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Bután: Cómo un pequeño país está superando la pandemia y el cambio climático

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Cómo un pequeño país está superando la pandemia y el cambio climático

Un pequeño país del Himalaya, conocido principalmente por medir la felicidad nacional en lugar del PIB, es el único país del planeta con emisiones de carbono negativas. Lo crea o no, sólo ha tenido una muerte por COVID-19. ¿Es eso una coincidencia?

El nuevo artículo de Madeline Drexler en el Atlántico, “ La historia de éxito más improbable de una pandemia ”, se sumerge en las razones por las que Bután se las ha arreglado tan bien contra el nuevo coronavirus, mientras que los países ricos y de ingresos medios han luchado por mantenerlo bajo control. El pequeño país en desarrollo, sin salida al mar entre la India y el Tíbet, no estaba exactamente preparado para el éxito. Comenzó 2020 con exactamente una máquina de PCR para detectar el virus, según el informe de Drexler, y un médico con capacitación avanzada en cuidados críticos.

Para cualquiera que haya pensado mucho en el problema de acción colectiva que plantea el cambio climático, la receta del éxito de Bután puede sonar familiar. Responder a una crisis no se trata solo de la gran tecnología que tiene, sino de la rapidez con la que actúa, de la forma en que apoya a sus vecinos y de su disposición a sacrificarse por el bien común.

Ayuda a explicar por qué Bután es el único país del mundo “carbono negativo”. Eso significa que extrae más dióxido de carbono de la atmósfera del que emite, lo que, si se unieran más países, podría revertir el calentamiento global. Las ricas características naturales de Bután lo hacen posible. Su constitución ordena que el 60 por ciento de su tierra total esté cubierta por bosques. Un extenso sistema de ríos proporciona abundante hidroelectricidad, gran parte de la cual Bután exporta a la India. En la cumbre climática internacional de París en 2015, se dijo que Bután tenía la promesa más ambiciosa del mundo: ya estaba absorbiendo tres veces más dióxido de carbono del que emitía.

Por supuesto, con una población de 760.000 habitantes y un ingreso medio de 3.400 dólares por persona, el ejemplo de Bután no puede llegar tan lejos. Aún así, su respuesta a la doble crisis del coronavirus y el cambio climático es inspiradora.

Al primer indicio de alarma, el país actuó con rapidez y firmeza

Bután confirmó su primer caso de COVID-19 en marzo: un turista estadounidense. En 6 horas y 18 minutos, unas 300 personas habían sido rastreadas por contrato y puestas en cuarentena, escribe Drexler. La comunicación fue clara: se pidieron máscaras faciales desde el principio. El país entró en un bloqueo total para suprimir el virus cada vez que encontró riesgo de transmisión comunitaria, primero en agosto y luego en diciembre. Es una reminiscencia de lo proactivo que ha sido Bután con respecto al cambio climático.

Su liderazgo era competente y de confianza

El rey de Bután no pasó meses negando los peligros del virus ni años negando la realidad del calentamiento global . En cambio, el rey Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck dijo que incluso una muerte por COVID-19 era demasiado. Participó en planes detallados contra la pandemia y visitó a los trabajadores de primera línea para alentarlos. Otros líderes también se pusieron de pie: los miembros del Parlamento de Bután donaron el salario de un mes al esfuerzo de respuesta. “No creo que ningún otro país pueda decir que los líderes y la gente común disfrutan de tal confianza mutua”, dijo un periodista en Bután al Atlantic.

El gobierno proporcionó recursos para que la gente pudiera hacer lo correcto

El sacrificio personal, ya sea poner en cuarentena o reducir su huella de carbono, no funciona bien si está preparado para fallar. Cuando Bután emitió una cuarentena obligatoria en marzo para cualquier persona que pudiera haber estado expuesta al virus, proporcionó alojamiento y comida gratis en los hoteles. También entregó alimentos y paquetes de atención y ofreció asesoramiento a los que estaban en cuarentena. Un fondo de ayuda en curso lanzado por el rey ha dado $ 19 millones a unos 34.000 butaneses que luchan por llegar a fin de mes.

