A staff member of the Liberia National Police Anti-Drug Squad reviews the municipal dump outside Monrovia, Liberia, where they are burning nearly 400 kg of marijuana and other drugs that were confiscated between 2011 and 2012. UN Photo/Staton Winter
23/06/2020
Message to Ostracized World Leaders: You Don’t Need a US Visa to Address the UN
Human Wrongs Watch
– The coronavirus pandemic is beginning to transform the United Nations into an institution far beyond recognition. The Secretariat building has been shut down since mid-March, and the UN campus will continue to remain a ghost town through end July– and perhaps beyond– with nearly 3,000 staffers, delegates and journalists working, mostly from home.
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23/06/2020
Better Knowledge for Better Care – International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
22/06/2020
Cultural Changes in Times of Disaster
By Fernando Ayala*
Opposing the destruction of the planet and human civilization may be the primary task of the current and next generation
George Floyd protests | Image from Wall Street International.
23 June 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Homo sapiens is the main predator of nature and its peers. For the sake of progress, our species has polluted seas, air, and land, destroyed ancient forests, over-exploited natural resources and is currently doing everything possible to destroy the Amazon basin, one of the main sources of oxygen, that regulates the climate of the region and neutralizes the greenhouse effect.
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22/06/2020
Countries Urged to Act Over Potential HIV Drug Shortages in Two Months
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Stocks of medication for HIV patients could run out in the next two months, because of higher costs linked to lockdowns and COVID-19 border closures, UNAIDS said on Monday [22 June 2020].
In a call to countries and manufacturers to take pre-emptive action now, the agency said that both the production of generic antiretroviral drugs and their distribution are threatened.
Millions of people could be at risk – particularly in developing countries – if they go without treatment, both to themselves and others from an increased chance of HIV transmission, according to the UN agency.
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22/06/2020
Invisible Women, Invisible Problems – International Widows’ Day
22 June 2020 (United Nations)* — The loss of a partner is devastating. For many women around the world, especially in developing countries, that loss is magnified by a long-term struggle for their basic needs, their human rights and dignity.
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Women and children are seen in the widows camp. In the refugee settlement of Balukhali, over 116 widows, orphans, and women who have been separated from their husbands have found shelter within a dense settlement of 50 red tents where no men or boys over the age of 10 years old are allowed. UN Women/Allison Joyce.
22/06/2020
COVID-19: Massive Losses in Working Hours, Equivalent to 305 Million Full-Time Jobs, Predicted for Second Quarter of 2020, While Some 1.25 Billion Workers Are Employed in High-Risk Sectors
Human Wrongs Watch
UN Secretary-General is calling for immediate support for at-risk workers, enterprises, jobs and incomes in a new Policy Brief on the World of Work and COVID-19, prepared with the ILO.
GENEVA, 10 June 2020 (ILO)* – Almost all of the world’s workers, some 94 per cent, were living in countries with some type of workplace closure measures in place in May 2020, according to the UN Secretary-General’s Policy Brief on the World of Work and COVID-19 .
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22/06/2020
Hungry for Change: The Global Food System
Human Wrongs Watch
20 June 2020 (UN Environment)* — Something’s got to give.
The world’s population is growing in size and wealth and shifting toward urban areas, driving the demand for food and clothing. Land is being converted and degraded, with disastrous effects on human health and the environment. In the absence of serious and imminent change, the next generation will inherit a planet that has been damaged and plundered, and many will suffer unnecessarily–from hunger, malnutrition and preventable disease.
Photo by Unsplash/ Markus Spiske
22/06/2020
What’s in a Name? Or Better Yet, What’s in a Cheese?
Geographical Indications (GI) create pathways to sustainable development. GIs are a way to preserve local know-how, traditional knowledge, natural resources and biodiversity, supporting local economies and boosting income for smallholder farmers around the world. ©EBRD-FAO/Nikoloz Mchedlidze
19 June 2020 (FAO)* — The origins of the word sulguni, a salty, soft cheese made from fresh cow or buffalo milk, stem from ‘suli’ and ‘guli’ meaning ‘soul’ and ‘heart’ in Georgian. This cheese, a fixture on nearly every Georgian table, could not be more aptly named.
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