10/12/2019
Young people represent the majority of the population in most developing countries, where they are often directly exposed to the effects of climate change, conflict, exclusion or economic instability. And in many parts of the world, it is still difficult for youth to be heard — and to influence decision-making processes.
UNDP is proud to continue to help empower young people to better know and claim their rights – which is critical to help build a brighter, more sustainable and more inclusive future. ©UNDP / Freya Morales
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10/12/2019
© UNICEF David Berkwitz | High school girls from Long Island, New York, join other youth climate activists in a demonstration calling for global action to combat climate change. (20 September 2019)
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10/12/2019
A Muslim man grieving over his son’s grave in Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 1994. UN Photo/John Isaac
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10/12/2019
9 December 2019 (UN News)* — Too often, “the world has failed” populations under threat of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing, Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of Genocide on Monday [9 December 2019].
UN Photo/Violaine Martin | Marking the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (2019).
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09/12/2019
Why Climate Is an Emergency
John Scales Avery
The central problem which the world faces in its attempts to avoid catastrophic climate change is a contrast of time scales.
In order to save human civilization and the biosphere from the most catastrophic effects of climate change we need to act immediately. Fossil fuels must be left in the ground. Forests must be saved from destruction by beef or palm oil production.
These vitally necessary actions are opposed by powerful economic interests, by powerful fossil fuel corporations desperate to monetize their underground “assets”, and by corrupt politicians receiving money from the beef or palm oil industries.
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09/12/2019
8 December 2019 (UN News)* — As we enter a decade of ambitious action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), stepping up efforts to eradicate corruption and promote good governance is “essential…to deliver on our global pledge to leave no one behind”, the UN anti-crime chief has said.
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09/12/2019
Bolivia’s chocolate industry is thriving, thanks to indigenous and smallholder farmers growing cacao beans with support from FAO and its Forest Farm Facility partners. ©HELVETAS Bolivia
2 December 2019 (FAO)* — In the Bolivian countryside an appetizing industry has taken off, bringing a sweet new business to rural communities: chocolate production. When it comes to chocolate, Bolivia might not be the first place you think of yet – but thanks to the combined efforts of FAO, smallholder farming collectives and indigenous producers, it soon will be.
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09/12/2019
9 December 2019 (UN News)* — Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) argues in its latest report released on Monday [9 December 2019].
UNDP 2019 Human Development Report says business as usual will not solve new generation of inequalities.
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The 2019
Human Development Report (HDR) states that just as the gap in basic living standards is narrowing for millions of people, inequalities surrounding education, and around technology and climate change, have sparked demonstrations across the globe.
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08/12/2019
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Dec 6 2019 (IPS)* – While opening a newspaper or watching a TV program we are every day made aware of the plights of irregular migrants. Some recent examples among many – on 24 October, 39 Chinese nationals were found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex. They had apparently frozen to death within a refrigerator container with temperatures as low as -25C (-13F).
This while tragedies occur almost daily on the Mediterranean Sea. On 26 November, a rescue vessel found a boat almost completely sunken.
It had three dead bodies aboard. Fifty-five migrants were saved.
Three of them were in a critical condition, and one died after reaching Melilla in Spain, where the migrants were brought in.
Three children were among the survivors, though a further ten individuals were reported missing. Nowadays, such news items pass by almost imperceptibly.
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08/12/2019
By Louise Donovan in Kutupalong, Bangladesh*
UNHCR works closely with Bangladesh authorities to protect vulnerable Rohingya refugees from abduction and human trafficking at Kutupalong refugee settlement.|Español| Français
Rohingya children at a child-friendly space in Kutupalong refugee settlement in July 2019. More than half the settlement’s residents are children, who are more vulnerable to trafficking and abduction than adults. © UNHCR/Antoine Tardy
2 December 2019 (UNHCR)* — When Sara’s* seven-year-old son Mohamed* was snatched from the vast Kutupalong refugee settlement in south-east Bangladesh, she set out to find him on foot.
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