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Granada was bombarded with graffiti everywhere. But if you stopped to read, the people have something to say.
"Inseguridad es la policia en la calle." = "Insecurity is police in the street."
Rachael Merten, an anthropology major, hold a box of romanesco broccoli during the food harvest for food insecurity on January 28, 2016 at UC Davis. The harvesters have to follow guidelines as they harvest to ensure food safety. The surplus vegetables from Plant Sciences 5 course will go to the Yolo County Food Bank.
Commissioner Georgieva notes that: ‘In camps like this we provide food and basic services. But we worry about the people in those areas across Darfur which are difficult to reach because of insecurity.’ EC/ECHO/Daniel Dickinson
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Friends, Welcome to JNU. Life In JNU, with all its fresh possibilities and choices, of..course continues to be shadowed b .
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apprehensions and Insecurities. With the govt. promising massive fee hikes, many of us worry about whether w t>! .
able to affor~ to ~but university education which Is being turned into a commodity. With the govl Indulging In ~:salve r .
shrinkage ofJOb avenues, even we, who will be lucky enough to have adegree from apremier central university, face the .
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so we find that public, political policies are bound to affect us closely. The world around us, too, Is being shaken b .
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turbulence. A year back, we saw state sponsored communal genocide In Gujarat -and the horror continues today ay .
witnesses to the violence are being threatened and silenced. Young people like us, all over the country, are being mobilize~ .
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In communal mobs. Discrimination and violence based on caste and gender are areality faced by many_ including those .
who make it to the capital city. Our university education will equip us to unde~stand and analyse our society and its contradictions. As students, Is It not our role to translate this education Into socially sensltrve action? .
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movements have historically spearheaded struggles for social and political transformation. All overIndifferent, cynical or angry? AISA appeals to y~u -Don'tjust get angry: GET ACTIVEI Student .
the world today, young people are on the streets opposing anti-people policies of globalization and .
Imperialist wars with the slogan 'Another World Is Possible'. In India, AISA Is the name of students' collective, radical resistance committed to a struggle for 'Another India and Another World'. ·The AISA Movement .
Since Its formation in 1990, AISA has been In the forefront of a series of landmark struggles. Challenging the communal .
upsurge after the demolition of the Sabri Masijld In 1992, AISA won victories In the Student Union elections of BHU, .
Allahabad University, Kumaon University and JNU. In the backdrop of the Gujrat genocide and the.
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In several campuses, AISA led movements that pushed back feehik~sRSS-BJP.'s communal politics of 'Mandir' AISA challenged the Sangh brigade in its own 'stronghold' of Ayodhya. Students from all over India marched to Ayodhya on 1O" may' 02, honoring the martyrs of the 1857 war of Independence on its .
anniversary. We asserted that Ayodhya did not 'belong' to the saffron goons, but was, In fact,·a historic center of united Hindu-Muslim resistance to the British in 1857. Thousands of AISA activists were arrested at Ayodhya, and were jailed for a week in UP jails. .
Recently, AISA was at the forefront of the massive movement.all over Bihar, against the killing of 3 students in a false .
encounter by Bihar police. InUP,AISA Isspearheading anongoing movement against state-wide fee hikes and crackdowns .
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AISA believes that students coming from backward regions and deprived social back-grounds, or from communities or .
gender which su~er discrimination, should be enabled to enter universities, and acquire education. .
AISA's first JNUSU in 1993-94 led a successful struggle to restore JNU's unique Admission .
·Policy which awards deprivation points to students from deprived backgrounds. .
Fromearly '90s Itself, AISAfought steadfastly against the anti-women biases prevaiUng sociallnertla to make thequestion .
of gender and feminism one of the central concerns In the JNU Campus. In 1996 AISA first mooted the proposal for a .
Campus Committee to deal with complaints of Sexaal Harassment. This demand became a central campus issue, leading .
to the formation of the GSCASH body In 1998. .
