04/06/2020
4 June 2020 (UN Environment)* — COVID-19 lockdowns have confined people to their homes across the world. For some, this causes stress and mental anguish. People need greenery: research shows that green spaces in and around cities have mental health benefits.
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Banco National Park, in the heart ofAbidjan, Côte d’Ivoire’s capital, is one such respite. Since it was set up in 1983, the park has become Abidjan’s “green lung”, teeming with diverse flora, and supplying around 40 percent of the city’s drinking water needs.
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04/06/2020
For a happy and sustainable world, we urgently need to decrease excessive economic inequality
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3 June 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The Age of Reason, or the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas during the 17th to 19th centuries.
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04/06/2020
A child plays with a homemade sled made from an empty container and a length of cable, in Roj Camp, northeast Syria, February 2020. Photo: ©UNICEF/UNI310464/Romenzi
On 19 August 1982, at its emergency special session on the question of Palestine, the General Assembly, “appalled at the great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel’s acts of aggression”, decided to commemorate 4 June of each year as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
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04/06/2020
This country reached 18 consecutive days without having a regular health minister.
Image of Jair Bolsonaro against the background of mass graves in Brazil, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @ptbrasil
3 June 2020 (teleSUR)* — When asked for a word for the relatives of the COVID-19 victims, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro replied that death “is everyone’s destiny” on Tuesday [2 June 2020], a day in which his country recorded new records of infections and deaths.
“I regret all the dead but it is everyone’s destiny,” Bolsonaro told a supporter who, after mentioning passages from the Bible, asked him for a message for the mourners.
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04/06/2020
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Jun 2 2020 (IPS)* – Indonesia’s founding President Sukarno delivered his annual Independence or National Day address on 17 August 1964 anticipating the forthcoming year as Tahun vivere pericoloso, the ‘year of living dangerously’. 2020 may well be the world’s turn, and not only due to the obvious Covid-19 threat to the world.
US as number one
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the US became the world’s sole superpower.
Many argue that after abandoning its pre-Second World War isolationism to become the post-war hegemon, the US has needed threats to justify ever rising military spending for the US ‘military-industrial complex’, as President (General) Dwight D. Eisenhower warned.
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04/06/2020
This decision affects Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, and Xiamen Airlines.
3 June 2020 (teleSUR)* — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that all regular flights by Chinese civilian airlines to and from the United States will be suspended beginning June 16.
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04/06/2020
(UN News)* — Voices calling for an end to “the endemic and structural racism that blights US society” must be heard and understood, for the country to move past its “tragic history of racism and violence”, the UN Human Rights chief said on Wednesday [3 June 2020].
UN News/Shirin Yaseen | Protests against police brutality have been taking place in cities across the United States including in New York city.
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04/06/2020
(UN News)* — A dozen countries in the Asia-Pacific region have seen an alarming clampdown on freedom of expression during the COVID-19 crisis, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday [3 June 2020].
UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferre | The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, addresses the 41st Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 24 June 2019.
In her appeal to authorities that any action they take to stop the spread of false information should adhere to the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, Ms. Bachelet said that “in these times of great uncertainty”, citizens had a right to voice their concerns.
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04/06/2020
Geneva, 2 June 2020 (WHO)* — A record number of countries are now monitoring and reporting on antibiotic resistance – marking a major step forward in the global fight against drug resistance. But the data they provide reveals that a worrying number of bacterial infections are increasingly resistant to the medicines at hand to treat them.
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“As we gather more evidence, we see more clearly and more worryingly how fast we are losing critically important antimicrobial medicines all over the world,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 