CHEPKITALE, Kenya , Jul 21 2020 (IPS)* – The Ogiek community, indigenous peoples from Kenya’s Chepkitale National Reserve, are in the process of implementing a modern tool to inform and guide the conservation and management of the natural forest. The community has inhabited this area for many generations, long before Kenya was a republic. Through this process, they hope to get the government to formally recognise their customary tenure in line with the Community Land Act.
GENEVA, 28 July, 2020 (WMO)* – The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and international science partners are hosting a virtual global symposium from 4 to 6 August to review the relationship between weather, climate and environmental factors and the spread of COVID-19.
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The coronavirus pandemic continues to spread globally, within a wide range of climates and seasonal and environmental settings.
There is no COVID-19 virus. It does not exist. If you ask any doctor or scientist in the world to show you a scientifically-verified proof that it does exist, they will not be able to show you one.
Robert J. Burrowes,
Given that it has not been scientifically established that the COVID-19 virus exists, it is therefore clear that everything being done supposedly in the effort to tackle the ‘virus’ is being done for another purpose and COVID-19 is being used to conceal this fact.
However, with the elite-driven narrative being endlessly promoted by the World Health Organisation, governments, the medical and pharmaceutical industries, along with the corporate media, the truth is being obliterated.
And the reason for this is obvious: Any serious consideration of the underlying evidence, as I have documented previously, clearly indicates that the global elite is conducting a coup against humanity and using the fear it generates around COVID-19 to distract people from paying attention to what is happening in the background.
24 July 2020 (UNHCR)* — UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling today [24 July 2020] on States to urgently release refugees and asylum-seekers who are being unlawfully and arbitrarily held in detention. States must act to ensure their actions are in line with international law and that amidst the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, vulnerable refugees are not being placed at heightened, unnecessary risk. | Español | Français | عربي
KATHMANDU/NEW YORK/ DHAKA (UNICEF)* – Weeks of torrential monsoon rains, widespread flooding and deadly landslides in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal have affected millions of children and families, UNICEF on 24 July 2020 said. Over 4 million children are currently estimated to be impacted and in urgent need of life-saving support, with many millions more at risk.
Bob Marley’s everlasting message about the power of love and solidarity is more important than ever as families face the COVID-19 pandemic and millions call for equality. | Français | Español | العربية | 中文
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UNICEF is teaming up with the Marley family, Tuff Gong International and Amplified Music to reimagine the iconic song One Love – bringing people together to help children and their families recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and build a better world.
(UN News)* — People taking part in peaceful demonstrations across the United States, and journalists covering these protests, should not be subjected to disproportionate use of force or other violations, the UN human rights office said on 24 July 2020.
Unsplash/Tito Texidor | Policemen at the Black Lives Matter protest in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Spokesperson Elizabeth Throssell was answering a reporter’s question about the US authorities deploying federal security officers to various cities to quell demonstrations against racial injustice, sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, while in police custody in Minneapolis on 25 May.
On Monday [20 July] and Tuesday [21 July] this week alone, the satellite images registered 146 new fires, affecting 7,000 hectares.
The municipality of Corumbá, located on the border between the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and Bolivia, is the most damaged. | Photo: AFP
24 July 2020 (teleSUR)* — During the first half of 2020, the fires in Pantanal, the world’s most extensive tropical wetlands, reached the highest number ever, according to a report by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
(UN News)* — Girls and boys in northeast Nigeria are continuing to endure brutal abuse at the hands of Boko Haram, and are also being deeply affected by military operations taking place to counter the terrorist group, despite noteworthy efforts, according the UN chief’s latest report on children and armed conflict.
UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson VII | 15 year-old Dada and her daughter Hussaina at home in a host community shelter in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. Dada was 12 years old when Boko Haram took her and an older sister.
One year has passed since the world was shocked by the images of the fires blazing across the Amazon in Brazil. But since then, the forest hasn’t stopped burning —and 2020 could be even more devastating for the rainforest and the Indigenous Peoples who call it home.