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47 Sunday, 6 October 2019- edited by Ilaria
Saltarelli, Laura Harth and Angelica
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Radical
Party In International Day Of
Non-Violence.
The
International Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2
October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. According
to General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271
of 15 June 2007, which established the
commemoration, the International Day is an
occasion to “disseminate the message of
non-violence, including through education and
public awareness”. The resolution reaffirms “the
universal relevance of the principle of
non-violence” and the desire “to secure a culture
of peace, tolerance, understanding and
non-violence”. The Resolution invites all Member
States “to commemorate the International Day of
Non-Violence in an appropriate manner and to
disseminate the message of non-violence, including
through education and public awareness”. The
Radical Party is deeply convinced that this
responsibility should be adopted, first and
foremost, by democratic institutions as an ideal
space for public debate and open dialogue, as
Marco Pannella recommended through personal
example, teaching the Italian people the intrinsic
value of non-violent political
action.
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The
Crop Prospects and Food
Situation report
The
Crop Prospects and Food Situation report
is issued by the Trade and
Markets Division of
by
the Food and Agriculture Organization. It provides
a forward-looking analysis of the food situation
by geographic region, focusing on the cereal
production outlook, market situation and food
security conditions, with a particular attention
on Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries
(LIFIDCs).
Some
41 countries (31 in Africa) continue to be in need
of external assistance for food, with conflicts
acting as the primary cause of high levels of food
insecurity and adverse weather conditions -
particularly rainfall shortages in Africa -
acutely affecting food availability and access for
millions of people, a quarterly report by the
United Nations says. About half of the 41
countries needing external assistance for food are
home to civil unrest or full-fledged conflict,
while others face severe resource strains due to
large influxes of refugees from neighboring
countries experiencing unrest.
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Hong
Kong: Sos Rule Of Law
On
Friday, the 18th successive weekend of protests
has begun in Hong Kong, in open defiance of the
emergency regulation that has just entered into
force. Thousands of people took to the streets for
a night of violent protests, with crowds setting
fire to two subway stations, and vandalising shops
and companies considered to be pro-China. The
police responded once again with tear gas and in
at least one case with firearms. This latest clash
comes at the end of a week in which two
significant, and radically opposed, historical
dates have been "celebrated": the 70th anniversary
of the founding of the People's Republic of China
on October 1st, and the International Day of
Nonviolence on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday on
October 2nd. Unfortunately, the way in
which these two dates were (not) remembered in
most of the political world is emblematic of the
decline in the defense of the rule of law,
democracy and human rights around the
world.
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European
funding and migratory flows
The
European Emergency Fund Trust for Africa, set up
in 2015 at the Euro-African Summit in La Valletta,
finances projects to control migratory flows. It
is not controlled by the European Parliament and
95% of the resources come from development
cooperation funds, in particular from the European
Development Fund (ESF). It specifically concerns
three regions: Horn of Africa, North Africa, Sahel
and Lake Chad. The figures are important: EUR 4,6
billion, including more than EUR 4.0 billion from
the European Development Fund and others European
financial instruments. EU Member States and
donors – Switzerland and Norway-have
contributed EUR 528 million, of which EUR 506
million have been paid.
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Report
on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Right
to Food
Following
last week's SDG Summit at the UN
General Assembly in New York, the Special
Rapporteur has released her latest thematic report
on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Right
to Food. The realization of the right to food
is essential for achieving the ambitious
objectives set forth in the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development. The right to food extends
beyond productivism, the paradigm in which Goal 2
(zero hunger) is rooted. Realizing this right
requires tackling the historical and structural
inequalities that undermine availability,
adequacy, accessibility and sustainability of food
systems. Unfortunately, the Goals are not on track
to achieve their full potential and the
most affected populations are those who
experience the greatest inequality and
marginalization. As of 2019, the Asia-Pacific
region is reported as stalling on more than half
of the Goals, having made little or no progress on
ending hunger.2 Hunger has also remained
prevalent in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, where
nearly 9 in 10 of the world’s extreme poor will
live by 2030. Globally, hunger has risen since
2015 affecting more than 820 million
people.
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“We
can find you anywhere”: the Chechen death squads
stalking Europe
Since
around 2009, in countries such as Austria, Dubai,
Germany and Turkey Chechens are being reached and
killed, and they are all asylum seekers who run
away from the torture regime of Kadyrov and to
whom are often refused asylum. There have been
half a dozen prominent Chechen killed in Istanbul
over the past decade, with Turkish authorities
believing Russian security services are involved.
The majority of recent Chechen arrivals in Europe
(Germany, Poland and other EU countries) have had
nothing to do with the previous phase that covered
two wars of independence, and are instead those
who have fled threats and torture.
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The
Right to Know arrives at the parliamentary
assembly of the council of Europe.
On
October 2, birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and
International Day of Nonviolence, the Nonviolent
Radical Party brought the issue of the right to
know to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe. Thanks to Senator Roberto Rampi, the
Committee for Culture, Science, Education and
Mdia, of which he is a member, decided to include
a draft resolution on the right to know among its
priorities, to be brought to the attention of the
plenary assembly by the end of 2020. The tabling
of the resolution “Freedom of media, public trust
and the citizens’ right to know” at the
Parliamentary Assembly where 47 European countries
are represented, allows us to continue on our path
to induce States to guarantee the instruments and
elements to enable citizens in the exercise of
their right to know. It is the goal of our
Einaudian initiative of “knowing to deliberate”,
often described as “the last battle of Marco
Pannella”.
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