Un país en el que el altruismo y el sacrificio están incorporados

“Resiliencia” no es solo una palabra de moda en Bután, que es budista en tres cuartas partes, sino un principio rector arraigado en soportar las dificultades, escribe Drexler. Los médicos y funcionarios gubernamentales de Bután que podrían haber estado expuestos al COVID-19 durmieron solos, lejos de sus familias. Los agricultores donaron cosechas y los lugareños llevaron té con leche caliente y comida al Ministerio de Salud en medio de la noche.

En tiempos difíciles, la cooperación es clave para el éxito . “La gente dice que el desastre de COVID en Estados Unidos ha sido una negación de la ciencia”, dijo al Atlantic Asaf Bitton, director ejecutivo del centro de salud Ariadne Labs, con sede en Boston. “Pero en lo que no pudimos ponernos de acuerdo es en el pacto social que necesitaríamos para tomar decisiones dolorosas juntos en unidad, por el bien colectivo”.

Por Kate Yoder. Artículo en inglés

Fuente de la Información: https://www.ecoportal.net/paises/pequeno-pais-superando-la-pandemia/

 

 

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India: What the Arrest of Disha Ravi, a Climate Activist Linked to Greta Thunberg, Says About India’s Crackdown on Dissent

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What the Arrest of Disha Ravi, a Climate Activist Linked to Greta Thunberg, Says About India’s Crackdown on Dissent

Police in India have accused Disha Ravi, a 22-year-old climate activist with ties to Greta Thunberg, of sedition. Her alleged crime: helping to create and share an online “protest toolkit” that outlined how to support the mass protests by farmers in the country.

Critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government say the charges against Ravi are politically motivated and represent an escalation of the Indian government’s clampdown on dissenters.

“It’s a brazen move by Modi to ramp up repression and to wait to see if there are international repercussions,” says Subir Sinha, a senior lecturer in institutions and development at SOAS, University of London.

Ravi’s Feb. 13 arrest, and the connection with Thunberg, who shared the “toolkit” on social media, have brought even more international scrutiny to India’s backsliding democratic freedoms, including worsening freedom of the press and detentions of journalists, internet shutdowns and violent responses to non-violent protesters.

The farmers’ protests are some of the biggest in the country’s history, and present an unprecedented challenge to Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. The protests have already received worldwide attention—including viral tweets from Rihanna and Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece Meena Harris.

Here’s what to know about Ravi’s arrest.

What are the accusations against Disha Ravi?

Ravi, the founder of the Bengaluru chapter of Thunberg’s climate justice movement Fridays for Future, has been charged with sedition—the crime of inciting hatred against the government.

Delhi police say Ravi is a “key conspirator” in the “formulation [and] dissemination” of the “toolkit” document containing methods for supporting the farmers’ protest.

Police allege she also started a WhatsApp group and collaborated to make the document. “She was the one who shared the [document] with Greta Thunberg,” they said.

Thunberg has not commented.

Police said the document contained links to websites that supported a Sikh independence movement, and that the sharing of the document on social media indicated that there was a “conspiracy” behind violence on Jan. 26, when farmer protests escalated into clashes with police.

“The main aim of the toolkit was to create misinformation and disaffection against the lawfully enacted government,” Delhi police official Prem Nath said at a Monday press briefing.

Ravi told a Delhi court that she did not make the document, but she edited two lines of it, according to local media.

Warrants have been issued for at least two other activists, including Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk.

Police say that the three activists held a Zoom meeting with a “pro-Khalistani” organization in Canada, referring to a Sikh independence movement, according to local media.

Why was Disha Ravi arrested?

Activists and critics of Modi’s government say Ravi’s arrest is part of a larger crackdown on all forms of dissent in the country.

“The government wants us to believe that anyone and everyone who disagrees with its views is part of some sinister international conspiracy,” Satish Deshpande, a sociology professor in India, says. “The aim is to terrorize dissenters into silence.”

Since November, hundreds of thousands of farmers have been protesting on the outskirts of the capital against new agricultural laws that aim to deregulate and open India’s agricultural industry to free-market forces. Farmers are worried they could lose business and land to large corporations. Tweets from international celebrities, including Rihanna, have been met with a swift backlash from the Indian government, who labeled the criticism propaganda. Swedish climate activist Thunberg tweeted in support of the protests, posting a link to the online toolkit Ravi is accused of helping to create.

