21/03/2021
UNICEF launches new initiative, Water Security for All, to mobilize global support and resources to reach children in water vulnerable hotspots
NEW YORK, 18 March 2021 (UNICEF)* – Globally, more than 1.42 billion people, including 450 million children, live in areas of high, or extremely high, water vulnerability, according to a new analysis released by UNICEF.
This means that 1 in 5 children worldwide does not have enough water to meet their everyday needs.
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21/03/2021
Marakera, an Ethiopian 5-year-old boy, drinks clean piped water. Photo UNICEF Ethiopia/Ayene.
(United Nations)* — Access to water and sanitation is a precondition to life and a declared human right. Water is vitally important to sustainable development – from health and nutrition, to gender equity and economics.
Over the coming years, our water-related challenges will become more urgent.
The increasing demands of a growing population and rapidly developing global economy, combined with the effects of climate change, will exacerbate lack of access to water and sanitation for domestic uses.
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21/03/2021
World Water Day, 22 March 2021
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Water scarcity will be exacerbated as rapidly growing urban areas place heavy pressure on neighbouring water resources. Climate change and bio-energy demands are also expected to amplify the already complex relationship between world development and water demand.
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21/03/2021
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 2021 (IPS)* – The horrendous killings of children in military conflicts and civil wars – both by national armed forces and militant groups – have triggered widespread condemnation by human rights organizations worldwide.
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Masha Khromchenko stands in the kindergarten classroom that took a direct hit from a shell in the Luhansk region, Ukraine. The UN Security Council has demanded an end to attacks on schools worldwide. Credit: UNICEF/Christopher Morris
But a “list of shame” singling out some of these perpetrators have been politicized leaving out some of these countries under fire, including Afghanistan, Israel (in the killings in occupied territories), Somalia and Yemen (where the killings are blamed on the aerial attacks by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates).
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20/03/2021
It may seem like drylands are just barren spaces, but they are actually ecosystems teeming with biodiversity. ©FAO
ROME, 20 March 2021 (FAO)* — When you think of drylands, do you think of miles of empty, barren desert? Well, think again!
Drylands are actually a unique type of ecosystem characterised by water scarcity and low precipitation. Plants and animals here survive on little water, adapted to the droughts and heat waves that are common in these areas.
However, just because these regions are dry does not mean that they are barren. Drylands are still productive landscapes with considerable economic potential and environmental value, but the monitoring and rehabilitation of dryland ecosystems has not attracted as much attention as other ecosystems, such as rainforests. Drylands are vulnerable, yet they are being neglected.
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20/03/2021
New FAO report finds agricultural losses from natural hazards continue to soar, inflicting economic damage and undermining nutrition
A woman walking with jerricans to collect water, Somali Region, Ethiopia.ROME (FAO)* — Agriculture absorbs the bulk of the financial losses and damages wrought by disasters which have grown in frequency, intensity, and complexity, says FAO in a new report released on 18 March 2021.
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20/03/2021
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Since 2016, inhabitants of three municipalities in the central Mexican state of Puebla have managed to block construction of the Puebla 1 private hydroelectric power plant, by means of a lawsuit arguing that the mandatory indigenous consultation was not carried out and that the megaproject will cause environmental damage. This screenshot from a video shows a protest in one of the municipalities by the Fundar Centre for Analysis and Research. CREDIT: IPS/Fundar
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20/03/2021
Children in a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Haiti. PHOTO:UN Photo/Logan Abassi
21 March 2021 (United Nations)* — “Youth standing up against racism” is the 2021 theme. It engages the public through #FightRacism, which aims to foster a global culture of tolerance, equality and anti-discrimination and calls on each and every one of us to stand up against racial prejudice and intolerant attitudes.
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20/03/2021
Participants at a special event on Youth Standing Up for Human Rights. Empowering youth to better know and claim their rights will generate benefits globally. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
“Last year, people around the globe took to the streets to protest the vicious global pandemic of racism.
They recognized racism for what it is.
Dangerous. Abhorrent. Ugly. And everywhere.
Racism is a deeply rooted global evil.
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19/03/2021
Geneva, Switzerland, 18 March 2021 (WHO)* — Every second person in the world is believed to hold ageist attitudes – leading to poorer physical and mental health and reduced quality of life for older persons, costing societies billions of dollars each year, according to a new United Nations report on ageism.
The report released on 18 March 2021 by WHO, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), calls for urgent action to combat ageism and better measurement and reporting to expose ageism for what it is – an insidious scourge on society.
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