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Much of the unchecked violations of human rights in Pakistan occurs more due to the absence of the state rather than its excess — the instances of violence against people accused of blasphemy and those defending them, the wholesale targeted killings of ethnic and religious minorities, and the oppression of women in our society primarily stem not from the state, but from the public

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This story was originally published by Dawn, Pakistan
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The #BringBackOurGirls Campaign has experienced some successes but must now overcome the challenge of hope fatigue, Bring Back Our Girls campaign co-founder Saudatu Mahdi told IPS in a recent interview

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Bring Back Our Girls campaign co-founder Saudatu Mahdi with Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda
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Citizens can now seek and obtain information from public authorities that would shed light on their integrity and diligence. There can be no better tool to keep public authorities in check. Despite such clarity, however, the law has remained underutilised. Misunderstanding about its objectives abound among all classes of citizens

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The writers are Chairman, Research Initiatives, Bangladesh (RIB) and Project Coordinator (RTI section), RIB, respectively. Email: rib@citech-bd.com
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The Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon’s Far North region hosts about 60,000 Nigerians who have fled their homes since 2011 because of attacks carried out by the Islamist terror group, Boko Haram

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UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi is received at the Minawao Camp in Cameroon’s Far North region on Dec. 15, 2016
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The World Bank’s Doing Business Report 2017, subtitled ‘Equal Opportunity for All’, continues to mislead despite the many criticisms, including from within, levelled against the Bank’s most widely read publication, and Bank management promises of reform for many years

http://www.ipsnews.net/…/more-of-the-same-world-bank-doing…/

Anis Chowdhury, a former professor of economics at the University of Western Sydney, held senior United Nations positions during 2008–2015 in New York and Bangkok. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a former economics professor, was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and received...
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Come 2017, the United Nations will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the world’s longstanding unresolved political problems firmly entrenched on the UN agenda: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dating back to the Six Day War in June 1967.

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Perhaps the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems destined to live forever—and has never shown signs of dying in 50 long years.
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Synthetic biology, geoengineering and the recognition of ancestral knowledge are the issues that have generated the most heated debate in the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity, #COP13

http://www.ipsnews.net/…/new-technologies-a-focus-of-debat…/

Sri Lanka: The newly minted Right to Information (RTI) act will take effect on Feb. 4, 2017, according to officials at the Ministry of Mass Media and the Department of Information

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Media experts and government officials say that the new Right to Information Act will change the way media works in Sri Lanka. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told UN Security Council members of credible reports of civilians in Aleppo being summarily executed during an emergency meeting. “History will not easily absolve us, but this failure compels us to do even more to offer the people of Aleppo our solidarity at this moment,” said Ban Ki-moon

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Staffan de Mistura (left), UN Special Envoy for Syria, speaks with Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of Russia
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Crop failure, rising sea levels and flooding all caused by climate change is pushing migration like never before in South Asia, says a joint study released by ActionAid, Climate Action Network-South Asia and Bread for the World (Brot Fuer Die Welt)

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“The UN set itself a goal of reaching gender parity by 2000, it set that goal in 1993. 23 years later and progress in reaching the goal has been pathetic, faltering, and sometimes flatlining.”

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Achieving gender equality in UN staff appointments will be a “clear priority” for incoming UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, when he takes up the UN’s top administrative role in January 2017.
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“If you look across countries, institutions working on gender equality and women’s rights issues are the least funded. Gender ministries are the least funded. Feminists organizations don’t have the funds to organize to advance women’s rights,”

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Delegates participate in one of the women’s forums during the Nov. 28-Dec. 1 HLM2 Nairobi meeting. Credit: Robert Kibet/IPS
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“We don’t have access to marine areas, because most are protected areas or are in private hands. We indigenous people have been losing access to our territories, as this decision became a privilege of the state,” complained Donald Rojas, a member of the Brunka indigenous community in Costa Rica.

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Representatives of native peoples all over the world take part in a meeting during the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity in the resort city of Cancún, Mexico. Indigenous delegates in the summit are defending their rights and their natural resources, which are threatened by climate change, th...
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Up to two billion people live in countries affected by violence, conflict and fragility. Often, such political instability goes hand in hand with food insecurity

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“Conflicts have pushed over 56 million people either into crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity”
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Nana Akufo-Addo's message of building a factory in each of the 216 districts in Ghana and ensuring that farming communities, especially in the northern part of the country, have irrigation facilities for year-round production of crops – the one-village-one-dam policy – seems to have been well received by voters

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Residents in Kumasi, the capital of Ghana's Ashanti region and stronghold of the opposition NPP, carry a casket, ready to bury John Mahama and his NDC whom they say is politically dead. Credit: Kwaku Botwe/IPS
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In Kenya the Gini coefficient of inequality is at around 0.45%. Therefore, the economic growth statistics present an unequivocal picture of a highly unequal society, whose development strategy is largely leading to accumulation of wealth by a few and worsening the poverty of the majority.

http://www.ipsnews.net/…/why-achieving-sdg-goal-8-on-decen…/

Ms. Mary Kawar is the Director of the ILO Office based in Tanzania and covering Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Siddharth Chatterjee is the UN Resident Coordinator to Kenya.
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