Archive for June 30th, 2024

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30/06/2024

5 Facts about Food Waste and Hunger

Human Wrongs Watch

By World Food Programme (WFP)*

The shocking cost of poor storage in the farms of developing countries — and careless shopping in rich ones.
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Cambodian woman smiles as she drives a motorbike loaded with green leafy vegetables
Sourcing school meals ingredients from local farmers like this one in Cambodia can help reduce food waste. Photo: WFP/Samantha Reinders

– Global hunger isn’t about a lack of food. Right now, the world produces enough food to nourish every child, woman and man on the planet.

But nearly a fifth of all food produced each year is squandered or lost before it can be consumed.

In many rich countries, this food waste happens in the kitchen — when we prepare foods that go uneaten, or leave food to spoil in fridges and kitchen cabinets.

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30/06/2024

UN Refugee Agency Sounds the Alarm on Climate Change Pounding Refugee Communities

Human Wrongs Watch

This is a summary of what was said by Andrew Harper, UNHCR Special Advisor on Climate Action – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

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An area of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, once home to refugee families, that was devastated by unprecedented floods last month. © UNHCR/Ricardo Ara

28 June 2024 (UNHCR)* — Devastating extreme weather events and natural disasters are shattering many refugee and other displaced communities worldwide, worsening their plight and in some cases forcing them to move onwards and start from zero once again.

This is what UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has observed with a series of catastrophic floods, earthquakes, cyclones, storms and heatwaves afflicting refugee and internal displacement settings in Africa, the AmericasLink is external, Asia and beyond.

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30/06/2024

Haiti: Longing to Live Again, amid Trauma of Displacement

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Two women from the troubled Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince have shared their traumatic experiences of rape, contracting HIV, and despairing thoughts of suicide, after multiple forced displacements amid widespread gang violence. 

Barricades preventing the flow of traffic are regularly erected in Port-au-Prince
© UNOCHA/Giles Clarke | Barricades preventing the flow of traffic are regularly erected in Port-au-Prince

Displacements in this Caribbean country have reached record levels, with nearly 600,000 people forced to leave their homes this year – double the number from last year. This makes Haiti the country with the highest number of displacements due to violence.

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