08/03/2022
Although we all condemn President Putin`s action in entering Ukraine we must now consider what steps can be taken to de-escalate the situation. Although some low level talks have been held we must consider the best options to not stroke or escalate a war in Europe.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Both sides need assurances of their own safety with Russia requesting that Ukraine remaining non-NATO/neutral state.
This is very important to the Russians. Before the break-up of USSR, NATO promised never to move east into ex-soviet countries. They now have missiles and bases in most ex-soviet countries.
The Ukrainians also need guarantees of their own security. There would have to be a full withdrawal of Russian troops and possibly a UN Monitoring body along borders of Donbas region, to prevent ongoing war that has been carried out along the borders of Donbas where thousands of civilians have been killed following the 2014 uprising.
It is my belief that the escalation will continue if we go on weaponizing the region by UK/USA/EU.
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08/03/2022
MADRID, Mar 7 2022 (IPS)* – The picture is gloomy: not only do women represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of poverty, but also up to 40% of the poorest households in urban areas are headed by women.
Women predominate in the world’s food production (50-80 per cent), but they own less than 10 per cent of the land. Credit: Jency Samuel/IP
Should this not be enough, please know that:
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05/03/2022
© UNICEF/Juan Haro | Abdul, from Darfur, was forced to live in a house in Libya and work. He is now seeking asylum.
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The plastic bracelets the women wore in a bar in Argentina indicated the number of men they had been forced to have sex with. In Thailand, men and children from Myanmar were exploited in the fishing industry: an electric shock device was used if they refused to work.
And a Chinese symbol for “slave” was tattooed on the ankle of a woman in the United States.
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05/03/2022
(UN News)* — Global food prices reached an all-time high in February, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday [4 March 2022].
Unsplash/Jo-Anne McArthur | Dairy cows in Taiwan.
The Food Price Index, which tracks the international prices of a items such as vegetable oils and dairy products, averaged 140.7 points last month, or nearly four per cent up from January.
This is also 24.1 per cent over the level a year earlier and 3.1 points higher than in February 2011.
“Concerns over crop conditions and adequate export availabilities explain only a part of the current global food price increases. A much bigger push for food price inflation comes from outside food production, particularly the energy, fertilizer and feed sectors,” said FAO economist Upali Galketi Aratchilage.
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04/03/2022
(UN News)*— In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global rates of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25 per cent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday [2 March 2022].
© UNICEF | Loneliness exacerbated by COVID-19 restrictions has increased depression and anxiety rates.
Findings in the UN health agency’s new report suggest that the greatest deterioration in mental health took place in the areas worst-hit by COVID-19 -where infections were high and social interaction was restricted.
“The information we have now about the impact of COVID-19 on the world’s mental health is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
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04/03/2022
Unsplash/Galen Crout | Under Canada’s Indian Act, the federal Government maintains that indigenous people must have “status Indian” registration as for access to rights and benefits.
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02/03/2022
CANBERRA, Australia , Feb 28 2022 (IPS)* – Oceans play a pivotal role in regulating the world’s climate and maintaining the conditions for human life on earth. And they are a crucial source of sustenance and economic wellbeing in many developing countries, including small island developing states.
Pacific Islanders depend on coastal fisheries for food and commercial livelihoods. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS
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02/03/2022
(UN News)* — The world must be made a safer place for people working to protect the planet, who sometimes pay with their own lives for their activism, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday [1 March 2022].
© UNICEF/Alécio Cézar | Poyowari Piyãko, a young activist, poses in his home in the Apiwtxa village, which belongs to the Ashaninka indigenous people, in northern Brazil.
“Protecting the environment goes hand-in-hand with protecting the rights of those who defend it,”she told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, which is holding its annual month-long session.
Dangers of speaking out
Ms. Bachelet revealed how speaking out and standing up for environmental rights can come at enormous cost as activists have been killed or subjected to abuse, threats and harassment.
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02/03/2022
(UN News)* — Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, UN-appointed rights experts said on Tuesday [1 March 2022], citing child killings, disappearances, torture and enforced mass displacement.
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© UNICEF/Fauzan Ijazah | A girl reads a book in front of her house in Papua, one of Indonesia’s poorest provinces.
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“Between April and November 2021, we have received allegations indicating several instances of extrajudicial killings, including of young children, enforced disappearance, torture and inhuman treatment and the forced displacement of at least 5,000 indigenous Papuans by security forces,” the three independent experts said in a statement.
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