Families wait by the side of the road after fleeing attacks in Burkina Faso. The number of displaced people increased to over half a million last year, and the country is on the brink of a hunger crisis. Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC.
30/07/2020
Food Security Threats: Now a Warning and Later May Be Too Late
Human Wrongs Watch
FAO Assistant Director-General*
– Recent world reports confirm that the goals set by the international community to end poverty and hunger, and create a more balanced, sustainable and fair world by 2030, are currently in danger. If effective and rapid global action is not taken, the goals will not be met and the results in just 10 years may be very negative for all of us. |
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A group of women of Central Africa receives training in production diversification and improvement to expand the food security of their communities. Credit: FAO
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30/07/2020
Rescued from Libyan Detention Centres and Evacuated to Rwanda, Survivors of Horrific Torture and Rape Receive the Help They Need to Start to Heal
Eritrean refugee Samrawit* braids her friend’s hair at the UNHCR Emergency Transit Centre in Gashora, Rwanda. © UNHCR/Alissa Everett
29 July 2020 (UNHCR)* — The 20-year-old Eritrean refugee’s current surroundings are peaceful and relaxed – a far cry from the horrors she endured while in captivity in the hands of smugglers in Libya, where she was tortured, beaten and raped for almost two years.
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30/07/2020
Five Things You Should Know about Disposable Masks and Plastic Pollution
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1) Pollution driven by huge increase in mask sales
30/07/2020
Revealed: A Third of World’s Children Poisoned by Lead – UNICEF
Human Wrongs Watch
29 July 2020 (UN News)* — Lead poisoning is affecting children on a “massive and previously unknown scale”, according to a ground-breaking new study launched by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and international non-profit organization focused on pollution issues, Pure Earth.
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The report, the first of its kind, says that around 1 in 3 children – up to 800 million globally – have blood lead levels at, or above, 5 micrograms per decilitre (µg/dL), the amount at which action is required. Nearly half of these children live in South Asia.
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