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24 October 2019 (UN News)* — Amid growing competition for radio wave space due to new wireless technologies, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday [23 October 2019] called on governments to protect radio frequencies allocated to potentially life-saving weather forecasting services.
At Our Ocean Conference, FAO Director-General urges reversing “dangerous sustainability divide” in fisheries management
OSLO, 23 October 2019 (FAO)* – Serious investments in ocean sustainability will raise the amount of fish to feed the poor, helping drive progress towards the eradication of hunger which is the lynchpin for achieving the other Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said today [23 October 2019].
In an average southern hemisphere spring, the hole expands throughout September and mid October to a maximum extent of about 21 million square kilometres (8 million square miles), an area larger than the United States and Canada combined.
In 2019, the hole reached 16.4 million square kilometers (6.3 million square miles) on September 8, but then shrank to less than 10 million square kilometres (3.9 million square miles) for the remainder of September and the first half of October.
Venezuelans pause for rest after crossing into Cúcuta, Colombia, April 2019. © UNHCR/Vincent Tremeau
Brussels, 23 October 2019* — The dramatic flight of millions of Venezuelans has resulted in one of the direst displacement crises in the world and the largest in the recent history of the region. Nearly 80 per cent of the approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans who left their country have remained in Latin America or the Caribbean.
President Evo Morales. | Photo: Bolivian presidency
A local NGO published what they believe to be the causes of the 15 deaths which they say are shots fired by soldiers, blows to the skull and thorax and for being hit by military vehicles.
Police crackdown on protesters. | Photo: Reuters (Photo from teleSUR).
By UN News* — The international community has a responsibility and legal obligation to compel Israel to end its 52 year-long “occu-annexation” of Palestinian territory and remove barriers preventing Palestinian self-determination, a UN independent human rights expert told the General Assembly on Wednesday [23 October 2019].
Michael Lynk made the call in his latest report on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory: the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
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Brazil’s Senate session votes on the pension reform bill in Brasilia. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.
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