15/05/2019
In order to make the case for privatizing state-owned enterprises, their real problems were often exaggerated in order to make the case for privatization from the 1980s.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 14 2019 (IPS)* – Privatization has not provided the miracle cure for the problems (especially inefficiencies) associated with the public sector.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
The public interest has rarely been well served by private interests taking over from the public sector. Growing concern over the mixed consequences of privatization has spawned research worldwide.
Adverse economic consequences
Both Bretton Woods institutions have long been aware of the adverse impacts of privatization.
For example, IMF research acknowledged that privatization “can lead to job losses, wage cuts and higher prices for consumers”.
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15/05/2019
By Baher Kamal*
Indebted, exploited, hunt down, shamed at Home… The harsh reality of Southeast Asia’s migrants
Photo from ILO.
Sorry for coming back to this issue, but its immense human dimension justifies this new attempt to report on another aspect, which is deliberately hidden, unwanted to be seen by the new wave of racist, xenophobe, far-right pseudo-politicians, which is now steadily growing in the biggest industrialised powers on Earth: United States and so far a full dozen of European countries. See what it is about:
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15/05/2019
We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.
Vandana Shiva at her biodiversity farm, Navdanya, which is also where the Earth University is located. Participants learn humans’ role and responsibility in Earth Democracy, and they work with seeds and soil as living things, in the context of the entire web of life. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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15/05/2019
Cox’s Bazar, 14 May 2019 (IOM)* – Dr. Samir Howlader remembers less than two years ago when most health services were delivered on foot or in rented ambulances to the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees streaming into Bangladesh from Myanmar.
A Rohingya refugee and her baby are treated at IOM’s clinic in Leda, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: IOM/Muse Mohammed
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15/05/2019
Geneva (UN Environment)* -– Decisions on plastic waste have been reached on 11 May 2019 in Geneva, as approximately 180 governments adopted a raft of decisions aimed at protecting human health and the environment from the harmful effects of hazardous chemicals and waste.
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15/05/2019
Nearly 20 years after “deglobalization” was introduced as an alternative paradigm by Focus on the Global South, one of its main authors looks back at its strengths and weaknesses and how its interaction with other alternative frameworks can be a mutually enriching exercise.
As an annex to the main paper, “Deglobalization Applied: A Post Neoliberal Paradigm for Myanmar” is reproduced here with the permission of the Transnational Institute.
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15/05/2019
Myanmar’s military commanders must answer charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in a credible court, a United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) said on Tuesday [14 May 2019], urging the international community to cut off all financial and other support to them.
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UNOCHA/Vincent Tremeau | The two children of Nomtaz Begum, 30, a refugee from Myanmar who is now in Bangladesh, were killed in front of her. (March 2018)
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14/05/2019
Geneva, 14 May 2019 (IOM)* – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Tripoli and neighbouring areas.
The joint Rapid Response Mechanism launched by IOM, UNFPA, WFP and UNICEF, has reached so far 18,210 individuals with much-needed core relief items. Photo: IOM
According to IOM Libya’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), there are now over 66,000 displaced individuals, approximately 13,310 families, from affected areas in Tripoli since the onset of the armed conflict on 4 April.
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14/05/2019
13 May 2019 (UN Environment)* — “Climate change is hitting hardest those who have done least to cause it, especially the world’s indigenous peoples from the Arctic to the tropics,” said renowned actor and activist Alec Baldwin speaking at the 18th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York on 23 April 2019.
Photo by CIFOR | From UN Environment.
Identifying the lack of land rights for indigenous peoples as a major problem, he warned his audience: “If you are serious about fighting climate change, get serious about empowering the people who are protecting the world’s forests.”
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