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28 August 2019 — At-risk wildlife that is facing a “growing extinction crisis” received a boost on Wednesday, as countries wrapped up a marathon meeting in Geneva, by agreeing to increased protection measures and more sustainable trade in animals and plants across the globe.
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Europe has lost ground in eliminating measles, as the number of countries having achieved or sustained elimination of the disease has declined, the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) warned on Thursday [28 August 2019].
The legacy of nuclear testing is “nothing but destruction,” and in a world of rising tensions, “our collective security depends” on bringing a global treaty into force that bans nuclear explosions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said.
Smog from air pollution appears in the sky above a business district in Jakarta. © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace
– With the record rate blaze in the Amazon that struck Indigenous communities, the world is confronted by a humanitarian crisis in the midst of an ever-worsening political-economic condition.
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The International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) joins the international chorus of condemnation and call for immediate actions to put an end to the unfolding crisis that jeopardizes the lives of Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon and planet’s survival.
‘Gaza’, a Canadian-Irish documentary made by Andrew McConnell & Garry Keane, gives an insight into how people try to live their lives in this very difficult environment, whether a taxi-driver and his customers, a cello-playing girl or fishermen restricted by gunships to within 3 miles of the shore. It is showing in Belfast, Bristol, Dublin & Newcastle as well as in London and has been well-reviewed.
26 August 2019 (International Work Group for indigenous Affairs – IGWIA)* –– In August 2019, US President Mr Donald Trump expressed an interest in buying Greenland from Denmark. In an update on Facebook, IWGIA’s Board Member and Inuit from Greenland, Sara Olsvig, explains why Greenland cannot be bought, and how Trump’s apparent interest in Greenland is based on ignorance of all peoples’, including indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination.
You can read Sara Olsvig un-edited update, from 17 August, below:
San Jose, 27 August 2019 (IOM)* –- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is currently launching five campaigns to prevent the risks of irregular migration and encourage informed decision making among potential young Central American migrants.
All campaigns are based on IOM’s experience in Asia with the IOMX project, which uses the Communication for Development (C4D) methodology. Photo: IOM.
Tangible steps “can, and must, be taken” to urgently reverse the “negative trajectory” of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and revive the peace process, a senior United Nations envoy told the Security Council on Tuesday [27 August 2019].
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