30/03/2022
MADRID, Mar 29 2022 (IPS)* – While several politicians -and media– have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war” between rival ethnic groups, so nothing to worry about, there are some key facts that should be considered for the sake of having a wider, more accurate panorama. One of them is that this country is rich in oil.
Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in conflict is being fueled by systemic impunity, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan reports. Credit: Jared Ferrie/IPS
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30/03/2022
Paul Craig Roberts
Since the Russian action in Ukraine began, provoked by Washington’s cold shoulder to Russian security concerns, Washington, in addition to doing all possible to keep the conflict going, has also dumped three more provocations on the Kremlin:
- An attempted coup or “color revolution” in the former Russian province of Kazakhstan
- NATO military maneuvers currently under way in the former Russian province of Georgia which is not a NATO member
- NATO maneuvers in Poland on the Border of Belarus, a former Russian province and current Russian ally
The signal Washington consistently sends to the Kremlin is aggression. Why has no member of any government in the Western world, no presstitute in the Western media pointed this out? It is difficult to fathom the irresponsibility of Washington adding to the Ukraine provocation three more provocations simultaneously. Why provoke a country already concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?
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30/03/2022
(UN News)* — Nearly half of all pregnancies, totalling 121 million each year worldwide, are unintended, according to a new report published on Wednesday
[30 March 2022] by the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA.
© UNFPA/Ruth Carr | Despite her unplanned pregnancy, a teenage girl in Thailand is determind to get into university.
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30/03/2022
(UN News)* — Now entering its third year, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to hold back some 405 million school children wordlwide from a full return to the classroom, according to a new report released on Wednesday [29 March 2022] by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
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© UNICEF/Tanya Bindra | A young boy studies at home in Dori, Burkina Faso.
And as 23 countries have yet to fully re-open schools, many children are at risk of just dropping out.
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29/03/2022
26 Mar 2022 – According to a 2019 Rand report titled “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”, the US goal is to undermine Russia just as it did the Soviet Union in the cold war.
Rick Sterling
Rather than “trying to stay ahead” or trying to improve the US domestically or in international relations, the emphasis is on efforts and actions to undermine the designated adversary Russia.
Rand is a quasi-US governmental think tank that receives three-quarters of its funding from the US military.
The report lists anti-Russia measures divided into the following areas: economic, geopolitical, ideological/informational, and military. They are assessed according to the perceived risks, benefits and “likelihood of success”.
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29/03/2022
(UN News)* — The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General on Monday [28 March 2022 ] called on countries in Asia and the Pacific to speed up the shift from fossil fuels to new, low-carbon development models, in a just and inclusive way.
ESCAP/Suwat Chancharoensuk | UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed delivers special remarks to the opening of the ninth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD).
“Moving away from coal and fossil fuels in a region that accounts for 75 per cent of global coal-fired generation capacity will not be easy. But it is essential for our common future, and it is financially and technologically possible,” Amina Mohammed said.
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29/03/2022
28 March 2022 (UN News)* — The Horn of Africa is experiencing the worst drought since 1981, and a shortfall in aid funding is putting the lives of millions of Somalis in danger.
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UN Photo/Fardosa Hussein | A mother and her child pass by carcasses of goats and sheep in Luuq, Somalia on 21 March 2022.
Standing in front of his makeshift home in a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in southern Somalia’s Luuq district, Ahmad Hassan Yarrow looks out towards what remains of the Juba River and shakes his head forlornly.
“Of all the droughts I have experienced in my 70 years, I have not seen anything as severe as this,” he says as he contemplates the scenery before him.
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29/03/2022
(UN News)* — Many of Libya’s migrant detention centres remain places of terrible and systematic abuse, that may amount to crimes against humanity, top rights investigators said on Monday [28 March 2022].
© UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi | Migrants from Nigeria who were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard as their boat was capsizing, crouch in a courtyard at a detention centre, where they are being held, in Libya. (file)
On the sidelines of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, head of the Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, Mohamed Auajjar, told journalists that investigators had uncovered further evidence of serious rights violations, which they first made public last October.
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26/03/2022
(UN News)* — Around three per cent of Costa Rica’s population is now made up of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday [25 March 2022].
© UNHCR/Kai Odio | A UNHCR staff member assists Nicaraguan asylum seekers in Upala, near Costa Rica’s border with Nicaragua.
Doubling in number over the last eight months, the agency now estimates that there are more than 150,000 Nicaraguans who have crossed over the southern border, seeking refuge in Costa Rica.
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26/03/2022
(UN News)* — A deepening crackdown on civil society in Libya, has prompted the concern of the UN human rights office, which noted on Friday [25 March 2022] that arbitrary arrests and a campaign of social media vilification are having “a seriously chilling effect on human rights defenders, humanitarian workers, and other civil society actors.”
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© UNICEF/Juan Haro | A Sudanese man in Libya was abducted by armed elements and conscripted into forced labour.
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