02/12/2016
Seven weeks ahead of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity warning on the urgent need to save biodiversity and essential ecosystems, the triennial conference of the parties to a UN-backed wildlife treaty concluded with actions that are expected to go a long way in ensuring protection for some of the most vulnerable plants and animals on the planet.
The African grey parrot, one of most trafficked birds in the world. Photo: CITES
“[The 17th conference of the parties (COP) is] a game changer that will be remembered as a point in history when the tide turned in favour of ensuring the survival of our most vulnerable wildlife,” on 4 October 2016 said the Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), John E. Scanlon in a news release issued by its Secretariat.
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02/12/2016
Time is running out to stop the global decline in biodiversity and protect ecosystems that are essential for the livelihoods and well-being of billions of people, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity on 1 December 2016 warned, as more than 190 countries prepare to meet on this issue in Cancun, Mexico.
Healthy oceans have a central role to play in solving one of the biggest problems of the 21st century – how to feed 9 billion people by 2050. Photo: FAO
“Protecting biodiversity and preventing further losses is an essential investment in our collective future,” said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
“It is critical that we make progress in mainstreaming biodiversity and transforming how societies value and manage it.”
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02/12/2016
As an United Nations international meeting on ways to improve diets and ensure sustainable food systems kicked off in Rome, Italy, participants were on 1 December 2016 told that one in three people on the planet suffers some form of malnutrition, impacting public health and economic development at an estimated cost of $3.5 trillion per year.
A farming family in Kyrgyzstan takes a break from the day’s work to share a meal. Photo: Sergey Kozmin
No country is immune from malnutrition – either undernutrition or overweight and obesity – whose “human, social, environmental and economic costs are overwhelming,” said the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, during his opening remarks at the International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition.
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02/12/2016
By Jan Oberg*
Lund, Sweden, November 30 2016 ((TFF–Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research) – These two top officials behind major US wars (Iran/Afghanistan and Vietnam/ Cambodia/Laos) and regime change (against Allende, Chile) will speak at the first of a new event, The Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo, created by the Nobel Institute in Oslo. More here.
The leaders of the two institutions declare that they are proud to have succeeded in getting these two diplomats to Norway – and the media of course will be there. The event is sponsored by the California-based company InCircl – a marketing and mobile payment company.
The university rector is dr. med. and participant at Bilderberg world elite power group in 2011 Ole Petter Ottersen and you can write him at rektor@uio.no
These two experts on warfare and interventionism will – Orwellian style – speak about “The United States and World Peace After The Presidential Election”.
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02/12/2016
1 December 2016 – The future of development and security in Arab countries depends on investing in their youth populations, which are better educated and more connected than ever before, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in a new report on the region.
In the Arab region, average participation of young women in the workforce is 24 per cent. Photo: UNDP
The report, Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality, urges countries to adopt policies that guarantee the well-being, productivity, self-determination, and good citizenship of their young people.
“The wave of uprisings that have swept across the Arab region since 2011 has shown us that we can no longer treat young people in the Arab region as passive dependents or a generation-in-waiting,” said Sophie de Caen, acting Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States in UNDP.
Young people in Arab countries today are more educated, mobile, and connected than ever before.
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02/12/2016
1 Dec, 2016 (RT)* –
The rule of law has gone into the heap of history, and Julian Assange is one of the victims of that. I do hope the UK will come to its senses and start obeying international law, former CIA officer Ray McGovern told RT.
** London, August 18, 2014, Ricardo Patiño and Julian Assange at a press conference before international media. | Author: David G Silvers. | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
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02/12/2016
Issuing a year-end update to its flagship economic and social development report, the United Nations development arm for the Asia-Pacific region on 1 December 2016 said that resilient domestic demand and policy support supported the region notch a steady growth rate of five per cent but warned that risks remain to financial stability.
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Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Shamshad Akhtar. Photo: ESCAP
“Bouts of financial volatility can re-emerge due to external policy uncertainties in major economies, including those related to the ‘Brexit’ negotiations in Europe and the new administration in the United States,” said Shamshad Akhtar, the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in a news release announcing the report.
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