29/05/2020
(UN News)* — Tobacco products continue to kill eight million people a year who get hooked via a $9 billion a year marketing strategy. That’s the warning from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday [29 May 2020], which has said that even during a global pandemic, the tobacco and nicotine industry has continued to promote products that limit people’s ability to fight new coronavirus and recover from the disease.
Unsplash/Sebastiaan Stam | Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year according to the World Health Organization.
For this year’s World No Tobacco Day – marked on 31 May – the agency is focusing on protecting teenagers, who are a key target sector. More than 40 million young people today aged 13-15, have already started to use tobacco, it estimates.
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29/05/2020
The World Health Organization is today [29 May 2020] launching a new kit for school students aged 13-17 to alert them to the tobacco industry tactics used to hook them to addictive products. Every year the tobacco industry invests more than USD 9 billion to advertise its products. Increasingly, it is targeting young people with nicotine and tobacco products in a bid to replace the 8 million people that its products kill every year.
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29/05/2020
May 2020 — (Wall Street International)* — The spirit of the presence of women runs through all areas of life and all across Chile: from politics to economy, from science to literature, from the countryside to the city, from the mountains to the sea, from the desert to Patagonia. It has long been unacceptable to assign them the role of home, children, and selected professions.
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Lately they achieved an unprecedented milestone when the bill for the upcoming plebiscite to approve a new Constitution to be voted on October 25 was approved in Parliament: 50% of those who write it will be women.
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29/05/2020
(UN News)* — The UN human rights chief on Thursday [28 May 2020] condemned the killing of 46-year-old George Floyd while in police custody in the city of Minneapolis, calling it the latest in “a long line of killings of unarmed African Americans by US police officers and members of the public”.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe | Six years before George Floyd was killed in police custody in the city of Minneapolis, protestors in New York City demonstrated against the police shooting of Michael Brown.
“I am dismayed to have to add George Floyd’s name to that of Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Michael Brown and many other unarmed African Americans who have died over the years at the hands of the police – as well as people such as Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin who were killed by armed members of the public”, said High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, in statement.
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29/05/2020
(UN News)*–Unless countries across the world act together now, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday [28 May 2020] at a virtual high-level meeting on financing for development.
WFP/Giulio D’Adamo | Food assistance programmes in Chad promote sustainable agriculture and strengthen incomes and livelihoods.
Painting a picture of 60 million pushed into extreme poverty; famine of “historic proportions”; some 1.6 billion people left without livelihoods; and a loss of $8.5 trillion in global output – the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s – he called for a response with “unity and solidarity”.
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29/05/2020
Geneva, 28 May 2020 (IOM)* – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) deplores the killing of 30 migrants in a shooting yesterday (27/05) involving a trafficker in Libya.
Mediterranean Sea. Photo IOM/Mohamed Muse
The tragedy occurred in a smuggling warehouse in Mezda, near the city of Gharyan, southwest of Tripoli where a group of migrants were being held. Eleven migrants who sustained severe injuries have been rushed to the hospital.
“This senseless crime is a bleak reminder of the horrors migrants have to endure at the hands of smugglers and traffickers in Libya,” said IOM Libya Chief of Mission Federico Soda.
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29/05/2020
(UN News)* — Some 14 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean could experience severe food insecurity this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to projections released on Thursday [28 May 2020] by the World Food Programme (WFP).
The UN agency estimated that 10 million additional people could join the 3.4 million across the region who were already unable to meet their basic food needs.
WFP/Miller Choles | Take-home rations are given to parents of children in Colombia who are missing out on school meals due to COVID-19 school closures.
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