Giordania
Vai alla Scheda Paese »If you educate a woman, you educate a family, if you educate a girl, you educate the future.
— Queen Rania
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Children caught up in the aftermath of violence in Syria and Iraq need immediate protection and assistance
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: Syrian Arab RepublicUNICEF states that as heavy fighting intensified over the past months especially in Syria and Iraq, children have been caught in the direct line of fire, facing grave risks to their lives.Statement from UNICEF Regional Director, Geert Cappelaere on children in conflict zones in ...
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Lokale ondernemers moeten beter beschermd worden
Werkgeversorganisaties pleiten voor het inkorten van de verplichting voor ondernemers om zieke werknemers twee jaar door te betalen. Positief, maar door te focussen op termijnen worden de problemen van het MKB gereduceerd tot de VLZ (Wet verlenging loondoorbetalingsverplichting bij ziekte) terwijl de problematiek binnen het MKB veel verder gaat, schrijft Petra Veninga, ...
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Australia grants additional AU$13 million in expanding access to education in Jordan
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: Australia, Jordan, Syrian Arab RepublicThe additional funding is part of Australia’s three-year AU$220 million humanitarian and resilience response in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, which aims to ensure that every child in the Kingdom is enrolled in school.AMMAN, Jordan, 24 July 2017: The Government of Australia announced ...
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Humanitarian and protection situation remains extremely difficult for civilians in Syria
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic"An estimated 20,000 to 50,000 people remain inside Raqqa city, and their situation is perilous – there is no way for them to get out,' Deputy Relief Chief told the Security Council today. New York, 27 July 2017 As delivered ...
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Jordan angered by Israel's portrayal of embassy crisis and 'absurd hero's welcome' given by Netanyahu
Jordan's foreign minister says Jordan treated the stabbing in Amman as a criminal incident and expects Israel to stop 'distorting the facts' and do the same
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3 Palestinians, 3 Israelis killed in violence over holy site
Escalating Israeli-Palestinian tensions over the Holy Land's most contested shrine boiled over into violence on Friday that killed six people — three Palestinians in street clashes in Jerusalem and three Israelis in a stabbing attack at a West Bank settlement.After nightfall, a Palestinian sneaked into a home in the Israeli ...
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New supply route boosts humanitarian response in Syria’s Ar-Raqqa
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Syrian Arab RepublicWith the number of people displaced from and within Ar-Raqqa governorate having passed 190,000 since 1 April, opening of the road from Aleppo to Menbij and Qamishli is a breakthrough.This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic ...
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Climate change-poverty-migration: The new, inhuman ‘Bermuda Triangle’
Source: Inter Press Service Country: WorldRural areas of developing countries, where often poor households have limited capacity to cope with and manage risks, are forecast to bear the brunt of higher average temperatures.By Baher Kamal ROME, Jul 7 2017 (IPS) World organisations, experts and scientists have been repeating it to satiety: climate change ...
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Putin and Trump agree Syria ceasefire - Lavrov
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump agreed on a ceasefire in southwestern Syria during talks at the G20 summit, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today. The truce, agreed during talks held in a "constructive atmosphere", would start on July 9, Lavrov told reporters. US Secretary of State ...
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More than 80 per cent of Syrian refugees in Jordan living below poverty line
Source: CARE Country: Jordan, Syrian Arab RepublicA CARE International report states that Syrians in Jordan remain desperate for work, impacted by debt, and struggling with changing gender roles within families. Amman, 20 June 2017: An astounding 82 percent of Syrian refugees in Jordan are living below the poverty line, says a new ...
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UNHCR appeals for better access as thousands flee Raqqa, Syria
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Syrian Arab RepublicOver 430,000 people are estimated to be in need across Ar-Raqqa governorate. Access on the ground is challenging and relief items are being airlifted - a costly undertaking.This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to ...
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Exportiamo Incontra
Giordania, il mercato da cui partire per espandersi in Medio Oriente
La Giordania può essere considerata come una piccola oasi in un'area, come il Medio Oriente, da sempre caratterizzata da una spiccata instabilità ma che offre alle imprese italiane più di una opportunità commerciale. Ne abbiamo parlato con Alessio Ponz de Leon Pisani, Direttore ICE di Amman, che ci ha restituito ...
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Immunization campaign provides polio protection for 5 million children in Yemen
Source: World Bank, World Health Organization, UN Children's Fund Country: YemenThe campaign, supported by a partnership between the World Bank, UNICEF and WHO, covered all governorates in the country in an effort to keep Yemen polio-free. Support from the World Bank, WHO and UNICEF critical to reach every vulnerable child SANA’A, 8 April ...
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Famine, drought, war threaten millions of children in four countries
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, YemenSome 22 million children have been left hungry, sick, displaced and out of school in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UNICEF said.Download photos and videos from: http://weshare.unicef.org/Package/2AMZIFDD22Q NEW YORK/DAKAR/NAIROBI/AMMAN, 28 March 2017 – More than a month after famine was declared ...
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Sudan’s Bashir to attend Arab summit
President Omar al-Bashir will attend an Arab League summit in Amman this week, Sudan’s foreign minister said Sunday, despite a top rights group urging Jordan to deny him entry. Bashir is wanted by The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged genocide and war crimes related to the conflict in ...
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Independent Commission launched by PN leader on party financing holds first meeting
The independent commission launched by the Nationalist Party to look into the party financing situation in Malta met for the first time this morning.The Commission is being led by judge Giovanni Bonello and includes former European Commissioner Tonio Borg and Petra Caruana Dingli, representing the civil society.PN leader Simon Busuttil ...
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US, UK bar laptop carry-ons from some Middle Eastern, North African flights
The U.S. and British governments, citing unspecified threats, are barring passengers on some international flights from mostly Middle Eastern and North African countries from bringing laptops, tablets, electronic games and other devices on board in carry-on bags.Passengers flying to the United States from 10 airports in eight countries will be allowed only ...
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Transport aérien : Royal Jordanian a le vent en poupe
Royal Jordanian fait de l’axe Amman-Alger une desserte de première importance. Dès cet été, la compagnie aérienne du royaume hachémite de Jordanie portera à cinq le nombre des dessertes hebdomadaires à destination de la capitale algérienne. Royal Jordanian multiplie les offres à destination des deux capitales algérienne et jordanienne avec, ...
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Warring groups must allow medical assistance in Syria
Source: Médecins Sans Frontières Country: Syrian Arab RepublicThe war, coupled with attacks on medical personnel and facilities, has dramatically weakened Syria's previously well-functioning health care system.AMMAN, JORDAN/NEW YORK—Six years into the war in Syria, civilians continue to suffer from a brutal conflict that has precipitated a complex humanitarian crisis, with ever-mounting ...
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NRG, JX Nippon open $1 billion clean coal power project in Texas
U.S. power generator NRG Energy Inc. and Japanese energy producer JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp. have finished the world’s largest system to capture carbon dioxide produced from burning coal at a power plant. The $1 billion Petra Nova project, which collects carbon emissions from an existing coal-fired power ...
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Orphans among children rescued in Aleppo evacuation - UNICEF
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: Syrian Arab Republic"The evacuation of these orphans, along with thousands of other children from east Aleppo in the past days, is a glimmer of hope amid a grim reality for the children of Syria" - regional director.AMMAN, 19 December 2016 – “This morning, all 47 children ...