It was JNUSU led by AISA which In 1995 organised a historic struggle which could defeat an attempt to privatize JNU. .
Thousands of students peacefully gheraoed the Administrative Building for severaJ days during that movement .
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finally gave up his life to the struggles of landless poor In Bihar. He was shot dead by mafia don and RJD MPShahabuddin.
this Ideal, AISA leader Chandrashekhar Prasad, who, as JNUSU President for two terms, led several campus struggles, .
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Speak out against Communalism and Obscurantism .
Communal biases and obscurantism are avirus that threaten our society. Among students, the ABVP Isan organisation that actively propagates such Ideas. The ABVP, part of the RSS family, tries to cash In on the genuine patriotic urge .
of young people, by passing off Its communal agenda of 'Hindutva' as 'nationalism'. Their Hlndutvs, which is communal hatred and violence, goes against our own legacy of progressive secular nationality The BJP government fs busy Injecting communal polson by rewriting history textbooks and Introducing un-scientific, obscurantist courses like .
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For a third world country like India what Is the only real test of nationalism? is it not a steadfast defence of India's sovereignty, agai~st all attempts to impose economic,p_ollcies that allow nn\& nations to exploit our people and resources? Is it not a principled opposition to colonialism forms? The RSS-BJP-ABVP fall that test in all ways. The RSS never participated in the freedom .
Instead t.h~y cooperated with the British. Even today, BJP i$ all too eager to let the US-dominated IMF-WR.\A .
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Cover of CCAFS-ILRI 2011 report 'Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics', by Polly Ericksen, Philip Thornton, An Notenbaert, Laura Cramer, Peter Jones and Mario Herrero (picture credit: CCAFS).
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The Irish Inter–Church Meeting has issued a call to action on homelessness and housing insecurity. The organisation, which brings together church leaders from across the island of Ireland, has launched new resources to help people engage with the issues surrounding homelessness and housing insecurity.
The resources were launched yesterday (Wednesday, September 18) in Christ Church, Dun Laoghaire, where the rector, the Revd Ása Bjork Ólafsdóttir, opened the Dining Room to combat social exclusion and isolation in 2014. She, along with retired businessman William Blackall and Fr Peter McVerry of the McVerry Trust, spoke at the launch.
The resources include a Bible study for church groups to promote critical reflection on the factors and attitudes that perpetuate the problems of homelessness and housing insecurity. There is also a prayer and liturgy resource and a list of questions for voters to put to canvassing politicians.
The tagline for the campaign is ‘In six months a lot can change – When faced with homelessness decisions become more black and white’ and it highlights the traumatic effects that housing insecurity brings to many people and the true value of a home in ensuring a flourishing life.
Almost 10,000 people are homeless in Ireland and living in hotels and emergency accommodation, although Fr Peter McVerry who spoke at the launch estimated this figure to be closer to 15,000 when rough sleepers, sofa surfers, families fleeing domestic violence, and refugees who have been granted asylum but can’t leave direct provision are included. There are about 80,000 households on social housing lists but the government built just 750 social houses in 2017 (compared with 8,500 in 1975). In Northern Ireland, between 2012 and 2017 there was a 32% increase in statutory homelessness and at least 6,000 children in Northern Ireland live in unsuitable, unstable housing.
“This is not just the result of political decisions, but also moral failings. We need to identify the causes and decisions behind the problems and to work together to plot ways towards a more just system where the home as a fundamental requirement for fruitful and fulfilling lives of both individuals and communities is given the priority and resources it deserves,” the Revd Brian Anderson, Co-Chair of the Irish Inter–Church Meeting and President of the Irish Council of Churches, said at the launch. He added that their initiative was intended to complement the existing work of Churches and provide the foundation for a call to action.
William Blackall spoke courageously about his own experience of homelessness. He said that for many the word ‘homeless’ conjured up a vision of people lying on the streets who may have issues with alcohol and drugs. However, he said there was a broader issue with people, like himself, who become homeless due to circumstance. His problems began when the family business collapsed and he sold his house to settle his business debts and found himself homeless.
