12/11/2018
9 November 2018 (UN Women)* — Meet Imad Natour, a Palestinian police officer who specializes in domestic violence cases as part of the Family and Juvenile Protection Unit. The unit, supported by a joint programme by UN Women, UNDP and UNICEF, provides survivors of violence with medical, legal aid, temporary shelter and police protection. The unit is also creating powerful gender equality advocates like Natour within communities.
Imad Natour. Photo: UN Women/Eunjin Jeong
“I have been supporting survivors of violence in Ramallah and Tulkarem for eight years now, through the Family and Juvenile Protection Unit (FJPU) of the Palestinian Civil Police.
Before joining this unit in 2010, I worked for the Anti-Narcotics Administration, where I saw many domestic violence cases related to drug abuse, but I couldn’t help the survivors.
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12/11/2018
12 November 2018 (UN Environment)* — Fashion revolves around the latest trends but is the industry behind the curve on the only trend that ultimately matters – the need to radically alter our patterns of consumption to ensure the survival of the planet.
Photo from UN Environment.
The fashion industry produces 20 per cent of global wastewater and 10 per cent of global carbon emissions – more than all international flights and maritime shipping.
Textile dyeing is the second largest polluter of water globally and it takes around 2,000 gallons of water to make a typical pair of jeans.
Every second, the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or burned. If nothing changes, by 2050 the fashion industry will use up a quarter of the world’s carbon budget.
Washing clothes also releases half a million tonnes of microfibresinto the ocean every year.
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11/11/2018
8 November 2018 (Wall Street International)* — In 2014 I wrote an article titled The Global Elite is Insane. I want to elaborate what I explained in the earlier article so that people have a clearer sense of what we are up against in our struggle to create a world of peace, justice and ecological sustainability.
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Of course, as I explained previously, it is not just the global elite that is insane.
All those individuals – politicians, businesspeople, academics, corporate media editors and journalists, judges and lawyers, bureaucrats…. – who serve the elite, including by not exposing and resisting it, are also insane.
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11/11/2018
8 November 2018 (UN Environment)* — You walk into a burger restaurant. What’s going through your mind? Double meat with extra bacon and cheese? Brown bun or added slice of avocado? Environmental degradation or ecological preservation?
You probably don’t think about the latter. But maybe you should.
Americans eat around three burgers a week. Photo by Impossible Foods. | Photo from UN Environment.
Research shows that if cows were a nation, they would be the world’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter.
As humans, meat production is one of the most destructive ways in which we leave our footprint on the planet.
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11/11/2018
10 November 2018 (Wall Street International)* – I propose that racial categories are born of racism and not the reverse. Just as there is no femininity without its purported opposite, masculinity, there is no way to approach the topic of Whiteness without including its juxtaposition and opposition to Blackness (and somewhat later to other hues and colors).
They are reflections in the same mirror viewed through the eyes of what I have named elsewhere (Kaschak, 1992) the indeterminate cultural observer.
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This abstract, but real, cultural observer retains and propagates the visually based distortions and demands of the particular culture.
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It is often difficult for any given individual to resist them, since they are largely unconscious and formed before language could represent them to the conscious mind. They are the very organizing principles of vision.
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11/11/2018
“Outraged” by the “unconscionable toll” caused by the escalation of hostilities in Yemen, the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, on 10 November 2018 urged the warring parties and those supplying them with weapons, to take immediate steps to end the suffering of civilians.
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WFP/Jonathan Dumont | Young boys standing in front of damaged buildings in Saada, Yemen, where bombing has left many neighbourhoods in the city are strewn with wreckage and debris following ground fighting between armed groups.
“The Saudi-led coalition and pro-Hadi forces, the Houthi forces – and those who supply arms or other support to the parties to the conflict – all have the power or the influence to stop the starvation and killing of civilians, to give some reprieve to the people of Yemen,” UN human rights Commissioner Bachelet stated.
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10/11/2018
A new policy brief calls for action to reduce the loss and waste of high-nutrient foods
Foods such as fruits, vegetables and seeds are rich in nutrients, but are also highly perishable. | Photo from FAO.
ROME, 7 November 2018 (FAO)* – With one in five deaths associated with poor-quality diets, a policy brief launched today urges policymakers to prioritize the reduction of food loss and waste as a way of improving people’s access to nutritious and healthy food.
The brief, Preventing nutrient loss and waste across the food system: Policy actions for high-quality diets, points out that poor-quality diets are now a greater public health threat than malaria, tuberculosis or measles.
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10/11/2018
Indigenous traditional knowledge and food systems may hold the answers we are looking for to achieve Zero Hunger, Director-General José Graziano da Silva said.
A panel session during the seminar
ROME (FAO)* – Indigenous Food systems and indigenous traditional knowledge have survived hundreds and sometimes thousands of years, therefore they may have some of the answers we are looking for, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva on , 9 November 2018 said.
FAO considers indigenous and tribal peoples as fundamental actors in the fight against poverty, hunger and all other forms of malnutrition, as well as in the promotion of sustainable agriculture practices,” Graziano da Silva said in a keynote speech wrapping up High-Level Expert Seminar on Indigenous Food Systems held to explore how to build on traditional knowledge to achieve Zero Hunger.
Failing to grasp and support indigenous food systems risks losing ancestral knowledge and centuries of know-how.
“The loss of biodiversity, is also the loss of our identity of our foods and medicines, said Taita Ignacio Morales, a traditional healer from the Muiska-Piuret people of Colombia.
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10/11/2018
9 November 2018 – With the centenary of the end of the First World War just days away, the Security Council reaffirmed the crucial importance of multilateralism – or international cooperation and collective problem-solving – and highlighted the key role played by the United Nations since its creation 73 years ago.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas | Secretariat Building at United Nations Headquarters
Noting that the global conflict of 1914-1918 was “a colossal tragedy and a frightening harbinger of bloody decades to follow”, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, noted in his opening statement that “without mechanisms for international problem-solving,” a second world war ensued within a generation.
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10/11/2018
Responding to United States President Donald Trump’s proclamation which would deny political asylum to migrants crossing illegally into the country, the UN refugee agency UNHCR, released a statement on 9 November 2018 saying that the US must abide by international refugee protection accords.
UNIC Mexico/Antonio Nieto | Central american migrants at the Jesús Martínez ‘Palillo’ stadium located in the east of Mexico City. A woman holds a poster asking: Are you afraid to return to your country? 6 October 2018.
The Presidential Proclamation would reportedly ban migrants applying for asylum outside official ports of entry, which will impact migrants attempting to illegally enter the country from the southern border with Mexico, although legal challenges are expected to follow the move.
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