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GENEVA, 6 April 2019 (WHO)* — WHO was born on 7 April 1948 with a clear and ambitious vision: a world in which all people enjoy the highest attainable standard of health. Although we have made enormous progress in recent years against some of the world’s leading causes of death and disease, we still have a lot of work to do to realize that vision.
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Ukraine is one of the most mine-affected countries in the world, limiting freedom of movement and posing a serious threat to civilians crossing the contact line. | Español | Français
Tetiana Nikiforova, 37, works as a deminer with the HALO Trust in Ukraine. © UNHCR/Marta Iwanek
3 April 2019 (UNHCR)* — Sheltering in the basement of his family home in eastern Ukraine, Volodymyr Zayika, 71, was in the dark. Shelling had severed the electricity supply. Venturing out to check on some electrical wires, he felt his foot snag on a wire.
“There was a flash,” he recalls. “Something hissed on my right. Then there was a blast.”
The path towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development must be “clear of landmines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices (IEDs)”, the United Nations Secretary-General said on Thursday [4 April 2019], International Mine Awareness Day.
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A major new UN-led report, involving more than 60 international organizations, warns that a comprehensive overhaul of the world’s financial system is necessary, if governments are to honour commitments to tackle critical issues, such as combatting climate change and eradicating poverty by 2030.
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In 1951 the Treaty of Paris was signed to form the political and economic integration of 6 European countries: West Germany, Italy, France and the Benelux. The treaty advocated stability in the continent giving birth to the European Coal and Steel Community.
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola
At the time coal and steel were the main energy sources in Europe, but Britain refrained from signing the treaty.
Winston Churchill, the UK’s Prime Minister who had led Europe to victory defeating Nazi Germany in 1945, had already envisioned an alternative to coal. In fact, Churchill had settled to transform the UK’s energy from coal to oil.
It was essential, therefore, to colonise the Middle East, a region that had recently been discovered to be rich in oil.
Britain’s political, financial and sovereign interests lied in Africa, Asia and now the Middle East. Britain’s defence security, however, continued to be in the heart of Europe against the threat of the political ideology of Communism.
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US to recognise Israel sovereignty over Golan – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]
IOM in Libya is present at the disembarkation points to deliver primary assistance to migrants that have been rescued at sea.
However, following their disembarkation, migrants are transferred to detention centres under the responsibility of the Libyan Directorate for Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM) over which the Organization has no authority or oversight.
The detention of men, women and children is arbitrary. The unacceptable and inhumane conditions in these detention centres are well documented, and IOM continues to call for alternative solutions to this systematic detention.
Bangkok (Human Rights Watch)* — The Bangladeshi government has expelled scores of Rohingya refugee children from schools in southeast Bangladesh since late January 2019, Human Rights Watch said on 1 April 2019. Officials have ordered secondary schools near the refugee settlements in the Cox’s Bazar district to dismiss Rohingya students, who lack Bangladeshi citizenship.
EXPAND — Rohingya refugee students demonstrate against being expelled from Bangladeshi secondary schools in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 6, 2019. © 2019 Private | Photo from Human Rights Watch.
The Bangladesh government should cease the expulsions of Rohingya refugee students from schools and ensure that all children are able to receive a formal education.
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