03/10/2020
(UN News)* — The elimination of nuclear weapons is vital to the “survival of life on this planet”, the UN chief told the final major event of the General Assembly’s high level week on Friday [2 October 2020].
Unsplash/Burgess Milner | At the height of the Cold War, more fallout shelters were built as the perceived threat from nuclear war increased.
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03/10/2020
2 October 2020 (United Nations)* — The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence.
The “Non-Violence” (or “Knotted Gun”) sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on display at the UN Visitors’ Plaza. PHOTO:UN Photo/Fan Xiao
According to General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271 of 15 June 2007, which established the commemoration, the International Day is an occasion to “disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness”.
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01/10/2020
The slave owners won the first three
September 2020 (Wall Street International)* — There have been four wars for slavery conducted by the USA: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.
When American children like me were taught American history, we were told that the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the rebellious states of the Confederacy and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution freed them everywhere in the USA.
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30/09/2020
28 September 2020 (UNCTAD)* — UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa Report 2020 says stopping illicit capital flight could almost cut in half the annual financing gap of $200 billion that the continent faces to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
[©Michael Kuhlmann
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are movements of money and assets across borders which are illegal in source, transfer or use, according to the report entitled “Tackling illicit financial flows for sustainable development in Africa.”
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30/09/2020
(UN News)* — Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and their international partners, must urgently resume peace efforts “before it is too late”, UN Middle East envoy Nikolay Mladenov told the Security Council on Tuesday [29 September 2020], echoing the Secretary-General.
UNDP PAPP/Abed Zagout | A mosque in Gaza is cleaned to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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“We are again at a pivotal moment in the search for peace as convergence of destabilizing factors threatens to pull Israelis and Palestinians further towards a one-State reality of perpetual occupation and conflict,” he warned, speaking by videoconference from Jerusalem.
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29/09/2020
The creation of a Palestinian State remains a pipe-dream
Roberto Savio
28 September 2020 – After the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, The League of Nations mandated that Britain administer Palestine. The London administration was quite ineffective, in part, due to the contradictory promises which were made to the Arabs, to the Zionists and to France, the other colonial power which divided the territory with Britain.
But the conflict is much more ancient. It has now been thirty centuries since the first confrontations between the Philistines and the Hebrews, and the peace agreement promoted by US President Donald Trump between Israel and two ancient small Gulf monarchical dictatorships will certainly not resolve this millennial rivalry.
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29/09/2020
(UN News)* — With one in three women around the world affected by gender-based violence – a crime that skyrockets more than 200 per cent in conflict settings –
Nobel laureate Nadia
Murad brought governments and UN leaders to task on Monday
[28 September 2020], for failing to provide the resources needed to create meaningful change for traumatized communities.
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UN Photo/Mark Garten | File photo from 2019 of Nadia Murad, Nobel Laureate and Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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29/09/2020
“If you tell a lie, tell a big one.”
“If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.”
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.”
— Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945
Robert J. Burrowes
Transhumanism is a set of beliefs based on the premise that human beings can be improved by genetic manipulation and/or implanting technologies into the brain and body to achieve enhanced capacities.
Transhumanism has a long history as an idea but since 1990 it has attracted serious attention from an increasing number of technology-lovers and early advocates are readily identified. See ‘What is Transhumanism?’
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28/09/2020
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 28 2020 (IPS)* – One of the biggest revelations of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that people with pre-existing, diet-related conditions such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, are more at risk of suffering severe forms of the disease leading to a need for intensive hospitalization.
The UN estimates that 74% of Africans cannot afford healthy diets. That is nearly 1 billion Africans. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
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28/09/2020
By Roland Schönbauer in Khartoum, Sudan*
South Sudanese refugees remain in urgent need of support after heavy rains and floods damage their shelters. | Español | Français | عربي
South Sudanese refugee, Bak, 80, stands next to his shelter that was damaged by massive flooding in Sharq Al-Nile, Sudan.
© UNHCR/Roland Schönbauer
24 September 2020 (UNHCR)* — Looking back at the years he has spent in Sudan, Bak does not remember seeing anything like the recent floods that have wreaked havoc across the country.
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