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Global Forum Underlines Need for Universal Health Coverage

By Jaya Ramachandran

GENEVA | TOKYO (IDN) – Nearly half of the world’s population of 7.6 billion lacks access to essential health services at present and for almost 100 million people health expenses are high enough to push them into extreme poverty.

Against this perturbing backdrop, revealed by a recent report, a global Forum in Tokyo has underlined the need to extend by 2023 the health services coverage to 1 billion additional people and halve to 50 million the number of people being pushed into extreme poverty by health expenses.

The year 2023 is the midpoint towards 2030, the target date for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says the ‘Tokyo Declaration on Universal Health Coverage’ emerging from the global Universal Health Coverage Forum 2017 from December 12-15.…

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Photo credit: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

｜エイズ対策｜世界基金、貧困国の差別基準変更を迫られる

Photo credit: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria【トロントIDN＝J・C・スレシュ】

「私の健康、私の権利」を合言葉にした今年の世界エイズデーが始まる中、エイズ保健財団（AHF）が「エイズ・結核・マラリア対策基金（＝世界基金）」に対して、人口１人あたりの国民総収入（GNI）を資金提供の適格基準とせずに、貧困国への差別をやめるよう求めた。

エイズ保健財団（本部：ロサンゼルス）は、アフリカ、アジア、欧州、ラテンアメリカ・カリブ海地域、米国など世界３９カ国で、８３万３０００人以上のエイズ患者に対して医療ケアを提供している、HIV関連で世界最大の非営利組織である。…

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Global Upturn Offers Prospects For Sustainable Growth

By J Nastranis

UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Despite an upsurge in world economic growth, which has reached 3 per cent – the highest since 2011 – very few least developed countries (LDCs) are expected to reach the Sustainable Development Goal target for GDP growth of “at least 7 per cent” in the near term (SDG 8.1), says a new United Nations report.

Goal 8 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals – with 169 targets – adopted in September 2015 by the international community envisages promoting “inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all”. Its target 1 stresses the need to “sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries.” (P36) ARABIC | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | TURKISH
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One Planet Summit Spotlights Funding to Fight Climate Change

By A.D. McKenzie

PARIS (IDN) – Financing is key in the fight against climate change, said delegate after delegate at the One Planet Summit in Paris December 12, and this meeting was all about the money: where to invest it and where not.

The World Bank Group announced that it would not be financing upstream oil and gas after 2019, except for certain projects in the “poorest countries”, where there is a clear benefit in terms of energy access for those in need. “The policy will change and change dramatically,” said World Bank president Jim Yong Kim.

The One Planet Summit – with many participants sporting “#make our planet great again” buttons – was held on the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change, bringing together heads of states and representatives from more than 100 countries, businesses, civil society, youth and the world’s media. (P35) FRENCH |  JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF |

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Photo: Leaders from Indigenous communities speak at a press conference in COP 23. Credit: Stella Paul | IDN-INPS

｜COP２３｜先住民の協議参加の基盤がついに示される

Photo: Leaders from Indigenous communities speak at a press conference in COP 23. Credit: Stella Paul | IDN-INPS【ボンIDN＝ステラ・ポール】

パトリシア・グアリンガ氏は、もう何年も国連気候変動会議に参加している。たいていは、サイドイベントのパネルディスカッションで２、３分の時間をもらって、自身が属しているエクアドルの先住民キチワス族が直面している苦境について話をしている。

先住民の生存を脅かしている苦境とは、急速な水質劣化、大気汚染、土地奪取、部族民の家屋からの強制立退き等、いずれも開発の名の下に横行している生活環境の悪化である。グアリンガ氏の出身地であるサラヤクは、大手の石油探査企業によってしばしば土地劣化が引き起こされているエクアドル東部（アマゾン地域）の小集落である。…

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EU & UN Aid African Countries in Fighting Wildlife Trafficking

By Justus Wanzala

NAIROBI (IDN) – African and Asian countries face a huge challenge in protecting their wildlife from the illegal killing and trafficking that has already endangered some species.

Over the years, national and regional efforts to combat the threat have met with mixed success and wildlife and their products continue to be sold in many countries around the world.

