The first time I saw an orangutan in real life, I nearly peed with fright. I heard a great commotion in the trees above me and there he was, swinging through the branches, his huge plate-shaped face staring down at me.
The Reppie project will supply Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Abeba, with 30 per cent of its electricity.
Ethiopia launches the waste-to-energy Reppie facility, the first of its kind in Africa. | Photo: @GetachewSS | Photo from teleSUR.
22 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — Ethiopia has become the first African country to build a fully dedicated waste-to-energy facility. Called the Reppie project, it was launched by President Mulatu Teshome, along with a host of other high-ranking government officials.
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Built atop the old Koshe landfill, the site of a landslide that killed 114 people in March, the facility is on the outskirts of the capital Addis Abeba and will intake 1,400 tons of rubbish each day: the equivalent of roughly 80 per cent of refuse generated by the city.
23 Augusto 2018 (ILO)* – Domestic workers are one of the groups most vulnerable to exploitation, violence, harassment, and forced labour. Many women end up being trapped in abusive work situations, taking place behind closed doors, and hence remaining largely unnoticed.
“Every day, she would tell me that I’m crazy and stupid. I couldn’t take that. But since she kept on saying that every day, I got used to it. Whenever they beat me up, I just cried in a corner”, recalls Julia *, a Filipino domestic worker who suffered constant verbal abuse and physical beating for more than a year before daring to run away to the police.
22 August 2018 (UNHCR)* – UNHCR has more than 11,500 staff, most of whom are based in the field. Meet medical doctor Taimur Hasan, who works in public health in Bangladesh.
22 August 2018 (UN Environment)* – A lot of attention has been drawn recently to microplastics in freshwater and marine environments, and the threat they pose to ecosystems and people’s health.
United Nations agencies must join forces at the policy level and refuse interference from tobacco companies in their programmes so the destructive impact of tobacco can be effectively addressed and lives can be saved, the head of the UN tobacco control treaty watchdog (WHO FCTC Secretariat) told UN Newson Wednesday [22 August 2018].
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UN News/Yasmina Guerda | Close to 7 million people die every year from tobacco-related illnesses according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Participants of the 67th United Nations DPI/NGO Conference, held under the theme “We the Peoples…Together Finding Global Solutions for Global Problems”.
The two-day conference is an international forum, where around 2,000 representatives from over 300 NGOs meet with UN officials, leading influencers, members of academia and media to discuss issues of global concern.
The refugee crisis in Bangladesh sparked by the mass exodus of people from Myanmar almost a year ago risks creating a “lost generation” of Rohingya children who lack the life skills they will need in future, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned.
UNICEF/Patrick Brown | A boy carries one of the bamboo poles, which were unloaded near the settlement for use in building basic shelters, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on 8 July 2018.
Hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim Rohingya continue to live in cramped and rudimentary camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, after fleeing a military operation in Myanmar that was subsequently likened to “ethnic cleansing” by the UN’s top human rights official, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein.
Recurring cycles of violence in the Middle East highlight the need for international efforts to prevent hostilities, provide humanitarian aid and support Palestinian reconciliation, the UN’s political chief on 22 August 2018 told the Security Council..
Toddlers sit on the top step and their grandmother stands on a landing, inside their partially destroyed home in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. UNICEF/UNI188296/El Baba
Rosemary DiCarlo briefed the 15 ambassadors on developments over the past months, during which there has been an escalation in incidents between Israelis and Palestinians.
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