05/02/2021
The UN Special Envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, appealed to the Security Council on February 2 to unite in support of democracy in Myanmar in the wake of a power grab by the military and the declaration of a one-year state of emergency.
Bagan, Myanmar, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Credit: World Bank/Markus Kostner
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 4 2021 (IPS)* – When million-dollar arms sales knock on the door, human rights violations and war crimes fly out of the window.
As the United Nations grapples for a reaction to the military coup in Myanmar, both China and Russia, two veto-wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC), refused to support a statement condemning the army takeover—a collective statement that warrants consensus from all 15 members.
The two big powers have long thrown their protective arms around Myanmar because of longstanding political, economic and military relationships with the troubled Southeast Asian Nation.
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05/02/2021
5 February 2021 (UNEP)* — The past six years have been the warmest on record since 1880, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three, according to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) press release on 15 January. The year 2020 was 1.2°C above pre-industrial era (1880) temperatures.
Photo: REUTERS/Adrees Latif / 04 Feb 2021
WMO predicts a 20 per cent probability that temperatures will temporarily exceed 1.5°C as early as 2024. “The speed at which temperatures are increasing is alarming,” says Pascal Peduzzi, Director, GRID-Geneva, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). “At this rate, we may reach +1.5°C in the next 15 years.”
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05/02/2021
(UN News)* — A group of UN independent human rights experts on Thursday [4 February 2021] welcomed the United States’ decision to stop using privately run federal prisons, and urged the Government to also end the outsourcing of all detention centres, including those holding migrants and asylum seekers.
UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi | New York City correctional facility in lower Manhattan.
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05/02/2021
©UNICEF/Giovanni Diffidenti | People self-quarantined in Italy make a show of solidarity.
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“Around the world, deep-seated discrimination, acts of intolerance and hate crimes persist against people simply because of their religion or belief, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation”, he
said in a video broadcast during a commemorative event, held online.
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04/02/2021
The 2021-2030 initiative hopes to raise funding for ocean science and focus on the sustainable use of marine resources
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 4 2021 (IPS)* – The United Nations Secretary-General has urged nations to rise to the ‘defining challenge’ of restoring the ocean’s power to support humanity and regulate the climate.
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04/02/2021
(UN News)* — January marked the beginning of what many within the UN and beyond view as “the most critical decade of our lives”, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on Wednesday [3 February 2021], launching a major initiative to protect the world’s oceans through the next ten years.
Coral Reef Image Bank/Philip Ham | A school of fish in Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán Peninsula’s Caribbean coast of Mexico.
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04/02/2021
ROME, 2 February 2021 (FAO)* — Global fisheries and aquaculture have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and could face further disruption in 2021 as lockdowns affect supply and demand across the sector, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Fisheries and aquaculture have been hard hit by the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.
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04/02/2021
ROME, 4 February 2021 (FAO)* — Global food prices rose in January for the eighth consecutive month, led by cereals, vegetable oils and sugar, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
A cow feeds in Armenia.
FAO’s Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities and was released today [4 February 2021], averaged 113.3 points in January, marking a 4.3 percent increase from December 2020 and reaching its highest level since July 2014.
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04/02/2021
London, 3 February, 2021 (UNEP)* –
– Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss, the new Chatham House report, supported by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Compassion in World Farming, describes three actions needed for food system transformation in support of biodiversity, and sets out recommendations to embed food system reform in high level political events over the coming UN ‘Super Year’ for Nature.
Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, with agriculture alone being the identified threat to 24,000 of the 28,000 (86%) species at risk of extinction. The global rate of species extinction today is higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years.
In the last decades our food systems have been following the “cheaper food paradigm”, with a goal of producing more food at lower costs through increasing inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, energy, land and water.
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04/02/2021
Beirut, 3 February 2021 – Turkey and the Syrian National Army have arrested and illegally transferred at least 63 Syrian nationals from northeast Syria to Turkey to face trial on serious charges that could lead to life in prison, Human Rights Watch said today.
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