“I felt isolated and ashamed. I couldn’t contact my friends because I didn’t want to be a burden,” he recalled. He said he had terrific help from doctors, therapists and spiritually as well as from his rector, and said he was extremely important to have someone to talk to and because of this he was still here to tell his tale. However, his friend Peter, who he met in Dun Laoghaire, was not so lucky. He had become homeless following the breakdown of his marriage but had managed to get a job as a gardener. Unfortunately, the owner of the home decided to sell, leaving Peter with the prospect of becoming homeless again and he took his own life. “We have to listen to homeless people. They come from all backgrounds. Homelessness can happen to anyone,” he concluded.
The Revd Ása Bjork Ólafsdóttir read from Matthew 25 and said that this was a fundamental passage for what we as Christians are called to do. She talked about setting up the Dining Room in the parish hall in February 2014 after seeing the amount of rough sleepers in the seemingly affluent area of Dun Laoghaire. She received huge support from neighbouring churches and the wider community and the project has since been taken over by Crosscare.
“What we learned is that it is all about dignity – talking to people and being with people,” she commented. “Working with those less fortunate has made us richer as a church. We know we can’t just walk past [homeless people]. I don’t believe in giving money but I will always talk to people.”
Fr Peter McVerry estimated that there were up to 700,000 people in Ireland for whom their living conditions were causing distress. Rising rents, mortgage arears and young people forced to live with their parents because they cannot afford to move out all contributed to housing insecurity. He said that our perception of homelessness needed to change. Rough sleepers are a visible sign of homelessness but they are in the minority, he said. “The typical homeless person now is someone who does not have the key to their own door because they do not have the money for it,” he stated.
He suggested three things that church communities could do. Firstly, when you meet a homeless person, say hello. “This sounds silly but for a homeless person sitting on the street, when thousands of people pass you by and don’t even look at you, it makes you feel invisible, a non–person. Saying hello means you are treating a homeless person as a human being,” he explained. Secondly he encouraged church communities to fundraise for organisations who work with homelessness. Finally, he stated that homelessness is a political problem which has to be solved politically. He urged people to lobby the government and their TDs to make having a home a fundamental human right.
“The government won’t refer to having a home as a fundamental human right. They call it a fundamental human requirement. This is not semantics. With rights come obligations. We would like to get the right to housing into the Constitution … This would impose an obligation on the government to ensure, over the next 10 to 15 years, that everyone has a home,” he stated. “We as Churches have to see how we can respond to make a difference … We have to rediscover the social dimension of the Gospel.”
The resources are available by contacting the Irish Council of Churches which has hard copies to send out to parishes - contact damien@irishchurches.org
The resource is also available online at www.irishchurches.org/homeless
Report by Lynn Glanville, Communications Officer for Dublin & Glendalough
Food Insecure community members in the remote part of south Sudan-Partet of Uror county, Jonglei state (mostly women) struggle with household food rations through flood water back home. Many Communities in such part of the country know thing called road in its modern sense. Human porter remained the only means of transportation of commodities making Humanitarian responses the most difficult and expensive endeavor as aid agencies relay on air assets for their operations...
We have been eating lunch on the deck. Every time we put up the umbrella there are one or two tree frogs hiding under it. At first they would hyperventilate and hop down during our lunch. I think they are becoming accustomed to us.
The Food Insecurity Hotspots Data Set is part of the Food Security collection. The data set consists of grids that identify the level of intensity and frequency of food insecurity over the 10 year period from 2009 to 2019. The global gridded data are based on subnational food security analysis provided by FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network) in five (5) regions, including Central America and the Caribbean, Central Asia, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Food insecurity is classified into five phases based on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC 2.0); Minimal, Stressed, Crisis, Emergency, and Famine. This map displays the 10-year global average phase classfication for Africa.
solo show in brooklyn opening next friday, so all yous out in NY, would be great if you feel like stoppin by.
