Archive for July 18th, 2023

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18/07/2023

The ‘Unprincipled and Devastating Impact of Extractive Industries on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Indigenous Peoples have the ancestral wisdom to guide humanity towards a more sustainable use of the Earth’s resources, yet they are systematically discriminated against and excluded, UN rights chief Volker Türk warned on Monday [17 July 2023]. 

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© UNDP Peru | Indigenous communities in Peru are growing organic coffee to boost their livelihoods.

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He was speaking in Geneva at the annual meeting on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, referencing in-depth conversations he had had in recent months with Indigenous representatives during missions to Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Kenya.

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18/07/2023

Funding Cuts Force WFP to Slash Food Assistance as One-in-Two Haitians Go Hungry

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 17 July 2023 (WFP)* – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to cut the number of people receiving emergency food assistance in Haiti by 25 percent in July, compared to the previous month, due to dwindling funding levels. Tragically, this means 100,000 of the most vulnerable Haitians are forced to get by without any WFP support this month.
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People wait to redeem vouchers at a WFP food distribution point in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince. Photo: WFP/Peyvand Khorsandi
People wait to redeem food vouchers at a WFP distribution point in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince. Photo: WFP/Peyvand Khorsandi

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