22/07/2022
Reduce the use of chemical fertilisers, make the chemical industry pay for pollution instead of criminalising farmers who were trapped by the chemical treadmill through industrial agriculture.
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The nitrogen problem in Agriculture is a problem created by synthetic nitrogen fertilisers made from fossil fuels. Nitrogen fertilisers contribute to atmospheric pollution and climate change in the manufacture and the use of fertilisers.
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20/07/2022
(UN News)* — Billions of people are facing the greatest cost of living crisis in a generation due to rising food and energy prices amid rapid inflation and increasing debt, leaving the most vulnerable consumers in a dire situation, said the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD on Tuesday [19 July 2022].
FAO/Sebastian Liste | A female farmer stands in front of seed bags stored in a warehouse in a agri-business centre in Sierra Leone.
UNCTAD’s analysis shows that a 10 per cent increase in food prices will trigger a five per cent decrease in the incomes of the poorest families, roughly equivalent to the amount those families would normally spend on healthcare.
As consumers try to reduce their spending, they will pay a high price if they buy cheaper, but unsafe products. The United States reports 43,000 deaths and 40 million injuries per year associated with consumer products, with yearly costs of over $3,000 per capita.
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19/07/2022
Yemen – Rod Waddington / flickr.
As President Joe Biden embarks on his trip to the Middle East, those of us back home must acknowledge the suffering the United States has caused in places like Yemen.
11 Jul 2022 – President Joe Biden’s foreign policy advisors are applauding themselves for devising a “sensitive” itinerary as he plans to embark on a trip to the Middle East on July 13.
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19/07/2022
Exceptional heat is expected to affect a large part of England early this week, with temperatures likely in the high 30s C in some places and perhaps even reaching 40°C.
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19/07/2022
Tasks for the Future
John Scales Avery
In the future, we will be faced with many important challenges and tasks. We need a new economic system, a new society, a new social contract, a new way of life.
Here are the great tasks that history has given to our generation: We must achieve a steady-state economic system. We must restore democracy.
We must decrease economic inequality. We must break the power of corporate greed. We must leave fossil fuels in the ground. We must stabilize and ultimately reduce the global population.
We must eliminate the institution of war.
And finally, we must develop a more mature ethical system to match our new technology We must achieve a steady-state economic system.
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18/07/2022
New recommendations released by the three agencies offer solutions and alternatives to the continued practice of detaining asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant children across Europe
Migrants and refugees crossing the Serbian-Croatian border, 2015. Photo: IOM/Francesco Malavolta
Geneva (UNHCR)* – In a briefing paper published on 5 July 2022, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and IOM, the International Organization for Migration, detail the practice of child immigration detention across countries in Europe, and offer a range of alternatives and recommendations to help countries in ending child detention. | Español | Français | عربي
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18/07/2022
(UN News)* — The UN human rights office said on Saturday [16 July 2022] it was deeply concerned by worsening violence in and around the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and rising abuse at the hands of heavily armed gangs, against vulnerable local communities.
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© IOM Haiti/Monica Chiriac \ In early 2022, the UN helped to relocate people displaced by gang Violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (file)
The alert comes just hours after UN humanitarians said they were ready to provide all the assistance they could to communities caught in the crossfire of gang violence, once they can gain safe access to those impacted.
A recent upsurge in fighting between rival gangs in the Cité Soleil neighbourhood of the capital, has led to the deaths of 99 people with 135 injured according to data reported by the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office (OCHA) in Haiti.
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13/07/2022
The writer is Director, Population Division of the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
School Opens in Weapons Free Zone East of UNMISS”. Credit: UN Photo/Amanda Voisard
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 2022 (IPS)* – What does a young girl from Juba, in South Sudan, an 8-year-old boy living in the slums of Mumbai, in India, a young mother from the south of Lima, in Peru, and an 83-year-old man enjoying retirement in the suburbs of Stockholm, in Sweden, have in common?
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12/07/2022
NATO is the US dominated global war machine whose policy is ‘Full Spectrum Dominance.’ Contrary to its claims, NATO is not a defensive organization but an instrument for US world domination to prevent all challenges to its hegemony. It should have been disbanded in 1991 after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact but instead expanded into fifteen new countries.
Mairead Maguire
Patrick Murphy’s 18 June column in the Irish News entitled ‘Pope’s Comments May Help Avert Global Conflict’ is courageous and challenging.
Courageous in that Ireland (and most of Europe) are caught up in Russia phobia and war propaganda being peddled by our main stream media and military industrial complex.
Murphy quoted Pope Francis as saying that the war was ‘perhaps somehow either provoked or not prevented’. I think this statement hints towards the elephant in the room (NATO/US endless expansion).
The 12 May US Peace Council describes the Ukraine as a US Manufactured Conflict and says, ‘Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine could have been avoided if the US had not relentlessly provoked it.’
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