18/05/2020
Small Island Developing States: Building resilience for sustainable trade, tourism, transport infrastructure and development
18 May 2020 (UN Environment)* — Small Island Developing States (SIDS), such as the Caribbean Island of Grenada, face a double exposure to external economic and environmental shocks.
This has been made painfully clear by the economic shock caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has, among other things, crippled the tourism industry upon which many SIDS depends. Tourism accounts for almost 30% of SIDS’ gross domestic product.
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18/05/2020
By Sarah Schafer*
Trained medics working as cashiers and wait staff want their qualifications recognized so they can save lives in the pandemic. | Français
Iraqi refugee medic Lubab al-Quraishi pictured in New Jersey where she has been given a temporary license to pratice medicine. © UNHCR
NEW YORK, 18 May 2020 (UNHCR)* – When Lubab al-Quraishi heard that officials in New Jersey would allow internationally trained medical workers to help the city fight COVID-19, she quickly filled out an online application. Six years after arriving in the United States as a refugee from Iraq, she hoped finally to practice medicine again.
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18/05/2020
The Asia Pacific region predominates in the numbers of victims of modern slavery. The region had 55 percent of the victims of forced marriage worldwide.This is the second of a 2-part series on trafficking and modern slavery in the Asia Pacific region.
A trafficked survivor reunites with family in Vietnam. Courtesy: Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation
SYDNEY, Australia, May 18 2020 (IPS)* – A single mother, Mai (name changed) had the responsibility of providing for her young son and grandparents, who had brought her up in a poor rural province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.
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18/05/2020
There is an undeniable link between the brain, the gut and the immune system
It is well known that eating fruits, vegetables and whole grains are important for good health because they contain dietary fiber and other healthy substances1.
The dietary fiber can be fermented by healthy bacteria in our gut to produce short chain fatty acids (acetic, propionic and butyric acids) that help the neuroendocrine immune system and help make vaccines more successful2.
At the same time, eating sugar, high fructose corn syrup, meat, saturated or trans fats and drinking sweetened beverages is unhealthy, partly because it helps to produce an unhealthy gut microbiome.
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17/05/2020
In the midst of a massive global pandemic that has killed tens of thousands of people and wrecked economies all over the world leaving millions jobless, some terrorists and mercenaries allegedly backed by certain governments had on 3rd May 2020 attempted to invade the independent, sovereign state of Venezuela.
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar
Organised and trained in neighbouring Colombia, they had landed on the coast of Macuto close to the Venezuelan capital of Caracas.
The invasion was foiled by the Venezuelan military and police with the support of the people. Several of the invaders were killed and a couple captured.
The captured, both Americans, confessed on Venezuelan TV, that their aim was not only the overthrow of the legally constituted government but also the assassination of the president, Nicholas Maduro.
Though the invasion has been thwarted, the captured Americans made it clear that the ouster of the Maduro government was an on-going operation.
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17/05/2020
Vienna (Austria) (UNODC)* – COVID-19 travel and movement restrictions are not stopping the movement of people fleeing conflict, human rights abuses, violence and dangerous living conditions, while the economic consequences of the pandemic are likely to lead to an increase in smuggling of migrants and trafficking in person flows from the most affected countries to more affluent destinations, according to a report launched by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on 14 May 2020.
Photo: © UNODC
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16/05/2020
Dalit & pastoral women of Deccan Development Society carrying sacred seeds at mobile fest, Feb 2020 © Ashish Kothari
We don’t have any food shortages in our villages, despite the lockdown.
(Dalit women farmers, Telangana)
We saved up enough in our village fund over the last few years, by sustainable harvest of forest produce, to provide for people who have lost their jobs in cities and returned home during the corona crisis.
(Kukdel Village, Maharashtra)
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16/05/2020
15 May 2020 (UN News)* — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched an urgent $7 million appeal on Thursday [14 May 2020], to ease the impact of COVID-19 on migrant communities in five Central Asian countries and the Russian Federation, where the pandemic is pushing a growing number of migrant workers into poverty.
OCHA/Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia | Children play at the multi-ethnic Krupskaya School in the town of Nookat, Osh oblast, Kyrgyzstan. (November 2010)
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The appeal aims to help thousands who are stranded in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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16/05/2020
(UN News)* — Chronic violence, insecurity and now COVID-related restrictions have put tens of thousands of Central Americans at risk of increased hardship and even death, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday [15 May 2020].
©UNICEF/Tanya Bindra | Seventeen-year-old mother leaves Honduras with her one-year old son, hoping to get a visa for the United States. (File)
By the end of last year, violence in the region forced some 720,000 people to flee their homes, almost half of whom currently remain displaced within their own country, according the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (
UNHCR).
And with COVID-related lockdowns in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, community leaders and some internally displaced people (IDPs) are reporting that organized criminal groups have been exploiting the confinement, to strengthen their control over local communities.
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16/05/2020
(UN News)* — After confirmation that the first cases of COVID-19 infection have been identified in a vast and overcrowded refugee camp in Bangladesh, UN humanitarians on Friday [15 May 2020] announced additional measures and appealed for funds to prevent the disease from spreading.
© UNHCR | Rohingya refugees use a handwashing station, installed to help combat the spread of COVID-19 at a settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
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