02/05/2019
2 May 2019 — The deadly threat of lightning strikes, as well as their damaging impact on a country’s development, has been recognized in a new project supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).*
Ziemowit Porębski | Lightning strikes can cause fatalities, especially in developing countries. (file 2006)
There are more deaths from lightning in developing countries, especially in tropical electrical storm-prone regions, largely because more people work outdoors and fewer buildings are protected against strikes.
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02/05/2019
UN Photo/Violaine Martin | Journalists wait for the arrival of official delegations at the Geneva II Conference on Syria, in Montreux, Switzerland. UN Photo/Violaine Martin
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02/05/2019
2 May 2019 (Wall Street International)* —
Transformation sometimes can be drastic. There is no better example in nature to reflect this, than metamorphosis. Like the conversion of a caterpillar into a butterfly – an incredible transformation in functionality, appearance, organization of components, and purpose – where a gross-looking, voracious, clumsy crawling worm, turns into a subtle, gracious, flying creature of beauty.
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02/05/2019
1 May 2019 (UN Environment)* — Edmond Prifti, a Project and Investment Specialist based in Kolonja, Albania, has been trying for years to grow specific tree species in his municipality. Although state-owned lands are ready to be used for this, his lack of expertise greatly hampered progress.
Meanwhile, Albania has been experiencing a set of unfortunate events including deforestation, illegal logging, erosion and flooding, all contributing to making land degradation a major problem in the country.
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02/05/2019
Njoro is an agricultural area on the edge of the Rift Valley in Kenya. It is home to Charity Kathambi Chepkwony, a forest and farm producer who is also the first woman elected to Kenya’s parliament for the Njoro Constituency in Nakuru County. She is also working with FAO to encourage others in her community, particularly women, to plant trees and grow new livelihoods.
2 May 2019 (FAO)* — Women are the backbone of rural economies, particularly in Africa, but they are much less likely to be involved in the decision-making.
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02/05/2019
1 May 2019 — A plan to protect the global marine environment from the dangers of non-indigenous invasive aquatic species has been launched by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO).
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IMO/Lee Adamson | A cleaning operation is being undertaken to remove organisms which have built up on a ship’s hull. (1 June 2016)
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The transfer of sea life including plants, crustaceans and micro-organisms – largely on the hulls of ships – from one part of the world to another, has increased alongside the growth of the global shipping industry.
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01/05/2019
False claims levelled at the UN expert on the rights of indigenous peoples by her own Government in the Philippines, “are without grounding in fact or law” and must cease immediately, said a statement issued by a group of her fellow experts on Wednesday [1 May 2019].
UN Photo/Manuel Elias | Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, at a press briefing on indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and natural resources on 16 April 2018, at UN Headquarters in New York.
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01/05/2019
The infamous Abu Ghraib prison complex in Iraq was revealed to be the centre of an extensive network run by the US military after the coalition’s invasion of the country in 2003.
An Iranian couple walk past mural paintings depicting scenes from the torture of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, on a major highway in the Iranian capital 1 Tehran June 2004. [BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images]
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01/05/2019
Founder of the private security firm Blackwater wants to send hired mercenaries to Venezuela and topple the legitimate government of President Nicolas Maduro.
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01/05/2019
30 April 2019 — Communities in Colombia in South America are being helped by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to preserve and reintroduce indigenous crops as a way to combat the effects of climate change.*
UNDP/Martina Dorigo | The use of native species of rice helps prevent the contamination caused by mercury from illegal mining.
The Antioquia region, a key agricultural area, has experienced steadily rising temperatures and now dry seasons are lasting longer. Rains, when they arrive, are more intense and often lead to flooding.
In response, local farmers have been working with the UN to identify crops which are more resistant to drought and flooding.
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