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17 sunday, 10 March 2019- edited by Ilaria
Saltarelli and Martina Paterna
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Algeria.
For a third successive week, hundreds of thousands
of people have taken to the streets in Algeria on
friday to protest a fifth term for the president
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the 82-year-old president
who has been in power since 1999.
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On
5 march the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Michelle Bachelet announced, with
deep regret, that the UN Human Rights Office in
Burundi was closed down on Thursday 28 February at
the insistence of the Government. Since October
2016, in reaction to the report by the UN
Independent Investigation in Burundi established
by the UN Human Rights Council, the Government
suspended all cooperation with the Office in
Burundi, instead on 5 december of the last year
the Government requested the closure of the UN
Human Rights Office in Burundi, explaining that
the country had made sufficient progress in
putting in place national mechanisms for the
protection of human rights, so the existence of
the Office was no longer
justified.
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The
European Commission has decided to refer Italy to
the Court of Justice of the EU in two separate
cases regarding environment legislation. The first
case concerns air pollution, and a failure to
protect citizens against the effects of nitrogene
dioxide. The second Court case against Italy
is
regarding water pollution.
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Some
11 million of North Koreans are not getting enough
nutritious food, clean drinking water or access to
basic services like health and sanitation, and one
in five children are stunted due to chronic
undernutrition. The new relesed 2019 Needs and
Priorities Plan has expressed particular concern
over the fact that food production in the country
dropped by almost 10 per cent between 2017 and
2018 – the lowest production in more than a decade
– resulting in a significant food
gap.
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The
NATO-Ukraine Commission met at NATO Headquarters
on Wednesday 6th March to discuss the current
situation in Crimea, five years after Russia’s
illegal annexation. Allies reaffirmed NATO’s
unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and
territorial integrity. They expressed concern over
human rights violations in Crimea, targeting the
Crimean Tatar population, as well as other ethnic,
political and religious groups.
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Brussels,
1st march 2019. Demonstration of the Cambodia
National Rescue Party and the Radical Party in
front of the European Commission in Brussels in
favor of the suspension of the Everything But Arms
(EBA) scheme which grants full duty free and quota
free access to the EU Single Market for all
products, except arms and armaments, between EU
and
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