12/10/2018
Australia should end its offshore processing policy on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Papua New Guinea amid reports of widespread, acute mental distress and attempted suicide by children and young adults, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on 12 October 2018.
UNHCR/N. Wright | At a social centre for refugees on Nauru, where they are held, conditions are basic. (file)
“In one of the various cases brought to our attention during September, a suicidal pre-teenage girl remains in Nauru despite doctors’ advice to the contrary,” UNHCR spokesperson Catherine Stubblefield told journalists in Geneva.
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12/10/2018
8 October 2018 (openDemocracy)* – It’s time to join the dots between our overlapping crises of – and shared solutions to – environmental degradation, damaged health, racial oppression and gender injustice.
Image: Deforestation in Brazil. Rights: NASA/Wikicommons, CC 2.0
‘The invading civilization[s] confused ecology with idolatry. Communion with nature was a sin worthy of punishment… Nature was a fierce beast that had to be tamed and punished so that it could work as a machine, placed at our service for ever and ever. Nature, which was eternal, owed us slavery’ (1) – Eduardo Galeano
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12/10/2018
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on 11 October 2018 he is “deeply saddened”, as the Government of Nigeria announced that some 200 people have died, and a further 1,310 injured, due to flooding across a dozen states. Overall, around two million have been affected.
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UNDAC/Pierre Trouche | A mother and child attempt to escape the flood water in Niger State, Nigeria, following torrential rains which have hit the region since mid-July 2018.
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Nigeria’s two main rivers, the Niger and the Benue, burst their banks after heavy rains began in August, and the country has been experiencing large-scale floods ever since. A state of national disaster has been declared in the four most-affected states of Kogi, Niger, Anambra and Delta.
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12/10/2018
Buenos Aires (UN Environment)* – A third of all waste generated in cities of Latin America and the Caribbean ends up in open dumps or in the environment, polluting soil, water and air, and threatening the health of the population, according to a UN Environment report launched on 9 October 2018.
145,000 tons are inadequately disposed every day in the region, equivalent to the waste generated by 27% of the regional population or 170 million people, according to the Waste Management Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean, launched during the XXI Forum of Ministers of Environment of the region, taking place in Buenos Aires, 9-12 October.
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12/10/2018
Plants in swamps absorb pollutants, mangroves store carbon, lakes and underground aquifers are a crucial source of water, and coral reefs protect coastlines from wave action and serve as shelter for marine organisms.
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12/10/2018
UN Women statement on the International Day of Rural Women, 15 October
Photo: UN/Lucien Rajaonina
11 October, 2018 (UN Women)* – In most countries around the world, rural women and girls face daily challenges of access to sustainable infrastructure, services and social protection.
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12/10/2018
Rural women make up a quarter of the world’s population. They grow much of our food, strengthen economies and build climate resilience.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
From championing access to clean water in Kyrgyzstan to boosting sustainable agriculture in Ethiopia, rural women are mobilizing to support one another, and their contributions are vital for both rural communities and urban societies.
Yet, on almost every measure of development, because of gender inequalities and discrimination, they fare worse than rural men or urban women.
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12/10/2018
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, has called for Governments across South-East Asia, to take a lead in the fight against global warming and the damaging impact of climate change.
UNICEF/UN0240792/Wilander | Rido Saputra, 10 years old, stands in front of his home which was destroyed by the tsunami in Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia (3 October).
He was speaking at a leaders’ meeting on 11 October 2018 of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), in Bali, Indonesia.
The UN chief expressed his condolences and solidarity with all those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, and pointed out that four of the countries most affected by the disaster are ASEAN members: Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
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12/10/2018
The conflict in Yemen has been highlighted by a UN human rights committee which on 11 October 2018 urged Saudi Arabia to “put an end to the air strikes” against its southern neighbour, amid reports that they have resulted in the deaths of at least 1,248 children since March 2015.
OCHA/Muath Algabal | A 12-year-old boy carries soap supplied by the UN in the Bani Harith neighbourhood of Sana’a in Yemen. (September 2018)
The recommendation was addressed to Saudi Arabia by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which also issued concluding observations on Benin, El Salvador, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mauritania and Niger.
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