Commodity traders wreak havoc on global markets and profit from ecological and social devastation. Can they be stopped?
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Phillippine stock market board | Author: Katrina.Tuliao | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
05/05/2021
France: Police Expelling Migrant Children
(Paris) – French police summarily expel dozens of unaccompanied children to Italy each month in violation of French and international law, Human Rights Watch on 5 May 2021 said.
To enable the returns, the police frequently record on official documents different ages or birth dates than the children declared.
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05/05/2021
Women Are the Driving Force Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Brazil
BAHIA STATE, Brazil, 3 May 2021 (UNFPA)* – Carol Nascimento was 21 when she left home in Belo Horizonte in search of a life purpose. She found it in Vale do Capão, in the rural community of Chapada Diamantina, where she formed Alevante da Terra (Earth Rising), a women’s collective.
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Carol Nascimento, who promotes women and girls’ health, took part in UNFPA and Elas Fund’s Driving Force initiative empowering community leaders in Bahia state, Brazil. © UNFPA Brazil/Carol Garcia
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01/05/2021
A Beginner’s Guide to Ecosystem Restoration
Human Wrongs Watch
1 May 2021 (UNEP)* — It’s a phrase that’s been on the lips of scientists, officials and environmental activists a lot in the last few months: ecosystem restoration. This year, 5 June, World Environment Day, marks the official launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a 10-year push to halt and reverse the decline of the natural world.
Photo by UNEP/ Lisa Murray / 30 Apr 2021
You might be wondering: what exactly is an ecosystem and how do you restore one?
To answer the first question an ecosystem is a place where plants, animals and other organisms, in conjunction with the landscape around them, come together to form the web of life.
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01/05/2021
Killing Democracy Once and For All: The Global Elite’s Coup d’Etat that is Destroying Life as We Know It
Human Wrongs Watch
By Robert J. Burrowes*
Politically savvy individuals know that democracy has rarely existed and probably never outside small groups of humans who deliberately organize themselves to share power or grant it temporarily to one or a small number of people for a particular purpose. In most contexts, ‘democracy’ is simply a label used to deceive the unwary into believing that ordinary people have a say in how we are governed. But this has never been the case in any political framework on a larger scale.
Robert J. Burrowes
Whatever victories have apparently been achieved in the long struggle to achieve political representation, human rights, dignity, economic justice, cultural and gender identity, ecological sustainability and other causes dear to the hearts of those who have struggled, the elite (local, national or global) has always retained control and merely surrendered the minimum necessary to keep the bulk of the human population submissive.
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28/04/2021
The “Three Planetary Crises” of Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Pollution Are Reinforcing Each Other, Driving ‘Further Damage to the Environment and to Our Health’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The “three planetary crises” of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution are reinforcing each other and driving further damage to the environment and to our health, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday 27 April 2021.
27/04/2021
Water and Life
The Colorado River is reduced to a trickle when it reaches the Pacific | Image from Wall Street International.
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- today, 1 in 3 people live without safe drinking water;
- by 2050, up to 5.7 billion people could be living in areas where water is scarce for at least one month a year;
- climate-resilient water supply and sanitation could save the lives of more than 360,000 infants every year;
- if we limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, we could cut climate-induced water stress by up to 50%;
- extreme weather has caused more than 90% of major disasters over the last decade;
- by 2040, global energy demand is projected to increase by over 25% and water demand is expected to increase by more than 50%.
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24/04/2021
Small Family Farmers Produce a Third of the World’s Food
Human Wrongs Watch
New FAO research focuses on contributions of farmers with fewer than two hectares
A farmer in Ghana.
ROME, 23 April 2021 (FAO)* – The world’s smallholder farmers produce around a third of the world’s food, according to detailed new research by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Five of every six farms in the world consist of less than two hectares, operate only around 12 percent of all agricultural land, and produce roughly 35 percent of the world’s food, according to a study published in World Development.
Smallholders’ contributions to food supply varies enormously between countries, with the share as high as 80 percent in China and in the low single-digits for Brazil and Nigeria.
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23/04/2021
‘Weather-Related Crises Have Triggered more than Twice as Much Displacement as Conflict and Violence in the Last Decade’
Human Wrongs Watch
Climate change link to displacement of most vulnerable is clear: UNHCR
(UN News)* — Weather-related crises have triggered more than twice as much displacement as conflict and violence in the last decade, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on 22 April 2021.
Coinciding with Earth Day on Thursday 22 April, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, published data showing how disasters linked to climate change likely worsen poverty, hunger and access to natural resources, stoking instability and violence.
23/04/2021
‘Past Decade Was the Hottest on Record, and We Continue to See Rising Sea-Levels, Scorching Temperatures, Devastating Tropical Cyclones and Epic Wildfires…’
Human Wrongs Watch
The planet’s on ‘red alert’ UN chief warns leaders at President Biden’s climate summit
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(UN News)* — World leaders must act now and put the planet on a green path because “we are at the verge of the abyss”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on 22 April 2021 said in his address to the virtual climate summit convened by United States President Joseph Biden.
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