15/03/2020
Over 9,000 children killed or injured in the conflict, according to verified data, with an average of one child killed every 10 hours since monitoring began
.
Children ride in the back of a truck as families flee from in Idlib Governate from escalating violence. | Photo from UNICEF.
AMMAN/NEW YORK, 15 March 2020 (UNICEF)* – Some 4.8 million children were born in Syria since the conflict began nine years ago. An additional 1 million were born as refugees in neighbouring countries. They continue to face the devastating consequences of a brutal war, UNICEF said today
[15 March 2020].
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15/03/2020
The great sin against the poor is indifference
14 March 2020 (Wall Street International)* — These are words from a poem by José Ángel Valente “… after a shipwreck, after so many things that have been destroyed within ourselves…”.
Too many things must indeed have been destroyed within ourselves if we can still see —without being moved, and becoming outraged!— the pictures of thousands of refugees (including children and old people!) in the Greek-Turkish border, the border between Mexico and US, the Mediterranean sea…
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14/03/2020
(UN News)* — UN agencies have underscored their commitment to continue supporting civilians affected by the war in Syria, which this month enters its tenth year. The Secretary-General issued a statement on Thursday [12 March 2020], declaring that “we cannot allow the tenth year to result in the same carnage, the same flouting of human rights and international humanitarian law.”
© UNICEF/UNI310539/Romenzi | A mother holds her two children in the destroyed city of Aleppo in Syria.
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14/03/2020
(UN News)* — The coronavirus outbreak may have forced millions around the world already into “social distancing”, keeping a metre apart to prevent its spread, but it will not stop them from uniting to combat racism, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights declared in Geneva on Friday [13 March 2020].
UNDPLAC Young women from the Caribbean island of Dominica.
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13/03/2020
(Stockholm, 9 March 2020) International transfers of major arms during the five-year period 2015–19 increased by 5.5 per cent compared with 2010–14. According to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the largest exporters of arms during the past five years were the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China. The new data shows that the flow of arms to the Middle East has increased, with Saudi Arabia clearly being the world’s largest importer.
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12/03/2020
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 10 2020 (IPS)* – The US is currently still in a stock market bubble which, if history is any guide, is likely to end, perhaps soon due to Covid19. President Trump would, of course, like to sustain it to strengthen his November re-election prospects.
Meanwhile, US business investment has declined for many years. As shares of GDP, corporate profits or even market capitalization, such investment has been in decline for at least four decades. Clearly, ‘neo-liberal’ economic policies have failed to decades-long trend.
Financialization ‘unreal’
Although focused on the US, William Lazonick’s seminal 2014 Harvard Business Review article, Profits without Prosperity, and Lazonick and Shin’s new book, Predatory Value Extraction: How the Looting of the Business Corporation Became the US Norm and How Sustainable Prosperity Can Be Restored offer invaluable insights into investment trends with implications for much of the world.
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12/03/2020
Contrasting Rates of Change
John Scales Avery
Cultural evolution depends on the non-genetic storage, transmission, diffusion and utilization of information.
The development of human speech, the invention of writing, the development of paper and printing, and finally, in modern times, computers and the Internet: all these have been crucial steps in society’s explosive accumulation of information and knowledge.
Human cultural evolution proceeds at a constantly-accelerating speed, so great in fact that it threatens to shake society to pieces.
The strong contrast between the slow rate of genetic change and the lightning-like, constantly accelerating rate of cultural change means that we face the serious problems of today with an emotional nature that has changed little since our ancestors lived in small tribes, competing for territory on the grasslands of Africa.
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11/03/2020
1o March 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The ineptitude of the would-be king has been on display for all the world to see. He wants to be adored and worshipped as no president of this waning democracy has before him. He actually does not see himself as president, as even he knows that he was not duly elected. Instead he believes that he is or will be monarch for life. He rules over the inept and ignorant, but also over the powerful and greedy. Or perhaps not over them, but by the grace of their foolish support.
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10/03/2020
9 March 2020 (UN Environment)* — It is nightfall in the village of Char Baghutia in Manikganj district in central Bangladesh. Twenty-seven-year-old Miriam is hunched over a rickety old sewing machine, under a single incandescent lamp, with one hand over the cloth and the other rocking her one-year-old baby to sleep. Her husband, a day labourer, is miles away in Dhaka.
Photo by UNEP/ Prashanthi S
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10/03/2020
FAO calls for $900 million to support the livelihoods of 43 million people facing acute hunger
Vaccinating a beneficiary’s cow in an area supported by FAO in Alzaydiah, Yemen.ROME, 9 March 2020 (FAO)* — While global attention has focused on the swarms of Desert Locusts attacking crops in East Africa, a number of other countries and regions are also confronting serious food security threats and require support, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 