“I think when Greta tweeted, Rihanna tweeted, they had to find a narrative to say that there is something of a threat to the nation,” says Leo Saldanha, who works for the advocacy group Environment Support Group and is also based in Bengaluru.

Gilles Verniers, an assistant professor of political science at Ashoka University in India, says that any international attention is unlikely to make the government change its stance as “they equate concessions with expressions of weakness.”

Saldanha says activists like him have lived under “the threat of excessive state action” for several years.

The most plausible explanation for what appears to be an escalation in the government’s crackdown is the continuing farmers’ protests, Deshpande says.

“The farmers’ protests are holding firm despite all odds,” he says. “The current moves show that the government is sticking to its formula of declaring all democratic opposition—or even dissent—to be acts of sedition.”

How are people reacting?

Opposition politicians, rights activists and a slew of Indian celebrities have condemned Ravi’s arrest.

Dozens protested on Monday in cities across India calling for Ravi’s release and a petition started by Saldanha’s Environment Support Group calling for Ravi’s immediate release has received more than 25,000 signatures in less than 48 hours.

The environmentalist says that the government’s attempt to silence youth activists is “not working because there’s so many have decided to speak out.”

Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, called the arrest “an unprecedented attack on democracy.”

Students hold placards as they shout slogans demanding the release of Dalit labour rights activists Nodeep Kaur and Shiv Kumar along with climate activist Disha Ravi during a protest in New Delhi, India on Feb. 15, 2021.

Member of parliament Jairam Ramesh said her arrest shows the “intensifying murder of democracy in India.”

Siddharth, an actor popular in India tweeted his support. “Standing unconditionally in solidarity and support with #DishaRavi,” he wrote.

 

Fuente de la Información: https://time.com/5939627/disha-ravi-india-toolkit-arrest/

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India: The Farmers’ Protests Are a Turning Point for India’s Democracy—and the World Can No Longer Ignore That

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The Farmers’ Protests Are a Turning Point for India’s Democracy—and the World Can No Longer Ignore That

BY SIMRAN JEET SINGH 

 

FEBRUARY 11, 2021 9:00 PM EST
Jeet Singh is a scholar and historian of South Asia. He is an Equality Fellow for the Open Society Foundations, a Council on Foreign Relations term member, and a Truman National Security Project fellow.

For decades, the world has turned a blind eye to India’s abysmal human rights record. This approach draws from a broad perception of India as a strategic ally.

For one, the United States, like much of the global community, sees India as an important counterweight to China. They are the two most populous nations and the fastest growing trillion-dollar economies in the world. Global powers tend to prefer India because of its standing as the world’s largest democracy. At the same time, India’s adversarial relationship with neighboring Pakistan, as well as its increasingly anti-Muslim policies, position it as a bulwark against “Islamic terrorism.”

These two bogeymen—Chinese imperialism and Islamic terrorism—are the specters that have given India a free pass.

Over the past few years, however, the rise of right-wing authoritarianism has brought India’s democratic standing into question. India has plummeted in democracy metrics across the board, including the Press Freedom Index, where it now ranks 142 of 180 countries, four spots behind South Sudan and three behind Myanmar. The Human Freedom Index ranks India at 111 of 162 countries, just four ahead of Russia. This past September human rights group Amnesty International ceased operations in India following sustained assaults from the Indian government.

 

Farmers take part in a rally as they continue to protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms, in New Delhi on Jan. 26, 2021.
The full force and authoritarian tactics of the Indian government have been showcased as they respond to the largest protest in their history. Since September, tens of thousands of Indian have gathered in New Delhi to protest three new agricultural laws that aim to deregulate India’s agricultural industry and open it up to free-market forces. While the need for reforms is urgent, farmers are concerned that the new legislation privileges corporations and harms the everyday farmer. Finally, on Feb. 2, after months of protests, the world’s eyes started to focus on the Indian government’s undemocratic measures, including press censorship, journalist detention, internet shutdowns, and violent crackdowns against the non-violent protestors.

