I support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport – and my cleaning work has stopped with lockdown. #HumansofCOVID19
“My employers fear that I might infect them because I share an apartment with other people | Selam Abebe
24 April 2020 (openDemocracy)* — I am a domestic worker. I clean people’s houses. I am from Ethiopia but I came here to Lebanon nine years ago. I could only finish grade nine at home and then I had to start working. But I was earning a very low salary in a beauty salon back home in Ethiopia, so I came to Beirut.
In Chile, private ownership of water is guaranteed in the Constitution
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Chile is the only country in the world where water is private | Image from Wall Street International.
I want to go back to girlish lands; take me to a land soft of waters.
(Gabriela Mistral)
24 April 2020 (Wall Street International)*— For 10 years, Chile has been facing what is already considered a mega drought or the worst drought in its history, covering six regions North and South of the capital, including Santiago.
24 April 2020 (UN Environment)* — In this video, Bernard Bett discusses the delicate relationship between humans, wildlife and the pathogens that circulate among them in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bett leads research on neglected and emerging infectious diseases at the International Livestock Research Institute as part of the research portfolio under the Improving Human Health flagship.
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His studies of zoonoses–diseases that are transmissible between animals and humans–informed the UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report and drew attention to the issue that now concerns just about everyone.
24 April 2020 (FAO)*— The coronavirus pandemic has triggered movement restrictions all over the world. In South Sudan, FAO has had to find new ways to work in order to get much-needed seeds to farmers in time for the coming planting season. Without these seeds, farming families could face a food crisis within the global health crisis.
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