12/07/2018
Math lessons couldn’t be any more engrossing than in the school’s vegetable garden. ©FAO/Fernando Reyes Pantoja
12 July 2018 (FAO)* — Elvis Cortés Hernández grabs his lunch and sits down with his friends. We’re at the General Lázaro Cárdenas school in Ajalpan, deep in the heart of Mexico’s Puebla province and the ten–year–old is chatting about the school’s vegetable garden, one element of its progressive food policy. “I like to eat in the school dining room because they give me carrots, broccoli and fruit,” he says, crushing a piece of mango with his teeth.
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12/07/2018
Painting a grim picture of villages being burned to the ground and other “bone-chilling” accounts he heard from Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar, the UN chief has called on the world to answer their calls for help with real action.
UNHCR/Caroline Gluck A Rohingya boy walks up steps in a rain-damaged section of the Chakmarkul refugee settlement.
“Small children butchered in front of their parents. Girls and women gang-raped while family members were tortured and killed,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on 11 July 2018 in a Washington Post opinion piece, adding: “Nothing could have prepared me for the bone-chilling accounts.”
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12/07/2018
Although cities are often characterized by stark socioeconomic inequalities and poor environmental conditions, they also offer growth and development potential – making them central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and a main focus of the third day of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on 11 July 2018.
UN News/Eric Ganz | View of Manhattan from Long Island City, Queens, New York.
Through the inherently integrated nature of urban development, the
11th Sustainable Development Goal (
SDG) impacts a wide range of 2030 Agenda issues from sustainable consumption and production to affordable and clean energy along with health, sustainable transportation, clean water and sanitation. Basically, life on land.
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12/07/2018
Climate change – and the shortages of water and food that come from it – is becoming increasingly linked to conflict, a senior United Nations official on 11 July 2018 told the Security Council, warning that countries most vulnerable to drought and crop failure are also most vulnerable to conflict and fragility.
OCHA/Otto Bakano | A family goes in search of water in Burkina Faso where more than 950,000 people are severely food insecure, notably in the conflict-hit northern regions.
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“Climate change is inextricably linked to some of the most pressing security challenges of our time,” said Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed during a
debateintended to deepen understanding of climate-related security risks.
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11/07/2018
10 July 2018 (UN Environment)* — “When I take my little girl to the store, I always tell her buy what you need, not what you want! I must be the only shopkeeper who tells customers not to buy more!”
This in a nutshell sums up Florence Tay’s passion. Her easy, friendly manner welcomes one into her store “Unpackt”, located in the heart of Singapore’s suburban neighbourhood Ang Mo Kio.
Unpackt is the city-state’s first zero-waste grocery and lifestyle concept store. With a 5.6 million population, Singapore’s consumption trajectory is only set to grow exponentially.
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11/07/2018
Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces today, including poverty eradication, gender equality, adaptation to climate change, food security, health, education, sustainable cities, jobs and transport, speakers on 10 July 2018 told a key United Nations forum on sustainable development.
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PresseBox.de flickr | A UNEP solar energy system, the largest of its type in Africa.
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11/07/2018
ROME, 10 July 2018 (FAO)* – New analysis and modelling released today by FAO and more than 100 collaborating scientists projects that by 2050 climate change will have altered the productivity of many of the planet’s marine and freshwater fisheries, affecting the livelihoods of millions of the worlds’ poorest people.
Nearly 60 million people are employed in fisheries and aquaculture. Climate change poses a risk to their livelihoods. | FAO
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11/07/2018
10 July 2018 (Wall Street International)* – I just came from Costa Rica for a short stay in the “United” States of America to take care of some pressing issues. My return was shocking. I have been making this transition for decades now with ease and great familiarity. I have felt at home in both countries. Now all that has changed.
Not only has it changed, but the United States is almost unrecognizable as the nation it once was. Almost all the rights of citizens have been eroded or removed. Civil rights are almost a joke, were any of this funny.
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11/07/2018
Even before the escalation of conflict in Hudaydah, conditions in Yemen’s port city were some of “the most dire in the country,” according to the United Nations health agency on 10 July 2018.
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UN OCHA/Giles Clarke \ A suspected cholera patient lies on a wooden bed in a hospital in Hodeida. 15 April 2017.
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The
World Health Organization(
WHO) said that Hudaydah had registered the highest incidences of suspected cholera cases of any city; around 14 per cent of those reported nationwide since the start of the crippling epidemic, in April 2017.
In addition to that highly infectious disease, there have been 209 suspected cases of diphtheria and 252 of measles.
“The intensification of fighting in Hudaydah endangered not only those directly affected but also the 70 per cent of the population who depended on vital supplies, including health-care supplies, that flowed through Hudaydah port, WHO’s Tarik Jašarević told journalists in Geneva on Tuesday 10 July 2018.
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11/07/2018
Family planning was affirmed to be a human right 50 years ago, leading to what would become the annual observation of World Population Day [11 July 2018], which focuses attention on the impact the number of children born, has on the world.*
UN Photo/Albert González Farran | Every individual has the human right to determine the direction and scope of his or her future.
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