18/07/2020
(UN News)* — Hunger threatens to soar to devastating levels in 25 countries in the coming months due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are warning.
WFP/Damilola Onafuwa | Women in Nigeria collect food vouchers as part of a programme to support families
struggling under the COVID-19 lockdown.
The greatest concentration of need is in Africa, but countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia – including middle-income nations – are also being ravaged by crippling levels of food insecurity.
The two Rome-based UN agencies sounded the alarm in a joint report published on 17 July 2020 as the WFP announced that it is scaling up food assistance to an unprecedented 138 million people who face desperate levels of hunger as COVID-19 tightens its grip on some the world’s most fragile countries.
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16/07/2020
Athens, 16 July 2020 (Human Rights Watch)* – Greek law enforcement officers have summarily returned asylum seekers and migrants at the land and sea borders with Turkey during the Covid-19 lockdown, Human Rights Watch said on 16 July 2020.
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16/07/2020
Control operations ready if East Africa swarms move west
Countries in the Sahel are on high alert in case conditions become favourable for Desert Locusts in East Africa to invade west. ©FAO/Luis Tato
15 July 2020 (FAO)* — Large numbers of Desert Locust swarms that have formed in Kenya and Ethiopia since January could move west in the coming weeks, threatening fields, pastures and livelihoods in West Africa.
But national surveillance operations are in full swing, and control measures are ready because of the major early warning and rapid response effort coordinated by FAO.
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16/07/2020
The researchers from international universities and meteorological services from the Russian Federation, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom also found that temperatures were more than 2°C hotter than they would have been if humans had not influenced the climate by releasing greenhouse gas emissions.
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16/07/2020
When President Clinton dropped 23,000 bombs on what was left of Yugoslavia in 1999 and NATO invaded and occupied the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, U.S. officials presented the war to the American public as a “humanitarian intervention” to protect Kosovo’s majority ethnic Albanian population from genocide at the hands of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. That narrative has been unraveling piece by piece ever since.
Nicolas J. S. Davies
In 2008 an international prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, accused U.S.-backed Prime Minister Hashim Thaci of Kosovo of using the U.S. bombing campaign as cover to murder hundreds of people to sell their internal organs on the international transplant market. Del Ponte’s charges seemed almost too ghoulish to be true.
But on June 24th, Thaci, now President of Kosovo, and nine other former leaders of the CIA-backed Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA,) were finally indicted for these 20-year-old crimes by a special war crimes court at The Hague.
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16/07/2020
(UN News)* — Time is fast running out for getting a UN team of experts aboard the Yemeni oil storage vessel Safer, before it spills its cargo of 1.148 million barrels of light crude oil into the Red Sea, triggering what would likely be a massive environmental and economic catastrophe, the Security Council heard on Wednesday 15 July 2020.
UNMHA (File photo) UN teams from the UNMHA mission in the crucial Yemeni port city of Hudaydah, close to where the stricken oil tanker FSO Safer, lies offshore, threatening an environmental disaster.
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16/07/2020
(UN News)* — An independent UN human rights expert is calling for greater scrutiny of emerging digital technologies which she said are being used to uphold racial inequality, discrimination and intolerance.
ITU/D. Procofieff | Humanitarians and global leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI) attended the AI for Good Global Summit held in Geneva in May 2018 (file photo).
Special Rapporteur on racism, Tendayi Achiume, presented her concerns in a report delivered on Wednesday [15 July 2020] to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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15/07/2020
Governments of the world have co-opted some of the most revolutionary ideas for their own ends
Wild elephant habitats and migration routes are threatened by mining in name of self-reliance © Ashish Kothari | Image from Wall Street International.
13 July 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Over the last couple of months, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly emphasized the need for the country to move towards atmanirbharta, or self-reliance.
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14/07/2020
Food is not only a matter of eating. Long before it reaches grocery store shelves, the process of production unleashes a multiplicity of factors affecting the length and quality of life on earth.
Forests are cleared to create agricultural space, the atmosphere becomes warmer, diversity is systematically decreased, buffers that protect humans from animal-borne viruses–like COVID-19–are removed, soil and water is contaminated, and plants and animals are infused with substances with precarious effect.
With a global population projected to reach 10 billion by 2050, it is not unreasonable to ask: how are we going to feed all these people?
More to the point: how are we going to feed all these people, without causing more damage?
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