11/12/2018
11 December 2018 (UN Environment)* — International Mountain Day on 11 December reminds us of the importance of mountains (peaks and uplands) as providers of valuable plant and animal species, as homes for indigenous peoples, and as sources of fresh water.
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Photo by Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool | Photo from UN Environment.
Next time you visit Tanzania, take a good look at Mount Kilimanjaro… Because despite having been around for about 12,000 years, the world-famous African glacier could disappear as soon as 2030.
Melting glaciers are among the most visible effects of climate change; as temperatures rise we continue to lose these majestic and ancient features of the environment.
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11/12/2018
10 December 2018 – Several days ago, I joined an unusual Skype call originated by young South Korean founders of “The Hope School.” Located on Jeju Island, the school aims to build a supportive community between island residents and newly arrived Yemenis who seek asylum in South Korea.
Jeju, a visa-free port, has been an entry point for close to 500 Yemenis who have traveled nearly 5000 miles in search of safety. Traumatized by consistent bombing, threats of imprisonment and torture, and the horrors of starvation, recent migrants to South Korea, including children, yearn for refuge.
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11/12/2018
10 December 2018 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has ramped up efforts to provide warm clothes and life-saving supplies to more than 150,000 displaced children across northern Iraq whose lives are threatened by freezing temperatures.
UNICEF/Noorani | In this file photograph, children at a refugee camp in Suleimaniyah, northern Iraq, walk to their school, along a muddy path on a cold, rainy winter day.
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11/12/2018
The United Nations began a four-week operation on Sunday [9 December 2018], delivering lifesaving assistance to hundreds of thousands of Syrians in desperate need, from across the border in neighbouring Jordan.
UNOCHA/Ghalia Seifo | Seven-year-old girl in Syria.
An estimated 369 trucks carrying over 11,200 metric tonnes of aid for over 650,000 people will be involved in the special aid operation at the Jaber-Nassib crossing with Jordan, which only re-opened in October.
Six UN agencies and one international non-governmental organization (NGO) are participating in back-to-back trans-shipment deliveries that will provide one-month’s-worth of supplies.
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11/12/2018
10 December 2018 – Businesses across the world should no longer be viewed solely as greenhouse gas emissions culprits, but more as indispensable partners for climate action, who stand to increase profits from “going green”. That was the key message as the United Nations COP24 climate change conference went into its second week in Katowice, Poland.
UN News/Yasmina Guerda | A new generation wind power turbine on display at the Austrian pavilion at COP24.
For years, sectors such as construction, transport, farming and retailing, have had the finger pointed at them for being major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions globally and for putting profit ahead of environmental protection.
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10/12/2018
Angela Jurdak (Lebanon), Fryderyka Kalinowski (Poland), Bodgil Begtrup (Denmark), Minerva Bernardino (Dominican Republic), and Hansa Mehta (India), delegates to the Sub-commission on the Status of Women, New York, May 1946.
*Source: Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Rebecca Adami, Routledge, 2018
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10/12/2018
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This year, Human Rights Day marks the
70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being — regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
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It is the most translated document in the world, available in more than
500 languages.
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10/12/2018
9 December 2018 (Wall Street International)* – On October 29 and 30, 2018, the first World Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition was held in Madrid, organized by FAO and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID) together with other institutions.
200 parliamentarians from 80 countries met at the headquarters of the Spanish Senate for two days seeking to redouble the efforts of the international community to realize the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) of the UN 2030 agenda that seeks to achieve, within 12 years, a world free of hunger.
The meeting also addressed the problems that are causing overweight and obesity, which have been qualified by the WHO as a 21st century epidemic at global level, with devastating effects on people and threatening to raise the costs of public health budgets.
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10/12/2018
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 7 2018 (IPS)* – When the long-awaited UN conference focusing on the rights and safety of migrants and refugees takes off in Morocco, it will be a rare, if not an unprecedented meeting, for one reason: the withdrawal of at least seven member states almost at the 59th minute of the eleventh hour.
Refugees from South Sudan. Credit: UNHCR/Will Swanson
As the international community struggles to resolve a spreading global humanitarian crisis, and restrict the intake of refugees and migrants, the approval of a “Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” is turning out to be a politically sensitive issue.
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09/12/2018
Every year, trillions of dollars – equivalent to more than five percent of global GDP – are paid in bribes or stolen through corruption, the United Nations reported on the International Day which serves to highlight the pervasive crime, marked this Sunday 9 December 2018.
World Bank/Philip Schuler | Anti-corruption sign in Namibia. | Photo from UN News.
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