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35 Sunday, 14 July 2019- edited by Ilaria
Saltarelli and Martina Paterna
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The 2019 global
MPI data and publication ‘Illuminating
Inequalities”, released on 11 July 2019 by the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
the Oxford Poverty and Human Development
Initiative (OPHI) offers a comprehensive and
in-depth picture of global poverty
revealing vast inequalities among countries
and among the poor themselves.
Across
101 countries, covering 76% of the global
population, 1.3 billion people -23.1 percent-
are “multidimensionally poor”. The global MPI
scrutinizes a person’s depri- vations across 10
indicators in health, education and standard of
living.
Two-thirds
of multidimensionally poor people -886 million
people- live in middle-income countries. A further
440 million live in low-income countries.
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Eurostat,
the statistical office of the European
Union, has released the EU population
estimate:
On
1 January 2019, the population of the European
Union (EU) was estimated at almost 513.5 million,
compared with 512.4 million on 1 January 2018.
During 2018, more deaths than births were recorded
in the EU (5.3 million deaths and 5.0 million
births), meaning that the natural change of the EU
population was negative for a second consecutive
year. The population change (positive, with 1.1
million more inhabitants) was therefore due to net
migration. At EU level, the crude birth rate was
9.7 per 1 000 residents. Across Member States, the
highest crude birth rates in 2018 were recorded in
Ireland (12.5 per 1 000 residents), Sweden
(11.4‰), France (11.3‰) and the United Kingdom
(11.0‰), while the lowest were registered in Italy
(7.3‰), Spain (7.9‰), Greece (8.1‰), Portugal
(8.5‰), Finland (8.6‰), Bulgaria (8.9‰) and
Croatia (9.0‰).
With
83.0 million residents (or 16.2% of the total EU
population at 1 January 2019), Germany is the most
populated EU Member State, ahead of France (67.0
million, or 13.1%), the United Kingdom (66.6
million, or 13.0%), Italy (60.4 million, or
11.8%), Spain (46.9 million, or 9.1%) and Poland
(38.0 million, or 7.4%).
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UN
human rights experts on wednesday expressed
serious concern that Iran continues to deny
appropriate healthcare to detainees, despite
repeated calls.
The experts also highlighted
numerous reports that the physical and mental
integrity of prisoners in Iran is further
jeopardised by unsafe and unsanitary detention
conditions. According to reports received, many
Iranian prisons have issues ranging from
overcrowding, contaminated food and water, rodent
and insect infestations and unhygienic facilities
to inadequate temperature
controls.
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According
to the data published by IOM Libya’s Displacement
Tracking Matrix at least 641,398
migrants who originated from more than 39
countries were identified currently present in
Libya. Migrants were identified in all 100
municipalities, within 565 communities.
The
25th round of DTM data collection in Libya took
place in March, April and May
2019.
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On
9 July 2019 the Specialised First Instance
Criminal Court, run by Yemen's Huthi rebels the de
facto authorities in Sana’a, sentenced 30
academics, students and politicians to death.
They were accused of spying for the
Saudi-UAE-led coalition.
The
UN Human Rights Office on the basis
of “credible information suggesting that many
of those convicted were subjected to arbitrary or
unlawful detention, as well as torture and
other ill-treatment in
custody", has called on the Appellate
Court to take heed of the serious allegations of
torture and
other ill-treatment, and of
violations of the fair trial and due process
rights of the convicted people.
“Any politically motivated charges should be
dismissed and international fair trial standards
fully complied with. The UN opposes the use
of the death penalty in all
circumstances” U.N. human rights spokeswoman
Ravina Shamdasani
said.
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