09/02/2019
8 February 2019 — Concern over escalating violence in Myanmar’s Chin and Rakhine states continues to grow, with civilians reportedly forced to flee both internally, and across the border into Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have already sought shelter.
© UNICEF/UN0229016/Sirman | On 24 July 2018, a child at home in the Taung Paw Camp in Rakhine State in Myanmar.
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Andrej Mahecic, spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed deep concern over the humanitarian impact of the continuing violence and the “potential for both further internal displacement and the outflow of refugees”.
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08/02/2019
The situation for ordinary Venezuelans is increasingly critical but the United Nations remains committed to providing humanitarian support, based on “need, and need alone”, said a senior aid official on Friday [8 February 2019].
© UNICEF/UN0253234/Moreno Gonza | José David Dominguez, 9 years old, is accompanied by his mother, Yenni Dominguez, to get his vaccine at UNICEF’s health point in Ipiales, Colombia. UNICEF has launched a regional response effort to support Venezuelan children and families, as well as children in host communities.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, the UN’s aid coordinating branch,
OCHA, underlined that it was observing developments at Venezuela’s border with Colombia, where an aid convoy arrived on Thursday
[7 February 2019].
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08/02/2019
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza*
7 February 2019 (Other News)* — Suddenly -said Leonardo Da Vinci- there are no poor and rich, no young and old, no white and black on board… only a bunch of passengers toiling, working together to survive, to avoid a shipwreck.
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
This is the advice we should convey today through all media so that the “peoples” become aware of the situation humanity is facing for the first time in history.
In recent years a series of global threats have been recognized as potentially irreversible processes that need to be confronted and dealt with on time before it is too late.
The climate change has become an undeniable truth. The Arctic Ocean has nearly disappeared and the Antarctic is starting to crack.
We have not succeeded in our effort to reduce the emissions of “greenhouse” gases… and the habitability of Earth is experiencing a consistent deterioration.
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08/02/2019
7 February 2019 — Evidence collected in Turkey shows on initial examination, that former dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of “a brutal and premeditated killing, planned and perpetrated by officials of the State of Saudi Arabia,” according to the United Nations expert conducting an independent human rights inquiry into his death.
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UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial summary or arbitrary Executions.
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08/02/2019
7 February 2019 — While nearly 10 million people across Yemen remain “just a step away from famine”, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has spoken of his deep concern that a large food storage depot on the outskirts of the crucial port city of Hudaydah, has been out of bounds since last September.
OCHA/Giles Clarke | A dead cow lies beside the main road leading out of the port town of Al Hudaydah. Locals tend to avoid dead carcasses as some have been known to be filled with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).
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07/02/2019
More than six in 10 children globally lack access to social protection, leaving them particularly vulnerable to falling into chronic poverty, the UN said on Wednesday [6 February 2019], warning also that some governments are cutting State cash entitlements, amid continuing economic uncertainty.
Photo: UNICEF/Wathiq Khuzaie | A joint ILO-UNICEF report is urging action to ensure that social protection reaches all children, like 6-year-old Mustafa who works with his father in an industrial area of Baghdad, and protects them from poverty and deprivation.
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07/02/2019
The number of casualties in Afghanistan from landmines and other explosives has more than tripled since 2012, the UN said on Wednesday [6 February 2019], in support of a call to provide more long-term support for survivors.
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UNMAS/Cengiz Yar | An explosives specialist conducts mine clearance operations after detecting a piece of metal in the mountains near Kabul, Afghanistan.
Latest data from
UNMAS, the UN Mine Action Service, shows that 1,415 Afghan civilians were killed or injured by mines and so-called explosive remnants of war (ERW) in 2018.
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06/02/2019
International maritime crime is becoming “increasingly sophisticated” as criminal groups exploit jurisdiction and enforcement challenges on the high seas and pose “immediate danger to people’s lives and safety”, the UN anti-drugs and crime chief warned the Security Council on Tuesday [5 February 2019].*
Eunavfor | The issue of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea was raised by several speakers during the Security Council’s debate on transnational maritime crime. | Photo from UN News
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05/02/2019
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. | Español | Français
The human waste treatment facility under construction at the refugee settlement near Kutupalong, Bangladesh. © UNHCR/Firas Al-Khateeb
By the UN Refugee Agency (UNHR)* — UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and Oxfam have together put into service this week in Cox’s Bazar the biggest human waste treatment facility ever built in a refugee settlement.
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05/02/2019
“Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self-defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for more meaningful democracy.” — Noam Chomsky, 1989 (Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies)
Odysseus is tempted by the swirling Sirens in Homer’s The Odyssey.
My copy of Homer’s The Odyssey, a remnant of high school Latin days, has been gathering dust on a shelf for decades now.
But I’ve been thinking more about the book in recent years, especially as my writing has increasingly turned to the psychology of propaganda.
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