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United Nations WORLD REFUGEES DAY NEWSLETTER #12,
June 20, 2023.
Compiled by
Dick Bennett for a CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, and ECOLOGY
(OMNI Newsletter #1 June 20, 2008; #2 Dec. 4,
2011; #3 June 20, 2012; #4, June 20, 2014; #5, June 20, 2015; #6 June 20, 2017;
#7, June 20, 2018; #8, June 20, 2019; #9, June 20, 2020; #10, June 20, 2021;
#11, June 20, 2022).
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THE UNITED NATIONS HAS BEEN OUR GREAT DEFENDER AGAINST
CLIMATE CHANGE
AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, ESPECIALLY VIA ITS INTERGOVERNMENTAL
PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
(IPCC)
JUNE 8, UN WORLD OCEANS DAY
JUNE 17, UN DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT DAY
JUNE 20 , UN WORLD REFUGEES DAY (P. 9)
World -Scale Problems Need
World-Scale Resistancef 90,695
JUNE 8, UN WORLD OCEANS DAY
World Ocean Day is an international day
that takes place annually on 8 June. The concept was originally proposed in
1992 by Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development and the Ocean
Institute of Canada at the Earth Summit – UN Conference on Environment and
Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Ocean Project started global
coordination of World Ocean Day starting in 2002. "World Oceans
Day" was officially recognised by the United Nations in 2008. The
international day supports the implementation of worldwide Sustainable
Development Goals and fosters public interest in the protection of the
ocean and the sustainable management of its resources.
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JUNE 17, UNITED FOR LAND-UNCCD
Desertification and Drought Day 2023 Highlights
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UNCCD Secretariat <newsbox@unccd.int>
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Mon, Jun 19, 10:20 AM (1 day ago)
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UPDATES
FROM THE UNCCD SECRETARIAT AND THE GLOBAL MECHANISM
Special
Issue
Desertification and Drought
Day 2023
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Desertification and Drought
Day 2023 global observance
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Women
leaders from around the world took centre stage at the United
Nations General Assembly calling for women’s land rights at a
music-filled event to mark Desertification and Drought Day.
Speakers
from countries as diverse as Canada to Chad, Iceland to
Lesotho, shared their experiences and explained how droughts,
land degradation and desertification are disproportionately
impacting the women and girls in their communities.
In addition to high-level
speakers, the programme featured musical
performances by UNCCD Goodwill Ambassadors Baaba Maal, Inna Modja and Ricky Kej.
Read full press release
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See HIGHLIGHTS from events
around the world
This
year's Desertification and Drought Day was celebrated in more
than 35 countries around the world,
including China, Fiji, Hungary, Italy, Kenya, Mexico,
Morocco, Serbia, Türkiye, and Vietnam.
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Hybrid
roundtable - organized by UNCCD Regional
Liaison Office (RLO) Africa , Morocco.
On 16 June with key partners such as the African Union,
regional commissions (IGAD, ECOWAS, SADC, ECAC), UNECA,
UNWOMEN, FAO, IFAD, ICESCO, the network of women's
agricultural and commercial cooperatives in Africa as well as
the diplomatic community accredited in
Morocco. Information stands of women's cooperatives were
featured at the event.
One of the key moments highlight of the national celebration
of the Desertification and Drought Day was the Signing of an
MoU with France and Canada to support women’s participation
in agricultural and forestry projects.
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Exchanging
best women-led practices in sustainable land management -
organized by UNCCD Regional
liason office for Central and Eastern Europe.
A interregional event in Belgrade, Serbia focused on
exchanging best women-led practices in sustainable land
management.
The meeting was opened by the State Secretary Sandra Dokić,
who pointed out that Serbia recognizes the importance of
gender equality and that this conference is an excellent
opportunity to make another step forward in improving the
position of women who work the land and thus contribute to
achieving the goals of neutrality of land degradation and the
implementation of United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification in Serbia. More information: Event website
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Desertification
and Drought Day 2023 national observance -
organized by National Forestry
and Grassland Administration China
NFGA together with provinces, municipalities and autonomous
regions in China, was organizing diverse promotion events
under the international theme "Her Land, Her
Rights" and the national theme "Combat
Desertification Scientifically, With You, With Me, With
Her."
Campaign websites and videos emphasized the important role of
desertification prevention and control in promoting rural
revitalization, maintaining national ecological security and
accelerating new energy development in desertified areas.
The national event with 300 participants took place in Yulin
City, Shaanxi Province in China to unveil an Initiative to
Jointly Prevent and Control Sandstorm Sources, and the
launch the Desertification Prevention and Control Fund under
China Green Carbon Foundation.
The ceremony included a screening of the documentary '30
Years of Sand Control and Sand Industry in China, followed by
keynote speeches, academic panels and field trips focusing on
desert carbon sequestration, sand and dust control and
desertification-combating technologies.
