In 1992, multinational chemical corporations were selling us stuff that depleted the ozone layer.
Stuff that was used to cool your refrigerator. Stuff that was also a powerful greenhouse gas. Protecting the ozone layer was one of our biggest missions at the time, so we decided to take them on.
For the world’s rich, it may seem that life is getting better and that human expansion on Earth is not something to worry about. But if we look a bit closer, the ecological data today shows that humanity and Earth’s wildlife would all be better off had we heeded the warnings of Paul Ehrlich, 50 years ago.
12 March 2018 (FAO)* — Schools are an ideal setting for teaching basic skills in food, nutrition and health. In many communities, they may be the only place where children acquire these important life skills
Primary schools, in particular, are suitable vehicles for nutrition education. They not only influence children but also target girls, who tend to leave schools earlier.
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Nutrition lessons can be simple, interesting, colourful and easily learned by demonstration, illustration, example and practical action – approaches which are natural to primary education.
14 March 2018 | Geneva (WHO)* – After seven years of conflict in Syria, WHO has renewed its call for the protection of health workers and for immediate access to besieged populations.
Photo: WHO
Attacks on the health sector have continued at an alarming level in the past year. The 67 verified attacks on health facilities, workers, and infrastructure recorded during the first two months of 2018 amount to more than 50% of verified attacks in all of 2017.
“This health tragedy must come to an end,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
It was seven years ago this week that the conflict in Syria began. How might it have developed without the negative role played by Western powers and their regional allies?
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**Two destroyed Syrian Army tanks in Azaz, August 2012 | Author: Christiaan Triebert | Source: Flickr: Azaz, Syria | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Beware the Ides of March, the old saying goes. The 15th of March down the ages has seen not only the assassination of Julius Caesar and the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia; it was also the day, in 2011, that the conflict in Syria began.
Dozens of children have been killed since fighting began in the north-western Syrian town of Afrin, where people are under bombardment, hospitals have been shut down and water supplies cut off, the United Nations has reported.
UN Multimedia | Ravina Shamsadani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Along with Eastern Ghouta, the Kurdish-held town is now among the worsening flashpoints, as the conflict in Syria enters its eighth year.