17/09/2020
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Geneva, 17 September 2020 (WHO)* — The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on governments and health care leaders to address persistent threats to the health and safety of health workers and patients.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded all of us of the vital role health workers play to relieve suffering and save lives,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
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17/09/2020
(UN News)* — Unless governments act now, millions of the world’s most vulnerable people could be pushed into contemporary forms of slavery and other exploitation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN independent human rights expert has said.
© UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi | A Nigerian girl, pregnant with twins after being forced into prostitution following her arrival in Italy via the Mediterranean Sea route from Libya, stands in a home run by an Italian NGO where she is being sheltered in Asti, Piedmont region, Italy. (2017)
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17/09/2020
17 September 2020 (United Nations)* — International Equal Pay Day, celebrated for the first time this 18 September, represents the longstanding efforts towards the achievement of equal pay for work of equal value. It further builds on the United Nations commitment to human rights and against all forms of discrimination, including discrimination against women and girls.
Worldwide, women make only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, creating a lifetime of income inequality between men and women. PHOTO:ILO / Marcel Crozet
Across all regions, women are paid less than men, with the gender pay gap estimated at 23 per cent globally.
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17/09/2020
17 September 2020 (United Nations)* — Around the world, despite decades of activism, and dozens of laws on equal pay, women still earn less than 80 cents for every dollar men do. For women with children, women of colour, women refugees and migrants, and women with disabilities, that figure is even lower.
Around the world, despite decades of activism, and dozens of laws on equal pay, women still earn less than 80 cents for every dollar men do. Photo: ILO
If you had told me this forty years ago, I would have been shocked. But according to the World Economic Forum, it will take 257 years to close this gap.
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16/09/2020
(UN News)* — The northern hemisphere experienced its warmest August ever, the World Meteorological Organization (
WMO) said on Tuesday
[15 September 2020], amid searing conditions that have contributed to devastating wildfires on the west coast of the United States.
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San Francisco Fire Department | More than 78,000 acres of forest in the Sierra mountains in California has been lost due to wildfires.
“The northern hemisphere just had its hottest summer on record”, said Clare Nullis, WMO spokesperson.
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16/09/2020
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A decade may sound like a long time. But scientists say that these next ten years will count most in the fight to avert climate change and the loss of millions of species. Here are ten actions in the strategy of the UN Decade that can build a #GenerationRestoration.
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16/09/2020
We have known for a long time that biodiversity, and the services it provides, have been in decline. It is on this background that ten years ago, the international community adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. The goal of the plan, and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets, was to halt biodiversity loss and ensure that ecosystems continued to provide essential services.
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16/09/2020
Montreal, 15 September 2020 (UN Environment)* – Despite encouraging progress in several areas, the natural world is suffering badly and getting worse. Eight transformative changes are, therefore, urgently needed to ensure human wellbeing and save the planet, the UN warns in a major report. 
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The report comes as the COVID-19 pandemic challenges people to rethink their relationship with nature, and to consider the profound consequences to their own wellbeing and survival that can result from continued biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystems.
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16/09/2020
(UN News)* — The continued degradation of the environment is increasing the likelihood of diseases spreading from animals to humans, warns a UN report on biodiversity, released on Tuesday [15 September 2020].
ILRI/Barbara Wieland | Testing sheep for diseases in Bako, Ethiopia.
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The fifth edition of the UN’s Global Biodiversity Outlook report, published by the
Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), provides an authoritative overview of the state of nature worldwide.
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15/09/2020
Sky over Tennessee, United States. | PHOTO:UN Photo/N. Kollar
The phaseout of controlled uses of ozone depleting substances and the related reductions have not only helped protect the ozone layer for this and future generations, but have also contributed significantly to global efforts to address climate change; furthermore, it has protected human health and ecosystems by limiting the harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching the Earth.
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