05/03/2022
(UN News)* — On World Obesity Day, marked on Friday [4 March 2022], the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to do more to reverse what is a preventable health crisis.
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© UNICEF/Arimacs Wilander | A street vendor sells fried food from his stall in Jakarta, Indonesia.
According to recent data, more than one billion people worldwide are obese, including 650 million adults, 340 million adolescents and 39 million children.
With the numbers still increasing, WHO estimates that by 2025, approximately 167 million people will become less healthy because they are overweight or obese.
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05/03/2022
(UN News)* — Global food prices reached an all-time high in February, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday [4 March 2022].
Unsplash/Jo-Anne McArthur | Dairy cows in Taiwan.
The Food Price Index, which tracks the international prices of a items such as vegetable oils and dairy products, averaged 140.7 points last month, or nearly four per cent up from January.
This is also 24.1 per cent over the level a year earlier and 3.1 points higher than in February 2011.
“Concerns over crop conditions and adequate export availabilities explain only a part of the current global food price increases. A much bigger push for food price inflation comes from outside food production, particularly the energy, fertilizer and feed sectors,” said FAO economist Upali Galketi Aratchilage.
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04/03/2022
(UN News)*— In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global rates of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25 per cent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday [2 March 2022].
© UNICEF | Loneliness exacerbated by COVID-19 restrictions has increased depression and anxiety rates.
Findings in the UN health agency’s new report suggest that the greatest deterioration in mental health took place in the areas worst-hit by COVID-19 -where infections were high and social interaction was restricted.
“The information we have now about the impact of COVID-19 on the world’s mental health is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
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04/03/2022
Unsplash/Galen Crout | Under Canada’s Indian Act, the federal Government maintains that indigenous people must have “status Indian” registration as for access to rights and benefits.
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03/03/2022
Nairobi (UNEP)* – Heads of State, Ministers of environment and other representatives from 175 nations endorsed a historic resolution at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) on 2 March 2022 in Nairobi to
End Plastic Pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024.
The resolution addresses the full lifecycle of plastic, including its production, design and disposal.
“Against the backdrop of geopolitical turmoil, the UN Environment Assembly shows multilateral cooperation at its best,” said the President of UNEA-5 and Norway’s Minister for Climate and the Environment, Espen Barth Eide. “Plastic pollution has grown into an epidemic. With today’s resolution we are officially on track for a cure.”
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03/03/2022
Reducing antimicrobial waste is critical to combatting rising levels of drug resistance and protecting the environment
Antimicrobial drug waste is polluting the environment. ©WHO / Diego Rodriguez
Geneva/Nairobi/Paris/Rome (FAO)* – The Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance on 2 MARCH 2022 called on all countries to reduce the amount of antimicrobial waste entering the environment.
This includes researching and implementing measures to safely dispose of antimicrobial waste from food, human health and animal health systems, and manufacturing facilities.
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03/03/2022
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Illegal wildlife trade continues to pose a real danger to biodiversity, ecosystems and human health, as a number of emerging diseases stem from animal products, both domestic and wild. Credit: AWF wildlife archive
Right now, one million wild plant and animal species are facing extinction. And three-quarters of the land-based environment, eighty-five percent of wetlands, and two-thirds of oceans have been significantly and negatively altered by human activity.
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02/03/2022
CANBERRA, Australia , Feb 28 2022 (IPS)* – Oceans play a pivotal role in regulating the world’s climate and maintaining the conditions for human life on earth. And they are a crucial source of sustenance and economic wellbeing in many developing countries, including small island developing states.
Pacific Islanders depend on coastal fisheries for food and commercial livelihoods. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS
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02/03/2022
(UN News)* — The world must be made a safer place for people working to protect the planet, who sometimes pay with their own lives for their activism, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday [1 March 2022].
© UNICEF/Alécio Cézar | Poyowari Piyãko, a young activist, poses in his home in the Apiwtxa village, which belongs to the Ashaninka indigenous people, in northern Brazil.
“Protecting the environment goes hand-in-hand with protecting the rights of those who defend it,”she told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, which is holding its annual month-long session.
Dangers of speaking out
Ms. Bachelet revealed how speaking out and standing up for environmental rights can come at enormous cost as activists have been killed or subjected to abuse, threats and harassment.
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