Protesters held signs including “Wake up and Smell the Bushfires” and “It is late but it is not too late”.
16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 23, 2019. | Photo: Reuters (Poto fromteleSUR).
17 January 2020 (teleSUR)* — Swedish activist Greta Thunberg marched with 10,000 protesters in the Swiss city of Lausanne Friday warning the world’s top leaders and global elite that they “have not seen anything yet” before the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos next week.
17 January 2020 (UN Environment)* — The cautionary tale of the boiling frog describes how a frog that jumps into boiling water will save itself by jumping straight out, but the frog that sits in the water while it gradually gets hotter and hotter will boil to death. The global warming crisis surrounds us today and we must act now to protect ourselves.
The far-right former Capitan accounted for three out of five press attacks in 2019.
President Jair Bolsonaro at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil Dec. 19, 2019. | Photo: Reuters (Photo pposted here fromteleSUR).
17 January 2020 (teleSUR)* — Brazil’s National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj) Thursday presented its “Report on Violence Against Journalists and Press Freedom”, highlighting that 208 attacks on media outlets and journalists were reported in 2019, which means an increase of 54 percent over the previous year.
Drug-resistant infections are on the rise as private investment in new antibiotic development declines, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday [17 January 2020]. (*).
CDC/Alissa Eckert, James Archer | A medical illustration depicts the drug-resistant, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria.
Two new WHOreports reveal that while some 50 new antibiotics and 10 biologics are under development, only 32 of the total target WHO-priority pathogens and the majority have very limited benefits when compared to existing antibiotics.
(UN News) — The world should not accept the “dire and untenable” situation facing children in wartorn Libya the head of the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday [17 January 2020].
“Children in Libya, including refugee and migrant children, continue to suffer grievously amidst the violence and chaos unleashed by the country’s longstanding civil war”, Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement.
16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 23, 2019. | Photo: Reuters (Poto from teleSUR).
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