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LUAMBO, Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNFPA)* – At only 35, Nsenga Malu has lived many lives. In one, she was a girl growing up in the city of Luambo, in her home country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
26/12/2021
Lebanon Crises Increase Suffering of Migrant Domestic Workers
25 December 2021 (UN News)* — Many migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are denied basic human rights, and suffered abuse at the hands of their employers. Since the worsening economic crisis in the country their plight has, if anything, worsened.
“The recruitment agencies and employers treat us as if we are human commodities!”, says Adanesh Worko, an Ethiopian worker who works in a house in Beirut.
25/12/2021
‘Colourless’ vs ‘Coloured’
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By Baher Kamal
“Listen my friend: when we are born we are black; when we grow-up we are black; when we are sick we are black, and when we are angry we are black. But you, white man, when you are born you are pink, when you grow you are colourless; when you’re sick you are yellow; and when you are angry you are purple. And you call us people of colour?”
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24/12/2021
The Global Assault on Human Rights
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– Human rights are under global assault. In 2021, the escalation of the worldwide siege on human rights included clampdowns on civil society organisations, attacks on minorities, the undermining of democratic institutions, and violence against journalists.
Young people take part in a pro-democracy demonstration in Myanmar. Credit: Unsplash/Pyae Sone Htun via United Nations
Meanwhile, more than 10 months since Myanmar’s military seized power, the country’s human rights situation is deepening on an unprecedented scale, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights warned December 10.
24/12/2021
Severe Water Stress, Absolute Scarcity for 2 to 4 Billion Humans by 2025
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– Now it comes to the scary water crises, as it is estimated that, globally, over two billion people live in countries that experience high water stress.
Up to four billion people – over half the population of the planet – are already facing severe water stress for at least one month of the year, while half a billion suffer from permanent water stress. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS
23/12/2021
The Threat of a Large-Scale Famine
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By John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The Threat of a Large-Scale Global Famine by the Middle of the 21st Century
John Scales Avery
Unless efforts are made to stabilize and ultimately reduce global population, there is a serious threat that climate change, population growth, and the end of the fossil fuel era could combine to produce a large-scale famine by the middle of the 21st century.
As glaciers melt in the Himalayas and the Andes, depriving India, China and South America of summer water supplies; as sea levels rise, drowning fertile rice-growing regions of Southeast Asia; as droughts reduce the food production of North America and Southern Europe; as groundwater levels fall in China, India, the Middle East and the United States; and as high-yield modern agriculture becomes less possible because fossil fuel inputs are lacking, the 800 million people who are currently undernourished may not survive at all.
23/12/2021
Number of Hungry in Asia-Pacific Swells by More than 50 Million since the Arrival of COVID-19
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According to the 2021 Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition by FAO and UNICEF
2021 Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition ©FAO/Saikat Mojumder
Bangkok (FAO)* – The state of food security and nutrition in Asia and the Pacific has worsened, as more than 375 million people in the region faced hunger in 2020, an increase of 54 million over the previous year, according to a joint report just published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
23/12/2021
Yemen Alert: 8 Million Face Reduced Rations amid Funding Shortages
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(UN News)* — The UN food relief agency warned on Wednesday [22 December 2021] that it is running out of funds to continue providing food assistance to 13 million Yemenis.
From January, eight million who are going hungry in Yemen will receive a reduced food ration, while five million others who are at immediate risk of slipping into famine, will remain on a full ration.
22/12/2021
Inequality
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By Francine S. R. Mestrum*
Why international organisations prefer to chase the chimera of poverty
Between $20 and $30 trillion US dollars remains hidden from tax authorities | Image from Wall Street International.
22 December 2021 (Wall Street International)* — At the beginning of October 2021, the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) published the Pandora Papers – leaked data on how the world’s very rich hide their wealth in tax havens. The practice is perfectly legal, but less so when it is used to avoid or evade tax.
In both cases, it is money that remains hidden, and not only skews the statistics – according to Tax Justice between $20–30 trillion US dollars remain hidden from the tax authorities – but also causes financial problems for national governments.
22/12/2021
The Lot of the Exploited, Discriminated and Oppressed (Part 2)
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By Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Is It Predestination, Karma, or Hedonistic Colonial Subjugation by People of Aryan Origins? An Odyssey of Generational Suffering of Humanoids of Colour
The decapitated head of a Shark Island prisoner sent to Germany for experimentation
In Part 1 of this paper[1] the oppression and subjugation of the Scheduled Castes, formerly called the Dalits, the “Untouchables” people in India, on the basis of the tenets of Hinduism, whereby the lot of the lowest caste people was predestined on their karmas in their previous cycle of life; The process of Reincarnation. Continue reading
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