21/12/2019
21 December 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Corporate bullying is a repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons by one or more perpetrators including verbal abuse, offensive behaviour, with nonverbal conducts which are threatening, humiliating or intimidating. We all know what this is about, mangers that abuse power, yell, harass and breed resentment, sabotage and costly turnovers without even caring.
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21/12/2019
16 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — The word “Mottainai” in Japanese literally translates to “it is a shame to waste.” It stems from Buddhist philosophy on living minimally and appreciating nature’s gifts. The practice has been in place for generations.
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Japan is often heralded as having one of the most sophisticated recycling systems in the world, with detailed separation of everything from radios to cat litter.
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21/12/2019
Devastating drought in the southern African nation of Lesotho has left more than half a million people facing severe food shortages and tens of thousands “one step away from famine”, UN humanitarians said on Friday [20 December 2019], in an appeal for funds. (*).
FAO/Elisabeth Tsehlo | A farmer uses conservation agriculture to grow maize in Lesotho.
The $34 million flash appeal will support more than 260,000 people “with lifesaving interventions” until April next year, Jens Laerke from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told journalists in Geneva.
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21/12/2019
20 December 2019 (UN News)* — Following a “thorough, independent and objective assessment”, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Friday [20 December 2019] that she plans to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in Palestine, but asked the Court for a further ruling over territorial jurisdiction.
“The preliminary examination into the Situation in Palestine has concluded with the determination that all the statutory criteria under the Rome Statute for the opening of an investigation have been met”, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
said,
“I am satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation into the situation in Palestine”.
Maintaining that “war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip”, she believes that “potential cases arising from the situation would be admissible” and that there were “no substantial reasons to believe that an investigation would not serve justice”.
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21/12/2019
(UN News)* — Both Iran and the United States have been putting strain on the groundbreaking 2015 deal to monitor Iran’s nuclear programme, which remains a “cornerstone of international peace and security”, said the UN’s political affairs chief on Thursday [19 December 2019].
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas | Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, briefs the members of the UN Security Council.
Rosemary DiCarlo was briefing the
Security Council on nuclear non-proliferation, and
resolution 2231 that specifically backed the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), agreed in July 2015, by China, France, Germany, Russia, The United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, and Iran (see fact box below for full details).
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21/12/2019
Twin presence of obesity and undernutrition reflects shifts in food systems
© UNICEF/Jacqueline Labrador | Rice porridge is served to children at an EU supported health outreach centre in Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.
GENEVA, 16 December 2019 (WHO)* — A new approach is needed to help reduce undernutrition and obesity at the same time, as the issues become increasingly connected due to rapid changes in countries’ food systems.
This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new four-paper report published in The Lancet.
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