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18 July Jul 2016 1630 18 July 2016 Working to eliminate teen HIV
2.1 million adolescents have HIV worldwide. For children like Elijah, living with HIV transmitted to him from his mother's breast milk, the stigma of life with HIV marked his childhood and affected his schooling. Every hour, 26 teenagers are infected with HIV. Only 26% of girls and 33% of boys worldwide have a full understanding of how HIV is transmitted, which is why NGOs like WhizzKids United and UNICEF are campaigning to #endadolescentaids.
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15 July Jul 2016 0942 15 July 2016 UNESCO: "The challenge of getting all children and youth into school is immense"
With 263 million children and youth out of school, there is still a long road ahead to meet the new global education goal, SDG 4, that pledges to ‘ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes’.
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14 July Jul 2016 1036 14 July 2016 No more space for refugees? Think again Europe
According to data from the censuses conducted across Europe, there are at least 15.8 million verified empty homes in Europe. In other words, there are enough empty homes in Europe to house all the asylum seekers that arrived in Europe last year, and all of Europe’s 4 million homeless people, several times over.
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13 July Jul 2016 1533 13 July 2016 Ventimiglia refugee crisis: "Protect people, not borders" says Caritas Europa
Caritas Europa, together with its members Secours Catholique-Caritas France and Caritas Italy, is calling on the EU and in particular on the French and Italian governments to take action to respect the human dignity and fundamental rights of migrants stuck in Ventimiglia, Italy. “There are no services at all apart from what is provided by civil society” says Caritas Europa's Policy and Advocacy Officer Marie Tempesta.
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21 June Jun 2016 0930 21 June 2016 Better conflict and peace building? Look to technology and local empowerment
With the scale and complexity of conflicts increasing worldwide, conflict prevention is now higher on the UN agenda than ever before. Meeting in Brussels last week, experts discussed past, present, and future peace building and conflict prevention. The future? Technology and local empowerment.
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15 June Jun 2016 1503 15 June 2016 Women farmers are key to tackling rural poverty
Worldwide, women comprise about 40 % of the agricultural labour force and play a crucial role in food production, processing and marketing of produce along agricultural value chains. Although they have a critical role to play in all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), women and girls across the world still face significant discrimination in access to productive resources and economic opportunities in agriculture.
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10 June Jun 2016 1045 10 June 2016 Peace agreements with women last longer, so why aren't we included?
15 years after the UN security council passed resolution 1325, women are still largely excluded from the formal peace process. To highlight the political, social, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution work of women living in challenging environments across the Arab States Region, UN Women have started a six-part documentary series called “We Are Here”.
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6 June Jun 2016 1055 06 June 2016 Why the Illegal Wildlife Trade is a threat to our planet
Every year, the illegal wildlife trade sees hundreds of millions of animals and plants being caught or harvested from the wild and unsustainably sold as food, pets, medicine, leather, or simply as decorative objects. The world's biodiversity is being eroded, and more and more species - including rhinos, elephants, gorillas, and tigers - are at high risk of extinction.
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3 June Jun 2016 1150 03 June 2016 End male violence on the route from conflict to peace
Yesterday in Brussels the European Women's Lobby held an event for their collaborative project entitled: "#womensvoices: From conflict to peace? Women and girls’ voices on the move". The project "aims to raise awareness on the situation of women and girls fleeing conflict and travelling through Europe, looking especially at the protection risks they face in terms of male violence against women both on the ground and with regards to the asylum procedures and policies.”