08/02/2019
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza*
7 February 2019 (Other News)* — Suddenly -said Leonardo Da Vinci- there are no poor and rich, no young and old, no white and black on board… only a bunch of passengers toiling, working together to survive, to avoid a shipwreck.
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
This is the advice we should convey today through all media so that the “peoples” become aware of the situation humanity is facing for the first time in history.
In recent years a series of global threats have been recognized as potentially irreversible processes that need to be confronted and dealt with on time before it is too late.
The climate change has become an undeniable truth. The Arctic Ocean has nearly disappeared and the Antarctic is starting to crack.
We have not succeeded in our effort to reduce the emissions of “greenhouse” gases… and the habitability of Earth is experiencing a consistent deterioration.
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08/02/2019
7 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.
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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.
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08/02/2019
7 February 2019 — While nearly 10 million people across Yemen remain “just a step away from famine”, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has spoken of his deep concern that a large food storage depot on the outskirts of the crucial port city of Hudaydah, has been out of bounds since last September.
OCHA/Giles Clarke | A dead cow lies beside the main road leading out of the port town of Al Hudaydah. Locals tend to avoid dead carcasses as some have been known to be filled with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).
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08/02/2019
What people should eat has become an important issue not only for dieticians, but also for environmentalists and even some religious faiths such as Jainism.
Dr Ravi P Bhatia
The former category promotes a balanced, middle way of food eating that boosts health, nutrition and has fewer risks of such common diseases such as heart attack, cancer or diabetes.
They suggest that people should eat a mixture of vegetables, meats and fruits.
The environmentalists are worried about how to feed a world population of eight billion without further degradation and harm to our planet.
They are emphasising the fact that meat eating is destroying our Earth.
They argue that meat eating is more harmful to the environment since animals eat plants and leaves and are then butchered to produce meat, thus further depleting the Earth’s green cover.
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07/02/2019
The food we eat has huge potential to improve both human health and environmental sustainability, but too often today it is posing a threat to both people and planet, according to a new report by the EAT-Lancet Commission, launched on Tuesday [6 February 2019] at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
World Bank/Scott Wallace | A vendor sells produce at his stall in Bangladesh. | Photo from UN News.
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07/02/2019
UNICEF/Adrak | Khair (left) is the father of seven children, who is no longer able to feed them. The drought has destroyed his land in Daykundi Province, Afghanistan; and this year he harvested nothing. (June 2018)
His reaction on Wednesday came after WMO issued a report confirming that 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 were the four warmest years recorded to date.
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07/02/2019
More than six in 10 children globally lack access to social protection, leaving them particularly vulnerable to falling into chronic poverty, the UN said on Wednesday [6 February 2019], warning also that some governments are cutting State cash entitlements, amid continuing economic uncertainty.
Photo: UNICEF/Wathiq Khuzaie | A joint ILO-UNICEF report is urging action to ensure that social protection reaches all children, like 6-year-old Mustafa who works with his father in an industrial area of Baghdad, and protects them from poverty and deprivation.
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06/02/2019
Female genital mutilation, is “an abhorrent human rights violation” still affecting women and girls around the globe, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated in his message for the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, marked on Wednesday [6 February 2019].
UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin | Female Genital Mutilation practitioner with her 10-year-old granddaughter in Diaami, Hargeisa in Somaliland. The young girl was supposed to have been cut already but she is sick with an infection so her grandmother is waiting.
“It denies them their dignity, endangers their health and causes needless pain and suffering, even death”, the UN chief added.
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06/02/2019
International maritime crime is becoming “increasingly sophisticated” as criminal groups exploit jurisdiction and enforcement challenges on the high seas and pose “immediate danger to people’s lives and safety”, the UN anti-drugs and crime chief warned the Security Council on Tuesday [5 February 2019].*
Eunavfor | The issue of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea was raised by several speakers during the Security Council’s debate on transnational maritime crime. | Photo from UN News
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06/02/2019
© UNICEF/UN0140097/Humphries | A student at the Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Subang Jaya school, studies at home home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The number of active internet users in Malaysia has exceeded 20.1 million, with 16.8 million being active on social media.
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