07/06/2019
Migrants and refugees suffering from tuberculosis are being left “effectively to die” in a Libyan detention centre south of Tripoli, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday [7 June 2019], citing reports that those returned to shore by the coastguard have been disappeared or sold to traffickers.
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© UNICEF/UN052682/Romenzi | A migrant from Niger rests his hand on a gate inside a detention centre, in Libya, in 2017. He was arrested and detained before he was able to board a boat that was crossing to Italy.
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07/06/2019
Today [5 June 2019], PAX and ICAN have co-published a report showing how banks and pension funds are financing the companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons: Shorting our security- Financing the companies that make nuclear weapons. This is what you need to know:
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07/06/2019
The war in Afghanistan has been continuing every day for almost forty years. What could bring it to an end?
At least 10 Afghan civilians, including eight schoolchildren, have been killed in fighting involving Western troops in Narang district of Kunar Province in Afghanistan. | RAWA | CC BY 3.0
5 June 2019 (openDemocracy)* – The first attempt at the democratisation of Afghanistan, known as the “silent revolution”, failed in October 1965. Up to April 1978, there were nine subsequent governments, also nowhere near being able to satisfy the basic needs of the population.
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07/06/2019
Minette (38) and her family fled from Manyu and sought safety in Buea after their home was burned down. They have received some plastic sheeting and utensils from NRC, and they have built a temporary kitchen at their new place in Buea. Photo: NRC/Tiril Skarstein
“The international community is asleep at the wheel when it comes to the crisis in Cameroon. Brutal killings, burned-down villages and massive displacement have been met with deafening silence,” warned the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Jan Egeland.
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07/06/2019
In a world where international relations have become “more chaotic,” world leaders must avoid a new Cold War, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told delegates attending the International Economic Forum, in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg on Thursday [6 June 2019].
Photo: TASS/UN DPI | Secretary-General António Guterres at the opening of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Responding to questions in front of a live audience, Mr. Guterres called on leaders everywhere to show wisdom, and create the conditions in which the
2030 Agenda for sustainable development (the UN’s initiative to end poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change) can be achieved.
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07/06/2019
6 June 2019 — An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, 23 million of them before the age of 15, according to the first-ever analysis on child grooms, launched on Friday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).*
UNICEF/Kiran Panday | Adolescents in Gujara Municipality of Rautahat District in Nepal perform a skit on child marriage as part of UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme on Ending Child Marriage.
Using data from 82 countries, the in-depth study brings the overall number estimated child marriages to 765 million,
UNICEF revealed. “Marriage steals childhood”, said Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
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06/06/2019
The World Bank has lowered its expectations of global economic growth for this year in a new report. It says that, although the picture for poorer countries is expected to stabilize in 2020, economic momentum remains weak.
World Bank/Rob Beechey | Dar es Salaam Port, Tanzania.
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The risks to emerging and developing economies include rising trade barriers, slow investment, and economic slowdowns in richer countries.
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06/06/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 6 2019 (IPS)* – The world’s 10 most displacement crises—rendering millions of people homeless– have continued to worsen due either to political neglect, a shortage of funds or lack of media attention, according to a new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland visited Buea in South West in Cameroon Tuesday 23 April. There he met with a group of women who have been displaced by the mounting crisis in the Anglophone parts of Cameroon.
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06/06/2019
An in-depth dialogue between the founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University and the founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS
Image by Andrew Neel/Unsplah
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Antonio: I have a question dear Johan. I see the world going to hell literally and figuratively.
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06/06/2019
Thousands of acres of crops have been destroyed in Syria’s Idlib and north Hama provinces amid ongoing deadly violence, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday [4 June 2019], in a call to the warring parties to stop using food security to hold people “hostage”.
UNICEF/Watad | Children fleeing the escalating violence in Idlib take shelter in an overcrowded IDP camp in the Atmeh village, close to the Turkish border in the Syrian Arab Republic. (May 2019)
In a briefing to journalists in Geneva, WFP Spokesperson Hervé Verhoosel expressed alarm at the humanitarian crisis in the north-western opposition-held enclave, where a Government-led military operation escalated in late April.
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