22/07/2021
It’s all about digitalization – they want to reduce life to software and end humans’ sacred relationship to their food and the land where it is grown.
- Big Tech is driving a new wave of colonization in the name of sustainability and “net zero” carbon emissions
- Tech billionaire Bill Gates, now the largest owner of farmland in the U.S., is at the root of the problem, pushing technology as the only mechanism to save the world, and in so doing denying real solutions
- Shiva calls Gates’ book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” which pushes for the elimination of age-old farming traditions and widespread adoption of fake meat, “rubbish”
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22/07/2021
(UN News)* — Independent UN rights experts on 21 July 2021 warned that hundreds of Venezuelan cancer patients could die because they have been caught up in the excessively strict application of United States sanctions aimed at Venezuela and the state-owned oil company, Petroleum of Venezuela.
© UNICEF/Alejandra Pocaterra | A mother brings her young girl to a medical appointment at a health centre in Caracas, Venezuela.
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22/07/2021
(UN News)* — Celebrating what would have been Nelson Mandela’s 102nd birthday on 21 July 2021, the UN deputy chief hailed the man who led the struggle that ended the racist apartheid system in his native South Africa as exemplifying “courage, compassion and an unwavering commitment to social justice and equality”.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe \ Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa speaks at the General Assembly’s informal plenary meeting for Nelson Mandela International Day
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Affectionately known as Madiba, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the General Assembly meeting celebrating Nelson Mandela International Day – officially commemorated on Sunday – that he “embodied the highest aspirations of the United Nations and the human family”.
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21/07/2021
By Andrea Mucino-Sanchez in New York*
Tanitoluwa Adewumi and his family fled violence in Nigeria and ended up in a homeless shelter in New York, where he learned the game that changed their lives. | Español
Tanitoluwa (Tani) Adewumi and his family fled violence in Nigeria. They are now living as asylum seekers in the United States while Tani continues his chess career. © UNHCR/Ashley Le
20 July 2021 (UNHCR)* — Tanitoluwa Adewumi and his family fled their native Nigeria in 2017, after jihadist group Boko Haram ordered his father, Kayode, to produce posters for their network at his print shop. Kayode refused and knew the family would be in danger if they stayed.
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21/07/2021
An indictment of humanity
International Labour Organization revealed that child labor had increased for the first time in two decades | Image from Wall Street International.
I am writing this opinion essay today in my quality as the Convenor of Nobel Laureates and Leaders for Children, supporting the Fair Share to End Child Labour campaign.
My friend and colleague Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2014) is an extraordinary man, very much in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi.
Upon completion of his university studies at age 20 and as he was readying himself to wed his childhood sweetheart Sumedha, rather than starting a career as an electric engineer, Kailash sat down with his soon-to-be wife, told her, I want to help free children from slavery.
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21/07/2021
“Like Gandhi in India, Mandela Has Become a Mere Myth in South Africa”[1]
Both Gandhi and Mandela came out of South Africa to make a difference in the world.
It is indeed ironic that South Africa is “celebrating” Mandela Day[2], on 18th July, marking the birthday of the great international icon, amid serious civil unrest, resulting in the deaths of 72 South Africans.[3]
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21/07/2021
By UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore*
NEW YORK, 19 July 2021(UNICEF)* – “As the official COVID-19 death toll around the world passed 4 million earlier this month, UNICEF is increasingly concerned for children left without one or both parents.
UNICEF/UNI394756/DejonghChildren working at a mine site in Burkina Faso
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21/07/2021
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 2021 (IPS)* – With Henrietta Fore’s decision last week to step down as UNICEF Executive Director, her successor is most likely to be another American since that post has been held– uninterruptedly — by US nationals for almost 74 years, an unprecedented all-time record for a high-ranking job in the UN system.
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore meets with students at the Roberto Suazo Córdoba School, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Credit: UNICEF/Bindra
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21/07/2021
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The study was led by Lucia Gatti, Group Leader, Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research /Center of Earth System Science and a member of the steering committee for the Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System spearheaded by WMO.
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21/07/2021
20 July 2021 (UNEP)* — For years it appeared as though Lake Turkana, which sits in an arid part of northern Kenya, was drying up.
UNEP/Duncan Moore / 19 Jul 2021
Its main river inflows had been muffled by dams and many feared water levels were poised to drop by two-thirds, causing the lake to cleave into two smaller bodies of water. It was, one report said, an African “Aral Sea disaster in the making” – where only 10 per cent remains of the original sea.
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