02/06/2019
Kicking off on Saturday [1 June 2019] the first-ever global Parenting Month, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is calling on world leaders to invest in family-friendly policies that support parents to give their children “the best start in life”.
UNICEF/Brian Sokol | Bongani Ngqame holds his 8-month-old son, Khuma, during a portrait shoot at a park near his office at the Department of Health in Cape Town, South Africa.
According to UNICEF, the month of June is a time to focus on raising awareness of the impact that protection, nutrition and stimulation have on brains in the earliest years of life.
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01/06/2019
(Greenpeace)* — On May 1, the British House of Commons became the world’s first national parliament to declare a “climate emergency.” The motion is not binding and may have no effect on government policy, which appears reminiscent of the Paris emissions promises.
Night time road blocks at the Extinction Rebellion environmental activists camp at Marble Arch © Photo by Ollie Millington/Getty Images (Photo from Greenpeace).
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01/06/2019
NAIROBI, 30 May 2019 (UN Habitat)* – For the past 30 years the residents of Ngong town have been throwing their rubbish into Oloolua open dumpsite right in the middle of their area. But a new project plans to turn the rubbish into fuel and electricity.
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01/06/2019
After visiting Julian Assange in a London prison, an independent UN human rights expert expressed urgent concern on Friday [31 May 2019], for the Wikileaks co-founder’s well-being, accusing “a group of democratic States” of “ganging up” on the prisoner to “isolate, demonize and abuse” him and warned against extraditing the controversial publisher to the United States.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Professor Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on torture, at a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York.
“My most urgent concern is that, in the United States, Mr. Assange would be exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights, including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” said Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, in a statement.
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31/05/2019
SANA’A, Yemen/OSLO, Norway, 28 May 2019 (UNFPA)* — When Maram* showed up at her parents’ house, battered and bruised by her husband, her mother urged her to be less stubborn, more obedient – anything to avoid a divorce.
It was a nightmare within a nightmare.
UNFPA holds sessions raising awareness about gender-based violence, and the availability of support services, in a displacement camp in Yemen. © UNFPA Yemen
Her country, Yemen, has been trapped in a grinding conflict for years. The crisis has left women and girls more vulnerable than ever.
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31/05/2019
The Brazilians are defending their rights as the Education Minister strives to disqualify social discontent.
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31/05/2019
A marked escalation in fighting has put tens of thousands of children in northwest Syria at “imminent risk of injury, death and displacement”, the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) chief warned on Thursday [30 May 2019].
UNICEF/Ahmad Al Ahmad | After spending many days in the open, families fleeing hostilities are sheltering in group tents provided by the Turkish Red Crescent near Kafr Lusein, Syria (May 2019).
Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement that over the past few days, intensifying violence, had left children “hemmed in” especially in villages in northern Hama and southern Idleb, driving many families from their homes while “others are unable to move to safer areas”.
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31/05/2019
By Finian Cunningham*
30 May 2019 (RT)* —
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo doubled down on vilification of Сhinese telecoms giant Huawei as “an instrument of government” suggesting that the company was a national security threat by acting as an agent for Beijing.
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31/05/2019
31 May 2019 (UN Environment)* — According to the World Health Organization, every year, around 7 million people die prematurely from disease caused by air pollution. That is 800 people every hour, or 13 every minute, dying because of the dirty air they breathe. Approximately, 4 million of these deaths occur in the Asia-Pacific region.
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30/05/2019
29 May 2019 — The top United Nations body in the Asia-Pacific region opened its annual session this week, calling for greater empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalized groups if the region is to achieve the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and fulfill its promise to leave no one behind.
ESCAP | The traditional parade of flags takes place at the opening of the seventy-fifth session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand. (29 May 2019)
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