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Wednesday’s Daily Brief: ‘Appalling’ conditions in Syria camp, precarious SDG progress, South Sudan, Palestine refugees and mining in Mongolia

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UN report on Syria conflict highlights inhumane detention of women and children As the people of north-west Syria face intensifying violence, tens of thousands of women and children continue to be kept in “inhumane conditions” in a remote camp on the other side of the country, UN-appointed independent investigators said on Wednesday. Describing the situation at Al Hol camp as… Read More
Human Rights 

Nicaragua ‘crisis’ still cause for concern amid murder, torture allegations: Bachelet

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In her address to the Human Rights Council, Michelle Bachelet said that abuses have continued against activists who opposed social security reforms in the Central American state, more than 100 of whom are still in prison. Last year, the High Commissioner’s Office highlighted reports of repression against protesters and “a climate of fear” that left hundreds dead and thousands injured.… Read More

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5 Things that Should Matter Today: Ayomide Bello has become Nigeria’s first female canoeist to qualify for the Olympics

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At just 17-year-old, Ayomide Bello will become the first female Nigerian canoeist to compete at the Olympic games when they head to Tokyo in 2020. She just won the C1 200 event at Africa’s Tokyo 2020 qualifiers in Morocco. The teenager also won gold in the C2 women’s final with partner Goodness Foloki at the event in Rabat. Nigeria’s only… Read More
Human Rights 

Scourge of slavery still claims 40 million victims worldwide, ‘must serve as a wakeup call’

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The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Urmila Bhoola, explained that over 40 million people are enslaved around the world, a quarter of them children. Due to problems of environmental degradation, migration and shifting demographics, the scourge of modern-day slavery is expected to grow. Over 60 percent of those in forced labour work in the private sector, Ms. Bhoola… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Monday’s Daily Brief: Suicide death every 40 seconds, rights chief on climate change link, Venezuela, Dorian updates, desertification summit latest

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Every 40 seconds, someone dies by suicide: WHO Despite progress in national prevention strategies, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General lamented on Monday, highlighting key findings of the agency’s latest report on global suicide estimates. Speaking in Geneva ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “every death is a tragedy for family, friends… Read More
Development Health Advice 

One person dies by suicide every 40 seconds: new UN health agency report

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Speaking in Geneva ahead of World Suicide Prevention day, recognized on 10 September, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “every death is a tragedy for family friends and colleagues,” yet many more suicides can be prevented. All countries should “incorporate proven suicide prevention strategies into national health and education programmes in a sustainable way”, he added. Since WHO’s first report on… Read More
Human Rights 

We are ‘burning up our future’, UN’s Bachelet tells Human Rights Council

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In a direct appeal to the forum’s 47 Member States to unite to tackle climate change, Michelle Bachelet insisted that every region of the world stands to be affected. In the short-term, however, the worst effects of the fires and “drastic acceleration of deforestation” in Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil were on the families living in these areas, she explained. “Climate… Read More
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