26/12/2020
Once omitted from biodiversity treaty negotiations, indigenous people now have a say in a landmark global framework expected to be signed by 190 countries
Members of Dominica’s Kalinago community, the largest indigenous group in the Eastern Caribbean, on a tour with government officials at a recent event in the Kalinago Territory. Courtesy: Alison KentishUNITED NATIONS, Dec 23 2020 (IPS)* – The picturesque Mahuat River in Dominica is one of 8 communities that make up the Kalinago Territory – a 3,700-acre area on the Caribbean island’s east coast that is home to the Kalinago people, the largest indigenous group in the Eastern Caribbean.
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25/12/2020
The use of force on the international stage
23 December 2020 — (Wall Street International)* — Is it legitimate for States to use violence to frighten or rightfully kill political enemies or opponents, under the justification of national security?
In times of war, as happened during World War II, all forms of struggle were used, starting with the elimination of millions of human beings in the Nazi concentration camps in several European countries. Mainly Jews, but also communists, patriots, gypsies, homosexuals or the disabled.
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25/12/2020
Geneva, 23 December 2020 (ILO)* — In 2020, for the first time in the ILO’s history, an International Labour Standard achieved universal ratification, with acceptance by all 187 Member States. Universal ratification of ILO Convention No. 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour (1999) means that all children now have legal protection against the worst forms of child labour.
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25/12/2020
UN Women/Fahad Kaizer | A health worker distributes hygiene supplies to a family in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Over the past 12 months, COVID-19 has deepened those inequalities, a view highlighted in February, by the UN’s labour-focused agency, ILO, which declared that the two billion people working in the informal sector were particularly exposed.
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24/12/2020
Let us try to look at the situation from a distance
Roberto Savio
To write about Venezuela has become extremely difficult. The country has become so polarized, that just two narratives are left.
One, that the government has been so handicapped by the sanctions and other punitive measures introduced by the Trump’s administration, and its allies (0ver 50 countries, and the European Union), that the economy has been strangled, with a terrible social and economic impact.
The other, that the government is in fact a dictatorship, who has made an administrative mess, has destroyed the economy, ad survives only thank to the support of the military, which has been corrupted by the government. Those are two oversimplifications, that we use for the sake of brevity. Let us try to look at things by a distance.
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24/12/2020
Richard Falk
Responses to interview questions from Javad Heiran-Nia on ‘World Order in the Time of COVID-19,’ with emphasis on China & United States, especially as reflected in the restructuring of the world economy.
The underlying issue is whether the Chinese or U.S. approach to global policy and world order will gain the upper hand, and at what costs to humanity. The interview will be published in a forthcoming issue of Age of Reflection, a monthly magazine.
This post adds some observations at the end that do not appear in the interview.
1 – In recent years, and especially with the spread of the Corona virus and the way China and the United States have dealt with this virus, the issue of Chinese and American order has received more and more attention. Do you think it is relevant to talk about Chinese order?
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24/12/2020
(UN News)* — The closure and subsequent fire, on Wednesday, at a migrant camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina has left thousands of migrants without shelter and protection, amid plummeting winter temperatures, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported.
IOM 2020/Ervin Causevic | The fire rages at the Lipa emergency camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina that housed about 1,400 migrants.
Nearly all infrastructure at the Lipa Emergency Tent Camp, which housed about 1,400 migrants, has been destroyed or badly damaged. This number is in addition to some 1,500 migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees – including women and children – stranded in squats and forest camps nearby.
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23/12/2020
(UN News)* — In an open letter to Donald Trump on Tuesday [22 December 2020], an independent UN human rights expert asked the departing United States President to pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Unsplash/Ashley Ross | Julian Assange is being held in high security Belmarsh Prison in southeast London (not pictured).
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23/12/2020
(IOM)* — Faced with the lack of options for safe and legal migration opportunities, thousands of Ethiopians leave the country every year using irregular channels to reach destinations in Northern Africa and Europe, the Gulf States and Southern Africa. These journeys are often risky, with thousands of Ethiopians believed to have died or gone missing, whether due to violence, vehicle accidents, shipwrecks or lack of access to medicine, shelter and food along the way.
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23/12/2020
(UN News)* — Reports of artillery strikes on civilians and mass killings of non-combatants in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, must be investigated and full access granted to independent investigators, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday [22 December 2020].
© UNHCR/Will Swanson | An Ethiopian refugee from Tigray awaits transfer from a border reception centre in Sudan.
The appeal by the High Commissioner for Human Rights follows seven weeks of conflict in northern Ethiopia between central Government soldiers and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces that has displaced tens of thousands.
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