Hindu nationalists have used the occasion to call for genocidal violence against protestors. Twitter removed a tweet from Indian actress Kangana Ranaut that advocated ethnic cleansing of the protestors. Twitter also suspended 500 accounts that called for a repeat of the 1984 pogroms, a dark moment in India’s history.

These calls refer to a period of Indian history reminiscent of what’s happening today. In the 1970s and 1980s, Punjabi Sikhs led similar agitations that called for better government support of agriculture. Their sustained protests along with a self-determination movement drew the ire of the Indian government, which painted the efforts as anti-national. Following a disinformation campaign, the government launched a series of attacks that resulted in mass atrocities and egregious human rights abuses: the military assault on Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) of Amritsar in June of 1984, the state-sponsored pogroms in November of 1984 following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards, and, in the decade that followed, a campaign of extra-judicial killings that resulted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths. The government of India has never acknowledged or apologized for this spree of violence, and it remains a visceral memory for many Indians, especially Punjabi Sikhs today.

Understanding the state violence in Punjab during the 1980s helps us see the grievances that Punjabi farmers have with the central government. It also shows how the Indian state deploys and enacts violence against its own citizens, and, perhaps most crucially, anticipates what might happen in India today if the Indian government is not held accountable for its current undemocratic actions.

Senior army officers at the site of a military operation ordered by Then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to remove Sikh separatists in the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, in 1984.

Those who have been paying attention to Indian politics in recent decades will not be surprised at all. The Prime Minister of India—Mr. Narendra Modi—is also the figurehead of right-wing Hindu nationalism. Notoriously, in 2002, Mr. Modi presided over the anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat as the state’s Chief Minister. For his role in the genocidal violence foreign nations banned “The Butcher of Gujarat” from entering their countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. The U.S. ban was in effect for over a decade and only rescinded when it was painfully clear that Modi would be India’s next prime minister.

Since becoming India’s Prime Minister in 2014, Modi’s government has faced a barrage of criticism from human rights groups, foreign nations, Indian civil society, and opposition political parties for its treatment of minority communities. Most recently, India revoked Kashmir’s constitutional autonomy in 2019—a takeover of disputed territory in contravention to United Nations’ agreement—and oversaw extreme human rights abuses in Muslim-majority areas of Kashmir, including illegal detention, abuse, and torture. Add to these internet shutdowns, limitations on freedom of speech and movement, as well as access to information, education, and healthcare.

As with Punjab in the 1970s and 1980s, the government painted any and all dissenters as anti-national—and then persecuted them accordingly. The government took a similar approach of combining disinformation and violence in late 2019 and early 2020 when tens of thousands of Indians took to the streets to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act that critics says discriminates against Muslims who seek Indian citizenship.

Again today, Modi’s right-wing government has responded to the farmers’ protests by lying about and defaming its own citizens. Senior leaders have called the protestors “anti-nationals” and “goons.” International commentators, too, have not been spared. When global icons Rihanna and Greta Thunberg called for greater international scrutiny on Indian authoritarian tactics being used against the protestors, the Ministry of External Affairs described their tweets as “neither accurate nor responsible” and closed its statement press statement with the hashtag #IndiaAgainstPropaganda. The Delhi Police even filed a First Information Report (FIR) and launched an investigation into the toolkit linked to Thunberg’s tweet.

India is coupling government propaganda with the chilling of free speech. Recently they jailed nine journalists who reported that police officers shot and killed a protestor. Their actions, which violated international human rights conventions, prompted the Committee to Protect Journalists to issue a statement. In the words of Ken Roth, Executive Director for Human Rights Watch, “The Indian authorities’ response to protests by farmers has focused on discrediting peaceful protestors, harassing critics of the government, and now prosecuting journalists who are reporting on the protests and recent Delhi violence.”

Farmers gather next to their tractors as police stand guard at a roadblock, to stop them from marching to New Delhi to protest against the central government's agricultural reforms, in Ghazipur, India, on Dec. 1, 2020.

