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Les partis qui ont décidé de prendre part aux prochaines élections législatives, prévues pour le 12 juin, ont été reçus hier dimanche, par le président de l’Autorité nationale indépendante des élections (ANIE) Mohamed Charfi. Comme il fallait s’y attendre, le centre des doléances portées par la plupart de ces partis, portait essentiellement sur la question […]

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Um neben zahlreichen Bildungsangeboten zu Krisenprävention und Friedensförderung auch vielfältige Erfahrungen aus der Praxis zusammenzuführen, sehen die 2017 von der Bundesregierung verabschiedeten Leitlinien „Krisen verhindern, Konflikte bewältigen, Frieden fördern“ eine „Lernplattform“ vor. Sie sollte verschiedene Akteure der Friedensförderung in unterschiedlichen Formaten zusammenbringen und Wissen kontinuierlich und problemorientiert sammeln. Dafür bleibt noch viel zu tun.

Um neben zahlreichen Bildungsangeboten zu Krisenprävention und Friedensförderung auch vielfältige Erfahrungen aus der Praxis zusammenzuführen, sehen die 2017 von der Bundesregierung verabschiedeten Leitlinien „Krisen verhindern, Konflikte bewältigen, Frieden fördern“ eine „Lernplattform“ vor. Sie sollte verschiedene Akteure der Friedensförderung in unterschiedlichen Formaten zusammenbringen und Wissen kontinuierlich und problemorientiert sammeln. Dafür bleibt noch viel zu tun.

Um neben zahlreichen Bildungsangeboten zu Krisenprävention und Friedensförderung auch vielfältige Erfahrungen aus der Praxis zusammenzuführen, sehen die 2017 von der Bundesregierung verabschiedeten Leitlinien „Krisen verhindern, Konflikte bewältigen, Frieden fördern“ eine „Lernplattform“ vor. Sie sollte verschiedene Akteure der Friedensförderung in unterschiedlichen Formaten zusammenbringen und Wissen kontinuierlich und problemorientiert sammeln. Dafür bleibt noch viel zu tun.

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May 10 2021 (IPS-Partners)

Melissa Fleming is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Global Communications – taking up her functions as of 1 September 2019 – and oversees operations in 60 countries and platforms that reach millions of people in multiple languages.

From 2009 until August 2019, Ms. Fleming served UNHCR as Head of Global Communications and Spokesperson for the High Commissioner. At UNHCR, she led global media outreach campaigns, social media engagement and a multimedia news service to distribute and place stories designed to generate greater empathy and stir action for refugees.

Ms. Fleming is a frequent interview guest on international media platforms and her talks are featured on TED.com. She is author of the book, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea, and host of the award-winning podcast, Awake at Night.

Ms. Fleming joined UNHCR from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where she served for eight years as Spokesperson and Head of Media and Outreach. Prior to IAEA, she headed the Press and Public Information team at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Earlier still, she was Public Affairs Specialist at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, having started her career as a journalist. From 2016 to 2017, she also served as Senior Adviser and Spokesperson on the incoming United Nations Secretary General’s Transition Team.

Ms. Fleming holds a Master of Science in Journalism from the College of Communication, Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts in German Studies from Oberlin College.

In a recent interview for the Awake at Night podcast, Ms. Fleming sat down with Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif to learn more about the mission of the UN’s global fund for education in emergencies, and ECW’s movement to reach the world’s most marginalized children and youth.

Please find below ECW’s new, compelling and inspiring interview with Melissa Fleming.

ECW: You have dedicated your life to bringing awareness to the world of those left furthest behind – refugees and other forcibly displaced populations. You have worked around the globe reporting on their challenges and the need for compassion, you created and manage an award-winning podcast “Awake at Night” to share the work of UN officials in crisis-affected countries and you are leading the United Nations public information efforts to advance multilateralism and solidarity under the UN Charter. Please tell us what inspired you and keeps inspiring you to take this path in life?

Melissa Fleming: We spend most of our waking hours working for a living. From the start of my career, it was important for me to also live for the work I am doing. The best way I could find to use my talents to contribute was to communicate – not just in facts and figures, but in stories. And not just stories of suffering and death, but of resilience and hope. There is a saying – ‘statistics are human beings with the tears dried off.’ If we are going to build bridges of compassion to people who need our help, we need to stir hearts, produce wet tears and inspire giving.

ECW: Prior to COVID-19, the estimation of children and youth with their education disrupted amounted to 75 million. As a result of COVID-19, the estimation is today 128 million. In other words, the number of children and youth deprived of a quality education in crisis is rapidly growing. Why do you consider education or SDG4 such an essential service among all SDGs to those who suffer from forced displacement, armed conflicts and climate-induced disasters?

