Today, scientists sounded another alarm on the impacts of the climate breakdown: the Arctic sea ice minimum has reached its 2nd lowest level since measurements began.
22 September 2020 (WMO)* — Arctic sea ice – a key climate change indicator – has reached its annual minimum extent after the summer melt season. It was the second lowest extent only after the record low observed in 2012.
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The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced that on 15 September, sea ice extent was 3.74 million square kilometers (1.44 million square miles).
22 September 2020 (FAO)* — When we go about our daily routines, most of us are unaware that beneath our feet lies an outstandingly diverse community of plants, animals and microbes that makes up our soils.
22 September 2020 (UN News)* — Worsening conflict, combined with a precarious humanitarian situation, has forced more than 300,000 people to flee their homes and villages in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, leaving them completely reliant on humanitarian assistance, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Affected communities receive WFP food relief in Nacate village, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique.
MPIGI/MUKONO/KAMPALA, Uganda , Sep 21 2020 (IPS)* – About 40 kilometres out of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, in the Mpigi area, you can find an entire village hill with houses that have plastic bottles walls and car tyre rooftops.
(UN News)* — The international community “should not be neutral” on enforced disappearance, independent UN human rights experts said on Monday [21 September 2020], calling for countries to strengthen cooperation in investigating and prosecuting perpetrators.
UN Photo/Mark Garten | Visitors throw white flowers into Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires out of respect and remembrance for the tens of thousands of people who disappeared during Argentina’s so-called “Dirty War”.
In Coleraine, Derry, Northern Ireland, at an event going viral focusing on conflict textiles depicting the costs of war.
Many thanks for your kind invitation to send a message of Peace on the International Day of Peace. I am sorry I cannot be with you in person as I would have liked to greet you all, but please know that I am with you in spirit, wherever you are today.
21 September 2020 (United Nations)* — This year, it has been clearer than ever that we are not each other’s enemies. Rather, our common enemy is a tireless virus that threatens our health, security and very way of life. COVID-19 has thrown our world into turmoil and forcibly reminded us that what happens in one part of the planet can impact people everywhere.
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PHOTO:UN Photo/Marco Dormino | Members of the audience at a performance put on by a communal youth theatre project to promote peace and reconciliation in Gao, Mali (2014). UN Photo/Marco Dormino
By Catherine Wachiaya in Nairobi, Kenya and Yonna Tukundane in Nakivale, Uganda*
Congolese rights activist Sabuni Francoise Chikunda is the regional winner for Africa for the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award for her work with fellow refugees in Uganda. | Français
The footage is slightly shaky, but what you see is as bright and clear as on the day it took place. On a large ship deck lies a coffin, wrapped in an orange bag being blessed with incense. After a short prayer, the coffin is pushed off deck and sinks into the deep ocean.
Congolese rights activist Sabuni Francoise Chikunda is the Nansen Refugee Award regional winner for Africa. © UNHCR/Esther Ruth Mbabazi
