26/08/2019
26 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* — On a Tuesday morning in a local African American community, cars line the streets. This group of “food insecure” (being without reliable access to sufficient quantity of affordable and nutritious food) Americans, the food patrons, are not black but whites from across the community.
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In the United States, more than half of the hungry households are white. While blacks and Latinos are disproportionately poor — 27% black, 25% Latino — most poor people in the United States are white.
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26/08/2019
Adba Saleh Mubarak is a Yemeni farmer from the Sana’a governorate. She contracted cholera from poorly treated wastewater. The treatment facilities in this area are not sufficient. However, with water so scarce in the region, farmers often have no choice but to use contaminated water. ©FAO
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26/08/2019
A surge in “deliberate” attacks against students, teachers and schools in West and Central Africa has led to a tripling in school closures in the last year and left almost two million youngsters “robbed of an education”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 23 August 2019 said.
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©UNICEF | Children take part in an emergency attack simulation, at a primary school in Dori, Burkina Faso in 26 June 2019.
In a new report detailing threats of violence against schools across the region and issues as a ‘Child Alert’, the UN agency warned that a generation of children risks being denied the right to learn.
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24/08/2019
23 August 2019 (UN Environment)* — Tree planting is capturing the minds of those who look for fast climate action. Earlier this month, the Ethiopian Government announced a new world record: thousands of volunteers planted 353 million trees in one single day.
This came shortly after a team of scientists identified suitable places in the world where up to 1 trillion new trees could be planted. Such a massive effort could absorb about 20 years’ worth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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24/08/2019
By Inger Andersen*
23 August 2019 (UN Enviroment)* — The ongoing fires in the Amazon rainforest are a harsh reminder of the environmental crises facing the world – of climate, of biodiversity and of pollution.
The ongoing fires in the Amazon rainforest are a harsh reminder of the environmental crises facing the world – of climate, of biodiversity and of pollution.
We cannot afford more damage to this precious natural resource, which is home to 33 million people – including 420 indigenous communities -, 40,000 plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species and more than 370 types of reptiles.
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24/08/2019
Forests do more for us than we realize. They clean our water and filter our air, and they provide food, medicine and fuel for more than a billion people worldwide. ©PhotoSky/shutterstock.com (Photo posted here from FAO).
For too long we have seen trees as purely functional or ornamental, objects in the backdrop or on the sideline. They decorate city streets. They give us shady spots for resting and relief from the sun. They provide us with paper and fuel, fruit and nuts. These benefits are fairly obvious.
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23/08/2019
23 August 2019 (UN Environment)* — The multipurpose rosewood tree is famed for its beautiful smelling and sturdy ruby-colored wood used in the manufacture of furniture, walking canes, boats, musical instruments, agricultural tools and religious artefacts.
Photo by Wikimedia Commons
The tree species, whose name is a generic one for several dark-red hardwood species found in tropical regions across the globe, fetches very high prices because it’s strong, heavy, has a beautiful red hue and takes well to polishing.
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23/08/2019
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 23 August 2019 — Something is causing the worlds glaciers and mountain ice fields to melt. And, despite your first thought, it is not the ongoing climate catastrophe.
It does not matter where on Earth the glaciers and mountain ice fields are located, they are all melting. Moreover, the projected timeframe for some of them to disappear altogether is ‘imminently’; that is, within years.
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23/08/2019
21 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* — The theocratic revolution of 1978 led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini which ended the monarchy and dictatorship of the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, had several consequences on the political map of the Middle East.
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We must not forget that the United Kingdom and the United States were great allies of Iran and of Pahlavi.
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22/08/2019
The United Nations announced on Wednesday [21 August 2019] that it is being forced to close down several humanitarian programmes in Yemen because money pledged by Member States to pay for them has “failed to materialize”.
OCHA/Giles Clarke | This baby boy weighed 2.5 kg when he was born in Yemen. Now at four months old he suffers from severe acute malnutrition. (file)
“We are desperate for the funds that were promised,” said Lise Grande, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen. “When money doesn’t come, people die.”
At a pledging event for Yemen held in February, the UN and humanitarian partners were promised $2.6 billion to meet the urgent needs of more than 20 million Yemenis. To date, less than half of this amount has been received.
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