epa10363106 Pro-government supporters, including families of killed Iranian soldiers, protest against the UN and western countries in front of the United Nation office in Tehran, Iran, 13 December 2022. EPA-EFE/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
2022 has been a year where high-profile international cases of violence against women, such as in Iran, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, have made headlines, but this is just part of a trend that permeates every aspect of society, according to United Nations (UN) officials interviewed by EURACTIV.
UN Women Brussels Director Dagmar Schumacher and the UN’s Director in Brussels Camilla Bruckner sat down with EURACTIV to discuss progress in Europe and the situation for women outside of the Union following the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.
U.N. council adopts first Myanmar resolution in decades
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21 (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council adopted its first resolution on Myanmar in 74 years on Wednesday to demand an end to violence and urge the military junta to release all political prisoners, including ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Myanmar has been in crisis since the army took power from Suu Kyi’s elected government on Feb. 1, 2021, detaining her and other officials and responding to pro-democracy protests and dissent with lethal force.
It has long been split on how to deal with the Myanmar crisis, with China and Russia arguing against strong action. They both abstained from the vote on Wednesday, along with India. The remaining 12 members voted in favor.
“China still has concerns,” China’s U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun told the council after the vote. “There is no quick fix to the issue … Whether or not it can be properly resolved in the end, depends fundamentally, and only, on Myanmar itself.”
He said China had wanted the Security Council to adopt a formal statement on Myanmar, not a resolution.
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said Moscow did not view the situation in Myanmar as a threat to international peace and security and therefore believed it should not be dealt with by the U.N. Security Council.
Myanmar citizens who live in Thailand, hold a portrait of former Myanmar state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi as they protest against the execution of pro-democracy activists, at Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand July 26, 2022. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed the resolution’s adoption. “This is an important step by the Security Council to address the crisis and end the Burma military regime’s escalating repression and violence against civilians,” he said in a statement.
‘FIRST STEP’
Until now the council had only agreed formal statements on Myanmar, where the army also led a 2017 crackdown on Rohingya Muslims that was described by the United States as genocide. Myanmar denies genocide and said it was waging a legitimate campaign against insurgents who attacked police posts.
Taylor Galla | Tịnh Thủy chuyển ngữ thư viện hoa sen – Chủ nhật, ngày 25 tháng 7 năm 2021
Ngành công nghiệp thiền chánh niệm [1] đã nhanh chóng bành trướng ở thế giới phương Tây trong thập kỷ qua, và thiền chánh niệm đã trở thành một nghi thức hợp thời hàng ngày. Thực hành thiền chánh niệm có thể giúp con người bình tĩnh tâm trí, xử lý cảm xúc, tập trung hơn trong công việc và giữ vững lập trường trong thời điểm hiện tại. Thiền ở dạng đơn giản nhất, đã tồn tại hàng thiên niên kỷ. Tuy nhiên, khi tập quán phương Đông này trở nên phổ biến hơn ở Hoa Kỳ thì tập quán này cũng bị ảnh hưởng bởi các lực lượng công nghiệp thông tin của chủ nghĩa tư bản. Trong ngành công nghệ tin học, thiền chánh niệm chỉ được coi là một hình thức biohacking* (tấn công sinh học) và giờ đây bạn có thể mua nhiều thiết bị, phụ kiện và ứng dụng thiền chánh niệm đã được thiết kế giúp bạn theo dõi các phản ứng sinh lý của bạn trong quá trình thiền.
Filipino soldiers march in Philippine occupied Thitu island in disputed South China Sea, April 21, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
MANILA, Dec 22 (Reuters) – The Philippines’ defence ministry on Thursday ordered the military to strengthen its presence in the South China Sea after monitoring “Chinese activities” in disputed waters close to a strategic Philippine-held island.
The ministry did not specify what activities those were and its statement follows a report this week of Chinese construction on four uninhabited features in the disputed Spratly islands, news that Beijing has dismissed as “unfounded”.
Trẻ con lai ở miền Tây: Con không cha như nhà không nóc
22/01/2018 12:12 GMT+7
TTO – Hôn nhân tan vỡ trên xứ người, nhiều cô dâu Việt mang theo hàng ngàn đứa con lai từ Hàn Quốc, Đài Loan, Trung Quốc… trở về. Phía trước những đứa trẻ ấy là hành trình gian nan về cuộc sống và pháp lý.
Bé Lee Chaewon và những ký ức Hàn Quốc còn lại – Ảnh: VIỄN SỰ
Hồi mẹ nó ẵm về nước, bà nội nó nói mua cho cái vé khứ hồi, tới hồi ra sân bay về lại Hàn Quốc thì mới hay cái vé đi có một chiều
Chị TỪ THỊ XUYÊN (dì ruột bé Hong Deajun)
Chúng tôi trở lại cù lao Tân Lộc, Q.Thốt Nốt, TP Cần Thơ, nơi hơn mười năm trước được gọi là “đảo Đài Loan” khi cả cù lao có hơn 1.000 cô gái đi lấy chồng ngoại, chủ yếu là Đài Loan, Hàn Quốc, Trung Quốc.
Mấy năm gần đây, các cô gái Tân Lộc rời cù lao lấy chồng ngoại giảm dần, nhưng người Tân Lộc lại đón dòng hồi hương của các đứa trẻ con lai trở về quê mẹ.
“Con không cha như nhà không nóc” – câu chuyện hồi hương của những đứa trẻ con lai không có cha bên cạnh còn buồn hơn cả câu chuyện ly hương của những người mẹ năm nào.
HANOI, Dec 9 (Reuters) – A Vietnamese oil service vessel rescued 154 people from a sinking boat in the Andaman Sea and has transferred them to Myanmar’s navy, state media reported, a group that was confirmed by activists as minority Rohingya Muslims.
The vessel, Hai Duong 29, was en route from Singapore to Myanmar when it spotted the boat in distress 285 miles (458.7 km) south of the Myanmar coast on Wednesday, VTCNews said in a report aired late on Thursday.
The Rohingya are a minority that has for years been persecuted in Myanmar and many risk their lives attempting to reach predominantly Muslim Malaysia and Indonesia on rickety boats.
Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the think tank RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, California and adjunct professor in the practice of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California. He formerly served as an intelligence adviser at the Pentagon.
During her meeting with Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ summit last month in Bangkok, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern expressed interest in continued cooperation, but also pressed the Chinese president on controversial issues, including Xinjiang, Hong Kong, the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
The meeting was the clearest sign yet that Wellington has adopted a harder line on Beijing. This will be good news for allies who have questioned whether New Zealand has been the weak link in collective approaches to countering China. But Wellington’s increasingly hard-line stance could antagonize Beijing, risking what has heretofore been a productive partnership.
For years, Wellington has assiduously tried to keep its political and economic interactions with Beijing separate.
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