary arrests, detentions, forced displacement and sexual violence against children, on a massive scale, in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

She also spoke of “brutal attacks” in Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, where 20 million people are living “face-to-face” with hunger.  

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16/07/2021

Western Indian Ocean Region Has Declared 550,000 Square Kilometers as Protected, a 63% Jump Since 2015

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Nairobi, 16 July 2021 (UNEP)* — The Western Indian Ocean region has declared 143* marine and coastal areas as protected – an area covering 553,163 square kilometers, representing 7 percent of the total Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for the region – according to a new publication by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)-Nairobi Convention and the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association.

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16/07/2021

The Woman Who Lives with the Sea

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Kokoly takes to the water © Blue Venture / Garth Cripps

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16/07/2021

‘To Recover Better, We Must Address the Longstanding Disparities and Challenges Faced by Young People’

Students of Fajar University in Makassar, South Sulawesi, are learning how the television transmitter system works. CC BYNC-SA 3.0 IGO © UNESCO-UNEVOC/Bahauddin Raja Baso

Young people were already facing disproportionate levels of unemployment and under-employment before the pandemic. More than one out of five youth were not in employment, education, or training, the majority of them young women.

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16/07/2021

Nearly 40% of Young People on the Move Identify Education and Training as Top Priorities

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World Youth Skills Day, 15 July 2021

NEW YORK, 14 July 2021 (UNICEF)* – Nearly 40 per cent of migrant and displaced youth identified education and skills training as their top priorities, while 30 per cent named employment opportunities, according to a new UNICEF poll announced on the eve of World Youth Skills Day.

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These findings were revealed through a U-Report poll of more than 26,000 people, including almost 9,000 young people (aged 14-24), across 119 countries.

The poll, conducted between 6 May and 1 June 2021, asked respondents about their aspirations to learn and earn, and the unique barriers they face – as a girl or as a refugee, trying to access the labour market with or without legal status.

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