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ROME, 8 August 2018 (FAO)* – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has urged countries to unite behind a campaign to promote indigenous women’s rights and encourage their participation in policy discussions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger.
The Violet chair initiative is a call to give indigenous women a seat at the table.
A firefighter retrieves supplies while battling the Ranch Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex Fire, California. Several thousand people were evacuated as fires swept across the state. © NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images
Facing up to the reality of climate change will be cold solace to those who have lost loved ones in a tragic few weeks of multiple extreme weather disasters, but we also acknowledge the urgency of action to protect our communities from further harm.
By Flavia Faria in Boa Vista Brazil and Nadia Williamson in La Guajira, Colombia*
With medicine and food scarce at home, indigenous Warao and Wayúu peoples are abandoning their lands to seek refuge in Brazil and Colombia.
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A Venezuelan indigenous woman and child staying at a shelter in Pacaraima, Brazil. © UNHCR/Reynesson Damasceno
7 August 2018 – As conflicts and natural disasters have sharply deteriorated living conditions in the Horn of Africa and Yemen, more and more people have been crossing the Gulf of Aden in both directions, leading the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to appeal for $45 million to provide critical aid to 81,000 people over three years.
In the first of a series of articles to mark International Youth Day on 12 August, ILO focuses on an its funded project that has been supporting efforts to curb urban violence and restore peace in the coastal town of Diégo Suarez.
Photo from ILO News.
DIEGO-SUAREZ (ILO)* – Located in northern Madagascar, the town of Diégo-Suarez has many tourist assets, thanks to its extraordinary setting, its beaches and old colonial buildings that lend it a special charm. But a few years ago, the city was confronted by organized gangs known as foroches, or “wild ones,” who created conditions of insecurity and threatened to undermine the tourist industry.
Helping farmers helps peace – New FAO Framework to bolster focus on food security and food systems to help sustain peace
ROME, 7 August 2018 (FAO)* – Civil wars and conflicts have increased markedly in the past decade, leading to the recent reverse of a steady trend towards reducing hunger.
They take their heaviest toll on rural communities engaged in agriculture. Wheat output in Syria has fallen by 40 percent and processed-food output in Iraq suffered a double-digit decline.
It “guarantees a climate 4-5 Celsius (7-9 Fahrenheit) higher than pre-industrial times, and sea levels that are 10 to 60 meters (30-200 feet) high than today.”
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Climate change can sush earth to a permanent “Hothouse” state. Hurricane Harvey pictured from the International Space Station in this NASA handout photo | Photo: Reuters FILE | Source: teleSUR.
The Head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, on 7 August 2018 urged government representatives and business leaders from the Asia-Pacific region to offer more support and protection for over 700,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled violence and discrimination in Myanmar’s Rakhine State over the past year.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 