This time, however, Indian masses and global observers are not falling for Modi’s lies. They see that this movement is not about ethno-nationalism; rather it arises in opposition to it. It is a movement rooted in Punjabi Sikh experiences and now supported by people all across India who are tired of seeing their country and their communities ravaged by economic despair and social division. It is a movement that cuts across lines of identity—caste, class, region, political affiliation, and religion. And it is a movement led by a community with a history of being traumatized—first in 1947 during Partition and again in 1984—that knows what might be around the corner if the Indian state is not held accountable.

For those who right-wing extremists have continually disenfranchised and persecuted in India—including farmers, Christians, Dalits, Muslims, Sikhs, Kashmiris, and many others—the fears about where the current roads may lead are not based on conjecture or hypothesis. They are drawing from their lived experience—and they know that this is a fight for survival.

But this is not just India’s fight. In a world grappling with rising authoritarianism, propaganda, human rights abuses, and anti-democratic practices, quashing right-wing nationalism is in everyone’s best interest. Letting it go unchecked, especially in the world’s largest democracy, puts us all at risk. It seems like India as our strategic ally is changing before our eyes. We’re at risk of losing our ally because an authoritarian nation cannot be an ally in the same way as an open democratic society. With more than 1.3 billion people in India, we’re talking about a country that is muzzling and restricting basic freedoms for a full one-sixth of the global population.

 

Fuente de la Información: https://time.com/5938041/india-farmer-protests-democracy/

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Turquía: Tragedy as little girl, 10, dies after spending EIGHT YEARS in a coma following brutal crash with a tanker

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Tragedy as little girl, 10, dies after spending EIGHT YEARS in a coma following brutal crash with a tanker

A young girl has died after spending eight years in a coma following a crash with a tanker.

Zisan Can was just two years old her family’s car collided with the truck in the central Turkish city of Konya on September 22, 2013.

Her family had been travelling to a hospital in Konya at the time, where her brother Eren Can was schedule to get treatment.

While they were on the road, Murat’s car collided with a tanker as it carried out an illegal turn on the road without its lights on.

Murat, his wife Serpil, and their children, Eren, 16, Ikbal, 11, and Zisan, two, were injured in the collision.

The little girl named Zisan (pictured) was just two years old her family’s car collided with the truck in the central Turkish city of Konya on September 22, 2013.

The family were rushed to hospital by ambulance. Little Zisan needed to be resuscitated at the scene of the accident twice.

The other family members were discharged after their treatment but little Zisan remained in intensive care for the next eight years before finally dying this month, having never recovered.

The tanker driver was never found after fleeing the accident scene.

Zisan Can (pictured) spent most of her short life in a coma following a crash in Turkey in 2013, she sadly died this month

Murat has vowed to find the tanker driver who caused his daughter’s death.

“There were cameras everywhere on the road. However, this driver has not been found for eight years. I will not allow my daughter to be listed as an unsolved death. I ask in the name of God that somebody can help me.”

Police have confirmed that the investigation is still open and is now considered as causing death by reckless driving.

Fuente de la Información: https://7news.com.au/news/crime/tragedy-as-little-girl-10-dies-after-spending-eight-years-in-a-coma-following-brutal-crash-with-a-tanker-c-2053544

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New Life for the Third Network

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New Life for the Third Network

When hundreds of houses and apartments were completed last year, North Korean media showed residents entering their new homes, welcomed with a pile of household goods. On the wall of each home was something else provided by the state: a dedicated receiver for the country’s secretive third radio network that relays daily news, instruction, and propaganda.

The network has been around since the 1950s and was understood to have become less important in recent years due to the country’s constant electricity problems, but that is set to change.[1]

At the recent Worker’s Party Congress, Kim Jong Un called for the third network (referred to as “wire broadcasting”) to be improved throughout the country:

“It is needed to readjust the wire broadcasting and cable TV networks, put the relevant technology on a higher level and provide full conditions for the people in all parts of the country, ranging from cities to remote mountain villages, to enjoy a better cultural and emotional life.”

Kim’s call comes as the country appears to be embarking on a new crackdown on foreign media and the third radio network could play an important part in that effort.

