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27/04/2022
Our Use of Sand Brings Us “Up against the Wall”
Human Wrongs Watch
Geneva, 26 April 2022 (UNEP)* – 50 billion tons: enough to build a wall 27 metres wide and 27 metres high around planet Earth. This is the volume of sand and gravel used each year, making it the second most used resource worldwide after water.
Given our dependency on it, sand must be recognised as a strategic resource and its extraction and use needs to be rethought, finds a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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27/04/2022
Lebanon’s Food Crisis Will Get Worse
Human Wrongs Watch
In Lebanon, the impact of the Beirut port blasts, a rapidly weakening local currency and the effects of COVID-19 have sent more people into poverty. Nine out of 10 Syrian refugee families in Lebanon are now living in extreme poverty. Credit: World Food Programme (WFP)
Now, tiny Lebanon, all too familiar with the ripple effects of global conflicts, has been almost completely cut off from its staple food— wheat — which was almost entirely supplied by Russia and Ukraine before the conflict.
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27/04/2022
Syria Is “a Hot Conflict, Not a Frozen One” – World Should Not Lose Focus on It
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Although the war in Syria may not be making headlines lately, the international community must remain focused on achieving a comprehensive political solution to the conflict, UN Envoy for the country, Geir Pedersen, said on Tuesday [26 April 2022] in his latest briefing to the Security Council in New York.
Recalling that Syria is “a hot conflict, not a frozen one”, he listed some of the threats resulting from the war, including an uptick in airstrikes, intensified clashes in the northeast, “regular incidents between or involving international actors”, as well as terrorism.
“My message today is simple: focus on Syria”, said Mr. Pedersen, speaking from Geneva.
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