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  • Philippines' Duterte calls North Korea's Kim a 'fool' over nuclear ambitions

    NORTH KOREA, 2017/08/03 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday described North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a "fool" and a "son of a bitch", just days before Manila hosts an international conference certain to address Pyongyang's long-range missile tests. Duterte held nothing back in rebuking Kim for "playing with dangerous toys", setting the stage for next week's rare get-together, to be attended by foreign ministers of all the nations involved in the standoff on the Korean peninsula. North Korea is determined to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the United States and officials in Washington said Saturday's test of an intercontinental ballistic missile showed it may be able to reach most of the country.

  • Philippines: Rebels Back ‘Fatwa’ Against Violent Extremism

    PHILIPPINES, 2017/07/08 The major Moro rebel group in the southern Philippines has declared its support for a “fatwa” against violent extremism before declared by a senior Islamic religious leader in Mindanao. A statement by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) released on July 4 said it “fully endorses and supports such edicts without fear and reservation.”

  • Migration and Women’s Health: A Neglected Issue in Need of Action

    GREECE, 2016/06/11 There is a current tendency to think of migrants as young men. Although in some cases this stereotype still holds authentic, patterns of migration are rapidly changing and additional must be done to ensure that vulnerable female migrants are protected, particularly in terms of their health. Although before in the European “migrant crisis” the vast majority of those arriving were men (over 70% of irregular migrants into Greece and Italy in June 2015 were adult men), this gender gap has gradually decreased over the completed year and UNHCR estimates that men presently make up only around 40% of migrants arriving in the Mediterranean. Forced movements in particular seem to affect higher numbers of women and children. Indeed, over three quarters of Syrian refugees registered by UNHCR are either women or children under the age of 18.

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • Skål International pledges support for the Philippines

    PHILIPPINES, 2013/11/12 Along with everyone around the world, Skål International is devastated by the horrendous loss of life and damage suffered by the Filipino people as a result of super typhoon Haiyan. While international aid agencies and governments rush to supply much needed medical and humanitarian aid Skål International stresses the need for planning to instantly start on the rebuilding of the infrastructure, both at a local inclunding national level.
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