Archive for January 28th, 2022

28/01/2022

70,000 Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania, face Another Forceful Eviction

Human Wrongs Watch

26 January 2022 (IWGIA)* — According to reliable information received by Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania is currently planning the eviction of the Maasai Indigenous people from a 1,500 km2  area in their ancestral land located in the Loliondo Division of Ngorongoro District, Arusha Region, east of the Serengeti National Park.

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28/01/2022

2022 Intentional: Human Completeness

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

Now is the time for Americans to recognize the crucial need to treat and act more “human” to each other

Edward Hopper, Hotel By A Railroad, detail
Edward Hopper, Hotel By A Railroad, detail | Image from Wall Street International.

28 January 2022 (Wall Street International)* — Between the Covid-19 pandemic, racist actions, and the beginning of the racial reckoning, we thought we had confronted our worst societal issues in 2020. However, 2021 proved to be even more chaotic and scary.

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28/01/2022

A Special Adviser to Probe Racism and Discrimination at UN

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UN staff in New York. Credit: United Nations

“The diversity of our personnel is a source of profound richness. Yet I am fully aware and deeply concerned that colleagues have experienced the indignity, pain and consequences of workplace racism and racial discrimination. This is unacceptable,” says Guterres in a message to UN staffers January 25.

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28/01/2022

Nature Conservation Funding Must Triple Globally this Decade 

(UN News)* — G20 leading industrialized nations must embrace their role as influential leaders against climate change, by aligning development and economic recovery with international nature and climate goals, according to a new UN report, published on Thursday [27 January 2022].

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CIFOR/Axel Fassio | Woman plant peanuts in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In its joint report on finance for nature in the G20 countries, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Economic Forum (WEF)  and the Economics of Land Degradation Initiative, examined how wealthy nations can better support nature-based solutions (NbS).
28/01/2022

Food Insecurity Soaring across 20 Countries and Regions

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(UN News)* — Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions – “hunger hotspots”, where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at risk, UN agencies highlighted on Thursday [27 January 2022].

© UNOCHA/Michele Cattani | A young woman carries water in a camp for displaced people in Tillaberi region, Niger.
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According to the Hunger Hotspots Report from the World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen remain the countries of highest concern.
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According to the most recent assessments, all four countries had areas where people were experiencing, or projected to experience, starvation and death (IPC Phase 5), requiring the most urgent attention.
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