30/06/2019
27 June 2019 (Wall Street International)* – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an American hero whose non-violent philosophy and efforts related to civil rights challenged and changed the social foundation of America. Dr. King’s focus on economic equality was a new path for him. This was a path toward what Dr. King called “constructive democratic change.” It was Dr. King’s vision and intention to forge a multiracial coalition of poor people in America.
Washington, D.C. August 28, 1963, The civil rights march on Washington with a procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights and integrated schools. | Image from Wall Street International.
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30/06/2019
27 June 2019 (UN Environment)* — As September’s UN Climate Action Summit fast approaches and the mercury rises across Europe and India, the pressure is on to find workable solutions that can quickly turn down the planet’s thermostat.
There is an obvious focus on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, the chief culprit for climate change, but there also lies a huge opportunity in reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
Methane is responsible for at least a quarter of global warming and is over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a warming gas over a twenty-year timeframe.
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30/06/2019
FAO Conference side event explores obstacles such as urbanization, inequality, obesity and natural disasters.
A street scene in Nepal.
ROME, 25 June 2019 (FAO)* – Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger has slowed in Asia and the Pacific, despite strong economic advances, and highlighting the need for concerted policy actions to tackle the increasingly complex nature of challenges ahead, representatives of FAO Member Countries heard during an event on the sidelines of the 41st Session of the FAO Conference.
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30/06/2019
28 June 2019 — Mother of three, Mhee Saesong, a strawberry farmer from Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand, has always struggled alongside her husband to provide for her family. She describes how, in the past, when her two older children became sick, she was unable to afford to take them to hospital.
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© UNICEF/Metee Thuentap | Three-month-old Monluck Saesong is among 128,000 children in Thailand who benefit from a UNICEF-promoted child support grant. (file 2016)
But that changed following the birth of her third child, Monluck, and the introduction of a nationwide child support grant worth just under US$20 per month. “I was so happy when I heard this news,” Mhee says. “Before, I didn’t have money to take my children to see doctors.”
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