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Saltarelli and Martina Paterna
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41st
Congress of the Nonviolent Radical Party,
Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT) will be held
in Rome from 5 to 7 July 2019 at Auditorium
Antonianum (viale Manzoni 1) beginning on Friday
5th July at 11 am.
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Istanbul.
Opposition candidate of the Republican People's
Party (CHP), Ekrem İmamoğlu, won a decisive
victory in Istanbul's rerun election on
Sunday. Imamoglu had won the original mayoral
election on March 31, but the Supreme Electoral
Council annulled the vote after the ruling AKP
party alleged that there were irregularities.
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Deputy
Minister for Agriculture of China, Qu Dongyu, was
elected Director General of FAO on June
23. Qu’s candidacy gathered 108 votes, while
Geslain-Laneelle, the French candidate
received 71 votes and Georgia’s Davit Kirvalidze
12, according to official results.
The
term of the new Director-General, who will succeed
Brazil’s José Graziano da Silva, will start on 1
August 2019 and run to 31 July 2023.
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UN
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human
rights, Philip Alston, presented on Friday to
the HRC a new report on climate change and
poverty: it raises the alarm over the risk of
a ‘climate apartheid’ scenario where the wealthy
pay to escape overheating, hunger, and conflict
while the rest of the world is left to
suffer.”
“Cimate change threatens to undo the
last 50 years of progress in development, global
health, and poverty reduction,” Alston said. “It
could push more than 120 million more people into
poverty by 2030 and will have the most severe
impact in poor countries, regions, and the places
poor people live and work.”
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The
signatories of the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) met
at Political Directors/ Deputy Foreign Ministers
level on friday in Vienna.
“France,
Germany, and the United Kingdom informed
participants that INSTEX had been made operational
and available to all EU member states, and that
the first transactions are being processed," said
the Chair's statement following the
meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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World
Drug Report 2019 from the UN Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODOC) revealed on Wednesday: some 35
million people are estimated to suffer from drug
use disorders while only 1 in 7 people receive
treatment.
Whilst
the overall figure for drug use in 2017, an
estimated 271 million people, was similar to the
previous year, the trend is rising, and the number
of people using drugs is now some 30 per cent
higher than it was ten years ago.
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