14/03/2020
12 March 2020 (UN Environment)* — On 26 July 2019, 22-year-old Sam Bencheghib asked the crowd of friends, supporters and media gathered around him, to take two deep breaths as a reminder of the importance that the oceans have in giving life.
Finish Line, Photo by Jacqueline Verdugo
Bencheghib was about to embark upon a 3,100-mile run across the United States of America from coast to coast. He planned to average 20 miles per day for six months, running from New York City to Los Angeles.
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14/03/2020
(UN News)* — UN agencies have underscored their commitment to continue supporting civilians affected by the war in Syria, which this month enters its tenth year. The Secretary-General issued a statement on Thursday [12 March 2020], declaring that “we cannot allow the tenth year to result in the same carnage, the same flouting of human rights and international humanitarian law.”
© UNICEF/UNI310539/Romenzi | A mother holds her two children in the destroyed city of Aleppo in Syria.
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14/03/2020
13 March 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Ladakh: one of India’s most outstandingly beautiful landscapes, and a unique biocultural region. Known as ‘Little Tibet’ for the predominantly Buddhist culture a substantial part of it harbours (with equally interesting Muslim culture in the other part), Ladakh today faces possibly the most significant crossroads it has faced since being incorporated into the Indian union.
Leh valley from air © Ashish Kothari
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14/03/2020
(UN News)* — The coronavirus outbreak may have forced millions around the world already into “social distancing”, keeping a metre apart to prevent its spread, but it will not stop them from uniting to combat racism, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights declared in Geneva on Friday [13 March 2020].
UNDPLAC Young women from the Caribbean island of Dominica.
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