Rabbi Nahum Rabinowitz, Senior Rabbinic Coordinator, OU Kosher - Certification/Distribution, gives remarks during a roundtable discussion on kosher supply chain and kosher food insecurity with (from left to right) Samantha Joseph, Director, USDA Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, David Hakes, Senior Director Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, Dairy Farmers of America, Jeff Brown, Empire Kosher, and Bruce Summers, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at USDA Headquarters, Washington D.C.. The event brought together key stakeholders for the USDA Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, USDA leadership, and others to discuss trends, data points, and issues faced by kosher producers and processers, certifiers, vendors, and emergency food providers. The event featured leadership remarks, as well as a panel discussion with partner organizations and a networking reception.
This was the second year that the USDA hosted a Jewish American Heritage Month Celebration, bringing together faith leaders, USDA representatives, and community members together to celebrate religious pluralism. The celebration was hosted by the USDA Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and is part of a long running strategic collaboration with several non-governmental organizations and provides an opportunity to celebrate and develop new partnerships with Jewish American organizations in agriculture and food systems. (USDA Photo by Paul Sale)
We all gain insecurities as we get older and more people tell us what is wrong with our appearance. Quite honestly I hated parts of my body such as my hight, weight, eyebrows and young looks. But now I over look all that. I know I am beautiful the way I am and even if I am not I can't physically change and why would I need to? We live our lives trying to please others with our appearance constantly changing but all these fix's are temporary. I can put makeup on to make myself look older, I can put on weight but I am just going to loose it when I do exercise, I can wear heal to make me taller and I can wax my eyebrows but whats the point when we are all beautiful in our own way anyway? Love yourself not the you others force you to be.
Sir Gordon Conway (Professor of International Development at Imperial College, London and former president of the Rockefeller Foundation) chats with event attendee Jonathan Wadsworth of the World Bank.
IFPRI, in collaboration with the USAID Alumni Association, hosted this special event where Sir Gordon Conway emphasized that sustainable intensification offers a practical pathway towards the goal of producing more food while ensuring that the natural resource base, on which agriculture depends, is sustained and improved for future generations.
Photo Credit: Caroline Smith / International Food Policy Research Institute / 2016
Malawi, Muona, Nsanje District, 24 March 2020
In March 2019, rural farmers in Muona have seen their crops washed away by Cyclone Idai. WFP responded at that time with immediate support.
However, as food stocks depleted and as the next harvest is only expected in March 2020, WFP in Malawi has distributed monthly cash transfers to the most vulnerable so they can buy food and boost the local economy.
In the Photo: WFP is distributing Cash to food insecure people in Muona, Nsanje District (Southern Malawi) so they can buy food in the local markets.
As prevention measures for COVID-19, the beneficiaries are called by small group to facilitate distancing, received sensitization messages on the virus through the megaphones, are asked to wash hands with soap before and after getting their entitlements. In addition, staff and volunteers in charge of the distributions are using protecting masks and gloves.
Photo: WFP/Badre Bahaji
31 May 2017. Panthau: Women with their malnourished children wait to be attended in a nutrition centre run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Panthau, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan.
An estimated 63 per cent of the population in Northern Bahr al Ghazal is experiencing severe food insecurity, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report. The situation is particularly bad in Aweil West and Aweil South counties, where the exhaustion of household food stocks and growing dependence on financially inaccessible markets have left the population facing Emergency levels of food
insecurity.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - www.albertgonzalez.net
“Authentication in Smartphones, Insecure Data Storage in the Android Operating System and Password Cracking of Contemporary Leaked Databases”, foi a temática da palestra proferida, a 21 de outubro de 2015, pelo Professor Pedro Inácio, da Universidade da Beira Interior, no Auditório 2 da ESTIG do IPBeja para os alunos de Engenharia Informática.
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The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy