6 June 2019 — An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, 23 million of them before the age of 15, according to the first-ever analysis on child grooms, launched on Friday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).*
06/06/2019
Every Year, 1 in 10 People Worldwide (Some 600 Million) Fall Ill; 420,000 Die after Eating Contaminated Food – World Food Safety Day
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Food safety is everyone’s responsibility and therefore everyone’s business. 5 steps we all must take to ensure our food is safe.
Food safety is everyone’s business. The first World Food Safety Day will be marked on Friday 7 June, 2019.
ROME, 6 June 2019 (FAO)* – The first ever celebration of the United Nations World Food Safety Day, to be marked globally on 7 June, aims to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe.
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06/06/2019
World Bank Downgrades Global Growth Forecasts, Poorest Countries Hardest Hit
The World Bank has lowered its expectations of global economic growth for this year in a new report. It says that, although the picture for poorer countries is expected to stabilize in 2020, economic momentum remains weak.
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The risks to emerging and developing economies include rising trade barriers, slow investment, and economic slowdowns in richer countries.
06/06/2019
World’s Displacement Crises Worsened by Lack of Funds, Political Will or Media Attention
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– The world’s 10 most displacement crises—rendering millions of people homeless– have continued to worsen due either to political neglect, a shortage of funds or lack of media attention, according to a new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland visited Buea in South West in Cameroon Tuesday 23 April. There he met with a group of women who have been displaced by the mounting crisis in the Anglophone parts of Cameroon.
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06/06/2019
Meanwhile, Around the World
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By Johan Galtung and Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service
An in-depth dialogue between the founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University and the founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS
Image by Andrew Neel/Unsplah
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Antonio: I have a question dear Johan. I see the world going to hell literally and figuratively.
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06/06/2019
Keeping Morocco’s Indigenous Culture and Conservation in Balance
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5 June 2019 — The delicate balance between indigenous farming practices and conservation in Morocco is under threat, but according to the UN, local communities in the Western High Atlas Mountains are finding ways to preserve traditions and still make a living from the land.
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06/06/2019
UN ‘Financial Crisis’ Has Been Years in the Making and Is Undermining Its Mandates and Reform Efforts’ – Guterres Proposes Solutions
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The UN’s financial crisis has been years in the making and is undermining the organization’s mandates and reform efforts, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Fifth Committee, the body responsible for the United Nations budget, on Tuesday.[5 June 2019].
05/06/2019
‘We Must Do More to Speed Up Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies’
Human Wrongs Watch
— Fossil fuels—oil, gas, coal and their derivatives—pollute the atmosphere and emit the greenhouse gases that are ramping up global heating to dangerous levels. But did you know that governments around the world are subsidizing this pollution?
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05/06/2019
Air Pollution, Responsible for Up to 1 in 5 Premature Deaths in 19 Western Balkan Cities
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 4 June 2019 (World Environment Day)* – Air pollution is directly responsible for up to one in five premature deaths in 19 Western Balkan cities, suggest preliminary results from a report led by UN Environment.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Photo by Natalya Letunova/Unspalsh
05/06/2019
Glaciers Are Melting and Air Pollution Is the Cause
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4 June 2019 (UN Environment)* — Deep inside the layers of ice sitting atop the Andes Mountains in Peru is evidence of the earliest human-caused air pollution. Within the core of the 1,200-year-old Quelccaya Ice Cap, scientists have found traces of lead and mercury, the chemicals used after the Spanish occupation, in the silver mines of Potosi, Bolivia.
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Photo by Willian Justen de Vasconcellos/Unsplash
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