Credits: WHO/Yoshi Shimizu
Ahead of World Hepatitis Day 2019 (28 July), WHO calls on countries to take advantage of recent reductions in the costs of diagnosing and treating viral hepatitis and scale up investments in disease elimination.
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26/07/2019
Mangrove Conservation More Valuable than Ever Thanks to Carbon Trading
Photo by GRID-Arendal (from UN Environment).
26/07/2019
Desert Locust Outbreaks in Yemen and the Horn of Africa
Human Wrongs Watch
ROME (FAO)* – Desert Locust summer breeding, amplified by heavy rains, can pose a serious threat to agricultural production areas of Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia and northern Somalia during the next three months, FAO on 25 July 2019 warned.
25/07/2019
‘Deadly Environment’ Plus ‘Political and Social’ Obstacles Hinder Ebola Fight in DR Congo, UN Special Representative to Security
Human Wrongs Watch
The problems of eradicating Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are not only medical, but also linked “to a variety of political and social factors”, the head of the UN mission in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday [24 July 2019]*
25/07/2019
The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
Human Wrongs Watch
The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication “Illuminating Inequalities” released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.*
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25/07/2019
There Are Already More obese than Hungry People,” FAO Chief at the Inauguration of the World Sustainable Urban Food Centre
Human Wrongs Watch
22 July 2019, Valencia (Spain) – FAO‘s Director-General José Graziano da Silva urged cities around the world today to redouble their efforts to promote healthier and more sustainable urban diets and food systems to tackle the increasing levels of overweight and obesity.*
Photo from FAO.
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25/07/2019
Privatization Increases Corruption
Human Wrongs Watch
– International financial institutions (IFIs) have typically imposed wide-ranging policy reforms – called ‘conditionalities’ – in exchange for country governments to secure access to financial assistance.
While IFIs may demand anti-corruption policies, other IFI policy conditionalities, such as the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), can create new rentier opportunities, undermining government will and capacity to curb corruption.
IMF cure worse than disease?
Statistical analysis of International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionalities on 141 developing countries from 1982 to 2014 has found that requiring privatization of SOEs has undermined anti-corruption efforts.
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25/07/2019
Switzerland Is the ‘Most Innovative Country’, Followed by Sweden, US, Netherlands and UK – World Intellectual Property Organization
Human Wrongs Watch
The World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, named Switzerland as the world’s most innovative country on Wednesday [24 July 2019], during the launch of its latest Global Innovation Index, (GII) in the Indian capital New Delhi.
23/07/2019
UN Youth Envoy Launches Coding Competition to Help Solve Climate Crisis and ‘Reboot the Earth’
Human Wrongs Watch
22 July 2019 — Can young coders help solve the climate crisis? The UN’s Youth Envoy launched a global competition earlier this month, “Reboot The Earth”, in collaboration with the Office of Information & Communications Technology, to try and answer that question, fostering collaboration between the United Nations, academia, civil society, and young people to address the climate emergency.
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