Melissa Fleming: It is deeply traumatizing for anyone to have to flee their homes, leaving the safety of their homes, the comforts of their community and the foundations of their past for a scary unknown. But for children, also being forced to leave their schools and friends and teachers behind is a calamity. That is why emergency schooling is so critical – not just so children can continue to nurture their minds, but also to give them a place of healing and hope.

ECW: You are also a staunch supporter of the UN-hosted Fund Education Cannot Wait, which is dedicated to those left furthest behind. ECW’s investments to date have reached millions of children and youth in crisis, and the Fund has dedicated 50 per cent of its investments to those forcibly displaced from their homes and countries. Could you please elaborate on your belief and trust in the Education Cannot Wait Fund and its positive influence in serving those left furthest behind and the United Nations mission?

Melissa Fleming: I served for 10 years at UNHCR and it pained me to see that education programs for refugee and displaced children were acutely underfunded. Not funding refugee education, I felt, was not just shortsighted, it was also dumb. During my visits to refugee camps and settlements, I have always thought, ‘If they knew them, they would care and if they cared, they would increase funding.’ What if they met Hany, a Syrian refugee teen who – when given only minutes to decide what to take with him when he had to flee – chose his high school diploma? A talented young man who was on track to go to university and become an engineer, who realized that certificate held the key to his future. Who, after two years living in a shack in a muddy field in Lebanon, told me: ‘If I am not a student, I am nothing.’

The Education Cannot Wait Fund is clearly filling a critical gap, so refugee children no longer have to languish, but can return to learning and heal from their trauma at the same time. I believe such investments in refugee children are also a strategic investment in a future of peace. That Education Cannot Wait is hosted by the UN system is also an illustration of how the United Nations moves with speed, delivers quality and with real results.

ECW: The United Nations Secretary-General, António Gutteres, the United Nations Deputy-Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, as well as the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, consider education a foundational right and priority for the United Nations and work in partnership with the World Bank, the European Union and the African Union, among others, to achieve SDG4 as a means of achieving all SDGs. How can you, as the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, help advance the United Nations ambitions and outreach among UN Member States and the private sector to achieve greater awareness and commitment to increase financial resources for education for refugees, internally displaced and other crisis-affected young people?

Melissa Fleming: Hearing about mass suffering and the millions of children out of school can generate shock and concern. But it can also cause people to shut off. When the problem seems too big to contemplate, it can make big refugee crises feel impersonal, and take away the sense that something can be done. The key to generate compassion and donations is to make this crisis relatable. What if this were your child? What does education mean to you? We universally love children and we instinctively want to protect them. What is effective for fundraising is relatable storytelling that connects to a potential donors’ own experience, with examples of the transformation that a contribution to education will bring. It is also inspiring to invite people to join an incredible coalition of Education Cannot Wait’s existing donors, advocates and partners.

But refugee crises are not just about numbers. They are about human beings.

ECW: You are the author of a very compassionate, highly successful and most relevant book in today’s world: A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival. You are a role model for all UN staff, and also an example of one of our most creative and empathetic women leaders in the UN. Please tell us a bit more about your book. What is your message and what can we all learn from it?

Melissa Fleming: I met so many remarkable refugees in my work, but there is one who, for me, is a real-life hero: Doaa Al Zamel, who survived one of the worst shipwrecks on the Mediterranean Sea. 500 of her fellow passengers, including the love of her life, her fiancé, drowned in front of her eyes. And when she was rescued, after four days and four nights on just a child’s swim ring floating in the middle of the Mediterranean, she had managed to save a little baby. I first told that story at the TED stage and then I wrote it in detail in a non-fiction account. And, my proudest moment was when I saw it first in print on a bookshelf in Barnes & Noble, at Union Square in New York City, which was the first stop of my book tour. Now it is optioned for a film, all a sign that people are hungry for individual human stories of remarkable survival, resilience and hope. There are millions of refugee stories that have these elements. They just need to be told.

ECW: Any final comments or inspirational words from you?

Melissa Fleming: I often think of this quote by Maya Angelou as an inspiration for our communications: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

 

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Zum Start der Konferenz über die Zukunft Europas am Europatag (9. Mai) sprach EURACTIV Kroatien mit der für die Ausrichtung der Konferenz zuständigen EU-Kommissarin Dubravka Šuica.

More than 100 people apply for asylum, as concern mounts over the conflict in Tigray.

