11/06/2019
10 June 2019 (UN Environment)* — The era of carbon offsets is drawing to a close. Buying carbon credits in exchange for a clean conscience while you carry on flying, buying diesel cars and powering your home with fossil fuels is no longer acceptable or widely accepted.
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Carbon credits are increasingly coming under fire for essentially allowing some to continue on their polluting ways while the rest of us are left scrambling to contain the climate crisis.
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11/06/2019
Executive Summary
This paper looks at some of the most important impacts of the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US government since August of 2017.
It finds that most of the impact of these sanctions has not been on the government but on the civilian population.
The sanctions reduced the public’s caloric intake, increased disease and mortality (for both adults and infants), and displaced millions of Venezuelans who fled the country as a result of the worsening economic depression and hyperinflation.
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11/06/2019
The Centenary International Labour Conference got underway on Monday [10 June 2019] at the UN in Geneva, with ILO chief Guy Ryder, calling on hundreds of delegates from around the world to help “construct a future of work, with social justice for all”.
ILO/Marcel Crozet | The Italian President Sergio Mattarella addresses the 108th International Labour Conference in Geneva on 10 June 2019.
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11/06/2019
UN Photo/Mark Garten ” Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (c), Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group (l) and the UN Secretary-General António Guterres (r) discuss how digital cooperation and technology can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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10/06/2019
(The Norwegian Refugee Council)* — On 5 June, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) launched its list of the ten most neglected crises in the world.
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10/06/2019
Foreign Office Annual Rights Report Pulls Punches on Saudi Arabia and Yemen
10 June 2019 (Human Rights Watch)* — The UK paints itself as a global champion on human rights, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s annual rights report is a key moment to demonstrate that commitment. Unfortunately, this year’s report fails to do so.
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09/06/2019
For the past 40 years, the United States and other advanced economies have been pursuing a free-market agenda of low taxes, deregulation, and cuts to social programs. There can no longer be any doubt that this approach has failed spectacularly; the only question is what will – and should – come next.
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What kind of economic system is most conducive to human wellbeing? That question has come to define the current era, because, after 40 years of neoliberalism in the United States and other advanced economies, we know what doesn’t work.
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09/06/2019
5 June 2019 (Wall Street International)* –
As China gets ready to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic, announced by Chairman Mao on October 1, 1949, at the historic Tien An Men Gate in Beijing, it is instructive to recall the key turning point in this journey to New China.
This was the decision for Reform and Opening Up taken after due deliberations by the 3rd Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China under the leadership of the visionary statesman, Deng Xiaoping, in November 1978.
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09/06/2019
Women are engaged in all aspects of interaction with our ocean, yet their voices are often missing at the decision-making level, the head of the United Nations cultural agency said on World Oceans Day [8 June 2019] emphasizing that “we must ensure diversity and gender inclusiveness at all levels” to set a balanced course for humanity and foster innovative solutions for the ocean.
Arne Hoel/World Bank | Oceans and seas are home to vast biodiversity. A woman in Entebbe, is photographed on the shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda.
“We need to empower each and every citizen to take care of the ocean and enable all women to play transformative and ambitious roles in understanding, exploring, protecting and sustainably managing our ocean”, said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, pointing out that this year’s “special edition” of World Oceans Day links the themes of gender equality and ocean preservation.
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 