12/07/2021
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jul 12 2021 (IPS)* – Youth advocates from Asian countries called for an overhaul of a system that excluded young people from participation in policymaking.
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Some of the delegates at the Intergenerational Dialogue of the Asian Parliamentarians and Youth Advocates on Meaningful Youth Engagement. Credit: APDA
During an interaction with parliamentarians from 23 countries, youth representatives considered an enabling political framework to be the most crucial reform required to remove inequities.
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12/07/2021
Work together to end preventable deaths from toxic chemicals
7 July 2021 (ILO)* — Millions of workers around the world lose their lives every year or suffer from chronic diseases due to toxic chemicals in the workplace. In a video message to the Berlin Forum on Chemicals and Sustainability, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, says global cooperation is needed to end these preventable deaths and illnesses.
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12/07/2021
Left: Young chess players from New York City in the UN “Fighting stereotypes with Judit Polgar, Planet 50-50 Champion” event, 2017. Right: A young man playing chess in Yerevan, Armenia. PHOTO:Left: UN Women Right: Flore de Préneuf /©The World Bank
While the coronavirus outbreak has forced most gaming and sports activities to scale down, chess has demonstrated remarkable resilience, adaptability and a very strong convening power in time of pandemic.
Over the past few months, the overall interest in chess is reported to have doubled, with more players than ever coming together to participate in chess events that are being increasingly held through online platforms.
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12/07/2021
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 2021 (IPS)* – When a Southeast Asian ambassador hosted a lunch for journalists, including reporters from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, he told us there was an ulterior motive for the sumptuous lunch at his residence.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefing journalists in a pre-pandemic era. At left is his Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elias
“We will soon begin our two-year term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council – and we need your cooperation (read: news coverage)”.
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11/07/2021
World history is nothing but an endless, dreary account of the rape of the weak by the strong.
(Herman Hesse)
History has had the tendency to present our countries in the light of the glorious past | Image from Wall Street International.
10 July 2021 (Wall Street International)* — For a long time, particularly in schools, history has had the tendency to present our countries in the light of the glorious past, our neighbors in much darker tones, but most of all it has centered on the key moments of structural change.
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11/07/2021
11 people are likely dying every mi
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Almost a billion of us go to bed hungry every night. Not because there isn’t enough food for everyone, but because of the deep injustice in the way food is produced and accessed | OXFAM.
A new Oxfam report released on 9 July 2021 says that as many as 11 people are likely dying of hunger and malnutrition each minute. This is more than the current global death rate of COVID-19, which is around seven people per minute.
The report, ‘The Hunger Virus Multiplies’ says that conflict remains the primary cause of hunger since the pandemic, pushing over half a million people into famine-like conditions – a six-fold increase since 2020.
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11/07/2021
By LUIS JESÚS BELLO*
8 July 2021 (IWGIA)** — The Jödi, the Yanomami and the Uwottüja living in voluntary isolation are threatened by the invasions that result from extractive activities and by the presence of illegal groups in the area: to the environmental impact we should add the socio-cultural and sanitary ramifications.
The isolated groups are aware that foreign agents are potential disease carriers, which represents a motivation to remain isolated. The Covid-19 pandemic worsens this situation due to the high epidemiological and immunological vulnerability.
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11/07/2021
GENEVA / NEW YORK (UNICEF)* – A joint report released on 7 July 2021by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), shows that in many countries women can face discrimination which obstructs or hinders their ability to register births, exposing their children to the risk of becoming stateless. | Français
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11/07/2021
According to UNFPA research in March, an estimated 12 million women experienced disruptions to family planning services. Right: Women of the Flower Hmong hill tribe sell cooked rice at a local market in Can Cau, Viet Nam. Left: Local Western Saharan women
PHOTO:UN Photo/Kibae Park(right), UN Photo/Martine Perret(left)
11 July 2021 (United Nations)* — In this second year of COVID-19, we are suspended in an in-between state, where parts of the world are emerging from the deep recesses of the pandemic while others are locked in battle with the coronavirus as access to vaccines remains a distant, deadly reality.
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11/07/2021
Rights and choices are the answer: Whether baby boom or bust, the solution to shifting fertility rates lies in prioritizing the reproductive health and rights of all people
A mobile health clinic, supported by UNFPA and the Spotlight Initiative, brings critical family planning and other services to underserved parts of Mozambique. ©UNFPA Mozambique/Mbuto Machili
11 July 2021 (UNFPA)* — In this second year of COVID-19, we are suspended in an in-between state, where parts of the world are emerging from the deep recesses of the pandemic while others are locked in battle with the coronavirus as access to vaccines remains a distant, deadly reality.
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