18/02/2019
2019 is the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth. Therefore it might be appropriate to look at his life, and his message for today’s world.
If humans are ever to achieve a stable global society in the future, they will have to become much more modest in their economic behavior and much more peaceful in their politics. For both modesty and peace, Gandhi is a useful source of ideas.
The problems with which he struggled during his lifetime are extremely relevant to us in the 21st Century, when both nuclear and ecological catastrophes threaten the world.
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17/02/2019
February 2019 (UNHCR)* — A growing number of cities around the world are embracing refugees. This series looks at how they are helping the displaced to help themselves.
© Mapics/Shutterstockcom | Photo from UNHCR.
A majority of the world’s 25.4 million refugees live out of camps and in cities and urban areas across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Finding themselves on the frontlines of the global refugee response, an increasing number of cities are choosing to empower refugees and embrace the opportunities they bring.
Reported in cities around the world, these stories look at the steps they are taking to help refugees, and the impact they have of the lives of the forcibly displaced.
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16/02/2019
15 February 2019 — A surge in sexual violence in South Sudan’s Unity state targeting victims as young as eight years old, has prompted a call from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, for urgent Government measures to protect victims, and bring perpetrators to justice.
UNMISS/Isaac Billy | The intensification of road patrols followed shocking .incidents of rape and sexual assault, reported in the area in recent weeks.
Despite the signing of a peace deal between belligerents last September, UN investigators found that at least 175 women and girls have been raped or suffered other sexual and physical violence between September and December 2018.
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16/02/2019
15 February 2019 — Fawaz, just 18-months old, suffered from severe acute malnutrition and was on the brink of death. In war-torn Yemen, he was one of hundreds of thousands of children, more likely to die, than survive.
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15/02/2019
A “peaceful and just solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict can “only be achieved” through two States “living side-by-side in peace and security”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated on Friday [15 February 2019].
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UN News/Reem Abaza | A Palestinian woman selling olives, olive oil and other food items outside the Damascus Gate, one of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. November 2018.
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15/02/2019
With more than 745,000 Rohingya having fled violence in Myanmar to settle in Bangladesh, joining roughly 200,000 others already sheltering there, United Nations aid agencies and partners launched an appeal on Friday [15 February 2019] to help meet their “dire needs”.
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© UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo | Bangladesh. The Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to safety in Cox’s Bazar
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15/02/2019
14 February 2019 (Wall Street International)* — The current situation in Venezuela is a tragedy in the making, and it will very likely cause the death of many innocent people. Venezuela is on the verge of foreign military intervention, and the ensuing bloodbath may take on dramatic proportions. This much has been stated by Henrique Capriles, the best-known leader of the opposition to Nicolas Maduro, when he said that puppet-president Juan Guaidó is turning Venezuelans into “fodder for cannon”. He knows what he’s talking about.
President Donald Trump with Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo at the United Nations Security Council in New York City | Photo from Wall Street International.
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15/02/2019
An estimated 24 million people – close to 80 per cent of the population – need assistance and protection in Yemen, the UN warned on Thursday [14 February 2019]. With famine threatening hundreds of thousands of lives, humanitarian aid is increasingly becoming the only lifeline for millions across the country.
OCHA/Giles Clarke | Child at Al Rebat camp where around 60 displaced families live having fled conflict zones in Taiz and Al Hudaydah, Yemen (November 2018).
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14/02/2019
A projected near-doubling of measles infections has been identified amid rising severe and protracted outbreaks all over the planet, in poor and rich countries alike, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday [14 February 2019].
© UNICEF/UN0201055/Krepkih | Dana, 1.3, held by her mother Inna, doesn’t cry while being administered her first dose of mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine on 4 April 2018 in Children’s Policlinic №1 in Obolon district, Kyiv, Ukraine.
The appeal to Member States to close gaps in vaccine coverage follows the previously announced news that an estimated 110,000 people died from the highly infectious but easily preventable disease in 2017.
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14/02/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13 2019 (IPS)* –
When the Security Council, the most powerful body at the United Nations, met last month to discuss the growing new threats to world peace and security, the discussion veered away from international terrorism, nuclear Armageddon and the rash of ongoing military conflicts in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Catherine McKenna, Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change
And 83 of the 193 member states remained collectively focused on one of the greatest impending dangers to humanity: the devastation that could be triggered by climate change.
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