04/03/2016
“Time is running out” to end wildlife poaching that threatens some of the world’s most iconic species, such as elephants, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 3 March 2016 said as the United Nations marked World Wildlife Day.
African elephants are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as the animals are poached for their ivory tusks. Photo: UNEP GRID Arendal/Peter Prokosch
Urging global efforts to protect this essential natural heritage for the current and future generations, much more needs to be done by key actors on all continents and across sectors, he said in a message, stressing that “the future of wildlife is in our hands,” echoing the theme of this year’s World Day.
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04/03/2016
Homelessness is found in every country in the world and is spreading with impunity, a United Nations human rights expert on 3 March 2016 warned, calling on governments to recognize homelessness as a human rights crisis and commit to its eradication by 2030, in line with the new UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Presenting her report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, Leilani Farha said that homelessness is found throughout the world, in all countries regardless of the level of development of their economic and governance systems.
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04/03/2016
4 Match 2016 — Climate change will kill more Italians and Greeks than Syrians in 2050, as soaring temperatures destroy crops and disrupt food supplies, new research published in medical journal The Lancet has found.
About 124 Greeks will die for every million of its population in 2050, making it the third worst hit country per capita globally behind China and Vietnam, according to the report published yesterday (3 March).
Italy is 12th in the study’s analysis of 155 countries with 4,630 deaths in total. Syria, in contrast, will lose just 320 people, 840 fewer than Greece.
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03/03/2016
By John Scales Avery*
3 March 2016
Are we losing the human solidarity that will be needed if our global society is to solve the pressing problems that are facing us today?
**Donald Trump speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland | Author: Gage Skidmore | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | Wikimedia Commons
Among the symptoms of loss of solidarity is the drift towards violence, racism and aggressive foreign policy that can be seen in the United States.
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03/03/2016
Brussles, 1 March 2016 (ILO)* – The financial crisis and changing employment relationships have caused the middle class in most EU countries to contract over the past decade.
Credit: Manuel Cohen / MCOHEN | Source: ILO
A new report by the ILO in cooperation with the European Commission shows that increasing inequalities in recent years have led to a reduction of the middle class in Europe.
The report entitled Trends in the world of work: What effects on inequalities and middle-income groups was presented at a high-level conference.
The financial and economic crisis has severely affected middle-income groups – mainly defined in the report as those groups in the income range between 60 to 200 per cent of the median income.
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Almost all of the EU countries studied have experienced a decrease in the size of their middle class, and the share of total income going to the middle class.
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03/03/2016
By Mads Flarup Christensen
2 March 2016 (Greenpeace) – Together we kicked out Shell; seven million people across the world stopped Shell’s expansion into the Arctic in 2015.
Credit: Greenpeace
Later in the year nations came together in Paris and signed a historical agreement for the climate.
These events are clear signs that the world is entering a new era where fossil fuels made extinct, making room for a sustainable future.
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03/03/2016
By Annisa Rahmawati*
3 March 2016 (Greenpeace) – How ‘clean’ is the palm oil used by major brands around the world? Today, we’re releasing the results of our investigation into which companies are keeping promises to stop deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil. Take a look now to see who’s keeping up – and who’s lagging way behind.
Forest fires in West Kalimantan, September 2015. | Credit: Greenpeace
The biggest forest fires of the century tore through Indonesia just six months ago. They reduced millions of hectares of of vibrant, living tropical rainforest and peatland to smoking ash – and with it, some of the last habitat of Indonesian orangutans.
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03/03/2016
1 March 2016 (UNODC)* – Large scale criminal activity in the fisheries sector is rampant and highly lucrative. With these crimes frequently being of a transnational and largely organized nature, the sector is vulnerable to multiple issues including illegal fishing, corruption, document fraud, and human trafficking.
Source: UNODC
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03/03/2016
Source: ICAN
Demonstrators demanded that the government “scrap Trident”, a reference to its ageing fleet of nuclear-armed submarines, which carry a total of up to 215 nuclear warheads. As ICAN’s Tim Wright wrote in a letter in the Guardian newspaper:
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03/03/2016
Europe faces an imminent humanitarian crisis, largely of its own making, following a rapid build-up of people in already over-stretched Greece, the UN refugee agency on 1 March warned.
Afghanistan refugees sit huddled under blankets in very cold, wet weather conditions as they wait for permission to cross the border to Serbia from the Tabanovce in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, where border changes in the Balkan region have created confusion and chaos. Photo: UNICEF/UN010680/Georgiev
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