Nicosia, 4 May 2019 (IOM)* — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply saddened by the recent news regarding a series of killings in Cyprus targeting young migrant women and girls and regrets the terrible loss of life.
Migrants, particularly migrant women, often find themselves in situations of vulnerability.
These shocking revelations highlight the need for strengthened capacity to provide protection and support to migrants and victims of violence, as well as strategies to combat the exploitation of migrant workers.
Further cooperative efforts are also needed to enhance inclusion and promote integration of migrants into local society and to enable receiving communities to harness the positive contributions that migrants make.
SANA’A, Yemen, 2 May 2019 (UNFPA)* – Bushra was only 14 years old when her family arranged a child marriage to an older man, and a year later she became pregnant. She was a mother of six when her husband lost his job.
By the 29 April 2019 — Total world military expenditure rose to $1822 billion in 2018, representing an increase of 2.6 per cent from 2017, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).*
World military spending 1988–2018. Data and graphic: SIPRI
The five biggest spenders in 2018 were the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, India and France, which together accounted for 60 per cent of global military spending. Military spending by the USA increased for the first time since 2010, while spending by China grew for the 24th consecutive year.
Either Bolsonaro’s social security reform is wiped out or “we bring Brazil to a halt,” workers organizations said.
Protester holds a Brazilian flag with President Jair Bolsonaro image and the words: “Shame, No to social security reform” in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 1, 2019. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.
2 May 2019 (teleSUR)* — Brazil’s most powerful trade union federations announced Wednesday that a nationwide strike will be carried out on June 14 to reject the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and halt his neoliberal policies which are damaging the people’s most basic economic, social, cultural and political rights.
3 May 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Everybody has at least one opportunity in life to sample the first batch of cookies your little sister, brother, nephew, niece or neighbor kid cooks up. I can distinctly remember the day my little sister proudly presented me with three cookies that she had created. They were awful! I mean terrible. I could have choked to death if she hadn’t brought me a glass of milk with those darn things.
Aden, 2 May 2019 (IOM)* — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is alarmed by reports of migrants dying of preventable illnesses, being shot and suffering other inhumane treatment in makeshift detention centres in Yemen, now in its fifth year of conflict.
Detained migrants treated by IOM’s health team in the 22nd of May Stadium where over 2,500 people are being held. Photo: Headon/IOM 2019
2 May 2019 — ICAN and its partner organisation Pax have released a reportwith full profiles of 28 companies connected to the production of nuclear weapons.
At a time when disinformation and mistrust of the news media is growing, a free press is “essential for peace, justice, sustainable development and human rights”, said the UN Secretary-General, in his message for World Press Freedom Day, marked on Friday [2 May 2019].
UN Photo/Violaine Martin | Journalists wait for the arrival of official delegations at the Geneva II Conference on Syria, in Montreux, Switzerland. UN Photo/Violaine Martin
False claims levelled at the UN expert on the rights of indigenous peoples by her own Government in the Philippines, “are without grounding in fact or law” and must cease immediately, said a statement issued by a group of her fellow experts on Wednesday [1 May 2019].
UN Photo/Manuel Elias | Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, at a press briefing on indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and natural resources on 16 April 2018, at UN Headquarters in New York.
The infamous Abu Ghraib prison complex in Iraq was revealed to be the centre of an extensive network run by the US military after the coalition’s invasion of the country in 2003.An Iranian couple walk past mural paintings depicting scenes from the torture of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, on a major highway in the Iranian capital 1 Tehran June 2004. [BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images]
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