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Desertification
and Drought Day 2023 roundup -
organized by National
Environment Management Agency Kenya
The
National Environment Management Agency is planning a range of
activities in Kitui County on 17 June focused on raising
awareness on the key role the importance of women's land
rights and securing ownership of land in the fight against
desertification.
The activities included a guided panel discussion, a
village-wide dialogue, a media campaign through local radio
stations, a survey on the participation of women in
sustainable land management and resource conservation under
different land tenure systems, a display of water-harvesting
technologies, an inventory of drought-tolerant crop varieties,
community donations of water-harvesting devices, drought
resilient plants and farm animals.
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Verso
la giornata mondiale contro la desertificazione e la
siccità - organized by The Department of
Agricultural Sciences and the Desertification Research Centre
NRD at the University of Sassari, Italy.
An
international event for academic research and civil society
representatives committed to the safeguarding of water
resources and the fight against desertification and land
degradation.
The
first part of the event, took place in the Aula Magna
"Barbieri" at the Department of Agricultural
Sciences (Sassari) was aimed at students, researchers,
agronomists and citizens with issues related to the
projects “I CARE SOIL (Citizen Science experience on soil
protection), E.WA.S. (Environment and Water Solutions),
VARCOR (Vermitechnology application for valorization and
reuse of cocoa residues) and TERRA (Employment of
eco-sustainable technologies for the re-use of organic
residues in the agricultural chain).
The second part, a virtual meeting, was in the formant of an
international webinar: "Her Land. Her rights: a
science-civil society dialogue on women's efforts for drought
and desertification challenges”. PhD students,
researchers and representatives of civil society took part in
the event.
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Desertification
and Drought Day 2023 activities -
organized by Ministerio del
Poder Popular para el Ecosocialismo, Venezuela,
Bolivarian Republic of, Caracas.
The
main event "Her Land. Her Rights: Advancing gender
equality to restore land and build resilience" took
place on June 16 at the Waraira Repano Hall of the
Universidad Popular del Ambiente Fruto Vivas with a virtual
option. Activities across the country include nature
walks, reforestation days, inter-institutional talks in the
communities, with the participation of the "Youth
Brigade Against Climate Change" and the "Mission
Tree"
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Learn more from this year events around the
world here
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Securing
Women’s Land Rights for Increased Gender Equality, Food
Security and Economic Empowerment
Women hold a vital stake in the health of the land. Their hands
have shaped and nurtured life on our planet.
Ensuring
women and girls' equal enjoyment of all human rights and
participation in decision-making on land is the key to
achieving land degradation neutrality. Furthermore, everyone
benefits: women themselves, their families and the rest of
society.
For
example, ensuring women’s and girls’ rights has a profound
knock-on effect for household income, food security, investment
in children's education, health and welfare, and it reduces
gender-based violence.
When
given the right opportunities, women can also tap into
traditional knowledge and find innovative solutions to address
desertification, land degradation and drought.
READ
MORE:
President Halonen's article in UN chronicle
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Women
and land rights: our dignity
African
women are known to be very active, both in the production and
processing of rural products. Agriculture, livestock, fishing,
water and wood collection, retail, processing and marketing...
They are literally in the oven and the mill. It is without
respite, without rest. And most often, without recourse.
We
know that they fight tooth and nail for their family well-being.
But very little is known about their land status. While they
account for almost half of the agricultural workforce, only 15%
of them own the land they cultivate. This average percentage
also hides a large regional disparity, since in some North
African countries, only 4% of women have agricultural land
registration.
When women have land rights, they use land more efficiently,
invest and obtain better agricultural production. In addition,
they ensure food security that benefits the entire
household.
READ
MORE:
UNCCD Executive secretary's op-ed in Jeune
Afrique
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WATCH HERE: High-level event entitled
“Her Land. Her Rights: Advancing Gender Equality and Land
Restoration Goals” to mark the 2023 Desertification and Drought
Day.
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Her Land. Her
Rights: Advancing gender equality to restore land and build
resilience
UNCCD policy brief highlights the critical role of
gender-responsive approaches to land tenure that empower women
and accelerate the implementation of land restoration
commitments that build community resilience.
It examines how greater tenure security for women and girls can
lead to a more equitable and sustainable land management.
The brief builds upon the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
(UNCCD) 2018–2030 Strategic Framework and its Gender Action
Plan adopted in 2017.
It is closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals,
particularly those on poverty reduction, gender equality, and
protecting life on land.
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Her land. Her
rights. Equal land rights: a pathway to combating
desertification in the Arab region
Desertification, land degradation and drought remain a
significant threat to the Arab region. Women and girls are
disproportionately affected by these threats through decreased
agricultural yields, increased water scarcity, health issues,
and biodiversity loss. Moreover, women face significant
disadvantages compared to men when it comes to land ownership.