EU-related news was given only 2.3% of airtime on French TV news in 2020 and most of it was devoted to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study by the Jean Jaurès Foundation in partnership with the French Audiovisual Institute (INA) revealed. EURACTIV France reports.

ENTWURF EINES BERICHTS über eine Empfehlung des Europäischen Parlaments an den Vizepräsidenten der Kommission und Hohen Vertreter der Union für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik zu den politischen Beziehungen und der Zusammenarbeit zwischen der EU und Taiwan
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
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Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2021 - EP

Pour combler les pertes liées à la crise du coronavirus, un don anonyme a été réalisé pour le Zoo de Bâle.

By Benjamin Larroquette and Reina Otsuka
NEW YORK, May 10 2021 (IPS)

Data, analysis and information are essential building blocks in our race to save humanity from the clear and present risks posed by the climate crisis.

We are headed on a crash course with oblivion, and we need take definitive and far-reaching action if we are going to protect our people and our planet from the devastating impacts of rising seas, spiking temperatures, extreme weather and other climate impacts that are derailing human, social and economic development worldwide.

Benjamin Larroquette

The only problem is that we live in a world of digital haves and have nots. Simply put, we must bridge the digital divide and we must build more effective and actionable climate risk assessments if we are going to save humanity from the truly existential risk of this vast and complicated crisis.

Climate risk assessments will future-proof investments for the next 30 years and provide the evidence we need to achieve the targets for low-carbon climate-resilient development outlined in the Paris Agreement.

Understanding the challenge

While we are making progress in improving our ability to model climate change, there are still large gaps in the overlay of vulnerability, environmental and weather data that hinder our ability to accurately assess future risks and build effective models at the local, regional and global levels.

In Africa just 26 percent of weather monitoring stations met WMO reporting requirements as of 2019. Across the developing world, climate data is still being recorded by hand. These data sets go back 30 plus years. But with no way to validate its veracity, it offers very little to aid us as we work to clearly map and plan for various climate scenarios.

Our failure to accurately capture and analyze climate and weather data is putting lives at risk and derailing development gains.

Reina Otsuka

According to the WMO, “around 108 million people required help from the international humanitarian system as a result of storms, floods, droughts and wildfires in 2018. By 2030, it is estimated that this number could increase by almost 50 percent at a cost of around US$20 billion a year. The situation is particularly acute in small island developing states (SIDs) and least developed countries (LDCs). Since 1970, SIDS have lost US$153 billion due to weather, climate and water related hazards – a significant amount given that the average GDP for SIDS is US$13.7 billion. Meanwhile, 1.4 million people (70 percent of the total deaths) in LDCs lost their lives due to weather, climate and water related hazards in that time period.”

Bridging the digital divide

Progress is underway. In Malawi, data sets dating back decades are now being digitized, hydromet stations are sending live actionable data via the cloud, and public-private partnerships are allowing for increased analysis of climate data. This means poor rural farmers can improve profits and change their practices to adapt to new climate scenarios. It means the government can futureproof large infrastructure investments.

In Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia and other sub-Saharan African nations, low-cost automatic weather stations are being deployed to improve the collection of localized data, private-sector partnerships are improving the capture and analysis information, and vulnerable communities are benefiting from actionable early warnings and climate information.

Governments in Asia and the Pacific are making important steps in integrating data analysis into ecosystem-based adaptation approaches to proactively respond to and plan for multiple vulnerabilities. In the Philippines combined mangrove and coastal ecosystem impact is being assessed to protect vulnerable cities. In Viet Nam, geospatial assessment of flood impact is protecting rural infrastructure. In Tuvalu, new data is being collected via state-of-the-art LIDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, technology, to better understand the topography a unique weather patterns of the country’s atoll islands.

And while large gaps still exist, and more funding is needed, there are ways to apply low-tech solutions with high-tech know-how to leap-frog technologies and apply a new vision for weather and climate services.

The same way Africa skipped providing landlines and now can rely on mobile phones, so too can they use mobile networks to collect and share information, satellite and lightning data can improve cross-border information sharing, rainfade technology can be applied to improve weather forecasts, automated weather stations can be installed on cell-phone towers to ensure energy, security and transmission of information. With far reaching mobile connection, we can now reach the most remote farmers with important climate information and agricultural advisories.

By bringing together resources and know-how from the private sector, new technologies and new ways of working, there is a chance to bridge the digital divide and pave the way for a climate-resilient future.

Benjamin Larroquette is a Regional Technical Advisor for UNDP’s Nature, Climate and Energy team, with a focus on climate information, early warning systems and climate change adaptation.