Figures released in March 2017 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) under its Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme showed that by 2016 the trend in poaching of African elephants – which had increased steadily since 2006, peaking in 2011– had been halted and stabilised. Nevertheless, the levels of illegal killing still remained unacceptably high overall.…

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UN Environment Assembly Galvanises Nations to Act on Taming Pollution

By Justus Wanzala

NAIROBI (IDN) – Amid a cacophony of voices, interests and expectations, the third high level United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), held in Nairobi from December 4-6, had a common denominator – a sense of strong desire and willingness among delegations for action to ensure a pollution-free world.

Some walked the talk. Indeed, in a bid to support the war against pollution, the European Union, Finland, Germany, Norway, Republic of Korea, Sweden and Switzerland committed 35 million dollars to the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), a partnership of five UN agencies to support countries in greening their economies and tackling environmental challenges, while promoting better jobs and stable economic growth.

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Village Buddhist Monks in Laos Initiate Environmentally-Aware Development

By Toung Eh Synuanchanh

This article is the 19th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate.

BEUNGSANTHUENG, Laos (IDN) – A quiet revolution is taking shape in rural Laos, where environmentally-conscious village Buddhist monks are teaching people morality and meditation to spearhead a movement mobilising the people to economically develop their communities for living in harmony with nature rather than destroying it in the name of development.

At the Ban Beungsanthueng community, in Nongbok District in Khammouane Province of Laos, about 400 km south of the capital Vientiane, monks educate the villagers in Sila (Buddhist morality) and the way to live a good life (Right Livelihood), while protecting the environment. In this nominally communist country, the monks explain the linkage between humans and nature to villagers, and its importance to their livelihoods and well-being.…

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South-South Cooperation Holds the Key To Beating Global Development Challenges

By Jacques N. Couvas

ANKARA (IDN) – “Solutions for the South by the South” was the recurring theme that resounded throughout the duration of the Global South-South Development Expo 2017 (GSSD Expo) from November 27 to 30, 2017 in Antalya, the largest Turkish city on the Mediterranean coast.

This landmark event of the United Nations (UN) system solely for the global South was held in the lead up to the Second High-level UN Conference on South-South Cooperation to be convened in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March 2019. The Conference will mark the 40th anniversary of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA+40) for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries. A High-Level Forum of National Directors-General for Development Cooperation discussed during the Expo insights and proposals for the preparatory process of the 2019 conference.

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Photo: Secretary-General António Guterres addresses Security Council meeting on Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Preventive Diplomacy and Transboundary waters. To his right is President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia. UN Photo/Kim Haughton

유엔사무총장, 분쟁후의 평화유지보다도 예방외교를 선택

Photo: Secretary-General António Guterres addresses Security Council meeting on Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Preventive Diplomacy and Transboundary waters. To his right is President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia. UN Photo/Kim Haughton【뉴욕IDN＝샨타.로이】

시라아,예멘,아프가니스탄,키프로스,카시미르,파레스티나,수단,콩고민주공화국(DRC)등,미해결의 정치적,군사적 위기가 증폭되는 사태에 직면하고있는 와중에서 유엔의 안토니오 구테레스 사무총장은 향후의 방침을 세우기위하여 「조정에관한 하이레벨 자문위원회」를 임명하였다. 자문위원회의 주업무는 「예방외교 」다.「예방(외교)는 치료(분쟁후의 평화유지)보다 우수하다」라고하는 옛격언을 기초로하고있다.

이자문위원회가 창설되게된 배경에는 주로 유엔안전보장이사회(15개국)이 기능을 상실한 상황에 빠져있었던 사정이있다.유엔안보리는 전쟁과 평화를 선언하는 권한을 부여받은 유엔에서 최고의 영향력을 갖은 기관이라고도 하지만 거부권을 갖는 미국,영국,프랑스,러시아,중국의 5개 상임이사국이 세계전체를 구제 하려는것보다는 스스로의 정치적,경제적,군사적이익을 지키려 급급한 과정속에서 벽에 부딛쳐있는 상태이다.…

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