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Thursday, 04 October 2018 15:23 |
Poor dietary intake and lack of food varieties affect huge numbers of children, who mostly hail from large, impoverished families in Nepal. Malnutrition is a significant concern in Nepal as around one million children under 5 years suffer from chronic malnutrition and 10 percent suffer from acute malnutrition. Credit: Naresh Newar/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 4 2018 (IPS) - A dramatic shift in the way we eat and think about food is more urgent than ever to prevent further environmental degradation and an even larger health epidemic.
A diverse group of experts from academia, civil society, and United Nations agencies convened at the sidelines of the General Assembly to discuss the pervasive issue of food insecurity and malnutrition and potential solutions to overhaul the system.
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Tuesday, 25 September 2018 09:18 |
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Graça Machel, member of The Elders and widow of Nelson Mandela, makes remarks during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit. Credit: United Nations Photo/Cia Pak
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2018 (IPS) - In honour of Nobel Peace Laureate Nelson Mandela’s legacy, nations from around the world convened to adopt a declaration recommitting to goals of building a just, peaceful, and fair world.
At the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit, aptly held in the year of the former South African leader’s 100th birthday, world leaders reflected on global peace and acknowledged that the international community is off-track as human rights continues to be under attack globally.
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Friday, 24 August 2018 08:31 |
The outgoing UN human rights chief has said the five permanent members wield too much power as they can veto resolutions even in cases of alleged injustices. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has been outspoken during his term.
https://www.dw.com/en/un-human-rights-chief-says-security-council-members-risk-uns-survival/a-45150493
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein (L) speaks during a press conference.
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the outgoing UN human rights chief, warned on Monday that the world body could "collapse" if the imbalance caused by the excessive powers wielded by the Security Council's five permanent members is not corrected.
"There's a feeling within the UN that there is a sort of pentarchy — the P5 (permanent members) running too much of the business at the expense of the organization itself," Zeid said in reference to the US, Russia, China, France and the UK.
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Thursday, 16 August 2018 11:46 |
1993 NAFTA THE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROVISIONS IN NAFTA AND THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT'S PUBLISHED INTERPRETATION OF THESE PROVISIONS.
Prepared for presentation at a panel discussion on NAFTA
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JOAN RUSSOW
DOCTORAL CANDIDATE
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
May, 23, 1993
BACKGROUND
In all three countries, Canada, Mexico and the U.S., citizens and organizations are concerned about the misplacing of government priorities,
The delusion of public process,
The exploitation of the labour force,
The inequitable distribution of resources,
The disenfranchisement of the many,
The violation of human rights and
The denigration of social justice
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Thursday, 09 August 2018 02:50 |
By Jamison Ervin is Manager, UNDP’s Global Programme on Nature for Development
This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds initiated by IPS on the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, on August 9.
Photo - UNDP/ PNG-Bougainville People celebration
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 9 2018 (IPS) - Indigenous peoples, who comprise less than five percent of the world’s population, have the world’s smallest carbon footprint, and are the least responsible for our climate crisis. Yet because their livelihoods and wellbeing are intimately bound with intact ecosystems, indigenous peoples disproportionately face the brunt of climate change, which is fast becoming a leading driver of human displacement.
In Papua New Guinea, for example, residents of the Carteret Islands – one of the most densely populated islands in the country – have felt the effects of climate change intensify over recent years. With a high point on their islands of just 1.2 meters above sea level, every community member is now at risk from sea level rise and storm surges.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2018 11:20 |
Credit: Institute for Palestine Studies
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 24 2018 (IPS) - The Group of 77 (G77) — the largest single coalition of developing countries at the United Nations– is to be chaired by Palestine, come January.
“It’s a historical first, both for Palestine and the G77,” an Asian diplomat told IPS, pointing out that Palestine will be politically empowered to collectively represent 134 UN member states, including China.
Created in June 1964, the 54-year-old Group comprises over 80 per cent of the world’s population and approximately two-thirds of the United Nations membership
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Monday, 23 July 2018 12:12 |
By joan Russow PhD
Global Compliance Research Project
Notes for a presentation August 17, 2018 NOTE ARTICLE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
UPDATE : SEE
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DESTABILIZING VENEZUELA- RAMIFICATIONS ON LATIN AMERICA, AND TIME LINE
A. Destabilization of Venezuela
B. Use of destabilization in Venezuela in elections in Latin America
C. DRAFT Brief time line in Bolivia, Colombia, Chile Honduras, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala Mexico, Nicaragua Venezuela
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Sunday, 01 July 2018 19:27 |
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Mexico Votes Overwhelmingly for "Change" by Electing López Obrador President, CEPR Experts Say
Sluggish Economy, Corruption, Crime Fueled Voters’ Discontent with the Status Quo
For Immediate Release: July 1, 2018
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Washington, DC and Jilotepec, Mexico ? Voters in Mexico have "made history" and opted for change in electing Andrés Manuel López Obrador president today, experts from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, based in Washington, said. Candidates from López Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party are also projected to have a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Friday, 29 June 2018 15:20 |
Leopoldo López Is Not Venezuela’s Savior
Despite US support, the revolutionary has only succeeded in pushing like-minded opposition leaders far, far away.
By Greg Grandin the NATION
JULY 29, 2015
https://www.thenation.com/article/leopoldo-lopez-is-not-venezuelas-savior/JULY 29, 2015
JULY 29, 2015
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Roberto Lovato has just published a great investigative essay in Foreign Policy on Leopoldo López, the jailed darling of Venezuela’s opposition. López is celebrated in the US press as a cross between Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He is handsome, like King, and, like Gandhi, occasionally shirtless. Newsweek blushes over López’s “twinkling chocolate-colored eyes and high cheekbones.” He is, apparently, a “revolutionary who has it all”: an “attractive and supportive wife, two children who get along with each other and impossibly adorable Labrador puppies.” Everything except a revolution.
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Friday, 29 June 2018 15:11 |
Despite US support, the revolutionary has only succeeded in pushing like-minded opposition leaders far, far away.
By Greg Grandin THE nation JULY 29, 2015
https://www.thenation.com/article/leopoldo-lopez-is-not-venezuelas-savior/
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Roberto Lovato has just published a great investigative essay in Foreign Policy on Leopoldo López, the jailed darling of Venezuela’s opposition. López is celebrated in the US press as a cross between Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He is handsome, like King, and, like Gandhi, occasionally shirtless. Newsweek blushes over López’s “twinkling chocolate-colored eyes and high cheekbones.” He is, apparently, a “revolutionary who has it all”: an “attractive and supportive wife, two children who get along with each other and impossibly adorable Labrador puppies.” Everything except a revolution.
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