(United Nations)* — The UN General Assembly designated 22 April as International Mother Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2009, joining civic groups that celebrated Earth Day earlier..
Roughly 20,000 elephants are killed each year in Africa. UNEP, together with other United Nations agencies and institutions works to enforce laws to stop the illegal trade in wildlife.
In fact, the original roots go back to 1970 with the first American protests against air pollution due to amounts of leaded gas through massive and inefficient automobiles and irresponsible industries.
Environmental protection was not a priority of the political agenda.
(Greenpeace International)* — When I think of the forest, I remember playing in it. We would build huts of sticks and moss, and vehicles from bamboo trees. Getting lost in the forest was a real adventure. We used to turn the forest into a navigation game. We could get a sense of orientation without a compass or a GPS.
Qatari authorities rounded up and expelled dozens of migrant workers after telling them they were being taken to be tested for COVID-19, Amnesty International has learned.
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The organization interviewed 20 men from Nepal who were apprehended by Qatari police, alongside hundreds of others, in March.
The police told most of the men that they were going to be tested for COVID-19 and would be returned to their accommodation afterwards. Instead, they were taken to detention centres and held in appalling conditions for several days, before being sent to Nepal.
April 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Everything seems to be always in a process of mixing ingredients and the generation of an intermediate or perhaps final product. An evolution.
In the processes of synthesis, dilution, or amalgamation, two or several factors or elements combine and achieve a different state of being together, in accordance with the energies that each brings to the process. During the combination moment all is very unstable and unsettled.
NEW YORK, Apr 17 2020 (IPS)* – The current financial crisis, triggered as a result of withholding or delaying payment of assessed contributions by Member States, is nothing new to the United Nations.
Security Council Members Hold Open videoconference meeting in a locked down UN building. Credit: United Nations
Geneva, 17 April 2020 (IOM)* – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expresses grave concerns for the fate of hundreds of migrants returned to Libya by the coast guard this year who are now unaccounted for.
IOM Libya staff last week provided food and water to hundreds of migrants returned to Tripoli by the coast guard. Photo: IOM/2020
17 April 2020 (UN News)* — The UN human rights office (OHCHR), is calling for compassion for people desperately seeking shelter, after 30 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar died on a boat in the Bay of Bengal that had spent nearly two months at sea.
IOM/Mohammed | Rohingya refugees fleeing conflict and persecution in Myanmar (file photo).
COVID-19 cases are rising daily amid the dense vegetation of the world’s largest rainforest and triggering a growing sense of fear for survival.With their population now at around 900,000, the coronavirus has reawakened fears of extermination. | Photo: EFE
17 April 2020 (teleSUR)* — Deforestation, fires, land invasions, and now the coronavirus – Indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon are isolating themselves from the pandemic in remote jungle areas to dodge a health crisis that has already claimed its first lives in their communities.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. (Henry David Thoreau)
16 April 2020 (Wall Street International)* — At the time of this writing, the world is trying desperately, and in some levels, chaotically, fighting an incomprehensible contagion, the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
According to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the largest exporters of arms during the past five years were the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China. The new data shows that the flow of arms to the Middle East has increased, with Saudi Arabia clearly being the world’s largest importer.
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