07/05/2019
5 May 2019 (UN Environment)* — A carpet of algae, floating dead fish for as far as the eye can see, a stench so powerful it irritates the lungs and stings the eyes… these are some of the effects of algal blooms, caused by ocean eutrophication, a deadly phenomenon for aquatic ecosystems.
Eutrophication happens when excessive nutrients from agricultural, industrial and urban wastes enter the seas, leading to serious disruption of marine ecosystems, damage to vital sea habitats and the spread of harmful algal blooms, commonly known as red tides.
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06/05/2019
A hard-hitting report into the impact of humans on nature shows that nearly one million species risk becoming extinct within decades, while current efforts to conserve the earth’s resources will likely fail without radical action, UN biodiversity experts said on Monday [6 May 2019].
UNDP Ecuador | Splendid Leaf Frog, Ecuador. (19 January 2015)
Speaking in Paris at the launch of the Global Assessment study – the first such report since 2005 – UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said that its findings put the world “on notice”.
“Following the adoption of this historic report, no one will be able to claim that they did not know,” the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said. “We can no longer continue to destroy the diversity of life. This is our responsibility towards future generations.”
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06/05/2019
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 3 May 2019 (UNFPA)* – Twenty-five years ago, the world was transforming. South Africa held its first multiracial elections, electing Nelson Mandela as President. Sweden began to allow the registration of same-sex partnerships. It was the dawn of the Internet age.
It’s not your mother’s motherhood. © UNFPA/Bruno Feder
And it was the start of a new global consensus on sexual and reproductive health – one that aimed to empower women and communities to determine their own futures.
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06/05/2019
Why are midwives important? What impact have they had on mothers’ and babies’ health? As the United Nations celebrates midwives across the world on Sunday [5 May 2019], here are five things you should know about the critical role they play in communities.
UNICEF/Vishwanathan | An Auxiliary Nurse Midwife performs critical ante-natal services in Shrawasti, India.
1. Midwives save millions of lives each year
The world has seen a steady decline in maternal and newborn deaths since 1990, in large part because more women are receiving skilled midwifery care: from 67 per cent in 2010 to 79 per cent in 2017.
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06/05/2019
5 May 2019 – The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, is following with “deep concern” the latest developments across the Gaza-Israeli border and urges all parties to exercise maximum restraint.
Over the weekend, hundreds of rockets were launched from the Occupied Palestinian Territory into southern Israel, and Israel retaliated with hundreds of airstrikes and tank fire.
According to news reports, several women, children and men on both have been killed and injured as a result of the violence.
Deploring the “risk of yet another dangerous escalation and further loss of life on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan,” on Sunday [5 May 2019], the UN chief condemned “in the strongest terms the launching of rockets from Gaza into Israel, particularly the targeting of civilian population centres”.
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05/05/2019
3 May 2019 (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)* — As diplomats from all over the world meet to discuss nuclear disarmament at the 2019 NPT Preparatory Committee, President Trump and President Putin are reported to have discussed nuclear weapons and a new arms-control agreement that extends to China during a phone call on Friday [3 May 2019].
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05/05/2019
YAKAWLANG/SANGTAKHAT, Afghanistan, 3May 2019 (UNFPA)* – Midwives serve in some of the most remote health posts in the world, saving the lives of women and babies in settings that are often harsh and resource-poor.
Najiba works in one of the hardest-to-reach, poorest areas of Bamyan. © UNFPA Afghanistan
And their work can require them to confront attitudes that harm women’s health and demean their status and value.
This courageous work is being celebrated on 5 May, the International Day of the Midwife.
Soghra and Nabila are two such heroes.
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05/05/2019
With deadly cyclones on the rise, UNICEF raises concern about impact of climate change on children
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NEW YORK, 3 May 2019 (UNICEF)* – The cyclone currently hammering India and the back-to-back cyclones that tore through Mozambique in March and April have caused serious damage to the lives of thousands of children.
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04/05/2019
UNITED NATIONS, May 1 2019 (IPS)* –
The United Nations has estimated a hefty $466 billion as remittances from migrant workers worldwide in 2017—and perhaps even higher last year.
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Photo from IPS.
These remittances, primarily from the US, Western Europe and Gulf nations, go largely to low and middle-income countries, “helping to lift millions of families out of poverty,” says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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04/05/2019
3 May 2019 — “The militia forbade me to cry otherwise they would behead me” – the sombre words of a ten-year-old girl caught up in the years’ long conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one story which features in a new UN photo exhibition in the United States, called Caught in Conflict.
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Vincent Tremeau | A ten-year old orphan, formerly enrolled in an armed militia, has now been reunited with her uncle. (18 October 2018)
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The exhibition which is taking place at Photoville, in Los Angeles, considers the responses of innocent women and children to the conflicts they have unwittingly become part of, suggesting that they suffer in ways that men do not.
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