Global warming is expected to result in an increase in work-related heat stress, damaging productivity and causing job and economic losses. The poorest countries will be worst affected.
GENEVA, 1 July 2019 (ILO)* – An increase in heat stress resulting from global warming is projected to lead to global productivity losses equivalent to 80 million full-time jobs in the year 2030, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
A new ourEconomy series focusing on the global economy and global justice.
1 July 2019 (openDemocracy)* — We are connected on a planetary scale. All our resources, our infrastructure, our food, energy, clothing, our electronic devices, almost everything human-made that we see around us, contains some component that someone from somewhere else has worked on.
The Greatest Outlier in Terms of Possessing Nuclear Weapons Is the U.S.A.
1 July 2019 — Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders.
3 July 2019 (Wall Street International* — Tuina 推拿, or Chinese massage therapy, is one of the four main branches of traditional Chinese medicine. Although very ancient, it is relatively new to majority. Tuina therapy dates back to around 3000 BC, making it the grandmother of all forms of massage and body work that exist today, from shiatsu, reflexology, chiropractics to osteopathy and beyond.
Tuina is the grandmother of all forms of massage and body work that exist today | Photo from Wall Street International.
Tuina is different from other forms of massage with specific emphasis on medical factor, such as treatment of specific illnesses related to internal organs, or muscular – skeletal systems as well.
The rapid spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) across East and Southeast Asia is threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of households in the region which rely on pig farming, The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, reported on Tuesday [2 July 2019].
IAEA/Laura Gil Martinez | African Swine Fever is a highly contagious disease that can cause a devastating impact on small-scale pig farmers and can be transmitted from pigs to humans. (file March 2017)
Small scale farmers account for a significant proportion of pig meat production in the vast region, and the outbreak is of particular concern for these producers, who may lack the expertise and funds necessary to protect their herds from the disease.
2 July 2019 — Food aid is being tripled for troubled Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to respond to what the World Food Programme (WFP) has described as the world’s second largest hunger crisis in the world, after Yemen.
WFP/Jacques David | The World Food Programme (WFP) held massive food distributions in the Ituri provice, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where thousands of persons had fled from their villages due to ethnic clashes. 21 March 2018.
In addition to worsening hunger, communities in north-east DRC face a deadly Ebola outbreak and inter-ethnic clashes that claimed at least 117 lives between 10 and 13 June, according to a recent report by the UN human rights office, OHCHR.
El Paso, TX, 2 July 2019 (Human Rights Watch)* – The United Statesgovernment should cease returning asylum seekers to wait in Mexico during their US immigration court proceedings, Human Rights Watch and the Hope Border Institute said in a report released today [2 July 2019].
“My mother entered my room at around 5 pm while I was sitting on the floor, colouring in my princess colouring book. She sat on the bed and called me up. ‘Najma, tomorrow you will get married.’”
Najma’s mother explained what marriage meant. “’You have some duties, and the most important one is to please your husband, prepare his meals, clean and iron his clothes and be an obedient woman,’” she recalled her mother saying.
Figures suggest that many young asylum seekers arriving in the UK have their ages wrongly disputed leading to serious safeguarding problems.
Young asylum seekers who have their age disputed by local authorities are at risk of significant harm.| Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved.
1 July 2019 (openDemocracy)* — The Court of Appeal recently declaredthat the UK Home Office’s policy of determining the age of young asylum seekers is unlawful as it fails to ensure that children are not mistakenly treated as adults.
Working in climate and environment, you hear this question a lot. On one hand, environmental groups — including Greenpeace — will tell you that every action you take can make a difference.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 