28/06/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 27 2019 (IPS) – Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was deliberately killed at the hands of state actors and journalists around the world are increasingly seeing the same fate, said a United Nations expert.
United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard determined that Saudi Arabia is “responsible” for the “extrajudicial” murder of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi. Courtesy: United Nations Photo/Manuel Elias.
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28/06/2019
UNICEF convenes sanitation stakeholders to strengthen regional and local markets for equitable access for children and their families
NAIROBI, 25 June 2019 (UNICEF)* – Despite progress towards ensuring basic sanitation services for all, access still eludes many. According to recent estimates, over half of the global population – or 4.2 billion people across the world – lack safe sanitation, 701 million use unimproved facilities, and 673 million people practice open defecation.
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28/06/2019
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This moderate level of food insecurity can contribute to various forms of malnutrition and can have serious consequences for health and well-being.
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27/06/2019
25 June 2019 — While women’s rights have advanced over the decades, gender inequalities and other fundamental human rights violations within families persist, according to a flagship study released on Tuesday, from the UN’s gender empowerment agency.
UN Women/Mariken Harbitz | Changing families give rise to needed policy changes. Sao Mimol kisses her partner in Cambodia during an LGBT Pride event.
UN Women’s new report, “Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World”, shows that families, in all their diversity, “can be critical drivers of gender equality, provided decision-makers deliver policies rooted in the reality of how people live today, with women’s rights at their core”, said UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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27/06/2019
27 June 2019 (UN Environment)* — The Artic landscape is changing at an unprecedented pace: in Sweden, entire towns and villages, houses half sunken into the ground, are being moved to more stable ground, as the permafrost they had been built on shifts and melts.
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**Thermokarst, Pokhodsk, Russia. Photo by Hans Joosten
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In the Canadian north, suitable houses have become so rare that apartment prices have skyrocketed, triggering a housing crisis. All around the Arctic, homes lay abandoned, the damage too severe. Roads and other vital infrastructure are at risk, too.
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27/06/2019
UNAMA/Eric Kanalstein | On the outskirts of Kabul, the Afghan Ministries of the Interior and Counter-Narcotics burned more than 20 tons of illicit drugs and alcohol.
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The study from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (
UNODC), also shows that the negative health consequences associated with drugs are more severe and widespread than previously thought, with around 35 million people suffering from drug use disorders and requiring treatment services.
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26/06/2019
New FAO study urges smarter use of small pelagic species to bolster both food security and sustainable ecosystems
Usipa in Malawi.
ROME 25 June, 2019 (FAO)* – Small freshwater fish around Africa offer a large and underrecognized opportunity to boost food and nutrition security, according to a new FAO working paper investigating an array of species and related livelihoods that too often are undervalued.
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26/06/2019
Climate change “threatens to undo the last 50 years” of development, global health and poverty reduction, a United Nations expert said on Tuesday [25 June 2019], citing the risk of a new era of “climate apartheid” where the rich buy their way out of rising heat and hunger.
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UNICEF/Wikus De Wet | Two young men walk in the flooded Shibaburi area of Pemba after heavy rains poured down in the Pemba region of Mozambique (April 2019).
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26/06/2019
Many of the world’s 25 million refugees are confronted with the prospect of a life in limbo. They are unable to go back to their own country because of continued persecution or violence there. They do not have the option of becoming citizens in the state that has offered them asylum. And they are unable to move on to another country because they lack the passports and visas that would allow them to do so.
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26/06/2019
Nairobi/Victoria Falls, 25 June 2019 (UN Environment)* –– Community representatives participating in Africa’s first Wildlife Economy Summit this week in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, have called on African Governments, the private sector and international organizations to recognize the integral role of communities in the ownership, management and conservation of the natural resources that drive the continent’s wildlife economy.
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Communities step up to claim their rightful place in Africa’s wildlife economy. IanZA/Pixabay |from UN Environment
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