Closed Network

The third radio network mirrors similar closed broadcasting networks that existed in other Soviet bloc nations. In contrast to over-the-air signals which can be received outside of the country, the third network provides a way for the state to speak directly to citizens about more sensitive matters. This can include criticism of actions that are against the law, such as consuming foreign media.

The system allows for local broadcasting at the city or town level. While programming from Pyongyang occupies a large part of the day, provincial or city-level programs are provided for a few hours. This includes local news, civic information and mobilization instructions, and can get very personal with citizens named and shamed for arrests and law breaking, according to interviews with escapees.

If the system is working properly, it can be a powerful tool to lecture citizens daily.

A Central Intelligence Agency assessment of the third radio network in 1962 concluded that the network and its nationwide reach “offers a simple and quick means for the indoctrination of the masses in the more remote areas of the country.”[2]

But recent escapees have said the system has fallen into disrepair. In many cases the signal is weak and difficult to listen to, if audible at all, they say.

Revitalization

Revitalization work will fall to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which manages the network. On January 30, state television showed ministry workers dutifully studying the account of Kim’s speech in the newspaper and pledging to follow through on his wishes.

How they plan to do this wasn’t explained. Electricity is still a scarce commodity, but the video footage of new houses indicates the third network is still a basic part of North Korean life.

The scale of the network is vast. The ministry began building the network in early 1950s and the 1962 CIA report said it grew from 5,000 receivers in 1953 to 794,000 at the end of 1961.[3] On Communications Day in 1982, state media reported the network “complete,” although didn’t specify exactly how large it had grown.[4]

Just over a decade later, the country was plunged into famine as the economy collapsed and the network’s distribution cables and receiver boxes were plundered for scrap metal. The impact of those actions in combination with electrical power problems have hampered its effectiveness ever since.

Crackdown

Kim’s call to improve the third broadcast comes as the country appears to be embarking on a new crackdown on foreign media. In December, the Supreme People’s Assembly adopted the “Law on Rejecting Reactionary Ideology and Culture,” according to state media reports.

The law is a timely example of the use of closed networks by the state.

Details of the law and its penalties have not been disclosed by any North Korean media that can be monitored from overseas. Doing so would highlight the problem of foreign media and culture on the country. Instead, the state is disseminating details to citizens through the weekly propaganda lectures that all North Koreans must attend and, almost certainly, through the third radio network where it can be heard.

Alongside the new law, the state is also responding to the influx of foreign media by strengthening and expanding its own offerings. North Korea is expanding the availability of multi-channel television throughout the country via digital TV and intranet broadcasting. Up to four channels are now available in areas with the expanded service.

That was referenced in Kim’s call to improve “cable TV networks” alongside “wire broadcasting.” In this case, cable TV refers to the use of a wired network to carry TV signals to areas that have no over-the-air reception.

  1. [1]

    “Economic Intelligence Report – Post and Telecommunications in North Korea 1953-61,” CIA Office of Research and Reports, June 1962.

  2. [2]

    Ibid.

  3. [3]

    Ibid.

  4. [4]

    KCNA, July 2, 1982, via FBIS. https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/.

     

    Fuente de la Información: https://www.38north.org/2021/02/new-life-for-the-third-network/

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Siria: Al menos 18 niños han muerto en lo que va de 2021, un año que no ofrece mucha esperanza a las familias sirias

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Del inicio de enero a la fecha se han documentado 18 muertes de niños sirios en ataques con armas de fuego y explosivos que no habían detonado, señala la agencia para la infancia, que estima que 4,7 millones de menores de edad precisan asistencia humanitaria.

Durante las tres primeras semanas de 2021 han muerto en Siria al menos 18 niños y 15 más fueron heridos como resultado de ataques con armas explosivas y municiones sin detonar, informó este domingo el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF).

Sólo este fin de semana, tres niños fueron muertos en embestidas cerca de Tall Rifaat, en la zona rural del norte de Alepo, al noroeste del país. El jueves, dos niños de uno y diez años murieron en un ataque en Hama, al centro-oeste de Siria. Otro niño fue herido.

