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18/08/2024

The Silent Crisis of Air Pollution

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martin Zavan | Greenpeace International*

— Air pollution is a silent crisis, as lethal as it is pervasive. It affects millions of people around the world but does the most damage to the health and the environment of those living in the Global South.

 

 

 

 

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Heavy smog seen engulfed amid rise in pollution levels at Barakhamba on November 2, 2023 in New Delhi, India. The Air Quality Index (AQI) remained in the “very poor” category for the sixth consecutive day on November 2. © Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images.

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This year, to mark the UN Environment Program’s International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, Greenpeace East Asia’s Clean Air Unit is highlighting the severe health impacts of air pollution and the positive steps global communities are taking to quantify and combat the problem.

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18/08/2024

Mercury Has Long Poisoned Gold Miners. This New Strategy Is Helping Change That

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15 AUG 2024 (UNEP)* — In the small coastal town of Guapi, Colombia, Mary Luz Ante Orobio is meeting with a group she calls “the unstoppable women.”  

Credit: AFP/Lius Tato

They are gathered around a wooden chest filled with loose cash, a ledger and a calculator. Orobio flips through the ledger, eyes poring over tidy notes outlining a series of financial investments.

She jots down some numbers before distributing cash among the group.

The women are members of one of 80 local savings and credit groups in Colombia formed with the help of planetGOLD, a programme led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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17/08/2024

“Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis for Children Is, by Numbers, the Biggest in the World…” – UNICEF

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This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at 13 August 2024 press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

On 10 August, UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder (L) peaks to 13-year-old Abu at Al Nau hospital following an injury by shrapnels while playing football at a UNICEF child-friendly space in Al Hattana in Khartoum.
UNICEF/UNI625366/IsamaldeenOn 10 August 2024, UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder speaks to 13-year-old Abu at Al Nao hospital, Sudan.

ATBARA, Sudan/GENEVA 13 August 2024 (UNICEF)* – “Sudan’s humanitarian crisis for children is, by numbers, the biggest in the world. It is also a crisis of neglect.

“So many of the countless atrocities upon children in Sudan have gone unreported, often as a result of very limited access.

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15/08/2024

World Health Organization Announces Highest Level of Alert for Mpox

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WHO declares mpox virus a public health emergency of international concern

Mpox - formerly monkeypox - is a rare but dangerous infection similar to the now eradicated smallpox virus.
© CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regnery | Mpox – formerly monkeypox – is a rare but dangerous infection similar to the now eradicated smallpox virus.
 
(UN News)* — The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the rise in mpox cases constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), following advice from members at Wednesday’s [] International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee meeting.  
 
A PHEIC is the highest level of alarm under international health law.

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14/08/2024

Sexual Violence and Famine Stalk Sudan’s Displaced

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By Daniel Johnson

(UN News)* — Sudan’s deepening humanitarian crisis caused by nearly 16 months of war has left countless women and girls subject to sexual violence and rape and tens of thousands of children at risk of death from hunger, UN aid teams said on Tuesday [13 August 2024].

A young girl receives treatment at a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
© UNICEF/Mohammed Elibrahimi Isamaldeen | A young girl receives treatment at a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.

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12/08/2024

Let’s Abolish the Colonial IMF on Its 80th Birthday

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By Arthur Larok*

From Kenya to Pakistan, protesters want the International Monetary Fund to stop exploiting countries in debt crisis

(OpenDemocracy)* 24 July 2024 — Mass protests rocking Kenya in the past month have once again laid bare the predatory lending practices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ​​Placards read “IMF keep your hands off Kenya,” and “We ain’t IMF bitches”, calling on President William Ruto to withdraw an IMF-driven finance bill set to ramp up austerity and regressive taxes. 

Kenyan protesters anger at new IMF measures | James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

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10/08/2024

Explainer: Why Kenya Is Considered a High Climate Risk for Development Banks

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By Joyce Chimbi

Climate change-related extreme weather jeopardizes Kenya’s development agenda; even though it contributes very little to global warming, it is marked as a high-risk country by development banks.

Drought in Kenya's Ewaso Ngiro river basin in 2017 when pastoralists had to dig for water because much of the river system in Isiolo county had dried up. Credit: Denis Onyodi/KRCS

Drought in Kenya’s Ewaso Ngiro river basin in 2017 when pastoralists had to dig for water because much of the river system in Isiolo county had dried up. Credit: Denis Onyodi/KRCS

NAIROBI, Aug 7 2024 (IPS)* – Kenya contributes less than 0.1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions every year, yet development banks have flagged the East African nation as a high climate risk.

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09/08/2024

World Health Organization on Alert as Mpox Cases Surge to ‘Unprecedented’ Levels in Africa

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By Vibhu Mishra

(UN News)* — The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday [] raised the response to the mpox outbreak in over a dozen African countries to the highest level, mobilizing efforts across the agency.

Colorized transmission electron microscopic image of mpox virus particles (red), found within an infected cell (blue), that had been cultured in the laboratory.
© NIAID | Colorized transmission electron microscopic image of mpox virus particles (red), found within an infected cell (blue), that had been cultured in the laboratory.

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07/08/2024

The Demise of Democracy and Human Rights Violations in Bangladesh: International Financial Institutions’ Culpability

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By Anis Chowdhury, Khalilur Rahman and Ziauddin Hyder

SYDNEY, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON DC, Aug 6 2024 (IPS)* – The International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) are complicit in the gross human rights violations and death of democracy in Bangladesh.

Anis Chowdhury

They continued to supply financial blood line to the regime, well-documented for its corruptions, human rights violations – such as forced disappearances and tortures in custody – and riggings of votes, including politicization of state institutions in its slide into autocracy.

This is despite their professed commitment to transparency, accountability and good governance (IMF, World Bank, ADB).

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07/08/2024

New-Borns Are Being Sold for Up to $4,500 in Kazakhstan; the Government Is Cracking Down on Traffickers

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By Kulpash Konyrova, in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan tightens laws to combat trafficking of newborns

()* — Babies are being sold for up to $4,500 in Kazakhstan, but the government is cracking down on traffickers with a new law adopted earlier this month.

A woman checks on her newborn as a nurse monitors the baby's condition at a perinatal centre in Astana, Kazakhstan.

© Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan | A woman checks on her newborn as a nurse monitors the baby’s condition at a perinatal centre in Astana, Kazakhstan.
 
To fight against trafficking newborns, the new legislation facilitates the criminal prosecution for such crimes as kidnapping, illegal deprivation of liberty, human trafficking, involvement in prostitution and more.

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