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In Afghanistan, children suffering from the most serious form of malnutrition may die, unless $7 million in funding is found within weeks, UNICEF said on Friday [24 May 2019].
UNAMA / Fraidoon Poya | A family struggles through a dusty environment in Afghanistan
No, no, no. Nothing to do with what US and Europe’s far-right fanatics now use to vociferate, saying once and again that “migrants come here to destroy our democracy, our civilisation, and our life-style”.
Cargo ship de-ballasting | CSIRO | Permission | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Rather the complete opposite—this is about a major damage that precisely “our civilisation” and “our life-style’ have been causing: invasive alien species crossing the world chiefly on board of ships, and harming human health, biodiversity and the whole ecosystem.
ROME (FAO)* – Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus on 21 May 2019 called for a complete change in the ways to address the often-related issues of hunger and conflict. He made the appeal at an event at FAO headquarters in Rome highlighting progress made by the FAO-Nobel Peace Laureates Alliance for Food Security and Peace.
21 May 2019 (Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)* — “Sexual violence and other forms of gender-based violence against women and children are horrific symptoms of conflict that should never be accepted or normalised whenever a humanitarian crisis strikes a community.
A woman recovers from rape in a hospital in Goma, DR Congo, in the days following the city’s capture by M23 rebels. Sexual violence has been used by armed parties on all sides of the conflict. Photo: OCHA/Kate Holt
“In too many conflicts, sexual violence is being used as a barbaric weapon and victims of these crimes continue to suffer in silence. We can no longer sit back while mothers around the world are forced to endure violence, are left to tolerate the vile abuse of their children and are forced to live among the men doing them harm.
Despite appearances of random, off-the-cuff decisions, rendered on tweets and without, or even in opposition to, the advice of foreign policy specialists, I am going to posit a rationale behind the warlike actions and pronouncements of Messrs. Trump, Bolton and Pompeo.
William R. Polk
To do so, I will try to put all the scattered and sometimes conflicting pieces together. I begin by acknowledging the issue that has attracted most attention. That is the nuclear danger. While it figures in all the media accounts, I put it aside for two reasons:
First, Iran has no nuclear weapons as every reasonably well-informed person in government and among the general population knows.
To acquire them in the foreseeable future, Iran would have to buy them from an existing nuclear power. Nuclear capable powers have not been known to put their weapons on the market.
DR Congo: ‘No time to lose’ says newly appointed UN Ebola response coordinator
‘Great cause of concern’ UN chief tells Security Council, surveying ‘bleak’ state of civilian protection
The head of the UN relief and works agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) warned on Wednesday [22 May 2019] that despite weathering a “truly existential crisis” over funding last year, money to continue operations this year in the Gaza Strip will only last until mid-June.
US Bombers & War Ships ring Iran as IRS & Lawyers encircle Trump!
Watch for staged events to “justify” a U.S. attack to distract –- pointing to external enemies as the “real threat!”
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How dare they put their country so close to U.S. bases!
It all started in Africa. It all started in Ethiopia. It all started with Lucy.
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