13/02/2019
13 February 2019 (FAO)* — A healthy diet starts with safe food. Food that is tainted with bacteria, viruses, pesticides or chemical residues, for example, can cause serious illnesses and in the worst cases, can even lead to death. Consumers around the world have a right to expect that the foods they purchase and eat are safe and good quality.
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Keeping food safe is a complex process that starts on the farm and ends with the consumer. All stages of the food chain, from production, harvest and storage to preparation and consumption, must be considered.
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13/02/2019
More than one billion 12 to 35-year-olds, risk irreversible hearing loss from exposure to loud sounds such as music played on their smartphone, UN health experts said on Tuesday [12 February 2019], unveiling new guidelines to help address the problem.
© UNICEF/UN0264259/Haro | A young refugee from Eritrea, loves listening to songs in the headphones he found on his way to Niger. More than a billion risk irreversible hearing loss from playing music too loud on smartphones and other devices, WHO and the ITU have reported.
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13/02/2019
The state of human rights and security across Mali is a “cause of grave concern,” the independent UN rights expert for the northwest African nation said in a statement on Tuesday [12 February 2019], in which he called for an “effective military response” to end the violence and protect the civilian population.
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MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko | UNPOL patrol in the Menaka region in the far north-east of Mali. The region is experiencing increasing insecurity as a result of attacks by terrorist groups and armed bandits.
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12/02/2019
UN Environment | The FlipFlopi dhow, a 9-metre traditional sailing boat made from 10 tonnes of discarded plastic, will be the first boat of its kind to launch a world expedition on 24 January, 2018.
The Flipflopi Project was co-founded by Kenyan tour operator Ben Morison in 2016, and the ground-breaking dhow was built by master craftsmen Ali Skanda, and a team of volunteers using 10,000 tonnes of recycled plastic. The boat gets its name from the 30,000 recycled flip-flops used to decorate its multi-coloured hull.
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12/02/2019
Each year, food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins or chemicals cause more than 600 million people to fall ill, and 420,000 to die worldwide, prompting a call from world leaders on Tuesday [12 February 2019]for greater international cooperation to make the food chain safer.*
World Bank/Arne Hoel | Tomato stand in market near Ramallah’s main mosque. | Photo from UN News.
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12/02/2019
This news-report is being submitted to all U.S. and allied news-media, and is being published by all honest ones, in order to inform you of crucial facts that the others — the dishonest ones, that hide such crucial facts — are hiding about Venezuela.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse
These are facts that have received coverage only in one single British newspaper: the Independent, which published a summary account of them on January 26th.
That newspaper’s account will be excerpted here at the end, but first will be highlights from its topic, the official report to the U.N. General Assembly in August of last year, which has been covered-up ever since.
This is why that report’s author has now gone to the Independent, desperate to get the story out, finally, to the public.
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12/02/2019
Ahead of Nigeria’s presidential elections on 16 February, UN Women and partners have been training women candidates, documenting political violence and advocating for measures to boost women’s low representation in Parliament.
Chika Kumle, Pauline Tallen and Zainab Sulaiman Umar benefitted from capacity-building by UN Women. Photo: UN Women/Nathan Ali
6 February 2019 (UN Women)* — Pauline Tallen began her political career as one of the first female councillors in her community, in north-central part of Nigeria, mobilizing women to form Councils of Women Societies in local government in the 1980s.
In 1999, she was appointed Minister for Science and Technology—the first woman appointed in that capacity—and in 2007 she was nominated Deputy Governor of Plateau—also the first woman to hold that position.
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12/02/2019
On 11 February, the United Nations, partners worldwide, women and girls will mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Why does it matter?*
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Recent studies suggest that 65 per cent of children entering primary school today will have jobs that do not yet exist.
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12/02/2019
11 February 2019 – Many of the world’s biggest problems may be going unsolved because too many women and girls are being discouraged from the sciences.*
UN Women Viet Nam/Pham Quoc Hung | Girls studying science in Viet Nam. Globally, while more girls are attending school than before, girls are significantly under-represented in STEM subjects in many settings and they appear to lose interest in STEM subjects as they reach adolescence.
The role of science education in a changing world cannot be undervalued: it is estimated that fully 90 per cent of future jobs will require some form of ICT (information and communication technology) skills, and the fastest growing job categories are related to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), with recent studies indicating 58 million net new jobs, in areas such as data analysis, software development and data visualization.
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11/02/2019
Playing Trump’s game is almost irresistible. At least, most of his opponents seem unable to resist it.
Richard E. Rubenstein
The name of Trump’s game is Personalistic Moralism. The President’s politics are not policy-free, but policies in his political universe are inextricably wedded to personal moral characteristics.
If you want the Wall (“border security”), for example, that means you are strong, tough, and protective. You are knowledgeable about the physical and cultural dangers posed by immigrants, and you care for your fellow Americans.
But what if you don’t want the Wall? In this case, you are weak, effeminate, ignorant, uncaring, and secretly in favor of “open borders.”
This, by the way, is the text. The subtext, resting on the understanding that the main advocates of plentiful immigration since the nineteenth century have been employers seeking cheap labor, is that those who favor the Wall want to protect native American workers while those who don’t, care only about their profits.
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