31/08/2019
30 August 2019 (UN Environment)* —
During World Water Week, we spoke with changemaker Maricela Granda, a 25-year-old environmental biotechnology engineer from Ecuador who is developing a way to purify water using banana waste.
Photo by Maricela Granda
Granda comes from the Sucumbios province in the northern part of the Ecuadorian Amazon, known for its oil production. Her community is employed mostly by oil companies, as well as in agriculture—and bananas are an important local crop.
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31/08/2019
12 million animals vaccinated and regional cooperation on disease control increased.
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FAO trained over 1 000 community-based animal health workers across Afghanistan to carry out routine checkups, perform vaccinations and raise awareness about the prevention of contagious diseases through early treatment. ©FAO/Shah Marai
31 August 2019 (FAO)* — “My sheep and goats are my only source of income for my family. We consume their milk and meat and sell what’s left in the market to buy essential household and school items,” says Agha Ma, a female pastoralist in Balkh, Afghanistan.
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31/08/2019
By Carlinda Lopes in Biringi, Democratic Republic of the Congo*
On the run from the civil war, a boy named Gift is determined to continue his education. But his ingenuity, brilliance and determination may not be enough to keep him in school.
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South Sudanese refugees go back to school in Biringi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Rayan Hindi, producer, camera-editor / Thomas Freteur, camera)
30 August 2019 (UNHCR)* — Gift, 10, has been top of his class for the past three years. That may not be enough to keep him in school.
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31/08/2019
30 August 219 (IOM)* — Mamadou, 18, left school and his village in Senegal’s Tambacounda when he was 12. “While I was in school, all I could think about was if I was going to eat when I got back home,” he explained. “Sometimes we would have breakfast and nothing else for the rest of the day. There were too many mouths to feed at home and I needed to do my part.”
Mamadou stays in the transit centre in Agadez, Niger to recover from his ordeal. Photo: IOM
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31/08/2019
Refugee children in their millions are missing out on an education, the UN said on Friday [30 August 2019], in an appeal to host countries to back more inclusive policies to prevent them from “languishing” in camps for years and losing hope.
© UNHCR/Farha Bhoyroo | A young Burundian refugee completes an exercise on a blackboard at Jugudi Primary School in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Kigoma Province, north-west Tanzania. (February 2019)
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31/08/2019
For the far right, it is the weak link through which it can carry out its attack on the European Union
29 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* — A series of recent events has unveiled increasingly disturbing signs that far- right internationalism is turning Portugal into a strategic target.
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30/08/2019
Every year on August 29, at the initiative of Kazakhstan, the UN and its Member States mark the International Day against Nuclear Tests. This year, the Day coincides with the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb test at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan.
UN News travelled to the remote, eerily beautiful region, for this report.
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30/08/2019
30 August 2019 (UN Environment)* —
Khatmah thought the hima was lost forever. Decades ago the water in this dry rangeland surrounding her village in north-west Jordan had started to disappear, and it had become little more than a wasteland.
Photo by UNEP / Lisa Murray
“I thought it was pointless trying to regenerate the hima,” Khatmah says, pouring sweet black tea for her guests.
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30/08/2019
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 29 2019 (IPS)* – The last frontier for utilizing and maybe even exhausting Earth´s natural resources is opening up in the Arctic and some of the world´s wealthiest nations are trying to secure their piece of the cake. Some act openly, others are more secretive – recently one of the competitors entered the game in a remarkably unwieldy manner.
Photo: Annie Spratt/Unspalash
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30/08/2019
29 August 2019 (IGWIA)* — While the international community is focusing its attention on the advancing fires in Brazil, the reality is that the problem transcends the South American giant and is reflected in the nine Amazonian countries.
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Fires in the Monte Verde Indigenous Territory in Bolivia. Photo: Territoria Indígena Monteverde
Beneath the ashes, the fire has shown (once again), a conflict that specialists have long pointed out: the implementation of a development model based on the extraction of natural resources at the expense of nature.
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