07/06/2016
The top United Nations official for Libya on 6 June 2016 told the Security Council about the “tragic” humanitarian situation there, underlining that “personal tragedies and collective suffering” are the consequence of the continued lack of State authority in most parts of the North African country.
Inside the cells of Libya’s notorious jail, Abu Salim. Photo: UNSMIL/Iason Athanasiadis
“In the few weeks since the preparation of the report, over 6,000 families from Sirte alone have had to flee their homes to escape on-going clashes and military operations against Da’esh [also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL],” said Martin Kobler, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
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07/06/2016
Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are the most transparent top and major small arms exporters, a new report backed by the United Nations has found.
A UN peacekeeper with firearms collected from militias in Côte d’Ivoire. UN Photo/Ky Chung
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The Small Arms Survey’s Trade Update: Transfers and Transparency, which was released on 6 June 2016 at UN Headquarters in New York, also found that Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the least transporting exporters.
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05/06/2016
5 June 2016 – Marking World Environment Day, which this year focuses on the illegal trade of wildlife, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is calling on everyone to “go wild for life” and take action to help safeguard species under threat for future generations.
Angola is turning to ecotourism to diversify its economy and protect wildlife. Photo: UNEP
“We have chosen this theme because damage from this trade has become so serious and so far reaching that urgent action is needed to reverse it,” UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said in a video message on the occasion of the Day, celebrated annually on 5 June.
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04/06/2016
“Eco-crime hits record high at up to $258 billion, outstripping the illegal trade in small arms, as international criminal gangs and militant groups profit from the plunder of Earth’s resources.”*
Angolan wildlife rangers warm up before patrol | Source: UNEP
Nairobi, 4 June 2016 – The value of environmental crime is 26 per cent larger than previous estimates, at 91-258 billion dollars today compared to 70-213 billion dollars in 2014, according to a rapid response report published today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and INTERPOL.
The Rise of Environmental Crime, released on the eve of World Environment Day (WED), finds that weak laws and poorly funded security forces are enabling international criminal networks and armed rebels to profit from a trade that fuels conflicts, devastates ecosystems and is threatening species with extinction.
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04/06/2016
3 June 2016 – Following the discovery earlier this week of 70 dead tiger cubs, as well as tiger skins, talismans and other wildlife parts, in a Buddhist temple in Thailand, two United Nations agencies have said those circumstances represent only a “tiny proportion” of the extent of an illegal trade in wildlife that is pushing species to the brink of extinction.
Protecting our Wildlife – A Race against Time. UN Photo/John Isaac
“Indeed, only around 4,000 tigers are left in the wild,” said the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in a joint press release. “Until the illegal trade in wildlife is stopped, we are only likely to see more of these types of situations.”
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04/06/2016
The booming illegal trade in wildlife products is eroding Earth’s precious biodiversity, robbing us of our natural heritage and driving whole species to the brink of extinction, according to this year’s World Environment Day, marked on 5 June.*
Source: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The killing and smuggling is also undermining economies and ecoystems, fuelling organized crime, and feeding corruption and insecurity across the globe.
Wildlife crime endangers iconic elephants, rhinos, tigers, gorillas and sea turtles.
In 2011, a subspecies of Javan rhino went extinct in Vietnam, while the last western black rhinos vanished from Cameroon the same year.
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04/06/2016
By Bradnee Chambers*
Executive Secretary of the UN Environment Programme’s Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
Unless the science fiction of Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” becomes science fact sometime soon, extinction will continue to mean gone forever; and if we want to avoid losing more species, we must start learning the lessons of the past; unfortunately the evidence suggests that all too often we seem determined to repeat them.
Source: World Environment Day
Humans have hunted animals for food since time immemorial and taking “one for the pot” was not sport but quite simply the only way to feed one’s family.
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04/06/2016
3 June 2016 – In his annual report on children and armed conflict covering the year 2015, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his shock at the scale of grave violations against children in countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Children at the protection of civilians (POC) site in Malakal town, South Sudan. UN Photo/Isaac Gideon
Ban noted the complex environments created by aerial operations by some Member States’ armed forces and international coalitions, which killed and maimed many children. In some cases, State-allied armed groups have recruited and used children and committed other violations.
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04/06/2016
Children and youth are often the most vulnerable victims of the scourge of radicalization and violence, the President of the United Nations General Assembly on 3 June 2016 emphasized, urging the international community to advance its own thinking and refine its responses to addressing the challenges of violent extremism.
Girls collect water at a pump station in the Dar es Salam camp in Chad. Some 500,000 Nigerian children have been uprooted by attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Photo: UNICEF/Sylvain Cherkaoui
“And it is frightening to think that at a given moment, our youngest people could have their lives, hopes and futures so deeply affected by violent extremism,” he added.
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04/06/2016
3 June 2016 – Ahead of next week’s high-level meeting on ending AIDS by 2030, United Nations independent experts are warning that the epidemic is still being driven by human rights violations, urging all Governments to remove punitive laws, policies and practices.
In Malakal, South Sudan, an HIV support network with around 150 members meet on a regular basis to talk about the challenges faced in accessing antiretroviral medicines. Photo: UNAIDS
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