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Kudos and Criticism for New UN Human Rights Chief

By J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) – Moments after the UN General Assembly unanimously agreed on August 10 to appoint Chile’s former President Michelle Bachelet as the seventh UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Secretary-General António Guterres tweeted: “Ms. Bachelet is a pioneer, a visionary, a woman of principle, and a great human rights leader for these troubled times.” He had had put forward her candidacy to the General Assembly on August 8.

The United Nations Association – UK (UNA-UK) Executive Director, Natalie Samarasinghe, agreed: she is “certainly a strong choice”, and added: “She has experience at the highest level of government in Chile, at the highest level of administration within the UN system as the first head of UN Women, and of working with civil society under the shadow of oppression.” (P11) GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE
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Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu

The author is Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. This article first appeared in UN Chronicle, Vol. LV No. 2 2018 | August 2018.

NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – The idea that disarmament and arms control are connected to development is not new. Article 26 of the Charter of the United Nations recognizes disarmament as a precondition for durable peace, security and development by calling for the maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion of the world’s economic and human resources for arms.

For a long time, however, disarmament has largely slipped off the development agenda. This is despite overwhelming evidence that excessive arms accumulation diverts needed resources from development and fuels armed conflict and violence, leading to unnecessary death and suffering, social inequality and environmental degradation.…

Photo: Fred Kuwornu. Credit: facebook.com/fred.kuwornu

मानव तस्करी का जाल

*फ्रैड कूवोरनू के विचार-मत *

न्यूयॉर्क (आईडीएन)- मानव तस्करी से विभिन्न माफिया विश्वभर में 150 बिलीयन डॉलर अर्जित करते हैं, उसमें से 100 बिलियन (अरब) डॉलर अफ्रीकन लोगों की तस्करी से आते हैं। हर तस्करी के जाल में फंसी अफ्रीकन महिला नाईजीरियन माफिया के लिए 60,000 यूरो की आसामी होती है। 10,000 तस्करीयाँ इटली में हर साल 600 मिलीयन यूरो माफिया को देती हैं। कोई भी अफ्रीकन जानबूझ कर इस दलदल में नहीं फंसेगा यदि उन्हें पता हो कि यूरोप में क्या भयावह सच्चाई उनका ईंतजार कर रही है।…

Empower Indigenous Women, Strengthen Communities

By Santo D. Banerjee

NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – August 9 is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. On this occasion, UN Women calls on each of us to commit to making the voices of indigenous peoples, and indigenous women, louder and more impactful than ever before: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/8/statement-un-women-international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples.

At a time of unprecedented human mobility, indigenous women are on the move too, often fleeing violence, environmental disasters and land encroachments that have eaten into their sources of food, water and way of life. The positive economic spin-offs of migration don’t always reach them. Theirs is a move also for justice, as they mobilize to make their voices heard, demand punishment for perpetrators and reparations to restore their dignity.…

国連会議、グローバル開発目標達成の前にすべきことが山積と警告

Photo: The 2018 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development concluded on 16 July, following a full day of Voluntary National Reviews, and the continuation of the High-Level General Debate in the afternoon. A Ministerial Declaration was adopted during the closing session on the theme 'Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies.' Photo by IISD/ENB | Kiara Worth 【国連IDN＝ラメシュ・ジャウラ】

「２０３０アジェンダ」と持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）が国連で採択されてから３年、「人間、地球及び繁栄のための行動計画」が履行されたことで、一見すれば「世界を変革する」試みは進展しているかのように見える。

しかし、これまでの成果がごく限られていることと、「誰も置き去りにしない」という途方もない公約を残りの期限内に達成しなければならない現実を前に、全く予断を許さない状況であることは国連高官も認めている。…