Reina Otsuka, a Digital Innovation Specialist for UNDP’s Nature Climate and Energy team, is passionate about facilitating innovation processes and the application of digital technologies for sustainable development.

 

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Le ministre des Affaires religieuses et des Wakfs, Youcef Belmehdi a confirmé ce lundi que les mosquées, à l’exception de certains cas isolés, ont été les exemples les plus fascinants pendant le mois sacré du Ramadan en adhérant aux mesures préventives et en maintenant le protocole de santé contre Covid-19. Lors de son passage sur […]

L’article Hadj 2021 pour Algériens : Les précisions du ministre Belmehdi est apparu en premier sur .

Rendőrségi védelmet kapott pénteken a nyugat-lengyelországi Walbrzych polgármestere, aki fenyegetéseket kapott, miután a helyi önkormányzat kötelezővé nyilvánította a koronavírus elleni védőoltást.

A mintegy 113 ezer lakosú Walbrzych önkormányzata április végén szavazta meg a határozatot, mely szerint kötelezővé tennék az oltást a város összes lakosa, illetve az ott dolgozók számára. A még az illetékes vajdasági hivatal jóváhagyására váró, vagyis nem hatályos határozatot a helyi polgármester, az orvosi végzettségű Roman Szelemej kezdeményezte. Az intézkedést azzal indokolta, hogy több helyi lakost, valamint általában több lengyelt is gondolkodásra akar késztetni az oltakozás fontosságáról.

A határozat nyomán Szelemej e-mail címére és közösségi fiókjára számos, gyűlöletkeltő és fenyegető üzenet érkezett, a fiókot emiatt fel kellett függeszteni – közölte pénteken a PAP hírügynökséggel a walbrzychi polgármesteri hivatal szóvivője.

Hétfőn a kötelező oltás ellenzői tüntetést is tartottak Szelemej háza előtt. A fenyegetések kapcsán a polgármesteri hivatal rendőrségi bejelentést tett, Szelemej pedig rendőrségi védelmet kért, amit a szóvivő közlése szerint meg is kapott.

A lengyel kormányfői hivatal vezetője, Michal Dworczyk szerint a walbrzychi önkormányzat nem egyeztetett a kezdeményezésről a kormánnyal. A járvány kezelésére vonatkozó lengyel jogi szabályozás értelmében az oltakozás önkéntes.

A lengyel kormány mellett működő orvosi tanács egyik tagja, Robert Flisiak “túl merész ötletnek” nevezte a walbrzychi határozatban foglaltakat. A tanács egy másik tagja, Anna Piekarska viszont nemrég felvetette: fizetőssé kellene tenni a Covid-19 kór gyógyítását azok számára, akik nem oltatják be magukat.

Az Emberi Jogok Európai Bíróságának április eleji ítélete szerint kötelezővé lehet tenni az oltásokat egy demokratikus társadalomban. A döntés nem a Covid-19-elleni vakcinázás, hanem a kötelező gyermekoltások kapcsán született cseh családok keresete után, de egyes értelmezések szerint megerősíti a védőoltás kötelezővé tételének lehetőségét a jelenlegi járvány körülményei között.

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Les premiers éléments dévoilés de la loi des finances complémentaire pour l’année en cours prévoient un déficit budgétaire de pas moins de 3310 milliards de dinars soit, 24.82 milliards de dollars. En principe, le déficit budgétaire reflète le solde négatif du budget de l’État résultant du fait que les recettes de l’État (hors emprunt) sont […]

L’article Déficit budgétaire : endettement extérieur ou planche à billet ? est apparu en premier sur .

A Christian monk is hanged for killing the head of desert monastery in 2018.

Le comité économique «OUI à la loi Covid-19» affirme lundi son soutien à la loi Covid-19.

This week sees the official launch of the Conference on the Future of Europe, and its democratic centrepiece is a digital platform gathering ideas. There are high hopes for the platform as the EU seeks to mobilise citizen involvement in shaping policies and ambitions.

Tandis que le doute persiste sur la mise en œuvre du NextGenerationEU à 800 milliards d’euros, la Commission européenne et les experts ont souligné que l’instrument de relance économique ne s’apparentait pas au plan de sauvetage américain.

The regional elections in the UK have brought the Scottish National Party (SNP) under Nicola Sturgeon a clear victory. The party won 64 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament. The result puts the question of Scottish independence, which the SNP is campaigning for, firmly back on the agenda. Europe's press discusses the fault lines between money, power and identity.