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11/07/2021

It Took Hundreds of Thousands of Years for World Population to Grow to 1 Billion – Then in Just Another 200 Years or So, It Grew Sevenfold… Today, It Stands at About 7.7 Billion

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

‘Ensure Reproductive Health Rights for All’

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World Population Day, 11 July 2021

11 July 2021 (UN News)* — Erosion of women’s reproductive rights has been one of the fallouts from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said.

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A mother and her newborn in Suai, Timor-Leste.
UN Photo/Martine Perret | A mother and her newborn in Suai, Timor-Leste.
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In his message for World Population Day, observed on Sunday, the UN chief called for closing gaps in access to sexual and reproductive health services which the crisis has created.

Grim milestones

The pandemic “continues to upend our world, reaching one grim milestone after another,” said Mr. Guterres.

Last week, the global death toll due to COVID-19 officially surpassed four million.

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11/07/2021

Disruptions in Contraceptives Supply – and Lockdowns – Predicted to Result in a Sharp Rise in Unplanned Pregnancies for the Most Vulnerable

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World Population Day, 11 July 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

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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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10/07/2021

UK Policing Bill Will Unfairly Criminalise Ethnic Minorities, Warn Experts

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By Adam Bychawski*

Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy joined by rights campaigners in accusing the government of bringing in discriminatory legislation
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Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy | CC BY 3.0.
9 July 2021 (openDemocracy)* — The UK government’s controversial new policing law will increase the unjust criminalisation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy has warned.
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The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which passed through the House of Commons this week, has been condemned by experts over the controversial new powers it gives to police and judges that would allow them to place restrictions on demonstrations and increase sentences for children.

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10/07/2021

A Robust New Strategy for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

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The targets of the new 2030 Strategy of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) are in alignment with blue transformation, a pillar of FAO’s new Strategic Framework

Photo: ©David Salvatori

The GFCM’s ambitious new 2030 Strategy will boost fisheries and aquaculture in the Black Sea and Mediterranean region.

ROME (FAO)* – An ambitious commitment adopted 9 July 2021 by 22 countries plus the European Union aims to secure a sustainable future for fisheries and aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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10/07/2021

South Sudan at a Crossroads

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By Human Rights Watch*

Challenges and Hopes 10 Years After Independence

9 July 2021 — Ten years ago, on July 9, 2011, South Sudan gained its long-fought independence from Sudan. Since then, the new country descended into a bloody seven-year civil war, and while a peace deal was inked by warring parties in 2018, fighting between communities, as well as government human rights abuses, rage on.

Southern Sudanese wave the national flag and cheer at South Sudan's first national soccer match after the country declared its independence, in the capital Juba on July 10, 2011Southern Sudanese wave the national flag and cheer at South Sudan’s first national soccer match after the country declared its independence, in the capital Juba on July 10, 2011 © 2011 AP Photo/Pete Muller

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10/07/2021

Swift, Durable Solutions Needed to Protracted Rohingya Crisis

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Cox’s Bazar (IOM)* – Almost 900,000 Rohingya refugees in congested camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar District desperately need urgent action to secure their future, nearly four years after they were forced to flee Myanmar, a senior International Organization for Migration (IOM) official said. 

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10/07/2021

A Third of Haiti’s Children in Urgent Need of Emergency Aid: UNICEF

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(UN News)* — Nearly a third of all children in Haiti – numbering around 1.5 million – are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising violence, insufficient access to clean water, health and nutrition, said the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on 9 July 2021.

Nearly one-third of all children in Haiti are in urgent need of emergency relief
© UNICEF/Manuel Moreno Gonza | Nearly one-third of all children in Haiti are in urgent need of emergency relief

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09/07/2021

Approaching Iran: The Flaws of Imperial Diplomacy in the Middle East

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un-human-rights-richard-falk-150x150By Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service*

This post consists of six segments devoted to relations of the West to Iran, centering on whether the United States post-Trump will attempt to reduce tensions with Iran or opt for continuity, and greater policy coordination with Israel’s new post-Netanyahu leadership.

Naphtali Bennett, Israel’s new Prime Minister, has already made clear that he views Iran no differently than Netanyahu, opposes a return to the 2015 Nuclear Program Agreement (JCPOA) and seems to have authorized at unprovoked attack on the Karaj facility on June 23rd that produces centrifuges needed to obtain enriched uranium.

When the U.S. Government withdrew from the hard bargained Obama Era nuclear agreement in 2018 accompanied by a revamping of sanctions against Iran, tensions once again dangerously escalated.

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09/07/2021

In Global Push to Save Endangered Species, Local Communities Are Key

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9 July 2021 (UNEP)* — When Elderman Ndubiwa Jabulani was invited to a consultation with a cross-sectoral group of local stakeholders from his native Zimbabwe and neighbouring Botswana, he was ready to talk about the elephant in the room.

Elephant, Amboseli, Kenya, credit Stephanie Foote

UNEP/Stephanie Foote / 09 Jul 2021

Or rather, the elephants in the field. Jabulani, a farmer, says the animals regularly trample his fields and ravage his crops in the Hwange district of Zimbabwe.

To wildlife officials, the elephants seemed to be more important than he and his family were.

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