03/05/2018
The “Akademik Lomonosov” – the world’s first purpose-built floating nuclear power plant © Nicolai Gontar / Greenpeace
No, we’re not joking. No, this isn’t science fiction. This is really happening.
Rosatom, the Russian state-controlled nuclear giant, is launching the “Akademik Lomonosov”, the first of its kind, into the world. It’s currently being towed through the Baltic sea, where it will go all around Scandinavia to Murmansk, to be fuelled and tested, before it heads off on a 5,000 km journey through the Arctic.
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03/05/2018
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UN Environment launches the BreatheLife Challenge as WHO release latest data on air pollution levels for more than 4,000 cities in over 100 countries. WHO estimates that around 7 million people die every year while 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air.
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UN Environment* – UN Environment has on 2 May 2018 launched the BreatheLife Challenge and calls upon citizens to reduce their contribution to air pollution by committing to walk, bike or take public transport for 26 miles during the month of May.
The initiative comes on the heels of a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), which found alarming trends in the rise and persistence of air pollution worldwide.
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03/05/2018
ROME, 2 May 2018 (FAO)* – Soil pollution poses a worrisome threat to agricultural productivity, food safety, and human health, but far too little is known about the scale and severity of that threat, warns a new FAO report released today at the start of a global symposium.
In Senegal, a pastoralist herds his cattle past a mound of garbage. | Source: FAO
Industrialization, war, mining and the intensification of agriculture have all left a legacy of soil contamination across the planet, while the growth of cities has seen soil used as a sink for ever greater amounts of municipal waste, says Soil Pollution: A Hidden Reality.
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03/05/2018
Kabul (IOM Blog)* – In November 2017, Dr. Khadijeh Javadi, 35, a young Afghan engineer recently returned from Iran, was appointed Acting Deputy Minister of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan.
Her appointment, as a young Afghan woman brought up and educated abroad, visibly raised the bar for Afghan women in pursuit of professional advancement in a country that remains deeply conservative.
But things could have turned out very differently for Khadijeh, whose working class refugee family never dreamt that their daughter could pursue an academic career that would lead her back to her Afghan roots, with a little help from the Government of Japan and IOM, the UN Migration Agency.
Born in the Iranian city of Isfahan in 1982, Khadijeh was always bright and ambitious.
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03/05/2018
By Maung Zarni*
1 May 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — TRANSCEND Media Service is having a fund drive to keep its valuable service – tailored to those of us who want in-depth and critical analyses – not sensationalist corporate media reportage with its shallow “Trumpish-All-sides” “balance”.
In most cases of realities that involve blood, invasion, genocides, war crimes, exploitation, systematic acts of state propaganda, “all sides” and “balance” in journalism, are not simply acts of moral cowardice, but the total absence of intellectual substance.
Peace, nonviolence, social justice are TMS ideologies rooted on basic human rights and needs, non negotiable principles.
Noam Chomsky, the author of Manufacturing Consent, would agree if I make an “outlandish statement” such as there are no ‘Gold Standards’ in journalism. The idea of Gold Standard is itself propaganda.
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03/05/2018
Air pollution claims seven million lives a year, UN health experts on 2 May 2018 said, amid new data showing that the problem affects nine out of ten people worldwide.
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World Bank/Curt Carnemark | Woman wears mask to protect from pollution. China. | Source: UN News Centre.
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In a
call for Member States to take action urgently,
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, warned that air pollution “threatens us all, but the poorest and most marginalized people bear the brunt of the burden.”
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03/05/2018
2 May 2018 — More than 140 million children are at greater risk of illness, hearing loss, blindness and even death globally if urgent action is not taken to provide them with life-saving vitamin A supplements, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned.
© UNICEF/UN0205064/Pirozzi | Three year old Mweti receives a dose of Vitamin A in Kiribati
In a new report “
Coverage at a Crossroads,” released on 30 April 2018, UNICEF stressed that just two doses of vitamin A per year, can save thousands of children’s lives.
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03/05/2018
2 May 2018 — At an event commemorating the Day of Vesak, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged the global community to draw inspiration from the Buddha’s teachings and message of tolerance, empathy and humanism.
UN News/Vibhu Mishra | Buddhist monks meditate at the Maya Devi Temple in Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, Nepal.
“The world faces numerous challenges, from conflict to climate change, from prejudice to growing inequality. We see people turning inwards and we see a crisis of solidarity,” said the Secretary-General in his address.
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03/05/2018
2 May 2018 — The dangers of working as a journalist in Afghanistan have been dramatically underlined by an attack in the capital Kabul on Monday 30 April 2018 in which nine Afghan photographers and reporters were killed.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi | Inside an Afghan radio studio, where women’s voices call for democracy and human rights.
They had gone to report on a suicide attack, and were targeted by a second suicide bomber when they arrived on the scene.
The cold-blooded murder took place just days before World Press Freedom Day marked annually on May 3rd.
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