12/02/2019
11 February 2019 – Opposition-led protests in Haiti calling for the president to step down, which sparked violence last week, have prompted a group of senior diplomats, included the top UN official there, to issue a statement deploring the loss of life and calling for dialogue to end the crisis.*
MINUJUSTH/Leonora Baumann | An aerial view of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince.
The so-called Core Group is made up of the head of UN Mission MINUJUSTH, Helen Meagher La Lime; and the UN ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the European Union, the United States, and the Special Representative of the Organization of American States.
They took note of the demands expressed by demonstrators on Thursday, aimed at a worsening economic crisis that has led to a drop in living standards, inflation at around 15 per cent, a growing national deficit, and allegations of corruption levelled at President Jovenel Moise, before he took office.
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12/02/2019
11 February 2019 – Many of the world’s biggest problems may be going unsolved because too many women and girls are being discouraged from the sciences.*
UN Women Viet Nam/Pham Quoc Hung | Girls studying science in Viet Nam. Globally, while more girls are attending school than before, girls are significantly under-represented in STEM subjects in many settings and they appear to lose interest in STEM subjects as they reach adolescence.
The role of science education in a changing world cannot be undervalued: it is estimated that fully 90 per cent of future jobs will require some form of ICT (information and communication technology) skills, and the fastest growing job categories are related to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), with recent studies indicating 58 million net new jobs, in areas such as data analysis, software development and data visualization.
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11/02/2019
Desperately needed food aid for millions of Yemenis “is at risk of rotting” in a key Red Sea storage facility because conditions are too unsafe to reach it, UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and UN Emergency relief chief Mark Lowcock said on Monday [11 February 2019].
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Giles Clarke/OCHA | Cereal stored in Dhubab, Taiz Gobernorate, in Yemen. The World Food Programme (WFP) grain stored in Hudaydah’s Red Sea Mills has been inaccessible for over five months and is at risk of rotting.
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joint statement, the top UN officials warned that the urgency of getting to the Red Sea Mills in the key port city of Hudaydah was “growing day by day”, more than five months after aid workers were last able to access it.
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11/02/2019
Israel will freeze money transfers to the Palestinian Authority as a means of punishing all Palestinians for the murder of one Israeli woman.
10 February 2019 (teleSUR)* — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday vowed to freeze money transfers to the Palestinian Authority in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli by a Palestinian. The move also came after several right-wing oppositions members of Netanyahu called for it.
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11/02/2019
Playing Trump’s game is almost irresistible. At least, most of his opponents seem unable to resist it.
Richard E. Rubenstein
The name of Trump’s game is Personalistic Moralism. The President’s politics are not policy-free, but policies in his political universe are inextricably wedded to personal moral characteristics.
If you want the Wall (“border security”), for example, that means you are strong, tough, and protective. You are knowledgeable about the physical and cultural dangers posed by immigrants, and you care for your fellow Americans.
But what if you don’t want the Wall? In this case, you are weak, effeminate, ignorant, uncaring, and secretly in favor of “open borders.”
This, by the way, is the text. The subtext, resting on the understanding that the main advocates of plentiful immigration since the nineteenth century have been employers seeking cheap labor, is that those who favor the Wall want to protect native American workers while those who don’t, care only about their profits.
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10/02/2019
On eve of African Union Summit, UNICEF urges African States to lead in the protection and empowerment of uprooted children
NEW YORK/ADDIS ABABA, 9 February 2019 (UNICEF)* — – At least 13.5 million uprooted children in Africa – including those living as refugees, migrants or internally displaced – need strengthened national actions, and regional and international cooperation between states to uphold their rights, keep them safe and help them fulfil their potential.
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10/02/2019
African nations are setting an example for richer countries when it comes to the treatment of refugees, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a press conference on Saturday [9 February 2019], following a meeting with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
screen grab/media stakeout video | UN Secretary-General speaks to the media in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, following a meeting with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission. 9 February, 2019.
The UN chief is in the Ethiopian capital to attend the annual African Union summit, which brings together Heads of State from across the continent.
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10/02/2019
9 February 2019 — Young female African coders are “on the front-line” of the battle to change traditionally male power relations and bring about a more equitable balance between men and women, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said during his visit to Ethiopia to attend the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.
UN Women/Faith Bwibo | Khayrath Mohamed Kombo, 15, is one of more than 80 participants in the first Coding Camp in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in August 2018.
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09/02/2019
8 February 2019 (Wall Street International)* — While the world watched and waited with bated breath for the outcome of the substantial global effort – involving over 100 cave divers from various countries, 1,000 members of the Thai Army and 10,000 others in various roles – to rescue a team of 12 young football players and their coach, who were trapped inside a flooded cave in Thailand for 17 days, 850,000 children were killed by human adults in other parts of the world, many of them simply starved to death in Yemen or other parts of Africa, Asia and Central/South America.
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09/02/2019
Like many journalists from Northern Uganda, Gloria Lakers peace reporting approach is believed to have partly contributed to the current peace in the region. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Ndejje University in Uganda.
Yes, I did cover one of the most brutal wars in the history of Africa, the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency, which took over two decades in northern Uganda, my place of birth.
I witnessed war and violence from a tender age, yet seeing less media coverage of the war and conflict made me become a war and peace reporter. Because of painful experiences, the memories are still alive in me.
As a young motivated journalist, my journey to peace media started at the peak of the LRA insurgency at the age of 22 and my peasant parents inspired me as well into journalism because of their love for current affairs.
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