Archive for March 21st, 2022

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21/03/2022

Planet Earth into Planet Plastics

Human Wrongs Watch

By Joseph Chamie

PORTLAND, USA, Mar 21 2022 (IPS)* – Planet Earth is increasingly being transformed into planet Plastics. Approximately 400,000,000 metric tons of plastics are produced worldwide annually. Those plastics amount to about 50 kilograms, or 110 pounds, every year for each of the 8 billion human inhabitants living on the unfolding planet Plastics.
Plastic pollution: Approximately 400,000,000 metric tons of plastics are produced worldwide annually. Those plastics amount to about 50 kilograms, or 110 pounds, every year for each of the 8 billion human inhabitants living on the unfolding planet Plastics

Today, plastics are ubiquitous, pervading all aspects of human activity and invading all dimensions of the environment, with the result being the emergence of planet Plastics. Credit: Albert Oppong-Ansah/IPS.

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21/03/2022

Indonesia: Proposed Gold Mine Is ‘Recipe for Disaster’ amid Repression of Indigenous Papuans

Human Wrongs Watch

By Amnesty International*

Indonesian authorities should immediately halt plans to develop a sprawling gold mine the size of the city of Jakarta in volatile Papua Province, where it risks fueling conflict and violating the land rights of Indigenous Papuans, Amnesty International said in a new briefing published on 21 March 2022.

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Papua protest©Private

Intan Jaya Regency, where the gold ore deposit known as Wabu Block is located, has become a hotspot of conflict between Indonesian security forces and Papuan independence groups in recent years.

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21/03/2022

Funds Needed to Help Afghanistan, One of the Highest Maternal Mortality Rates in the Asia and Pacific

Human Wrongs Watch

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, 17 March 2022  (UNFPA)* – “I had a miscarriage and my two-year-old daughter got sick,” Anisa* recalled after her local health facility stopped providing maternal and newborn health services. “We both needed medical care, but we did not know where to go.”

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More than $250 million needed to sustain humanitarian response for women and girls in Afghanistan
Internally displaced persons on their way to seek free medical services from a mobile health team in Kandahar. From August to December 2021, UNFPA-supported mobile health teams reached more than 33,000 people with sexual and reproductive health services. © UNFPA Afghanistan

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