The Flipflopi Project was co-founded by Kenyan tour operator Ben Morison in 2016, and the ground-breaking dhow was built by master craftsmen Ali Skanda, and a team of volunteers using 10,000 tonnes of recycled plastic. The boat gets its name from the 30,000 recycled flip-flops used to decorate its multi-coloured hull.
12/02/2019
Boat Made of Recycled Plastic and Flip-Flops Inspires Fight for Cleaner Seas along African Coast
12/02/2019
‘Each Year, Food Contaminated with Bacteria, Viruses, Parasites, Toxins or Chemicals Cause over 600 Million People to Fall Ill, and 420,000 to Die Worldwide’
Each year, food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins or chemicals cause more than 600 million people to fall ill, and 420,000 to die worldwide, prompting a call from world leaders on Tuesday [12 February 2019]for greater international cooperation to make the food chain safer.*
12/02/2019
What the Press Hides from You about Venezuela – A Case of News-Suppression
Human Wrongs Watch
By Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service*
This news-report is being submitted to all U.S. and allied news-media, and is being published by all honest ones, in order to inform you of crucial facts that the others — the dishonest ones, that hide such crucial facts — are hiding about Venezuela.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse
These are facts that have received coverage only in one single British newspaper: the Independent, which published a summary account of them on January 26th.
That newspaper’s account will be excerpted here at the end, but first will be highlights from its topic, the official report to the U.N. General Assembly in August of last year, which has been covered-up ever since.
This is why that report’s author has now gone to the Independent, desperate to get the story out, finally, to the public.
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12/02/2019
Must the Women Always Have to Clean Up the Mess – Donald Trump and the Women Who May Save Our Lives
10 February 2019 (Wall Street International)* — I have recently returned from Costa Rica during the period that was supposed to be winter in the Northern Hemisphere. As followers of this column know, I spend half of every year in Costa Rica, where I teach and write. This year’s visit went as usual and I was able to accomplish several writing projects.
Democratic members of Congress wear white for U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session | Photo from Wall Street International.
12/02/2019
It’s Election Season in Nigeria, But Where Are the Women?
Human Wrongs Watch
Ahead of Nigeria’s presidential elections on 16 February, UN Women and partners have been training women candidates, documenting political violence and advocating for measures to boost women’s low representation in Parliament.
Chika Kumle, Pauline Tallen and Zainab Sulaiman Umar benefitted from capacity-building by UN Women. Photo: UN Women/Nathan Ali
6 February 2019 (UN Women)* — Pauline Tallen began her political career as one of the first female councillors in her community, in north-central part of Nigeria, mobilizing women to form Councils of Women Societies in local government in the 1980s.
In 1999, she was appointed Minister for Science and Technology—the first woman appointed in that capacity—and in 2007 she was nominated Deputy Governor of Plateau—also the first woman to hold that position.
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12/02/2019
Less than 30 Per Cent of Scientific and Technological Researchers Are Women – International Day of Women and Girls in Science
By UN Women*
On 11 February, the United Nations, partners worldwide, women and girls will mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Why does it matter?*
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Recent studies suggest that 65 per cent of children entering primary school today will have jobs that do not yet exist.
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12/02/2019
Protests, Violence in Haiti Prompt International Call for ‘Realistic and Lasting Solutions’ to Crisis
Human Wrongs Watch
11 February 2019 – Opposition-led protests in Haiti calling for the president to step down, which sparked violence last week, have prompted a group of senior diplomats, included the top UN official there, to issue a statement deploring the loss of life and calling for dialogue to end the crisis.*
The so-called Core Group is made up of the head of UN Mission MINUJUSTH, Helen Meagher La Lime; and the UN ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the European Union, the United States, and the Special Representative of the Organization of American States.
They took note of the demands expressed by demonstrators on Thursday, aimed at a worsening economic crisis that has led to a drop in living standards, inflation at around 15 per cent, a growing national deficit, and allegations of corruption levelled at President Jovenel Moise, before he took office.
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12/02/2019
‘Many of the World’s Biggest Problems May Be Going Unsolved Because Too Many Women and Girls Are Being Discouraged from the Sciences’
Human Wrongs Watch
11 February 2019 – Many of the world’s biggest problems may be going unsolved because too many women and girls are being discouraged from the sciences.*
The role of science education in a changing world cannot be undervalued: it is estimated that fully 90 per cent of future jobs will require some form of ICT (information and communication technology) skills, and the fastest growing job categories are related to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), with recent studies indicating 58 million net new jobs, in areas such as data analysis, software development and data visualization.
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