MADRID, Jul 10 2023 (IPS)* – A quick glance at the current European political map would clearly show how far the extremist ideology has been installed in European countries –those who still wave the French Revolution’s flag of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.”
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According to the Napoleonic French Revolution’s three pillars, Liberty means freedom for an individual to do what he/she wants to do without harming others’ Liberty. Equality means equal opportunity to all the citizens irrespective of their caste, religion, race, gender.
Fraternity means an environment of brotherhood among the citizens of a nation.
DUDUMACAD, Ethiopia, 7 July 2023 (UNFPA)* – “Saving the life of this baby was a miracle and a blessing for my family. I am immensely grateful,” said Amino Bashir, 25, as she held her newborn.
Ms. Bashir lives in Dudumacad in the Somali region of Ethiopia – one of the areas devastated by a gruelling drought across the Horn of Africa that has affected more than 36 million people so far.
People fleeing the ongoing fighting in Sudan arrive in Chad. Photo: IOM/F. Ada Affana
Geneva/Cairo/Port Sudan, 6 July 2023(IOM)* – Nearly 3 million people have been displaced internally and across borders by the conflict in Sudan, in less than three months.
In addition to the more than 2.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), nearly 700,000 others have fled into neighbouring countries, according to the latest figures by the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM).
Youlka buys food for dinner at a market in Togo’s Savanes region, where many displaced people are seeking shelter from violence. Photo: WFP/Richard Mbouet
She heaves a sigh of relief. With her national identity and ration cards in hand, she hurries to the distribution point for World Food Programme (WFP) cash. She already knows what she’ll spend it on.
(UN NEWS)* — With over 18,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) lurking beyond the stratosphere, 2,000 of which are classified as potentially hazardous, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is using Friday’s International Asteroid Dayto raise awareness across the planet.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA | Asteroid tracks among the stars.
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NEOs are asteroids or comets that come relatively close to the Sun, to about 50 million kilometres from Earth’s orbit. Some of them, ‘potentially hazardous objects’ (PHOs), come even closer – in interstellar terms – with a minimum distance of less than 7.5 million kilometres.
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Measuring more than 140 meters across, the PHOs have the potential to cause regional devastation with possible global consequences.
(UN NEWS)* — Senior UN officials and donor partners on Sunday [] visited the Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin, where they witnessed the “shocking” damage sustained during the Israeli incursion this past week.
The two-day Israeli military operation, which included airstrikes in this densely populated community, caused the worst level of destruction in more than 20 years in Jenin camp.
The two-day military operation was the fiercest in over 20 years, according to the UN agency that supports Palestine refugees, UNRWA.
Europe was the epicenter of World Wars I and II, and now it threatens, with its war in the Ukraine, to kindle World War III.
As usual in history, overt warfare is the fruit of a constant, underlying culture of war. And in the case of Europe, it was the culture of war developed over many centuries to maintain the profits of colonialism.
Dr. David Adams
To understand this, let us first turn to that old critic, Vladimir Lenin.
In his essay War and Revolution of May, 1917, Lenin wrote, “Peace reigned in Europe, but this was because domination over hundreds of millions of people in the colonies by the European nations was sustained only through constant, incessant, interminable wars, which we Europeans do not regard as wars at all, since all too often they resembled, not wars, but brutal massacres, the wholesale slaughter of unarmed peoples.”
Tunis – Tunisian security forces have collectively expelled several hundred Black African migrants and asylum seekers, including children and pregnant women, since July 2, 2023 to a remote, militarized buffer zone at the Tunisia–Libya border, Human Rights Watch on 6 July 2023 said.
(UN News)* — The UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect launched a new policy paper on Wednesday [] aimed at countering and addressing hate speech online.
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Governments and Internet companies are failing to meet challenges of online hate.
(UN NEWS)*— Last year, 27,180 grave violations were committed against children caught up in war – the highest number ever verified by the UN, the Security Council heard on Wednesday [].
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