NEW YORK, 4 November 2019 (UNICEF)* -– “The latest escalation in northeast Syria brings a renewed urgency for governments to repatriate foreign children stranded in the area before it is too late.
National governments have the responsibility and opportunity now to do the right thing and bring these children and their parents home where they can receive adequate care and be safe from violence and abuse.
The UN refugee agency’s special envoy for the central Mediterranean, Vincent Cochetel, told a German newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, on Sunday [3 November 2019] that while more than 1,000 people have died or gone missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean this year, the land journey across Africa to reach the Mediterranean is even more lethal.
5 November 2019 (UN Environment)* — Message from UN Environment’s Executive Director on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict:
Photo by Hassan Partow/UNEP
In recent decades, two fundamental changes have shaped the way the international community understands challenges to peace and security.
4 November 2019 (UN Environment)* — “Local communities have to be involved in decisions about forests that affect their livelihoods,” says Tecla Chumba, a Kenyan woman from the Lembus tribe and mother of four.
She set up a community forest association and asked the Kenya Forest Service to give each member half an acre of land and tree seedlings that they could plant, alongside their own crops. Members would then return these plots after the trees have grown for three years.
Billions of people across the world stand on the right side of history every day. They speak up, take a stand, mobilize, and take big and small actions to advance women’s rights. This is Generation Equality.
Demecia Yat. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
By UN Women* — This interview features Demecia Yat, one of 15 women survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Guatemala.
October 2019 (UNHCR)* — They murdered his father, torched his neighbourhood and sent him running for his life. Rounding up as many family members as he could find, Hawali Oumar fled his hometown of Baga, in north-eastern Nigeria, to escape the killers of Boko Haram. Together, they made the journey over the border to the Chadian side of Lake Chad.| Español | Français |عربي
1 November 2019 (Norwegian Refugee Council)* — 273,000 people have been left displaced due to severe flooding across Somalia. Several thousand people in the worst-affected area of Baladweeyne are sheltering under trees or in emergency tents after their makeshift homes were washed away by floods caused by torrential rain.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is calling for an urgent humanitarian response to ensure aid can be provided safely to people in desperate need.
New York, 31 October 2019 – United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-backed Afghan forces have committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today [31 October 2019].
31 October 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Only immediate climate action can save the future. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.
At an April 30 conference entitled “Covering Climate Now”, co-sponsored by The Nation and Colombia Journalism Review, Bill Moyers made a speech which included the following remarks:
More than 400 delegations of Venezuela participated in this first meeting, as well as 60 international delegations coming from across the country.
One of the focus will be the creation of an international movement of native peoples, along with a collective agenda for the fight against foreign intervention and extractivism. | Photo: MINCI (posted here fromteleSUR).
30 October 2019 (teleSUR)* — The 1st International Congress of Native Peoples has begun Tuesday [29 October 2019] in Venezuela and will last until Thursday, as part of the strategic actions that were outlined during the 25th Forum of Sao Paolo last month.
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