16/07/2021
‘To Recover Better, We Must Address the Longstanding Disparities and Challenges Faced by Young People’
16/07/2021
The Skills Young Job Seekers Need
Human Wrongs Watch
World Youth Skills Day, 15 July 2021
15 July 2021 (ILO)* — On World Youth Skills Day 2021, ILO Senior Youth Employment Specialist, Susana Puerto, speaks about the impact of COVID-19 on young people’s education and job prospects and the skills that are in demand by employers and a changing world of work.
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16/07/2021
Nearly 40% of Young People on the Move Identify Education and Training as Top Priorities
Human Wrongs Watch
World Youth Skills Day, 15 July 2021
NEW YORK, 14 July 2021 (UNICEF)* – Nearly 40 per cent of migrant and displaced youth identified education and skills training as their top priorities, while 30 per cent named employment opportunities, according to a new UNICEF poll announced on the eve of World Youth Skills Day.
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These findings were revealed through a U-Report poll of more than 26,000 people, including almost 9,000 young people (aged 14-24), across 119 countries.
The poll, conducted between 6 May and 1 June 2021, asked respondents about their aspirations to learn and earn, and the unique barriers they face – as a girl or as a refugee, trying to access the labour market with or without legal status.
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16/07/2021
UFO Sightings Are Reported around the World Every Year
Speculation about extraterrestrial presences has been around a very long time | Image from Wall Street International.
Horatio upon seeing the ghost of his father: “O day and night, but this is wonderous strange.” Hamlet: “Therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
(Shakespeare in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5)
15 July 2021 (Wall Street International)* — If someone wanted to ruin his career, taking UFOs seriously has been a good way to do it. In polite circles, the idea that nonhuman species are visiting Earth from distant civilizations has ranked high on the kook scale. Now that might be changing.
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15/07/2021
Afghans Fleeing the Taliban Face Death, Deportation and Push-Backs in Turkey
The Seyrantepe cemetery in Van, where many Afghans who attempted to cross Turkey are buried | Karolina Augustova
15/07/2021
US-led NATO in Afghanistan: Crimes against Humanity Call for Accountability
Human Wrongs Watch
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja
“We are going to lose the war in Afghanistan and it will help bankrupt us. One of our major strategic blunders in Afghanistan was not to have recognized that both Great Britain and the Soviet Union attempted to pacify Afghanistan using the same military methods as ours and failed disastrously. We seem to have learned nothing from Afghanistan’s modern history — to the extent that we even know what it is. Between 1849 and 1947.”
— Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire – America’s Last Best Hope: 8/2010
Were George W. Bush and NATO Pathological Liars to Invade Afghanistan?
After 9/11, America led NATO’s invasion of Afghanistan was a revulsion against truth as it was in complete disconnect to the living consciousness of global community.
David Corn (“Is the President a Pathological Liar? Bush’s unhealthy relationship with reality”: LA Weekly: 12/11/2003), outlines the compelling facts:
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15/07/2021
Afghanistan: Worsening Security Situation in Wake of Foreign Troop Withdrawal Forced 270,000 Newly Displaced Afghans to Flee Their Homes So Far this Year
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The worsening security situation across Afghanistan in the wake of foreign troop withdrawal and Taliban advances, has forced an estimated 270,000 from their homes since January, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday [13 July 2021], bringing the total internally displaced to more than 3.5 million.
15/07/2021
EU Urged to Consider Impact of New Climate Mechanism on Developing Countries
(UN News)* — Although a new European Union (EU) climate initiative unveiled on 14 July 2021 could change global trade patterns to favour countries where production is relatively carbon efficient, its value in mitigating climate change will likely be limited, the UN trade and development agency, UNCTAD, has warned.
15/07/2021
Deaths on Maritime Migration Routes to Europe Soar in First Half of 2021
Berlin (IOM)* – At least 1,146 people died attempting to reach Europe by sea in the first six months of 2021 according to a new briefing on 13 July 2021 released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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At least 1,146 people died attempting to reach Europe by sea in the first six months of 2021. Photo: IOM
13/07/2021
“Our War with Nature” Includes a ‘Food System that Generates One Third of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Is Also Responsible for Up to 80% of Biodiversity Loss’
Human Wrongs Watch
‘Tremendously off track’ to meet 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: UN chief
(UN News)* — Between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020 – some 161 million more than for 2019 – the UN Secretary-General said on 12 July 2021; “new, tragic data”, which indicates the world is “tremendously off track” to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
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