23/09/2020
Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, by Vijay Prashad, Sep 2020, 162 pp.
While vaunting itself as an oasis of democracy, the United States, in reality, has become a superpower by infiltrating foreign governments, obliterating entire cultures, and carrying out murderous military interventions in developing countries all over the world.
Washington Bullets is about U.S. imperialism—the bullets sent by various Washington, DC administrations to crush revolutions, assassinate democratically elected leaders—to destroy hope.
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23/09/2020
(UN News)* — The assaults by security forces in Myanmar on villages in Rakhine state “need to stop”, and a ceasefire should be declared immediately, said the UN independent rights expert on the situation across the country on Tuesday [22 September 2020].
© UNICEF/Nyan Zay Htet | On 29 January 2019 in Mynamar, children play at Thet Kel Pyin Muslim Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state.
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Thomas Andrews decried the mounting toll of child casualties: “Serious questions have been raised about whether these children, and growing numbers of others, are being caught in the crossfire of war, or are being deliberately targeted,” he said.
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23/09/2020
22 September 2020 (UN News)* — Worsening conflict, combined with a precarious humanitarian situation, has forced more than 300,000 people to flee their homes and villages in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, leaving them completely reliant on humanitarian assistance, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Affected communities receive WFP food relief in Nacate village, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique.
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22/09/2020
(UN News)* — The international community “should not be neutral” on enforced disappearance, independent UN human rights experts said on Monday [21 September 2020], calling for countries to strengthen cooperation in investigating and prosecuting perpetrators.
UN Photo/Mark Garten | Visitors throw white flowers into Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires out of respect and remembrance for the tens of thousands of people who disappeared during Argentina’s so-called “Dirty War”.
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21/09/2020
In Coleraine, Derry, Northern Ireland, at an event going viral focusing on conflict textiles depicting the costs of war.
Many thanks for your kind invitation to send a message of Peace on the International Day of Peace. I am sorry I cannot be with you in person as I would have liked to greet you all, but please know that I am with you in spirit, wherever you are today.
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21/09/2020
21 September 2020 (United Nations)* — This year, it has been clearer than ever that we are not each other’s enemies. Rather, our common enemy is a tireless virus that threatens our health, security and very way of life. COVID-19 has thrown our world into turmoil and forcibly reminded us that what happens in one part of the planet can impact people everywhere.
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PHOTO:UN Photo/Marco Dormino | Members of the audience at a performance put on by a communal youth theatre project to promote peace and reconciliation in Gao, Mali (2014). UN Photo/Marco Dormino
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21/09/2020
By Catherine Wachiaya in Nairobi, Kenya and Yonna Tukundane in Nakivale, Uganda*
Congolese rights activist Sabuni Francoise Chikunda is the regional winner for Africa for the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award for her work with fellow refugees in Uganda. | Français
Congolese rights activist Sabuni Francoise Chikunda is the Nansen Refugee Award regional winner for Africa. © UNHCR/Esther Ruth Mbabazi
Activist Sabuni Francoise Chikunda has touched many lives in the three years since she arrived at Uganda’s Nakivale refugee settlement.
21 September 2020 (UNHCR)* — To the children at the reception centre, the 49-year-old with a ready smile is a dedicated English teacher.
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20/09/2020
19 September 2020 (UN News)* — The COVID-19 pandemic has largely put a freeze on migration. But will the movement of people recover once the current crisis is over? In an interview with UN News, Gary Rynhart, a senior official at the UN labour agency, ILO, explains why a return to “normal” is unlikely, and migrants will probably face a very different job market.
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IOM/Benjamin Suomela | Burmese migrant worker in Bangkok, Thailand.
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20/09/2020
18 September 2020 (UNHCR)* — UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has warned that millions of displaced people in need of protection and assistance, and their host communities, are feeling the pinch of massive underfunding, as the COVID-19 crisis continues to increase humanitarian needs globally. | Español | Français | عربي
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20/09/2020
During the pandemic, several communities entered lockdown to avoid bringing in the virus.
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