04/08/2016
A United Nations-backed report launched on 3 August 2016 explores the different ways the international treaty governing the inscription of world heritage sites may one day apply to sunken coral islands, floating rain forests, or giant undersea volcanoes, none of which can be considered for listing because they are in the seas outside of any national jurisdiction.
By absorbing much of the added heat trapped by atmospheric greenhouse gases, the oceans are delaying some of the impacts of climate change. Photo: WMO/Olga Khoroshunova
Titled World Heritage in the High Seas: An Idea Whose Time has Come, the report – released by the World Heritage Centre of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – presents five sites that illustrate different ecosystems that can only be found in the depths of the ocean, according to a UNESCO news release.
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04/08/2016
By Joeteshna Zenos*
4 August, 2016 (Greenpeace) Most of us know the story of coal miners and their caged canaries. When my seven-year-old daughter heard it, she was sad that the canaries had to give up their lives to warn the miners to get out. She asked me if miners still use canaries today and I reassured her: “No, we have come a long way since those days.”
Young girls playing on a fishing boat in the village Te O Ni Beeki in Betio, on Tarawa Island, Kiribati. The Pacific Island nation is threatened by climate change and overfishing. Credit: Christian Aslund/Greenpeace
The truth is, sometimes I fear that we Pacific Islanders are the closest thing to those canaries. True, we are not choking on poisonous gases, but we are cornered and caged by incremental sea level rise, high tides that reach farther inland than ever before and saltwater intrusion.
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04/08/2016
PAP officials attend the workshop for members of the Pan African Parliament and FAO to advance the Food and Nutrition Security Agenda. Credit: Desmond Latham/IPS
Monday’s meeting [1 August] here came after years of planning that began on the sidelines of the Second International Conference on Nutrition organized by the FAO in late 2014.
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04/08/2016
By Hafsa Kara-Mustapha*
2 August 2016 (RT)* – Last month protests erupted in Libya over French military operations conducted inside the country without local authorities’ consent. On Monday, Libyan officials said with much fanfare and pride the US had started bombing Sirte.
**United Nations Map of Libya, with cities, roads, and the current twenty-two Districts or Shabiyah of Libya. | This image is a map derived from a United Nations map. | Wikimedia Commons
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04/08/2016
By Johan Galtung*
Jondal, Hardangerakademiet, Norway, 1 August 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service – The Hardanger Academy is focused on the three UN concerns, peace-development-environment.
Johan Galtung
This year’s symposium was brilliantly opened by Vandana Shiva, a gift to the world from India.
She encompassed all three themes with deep insights; holistic and very dialectic in her approach, with forces and counter-forces in all her proposed solutions; with her optimistic activism and engagement.
The media missed a golden opportunity to tell the Norwegian public.
She was imported for a week from India, and met with dedicated counterparts and groups in Norway. They are not very visible in public space either; but the Hardanger Academy will try to change that.
What is in public space in Norway? A mirror image of US public space. If the US media say that Russian hacking was behind the enormous WikiLeaks revelations from the Democratic National Committee computer, so do the Norwegian media.
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04/08/2016
The economy of Ghana has been losing some $2.6 billion annually – or 6.4 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) – due to child undernutrition, according to a new United Nations study launched 2 August 2016 in the country’s capital, Accra.
Child malnutrition costs Ghana more than $2 billion annually. Photo: WFP West Africa
“In the Northern Region of Ghana, 30 per cent of children under five are stunted or chronically malnourished. This not only affects their growth but also their educational development and economic potential, and consequently the future of the country,” said Margot van der Velden, the World Food Programme (WFP) Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa said in a press statement.
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04/08/2016
Modern office buildings and stores, all empty, are among the “white elephants” in the city of Itaboraí, near Rio de Janeiro, left by an aborted petrochemical and oil refinery complex in southeast Brazil. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS
It is no mere coincidence that President Dilma Rousseff, suspended during her ongoing impeachment trial over charges of breaking budgetary regulations, will face the final vote in the Senate this same month.
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