This document gives a general overview of the desertification
and drought status in the Arab region and provides information
on its impacts from a gender perspective. It also suggests ways
in which women’s access to and control over land resources can
improve livelihoods in rural communities while combating
desertification. Academic institutions, public and private
sectors, cooperatives as well as civil society have a key role
in restoring land and boosting drought resilience.( A publication of
UNESCWA)
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TomDispatch, Tomgram
“Todd Miller, Out-Trumping
Trump at the Border.”
June 8, 2023
These days, it
seems as if it happened in another world. I'm thinking of that June
afternoon in 2015 when The Donald rode a Trump
Tower escalator down to waiting reporters (and a cheering crowd of --
yes! -- actors he had hired at $50
a pop) to announce that he was going to run for president. In that
speech, he took the crowd and those reporters with him on a quick trip,
however metaphoric, southwest, swearing he would build a “great, great
wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall.”
Why? Because, of course, Mexico was sending its
worst people northwards. "They’re not sending you. They’re sending
people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems
with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.
And some, I assume, are good people.”
But count on one
thing, the man who only recently was convicted of... well, not quite
raping but "sexually abusing"
E. Jean Carroll... sure didn't think many of them were "good
people" like him, nor does he now. Admittedly, he neither successfully built much
of that "big, beautiful wall" of his, nor managed to make
Mexico pay for any of the wildly expensive parts
he did get constructed (47 new miles, the rest replacing fencing already
there). And yet, almost eight years later, without an escalator in sight,
in some fashion he's still on that border. Only recently, for instance,
the former president running for the Republican nomination in 2024 swore that
when he returned to the White House, he would quickly issue an executive
order ensuring that the children of undocumented immigrants “will not
receive automatic U.S. citizenship”;
in other words, he would end the "birthright citizenship"
guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, something he had promised to do in 2015
and again as president.
And of course, with the race for that nomination heating up,
in mid-May, Ron DeSantis tried to
out-Trump Trump by dispatching 800
members of the Florida National Guard, 200 agents from the state
Department of Law Enforcement, 101 state highway patrol troopers, 20
agents from the State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the
Department of Emergency Management, 5 fixed-wing aircraft, 17 unmanned
drones, and 10 boats to... yes, you guessed it, Texas's border with
Mexico -- for, well... at least 30 days as the Trump/covid era Title 42
border expulsion policy finally ended.
What you wouldn't know, however, unless you were reading the
work of TomDispatch regular and border expert
Todd Miller, was that, while the Republicans made (mostly fake) border
policy their pride, joy, and nightmare first class, what he calls the
border-industrial complex has been making a fortune off American
taxpayers by fortifying that border in ways that fit not Trump's
wall-eyed vision of prevention, but one more in keeping with our
increasingly AI-ed world. Let me not tell you more though, just suggest
you get on the nearest escalator and head down this page to Miller's
latest border foray to see for yourself. Tom
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The Real Border Surge:
The End of Title 42 and the Triumph of
the Border-Industrial Complex
By Todd Miller
On May 11th, I was with a group of people at the bottom of
the Paso del Norte bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Suddenly, I realized
that I didn’t have the small change needed to cross the bridge and return
to El Paso, Texas, where I was attending the 16th annual Border Security Expo.
Worse yet, this was just three hours before Title 42, the
pandemic-era rapid-expulsion border policy instituted by the Trump
administration, was set to expire. The media was already in overdrive on
the subject, producing apocalyptic scenarios like one in the New
York Post reporting that "hordes" of
“illegals” were on their way toward the border.
While I searched for those coins, a woman approached me, dug
35 cents out of a small purse -- precisely what it cost! -- and handed
the change to me. She then did so for the others in our group. When I
pulled a 20-peso bill from my wallet to repay her, she kept her fist
clenched and wouldn't accept the money.
Click here to read more
of this dispatch.
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World Refugee Day is a day to honour refugees around the globe who have
been forced to flee their home country due to conflict, violence, persecution,
or human rights violations1234. It is celebrated every year on June 201235 and
aims to build empathy, understanding, and awareness for their plight,
resilience, and contributions1345. World Refugee Day was first celebrated in
2001 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status
of Refugees3.
Learn more:
World Refugee Day | United Nations - الأمم المتحدة
www.un.org/en/observances/refugee-day
How many refugees have been forced into neighboring countries in 2022?
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that 2022 marked the first year in
which the population forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights
violations, and persecution exceeded 100 million people of concern. Since the
beginning of 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has driven over 5 million
refugees into neighboring countries.
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communities where they have found safety — this means ensuring they can apply
for jobs, enroll in schools and access services like housing and healthcare.
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Are refugees exiled?
Many refugees are in exile to escape the effects of natural or human-made
disasters. Asylum seekers say they are refugees and have fled their homes as
refugees do, but their claim to refugee status is not yet definitively
evaluated in the country to which they fled.
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