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(UN News)* — Nelson Mandela International Day is an opportunity to reflect on the life and legacy of “a legendary global advocate for dignity, equality, justice and human rights”, the UN chief said on 18 July 2021.
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18/07/2021
“It Is Easy to Break Down and Destroy. The Heroes Are Those Who Make Peace and Build” – Nelson Mandela
© Nelson Mandela Foundation/Matthew Willman
UN Secretary-General’s Message for 2021
Video message by António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, on the occasion of Nelson Mandela International Day 2021.
“Nelson Mandela International Day is an opportunity to reflect on the life and legacy of a legendary global advocate for dignity, equality, justice and human rights.
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18/07/2021
Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace (2019 – 2028)
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Nelson Mandela International Day, 18 July 2021
Our common humanity demands that we make the impossible possible. – World Leaders at Nelson Mandel Peace Summit
© UN Photo/Milton Grant
18 JULY 2021 (United Nations)* — On 24 September 2018, world leaders gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York for the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit.
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17/07/2021
Summer of Extremes: Floods, Heat and Fire – World Meteorological Organization
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
‘Sulli Deals’: Muslim Women in India Being Put Up for Sale
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– Ongoing online sexual harassment of Muslim women through ‘Sulli Deals’, an auctioning app hosted by GitHub, has been reported to the authorities – but not before it called untold trauma to the targeted women.
Sania Ahmed found her photograph uploaded on ‘Suli Deal’ auctioning app. Credit: Handout
Cyber Cell registered the case in Delhi, India, despite GitHub having shut the open-source app Sulli Deals down.
Sulli is a derogatory term that often used by abusive right-wing trolls for Muslim women in India.
Previously similar profiles and handles were found on Twitter and YouTube.
These platforms were used to harass Muslim women using a similar ‘Sulli Deals’ modus operandi to auction pictures of the women.
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17/07/2021
Australia: 8 Years of Abusive Offshore Asylum Processing
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By Human Rights Watch*
Governments Should Reject Costly, Harmful Policy for Refugees, Asylum Seekers
Asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against the detention of refugees amid the Covid-19 crisis in Brisbane, Australia on May 1, 2020. © 2020 Florent Rols /SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Images
(Sydney) – Other governments should reject Australia’s abusive and costly offshore processing of refugees and asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch on 15 July 2021 said. July 19, 2021 is the eighth anniversary of the Australian government’s resumption of its offshore processing policy, which has harmed thousands of people.
17/07/2021
Expelled Asylum Seekers ‘Crying Out for Help’ in Northern Mexico
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By Tim Gaynor in Tijuana*
Honduran mother Ana, 27, holds her three-year-old daughter in her arms at a makeshift shelter for asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico. © UNHCR/Tim Gaynor
15 July 2021 (UNHCR)* — Honduran mother of three Lorena* recalls how she clambered on to a makeshift raft on the banks of the Rio Grande in Mexico with her two eldest children, a girl of seven and a boy four, to cross to the United States and seek asylum.
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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.
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.
16/07/2021
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