03/07/2021
2 July 2021 (UN News)* — Some 4.4 million people in Nigeria are facing what the UN humanitarian office, OCHA, is describing as “catastrophic food conditions”.
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UNOCHA/Damilola Onafuwa | Farmers in northeastern Nigeria have been unable to cultivate their crops because of insecurity.
A combination of insecurity caused by terrorist groups, the effects of climate change and the
COVID-19 pandemic, have meant that people in the northeast of the country are struggling to get enough to eat;
OCHA says 775,000 are at “extreme risk”.
Many are farmers but are unable to grow their crops fearing for their personal safety, and so rely on humanitarian support “as their only lifeline”.
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02/07/2021
2 July 2021 (UNEP)* — The world’s first-ever international Food Systems Summit is slated for September 2021 and seeks to galvanize a global commitment and action to transform our food systems.
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With almost 690 million people going hungry in 2019, and most current farming practices driving biodiversity loss and global heating, there is an urgent need to take stock and change direction.
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02/07/2021
Latest estimates reveal that 3 in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
GENEVA/NEW YORK, 1 July 2021 (UNICEF)* – Billions of people around the world will be unable to access safely managed household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in 2030 unless the rate of progress quadruples, according to a new report from WHO and UNICEF.
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01/07/2021
What will Latin America do about it?
30June 2021 — (Wall Street International)* — The story goes that on his first voyage to what would become America, Christopher Columbus disembarked on October 12, 1492, on a beach he named San Salvador, today Wattlin, in the Bahamas archipelago.
By December 1 he chose to live in a wonderful setting on an island he called Hispaniola. He took possession of it without asking, obviously, the locals. Colonization began by building a fort called “La Navidad”, on the north coast of what is today Haiti.
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01/07/2021
A new ILO report estimates that between 2017 and 2019 the number of international migrants has increased from 164 to 169 million.
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The share of youth migrant workers (aged 15-24) has also increased, by almost 2 per cent, or 3.2 million, since 2017. Their number reached 16.8 million in 2019.
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29/06/2021
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‘We Are Human We Are Free’ announces the launch of the ‘7 Days Campaign to Resist The Great Reset’.
This worldwide nonviolent resistance movement is a strategy to resist the achievement of elite control through implementation of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’.
Our aim is to build a mass civil resistance movement to undermine the power of the Global Elite to control us, and to regain the freedoms that make our lives worth living.
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29/06/2021
(UN News)* — Migrants smuggled across borders are often subjected to extreme violence, torture, rape and kidnapping, whether in transit or in captivity, but authorities take little action to address these offences, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report published on 28 June 2021.
OIM/Alexander Bee | Djibouti is a favoured destination for migrants and refugees from countries in the region, notably Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia.
The study focusses on transit routes in West and North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and Central America.It also examines the differing types of violence inflicted on men and women, and presents factors and motivations behind abuse committed during smuggling operations.
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28/06/2021
25 June 2021 (UNEP)* — Birds, fish, turtles, marine mammals and even seeds and larvae connect the islands of the Caribbean across the air and the sea.
CBC / 23 Jun 2021
Aware that biodiversity knows no borders, the governments of Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic have joined forces in the Caribbean Biological Corridor with the vision to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems across the Greater Antilles.
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