｜視点｜人間をカネで売るということ（フレッド・クウォルヌ放送作家・映画監督）

【ニューヨークIDN＝フレッド・クウォルヌ】

人身売買によって世界各地のマフィアは１５００億ドルを得ているが、そのうち１０００億ドルはアフリカ人の売買によるものだ。女性の人身売買を１人行うごとに、ナイジェリアマフィアに６万ユーロが流れ込む。つまり、イタリアで１万人を売買すれば、（送出元の）マフィアの懐に６億ユーロが入る計算だ。しかし、実際にヨーロッパで待ち受ける運命を事前に知っていたら、わざわざヨーロッパへの渡航を望むアフリカ人などいないだろう。

私はイタリアで果てしなく繰り広げられている（移民を巡る）中身を無視した派閥論争に関わりたくはないのだが、アフリカに祖先のルーツをもち、現在はアメリカに移住したイタリア人として、「移民問題」（というよりもむしろ「人の流れ」）について、真実を語る時がきたと思っている。ただし本稿では、離婚に向けた脅迫手段として子どもの親権問題を持ち出す両親のように、問題を政治化して引きずり回す道具としてではなく、さまざまなレベルを伴う構造的な現象として「移民問題」を取扱いたい。…

New Study Warns Of ‘Hothouse’ Threatening Planet Earth

By Rita Joshi

BERLIN (IDN) – Planet Earth is inching towards crossing the Rubicon by passing a tipping point and entering an irresistible “Hothouse” state. Rivers would flood, coasts would vanish, storms would wreak havoc on coastal communities, coral reefs would be eliminated, and numerous people would perish because of food scarcity and inescapable lethal heat.

All this by century’s end or even earlier, even if the carbon emission reductions called for in the Paris Agreement are met, scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, University of Copenhagen, and Australian National University have warned. JAPANESE…

South African Women March Against Gender-Based Violence

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK | PRETORIA (IDN) – Thousands of women and gender activists joined together on the first day of Women’s Month to protest the rising incidence of gender-based violence across the country.

The movement’s Brenda Madumise said the marchers, under the banner #TheTotalShutdown, were taking control of their destiny.

“We are saying that we had enough,” said Patience Mpani from the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. “We are dying every day and we cannot continue to live like this. It can’t be business as usual in South Africa when women are dying every day.”…

Stakes High in Returning Nigerians’ Stolen Millions

By Kwame Buist

LONDON (IDN) – Of the estimated 20-40 billion dollars stolen annually from developing countries and hidden abroad every year, a small proportion is sometimes successfully confiscated and returned to the country it came from.

However, where institutions of accountability do not work well, this poses a complex problem: how to make sure that the money is not embezzled again, and actually benefits the real victims of corruption – the ordinary people whose state finances were plundered.

Take one case, Nigeria, where plans are under way to distribute 322 million dollars recovered in Switzerland from the late General Sani Abacha, the country’s former military ruler who is suspected of looting between three and five billion dollars in public money.…

Tanzania’s Indigenous Communities Racing to Secure Land Eyed by Investors

By Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM (IDN) – Helena Magafu smiled as she held a piece of paper that recognizes her as the sole owner of a disputed farmland in her village was handed over to her, thus resolving a raging dispute with her neighbours.

“I am very happy, I don’t think anyone with ever again claim this is their land,” she said

For the past eight years the 53 year-old widow, who lives in Sanje village in the rural district of Kilombero – in Morogoro Region, south-western Tanzania – has been embroiled in a dispute with her neighbours who attempted to take 30 hectares of her family land when her husband died. (P10) JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SWAHILI
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Month:

Kudos and Criticism for New UN Human Rights Chief

Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

मानव तस्करी का जाल

Empower Indigenous Women, Strengthen Communities

国連会議、グローバル開発目標達成の前にすべきことが山積と警告

｜視点｜人間をカネで売るということ（フレッド・クウォルヌ放送作家・映画監督）

New Study Warns Of ‘Hothouse’ Threatening Planet Earth

South African Women March Against Gender-Based Violence

Stakes High in Returning Nigerians’ Stolen Millions

Tanzania’s Indigenous Communities Racing to Secure Land Eyed by Investors

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