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– Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 17 (IPS) – Schooling Can not Wait (ECW) has delivered high quality training to youngsters in disaster “towards all odds,” ECW Government Director Yasmine Sherif mentioned on the United Nations immediately. “And you’ll think about the chances. We’re seeing extra armed battle, a development of climate-induced disasters and the largest refugee motion since World Struggle 2.”
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ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 17 (IPS) – As we speak’s weapons are able to wiping out complete swaths of humanity, demolishing remaining shreds of tradition together with them. Information protection of the one-sided Gaza marketing campaign make it plain that is precisely what’s occurring. Destroying the previous destroys the longer term too. The world should band collectively to ensure these atrocities cease.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sep 17 (IPS) – As we speak, the chief of the United Nations Aid and Works Company for Palestine Refugees within the Close to East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, confirmed that the primary spherical of Gaza’s polio vaccination marketing campaign had ended efficiently, reaching 90 % protection. The second spherical of this marketing campaign is about to start by the top of September, delivering Gaza’s youngsters with a essential second dose of the polio vaccine.
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NEW YORK, Sep 17 (IPS) – As we speak, we stand with solemn hearts because the world marks this week the three-year ban on women’ secondary training in Afghanistan.
As we speak and daily, we should get up for the hundreds of thousands of Afghan women and girls residing underneath the yoke of gender-apartheid: systematized and institutionalized oppression, exclusion, and marginalization based mostly completely on their gender. Nonetheless, standing in solemnity for his or her struggling shouldn’t be sufficient. We should act to take away the oppression and injustice. Towards all odds, we should proceed to ship outcomes to supply the ladies entry to an training properly past grade sixth.
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The UN human rights workplace, OHCHR, issued its newest report on Myanmar on Tuesday, detailing a spread of great violations that proceed to underscore the deepening disaster and lack of rule of legislation all through the nation.
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Violence used towards opponents of the Venezuelan authorities has reached unprecedented ranges, a high unbiased human rights probe alleged on Tuesday, citing arrests, sexual abuse and torture as simply a few of the strategies utilized by the Authorities of President Nicolas Maduro to remain in energy.
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The Normal Meeting will resume a uncommon emergency particular session at 10am on Tuesday in New York on the difficulty of Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the remainder of the Occupied Palestinian Territory with Palestine anticipated to introduce a draft decision that may, amongst different issues, demand an finish to the occupation inside one 12 months. UN Information app customers can comply with stay right here.
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– Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 17 (IPS) – The fixed drumbeat of nuclear threats appears by no means ending—emanating primarily from the Russians, Israeli right-wing politicians and North Koreans.
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SYDNEY, NEW YORK, Sep 16 (IPS) – Bangladesh’s White Paper committee will evaluate international mortgage offers signed by the fallen kleptocratic regime. We advocate that it identifies and declares the loans or parts of loans that didn’t profit the nation as unpayable, as a result of they have been siphoned off the nation by corrupt politically highly effective elites, or worse used to purchase lethal weapons and surveillance gear to oppress folks. Such loans are “odious” – they stink and are detestable.
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MULLIVAIKAL, Sri Lanka, Sep 16 (IPS) – 1000’s of Tamils are heading to Mullivaikal on the northeast coast of Sri Lanka, a lot of whom have been right here 15 years in the past and nonetheless stay within the area. They’re there, Might 18, to commemorate the bloodbath of civilians in a ‘no hearth zone’ throughout the ultimate levels of the civil struggle.