30 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — As the new year dawns, this is the perfect time to reset and rethink.
As you make your New Year’s resolutions, keep the environment in mind.
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30/12/2019
2019 Concludes a ‘Deadly Decade’ for Children in Conflict, with Three-Fold Rise in Verified Attacks on Children Since 2010, an Average of 45 Violations a Day
NEW YORK, 30 December 2019 (UNICEF)* – Children continue to pay a deadly price as conflicts rage around the world, UNICEF said today. Since the start of the decade, the UN has verified more than 170,000 grave violations against children in conflict – the equivalent of more than 45 violations every day for the last 10 years.
29/12/2019
Terrorism: A False Threat
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Is the threat of terrorism real? Or is it like the barking of a dog driving a herd? The threat of catastrophic climate change is very real indeed. The threat to future global food security is real too.
John Scales Avery
Already 11 million children die every year from malnutrition and poverty-related causes.
The threat to human civilization and the biosphere posed by a possible Third World War is real.
The threat of exhaustion of non-renewable resources and economic collapse is real.
The dangers associated with our unstable fractional reserve banking system are also real. Beside these all too real threats to our future, the threat of terrorism is vanishingly small.
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29/12/2019
Feng Shui – Chinese Art of Divination
Chinese art of divination (Image from Wall Street International).29/12/2019
For a Fairer Society for All: Need to Cut Child Mortality by a Third in Brazil, Reach Carbon Neutrality in Finland, Redirect Trillions of Dollars to Funds that Promote Sustainability, …
27 December 2019 — Cutting child mortality by a third in Brazil, reaching carbon neutrality in Finland and redirecting trillions of dollars of investment to funds that promote sustainability: these are some examples of initiatives from governments, civil society and the private sector, designed to speed up the UN’s goal of achieving a fairer society for all. (*).
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27/12/2019
2020 Is International Year of Plant Health
Human Wrongs Watch
26 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — Did you know that some tree species can only be germinated through the belly of an elephant? That’s just one example of how plants and animals (including humans) are intricately connected and cannot survive without all the bacteria and fungi that make for the heathy soils that plants need to prosper.
Photo by Ruben Rodrigues Olivares/EBD-CSIC
Plants are the source of the air we breathe and most of the food we eat, yet how to keep them healthy is often ignored. This can have devastating results: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that up to 40 per cent of food crops are lost due to plant pests and diseases annually.
27/12/2019
Climate Crisis and the 2020 US Elections – Trump and His Party Must Be Defeated
Human Wrongs Watch
26 December 2019 (Wall Street International)* — There are so many things wrong with Donald Trump that one hardly knows where to begin. He is a racist, habitual liar, tax evader, cruel cager of infants, misogynist, narcissist, bully, violator of numerous laws, both national and international, a friend of rich oligarchs and enemy of the poor, to mention only a few of his faults. He has made the United States resemble Germany, Italy or Spain in the 1930s, when fascism was on the rise.
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27/12/2019
Charcoal: A Burning Issue
27 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — Studies have identified charcoal production as one of the main drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in Zambia. The traditional methods of making charcoal lead to high carbon emissions and are a waste of wood resources.
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Photo by UN-REDD Programme
27/12/2019
FIRST PERSON: Feeling the Milliner’s Vibe
25 December 2019 — The International Labour Organization (ILO) is marking its centenary in 2019 and as part of the commemoration has launched a photography project called “Dignity at Work: The American Experience” to document the working life of people across the United States. UN News joined the ILO on a visit to the southern US state of Louisiana. (*).
ILO Photo/John Isaac | New Orleans-based Kai Bussant repairs and refurbishes hats.Kai Bussant is a fashion designer and milliner in New Orleans. She refurbishes hats at the Goorin Bros store. She has multiple jobs including styling and tailoring, and is about to launch her own fashion brand. She sold her first piece of clothing when she was at elementary school.
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26/12/2019
FROM THE FIELD: Preventing Ethiopia’s Trash from Going to Waste
24 December 2019 — The rehabilitation of a dumpsite in Ethiopia in which 116 people died following a landslide two years ago, has made the area safer for people working there thanks to support from the UN human settlements agency UN-Habitat. (*).
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