08/02/2020
NEW YORK, Feb 7 2020 (IPS)* – “I soiled my pants, I could feel the wetness seeping into my waistband, my eyes started to become blurry. Only the sound of the blaring television assured me that I was still alive. I tried to stop thinking and make my mind go completely blank. Over the years I have adapted and now I can make my mind go numb. But the only nagging question ringing on my mind during the last 45 seconds was: will this stain the carpet? Should I clean myself first or should I clean the carpet first? Which one is safer? Did he notice the stain?
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08/02/2020
Final steps in energy re-grouping in the Eastern Mediterranean?
East Med agreement and Middle East crisis
7 February 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Signing of the inter-governmental agreement on the construction of the East Med pipeline to transport natural gas and connect the deposits of the Eastern Mediterranean to the European market via Cyprus and Greece on January 2nd has been described as “historic”.
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07/02/2020
Throughout Israel’s existence its various governments have regarded members of Israel’s Bedouin population as undesirable citizens: after initially expelling most of them from the country, the state concentrated those that remained in the Sayag area and after that in townships.
Amos Gvirtz
In 1948, most of the Bedouin who lived in the Negev were deported in the “heat of the battle” during the War of Independence. Deportations continued until 1959.
After the establishment of the state, military rule was imposed on the Bedouin, as on all other Palestinian Israeli citizens.
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07/02/2020
I would like to announce the publication of a book, which deals with the world’s failure to adequately address the existential danger of catastrophic climate change.
John Scales Avery
The book consists mainly of book chapters and articles that I have previously published, although a considerable amount of new material has been added. It can be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link:
http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Climate-Change-Means-Lifestyle-Change-John-Scales-Avery.pdf
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07/02/2020
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 6 2020 (IPS)* – The world’s young activists, numbering over 3.8 billion, are on the war path.
Credit: Amnesty International
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The rising new socialist movements—which included “Black Lives Matter,” “Occupy Wall Street” “Un-Occupy Palestine” and “the #Me Too Movement” triggering women’s marches— were aimed at battling racism, institutionalized inequalities, political repression and sexual harassment.
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07/02/2020
(UN News)* — Air and ground strikes in the region of Idlib, northwest Syria, are causing “massive waves of civilian displacement and major loss of civilian life”, causing unacceptable human suffering which must stop now, Geir Pedersen, the UN Special Envoy for Syria, told the Security Council on Thursday [6 February 2020].
UNOCHA | Children pose outside a tent in a camp for displaced people in Idlib, northern Syria.
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07/02/2020
One billion small arms in circulation worldwide
UN Photo/Ky Chung | A UN peacekeeper with firearms collected from militias in Côte d’Ivoire.
5 February 2020 (UN News)* — Nearly 50 per cent of all violent deaths between 2010 and 2015, more than 200,000 each year, involved small arms and light weapons, the Security Council was told on Tuesday [5 February 2020], during a briefing by UN disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu.
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06/02/2020
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5 2020 (IPS)* – Counter-terrorism efforts adopted by governments around the world in response to threats of terrorism are affecting children negatively in numerous ways, a report by Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) claimed last week.
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06/02/2020
4 February 2020 (UN News)* — Rising instability and unpredictable geopolitical tensions have led to a “wind of madness” across the world, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday [4 February 2020] during his main annual press conference for journalists at UN Headquarters in New York.
UN Photo/Mark Garten | Secretary-General António Guterres briefs journalists on his priorities for 2020 and on the work of the organization.
Following recent flare-ups in some hotspots, the UN chief observed that although de-escalation efforts indicated progress, the situation has now changed.
“I have spoken about winds of hope. But today a wind of madness is sweeping the globe. From Libya to Yemen to Syria and beyond — escalation is back. Arms are flowing. Offensives are increasing”, he said.
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06/02/2020
Indigenous and tribal communities are around three times more likely to face extreme poverty than others with women “consistently at the bottom of all social and economic indicators”, UN labour experts said on Monday [3 February 2020]. (*).
ILO/R. Lord | Women walk in the street in La Paz, Bolivia.
Highlighting new data showing that disproportionate numbers of indigenous people live on less than $1.90 a day – 18.2 per cent versus 6.8 per cent of non-indigenous people – the International Labour Organization (ILO) insisted that millions are being held back by a “spectre of poverty”.
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