30/09/2020
29 September 2020 (UN Environment)* — Our societies are intimately linked with and depend on biodiversity. Biodiversity is essential for people, including through its provision of nutritious food, clean water, medicines, and protection from extreme events.
Pixabay/Alain Audet / 29 Sep 2020
Biodiversity loss and the degradation of its contributions to people, jeopardize progress towards the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and human wellbeing. The evidence of these connections is clear.
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30/09/2020
(UN News)* — From domestic violence to sexual abuse, online harassment and increased child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV) is “a global scourge” that is being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said on Tuesday [29 September 2020].
UNOCHA/Alioune Ndiaye | A woman survivor of gender-based violence in Kalemie, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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30/09/2020
29 September 2020 (UN News)* — The economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic “are as bad as we feared”, the UN Secretary-General said, as he warned that the international community must act now if it is stave off a global recession, which could wipe out decades of development gains.
WFP/Hugh Rutherford | The World Food Progamme is running preventive nutrition and treatment programmes in refugee settlements in Uganda, to support families during the coronavirus pandemic.
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29/09/2020
29 September 2020 (UN News)* — New approaches and solutions are needed to address worsening food loss and waste, the UN Secretary-General has said, in a message marking the first ever International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste Reduction.
FAO/G. Agostinucci | Fresh fruits and vegetables at a farmers’ market in Hungary.
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29/09/2020
29 September marks the day to raise awareness about food loss and waste. Even small changes in habits can make a big impact. ©Poket Idol/shutterstock.com
29 September 2020 (FAO)* — For many people in the world, food waste has become a habit: buying more food than we need at markets, letting fruits and vegetables spoil at home or taking larger portions than we can eat.
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29/09/2020
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 28 2020 (IPS)* – Racism “keeps the global north oblivious to the effect of fast fashion addiction on the global south” say environmental and gender justice experts.
Fast fashion consumes vast resources, often polluting and devastating the natural world. Pictured here are garment workers in Bangladesh. Credit: Obaidul Arif/IPS
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29/09/2020
(UN News)* — With one in three women around the world affected by gender-based violence – a crime that skyrockets more than 200 per cent in conflict settings –
Nobel laureate Nadia
Murad brought governments and UN leaders to task on Monday
[28 September 2020], for failing to provide the resources needed to create meaningful change for traumatized communities.
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UN Photo/Mark Garten | File photo from 2019 of Nadia Murad, Nobel Laureate and Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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29/09/2020
(UN News)* — The COVID-19 pandemic is “hitting women hard”, but most nations are failing to provide sufficient social and economic protection for them, the head of the UN gender empowerment agency said on Monday [28 September 2020].
© UNICEF/Vinay Panjwani | A street vendor in India wears a face mask to protect herself against COVID-19.
And women have often become victims of domestic violence “locked down with their abusers, as unpaid caregivers in families and communities, and as workers in jobs that lack social protection”, adds the Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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29/09/2020
“If you tell a lie, tell a big one.”
“If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.”
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.”
— Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945
Robert J. Burrowes
Transhumanism is a set of beliefs based on the premise that human beings can be improved by genetic manipulation and/or implanting technologies into the brain and body to achieve enhanced capacities.
Transhumanism has a long history as an idea but since 1990 it has attracted serious attention from an increasing number of technology-lovers and early advocates are readily identified. See ‘What is Transhumanism?’
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28/09/2020
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 28 2020 (IPS)* – One of the biggest revelations of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that people with pre-existing, diet-related conditions such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, are more at risk of suffering severe forms of the disease leading to a need for intensive hospitalization.
The UN estimates that 74% of Africans cannot afford healthy diets. That is nearly 1 billion Africans. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
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