(UN Environment)* — The year 2020 has seen the world grapple with an unprecedented global pandemic as the climate crisis looms on.
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08/09/2020
Escalating Oil and Gas Exploration Game
African oil in Bunyoro-Kitara | Image from Wall Street International.
7 September 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The African continent is home to five of the top 30 oil-producing countries in the world, which means it accounted for more than 7.9 million barrels per day in 2019 (about 9.6% of world output).
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08/09/2020
World Risks Losing Entire Generation of Children, Nobel Laureates Warns
Human Wrongs Watch
– The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of millions of people worldwide, accounted for over 869,000 deaths, destabilised the global economy and triggered a marked rise in poverty and hunger in the developing world.
Kailash Satyarthi, founder of Laureates and Leaders for Children and 2014 Nobel Peace Laureate, says the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the deep inequalities faced by the poorest families. Courtesy: Marcel Crozet / ILO
But the fallout from one of the most devastating consequences of the spreading virus is on the lives of a growing new generation: children.
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18/08/2020
From the Field: Protection among the Mangroves
17 August 2020 (UN News)* — The rehabilitation and replanting of mangrove forests in Cuba’s coastal regions is helping to protect the lives of people living on the Caribbean island, and reduce the effects of climate change, thanks to a UN Development Programme project.
16/08/2020
Reversal
Human Wrongs Watch
By Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service*
With survival at stake, can weapon makers change course?
Today [6 August], the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer morning following the U.S. 2003 “Shock and Awe” invasion of Iraq when the segment of the Chicago River flowing past the headquarters of the world’s second largest defense contractor, Boeing, turned the rich, red color of blood.
Another Mother for Peace, Lorraine Schneider, 1966
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16/08/2020
If Trump Delivers His Last Hurrah to an Empty United Nations, Will it Still Make a Sound?
Human Wrongs Watch
– There is no love lost between the United Nations and US President Donald Trump.
A General Assembly session in a locked down United Nations.
When he addressed the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly in September 2018, Trump falsely told delegates that “in less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country”
The misleading statement triggered loud laughter from world leaders and delegates from 192 countries—perhaps with the sole exception of the US delegation which, not surprisingly, stayed mum.
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16/08/2020
Triple Whammy in the Sahel
Human Wrongs Watch
By Hilde F. Johnson, Norway’s Former Minister of International Development*
The region has been in an escalating crisis since 2013
Sahel is at a crossroads | Image from Wall Street International.
15 August 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Sahel is at a crossroads. The region has been in an escalating crisis since 2013. A triple whammy of terrorist attacks, COVID-19 and political tensions can now push the region over the brink. Mali is at the heart of it all. It may have dramatic consequences.
Years ago, I wandered in the sandy streets of Timbuktu in Mali, looking at the ancient buildings with awe. The famous town bordering the desert, associated with Bedouins and adventurers was once the centre not only of the Sahel, but of the communications between the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Africa.
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15/08/2020
‘Interception at Sea Is Not the Solution’ to Address Migrants Crossing the English Channel
Refugees and migrants arrive in port aboard a Border Force vessel after being intercepted while crossing the English Channel from France in small boats on August 11, 2020 in Dover, England. © Leon Neal/Getty Images/AFP*
Although increasing numbers of people have been crossing the Channel by boat this summer, the numbers remain low and manageable. People forced by wars and persecution to flee their homes and people on the move frequently embark on risky journeys in many parts of the world.
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15/08/2020
Millions ‘On the Edge’ in DR Congo, Now in Even Greater Danger of Tipping Over: Word Food Programme
14 August 2020 (UN News)* — Millions of lives could be lost to hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid escalating conflict and worsening COVID-19 transmission, the UN emergency food relief agency has warned, urging the international community to step up support for the African nation.
According to the World Food Programme (WFP), latest national data shows that about four in ten people in the DRC are food insecure, with some 15.6 million suffering “crisis” or “emergency” levels of hunger. “So many Congolese are on the edge, and in even greater danger now of being tipped over the edge”, said Claude Jibidar, the head of WFP operations in the country.
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