La directora ejecutiva de UNICEF, Henrieta Fore, dijo que a diez años del comienzo de la guerra en ese país, “los niños siguen siendo asesinados, heridos, desplazados y privados de lo esencial”.

En el noreste de Siria la violencia ha aumentado en el campamento de desplazados de Al-Hol, donde más de dos tercios de la población son niños, poniendo en riesgo sus vidas. La situación allí pone de relieve la urgencia de soluciones a largo plazo, incluida la repatriación o el reasentamiento de niños extranjeros varados en esa instalación, señaló UNICEF.

En Hassakeh continúan las agresiones a los servicios básicos y la infraestructura civil. El suministro a la estación de agua de Alouk, la principal fuente de ese líquido vital para casi medio millón de personas, se cortó nuevamente a principios de esta semana. Estas interrupciones obligan a los civiles a utilizar agua no potable, con los riesgos que esto implica para la salud, especialmente en el caso de los niños.

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Una niña en un campamento para sirios desplazados en el norte de Idlib, Siria.

El invierno agrava la situación humanitaria

En el noroeste del territorio sirio, las duras condiciones invernales, incluidas lluvias torrenciales y nieve, han afectado al menos a 22.000 personas. Según la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios (OCHA), más de dos millones de personas siguen desplazadas y viven en tiendas de campaña, refugios y edificios destruidos o sin terminar. Esta semana un niño de seis años habría fallecido cuando un muro construido alrededor de su tienda se derrumbó a causa de las inundaciones y las nevadas.

“Los niños y las familias en Siria han sufrido mucho durante la última década y no se percibe un final próximo”, apuntó Fore.

Los datos de UNICEF indican que al menos 4,7 millones de niños en el país necesitan asistencia humanitaria.

Abandono escolar

La pobreza creciente, la escasez de combustible y el aumento de los precios de los alimentos están obligando a los niños a abandonar la escuela para trabajar. La pandemia COVID-19 se propaga rápidamente y dificulta la supervivencia de las familias, así como la capacidad de los padres de brindar educación básica y protección a sus hijos.

La agencia de la ONU continúa trabajando para apoyar a los niños sirios y sus familias. “Pero no podemos hacerlo solos”, subrayó Fore.

Agregó que UNICEF precisa recursos para ayudar a cubrir las necesidades básicas de estas personas.

“Necesitamos financiamiento. Necesitamos un mejor acceso. Sobre todo, necesitamos que todos protejan a los niños y los pongan fuera de peligro”, recalcó la titular de UNICEF, y pugnó una vez más por poner fin a la violencia en Siria.

Fuente: https://news.un.org/es/story/2021/01/1487032

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“El sistema de educación superior turco alcanzó un nivel avanzado”

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Erdogan discursó en el programa de inauguración del edificio anexo de la Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura de la Universidad Recep Tayyip Erdogan

El presidente Recep Tayyip Erdogan declaró que el sistema de educación superior turco alcanzó un nivel avanzado gracias a las inversiones que efectuaron en infraestructura y recursos humanos.

Erdogan discursó en el programa de inauguración del edificio anexo de la Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura de la Universidad Recep Tayyip Erdogan y del edificio anexo de la Facultad de Educación Çayeli.

El presidente dijo: “El sistema de educación superior turco alcanzó un nivel avanzado gracias a las inversiones que efectuamos en infraestructura y recursos humanos. La cifra de nuestro personal académico ascendió de 70 mil a 180 mil. Ocupamos la primera posición en acceso a universidades en Europa en términos de número de estudiantes”.

El presidente dijo: “Ojalá Turquía alcanzará sus objetivos de 2023 (100 aniversario de la fundación de la República) y entrará entre las 10 economías más grandes del mundo. Creer y actuar es la mitad del éxito. Nosotros en 18 años hicimos ganar a nuestro país más de lo que se hizo en la historia de República”.

El presidente Erdogan dijo: “En el próximo período, pondremos todas estas áreas, desde la familia a la educación y la formación, desde la cultura al arte, como una de nuestras prioridades.

Fuente: https://www.trt.net.tr/espanol/turquia/2021/02/12/el-sistema-de-educacion-superior-turco-alcanzo-un-nivel-avanzado-1582538

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