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17/07/2018

‘Shift Textile Production from Fossil Fuel-Based Synthetic Fibers to Renewable, Biodegradable Textiles, Made from Wood’ – UN ‘Forests for Fashion’ Initiative

Human Wrongs Watch

The fashion industry is valued upward of 2.5 trillion dollars, and employs some 75 million people globally – so it makes good sense to shift textile production from fossil fuel-based synthetic fibers to renewable, biodegradable textiles, made from wood, according to a new United Nations initiative that aims to make forests literally more fashionable.

 

UN News/Fatima E. Mendez | UN agencies-backed “Forests for Fashion” exhibit

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17/07/2018

Efforts Must Be Intensified in Libya to Avoid Further “Economic Collapse, the Breakdown of Public Services, and More Frequent Outbreaks of Violence” – Special Envoy

Human Wrongs Watch

Despite encouraging signs on the political and humanitarian front, efforts must be sustained and intensified in Libya to avoid further “economic collapse, the breakdown of public services, and more frequent and intense outbreaks of violence,” on 16 July 2018 said the United Nations Special Envoy for the country.

UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi | Migrants sit on mattresses laid on the floor at a detention centre, located on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday 1 February 2017.

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