30/05/2020
Interview with Johannes Refisch, United Nations Great Apes Survival Partnership Programme, Programme Manager and Coordinator
Photo by Unsplash/ David Clode
29 May 2020 (UN Environment)* — For decades, ecotourism has helped to conserve nature and protect endangered species. COVID-19 and the subsequent closure of ecotourism sites has had an indelible impact on wildlife and the communities that protect it.
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29/05/2020
(UN News)* — Tobacco products continue to kill eight million people a year who get hooked via a $9 billion a year marketing strategy. That’s the warning from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday [29 May 2020], which has said that even during a global pandemic, the tobacco and nicotine industry has continued to promote products that limit people’s ability to fight new coronavirus and recover from the disease.
Unsplash/Sebastiaan Stam | Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year according to the World Health Organization.
For this year’s World No Tobacco Day – marked on 31 May – the agency is focusing on protecting teenagers, who are a key target sector. More than 40 million young people today aged 13-15, have already started to use tobacco, it estimates.
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29/05/2020
The World Health Organization is today [29 May 2020] launching a new kit for school students aged 13-17 to alert them to the tobacco industry tactics used to hook them to addictive products. Every year the tobacco industry invests more than USD 9 billion to advertise its products. Increasingly, it is targeting young people with nicotine and tobacco products in a bid to replace the 8 million people that its products kill every year.
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29/05/2020
May 2020 — (Wall Street International)* — The spirit of the presence of women runs through all areas of life and all across Chile: from politics to economy, from science to literature, from the countryside to the city, from the mountains to the sea, from the desert to Patagonia. It has long been unacceptable to assign them the role of home, children, and selected professions.
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Lately they achieved an unprecedented milestone when the bill for the upcoming plebiscite to approve a new Constitution to be voted on October 25 was approved in Parliament: 50% of those who write it will be women.
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29/05/2020
(UN News)*–Unless countries across the world act together now, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday [28 May 2020] at a virtual high-level meeting on financing for development.
WFP/Giulio D’Adamo | Food assistance programmes in Chad promote sustainable agriculture and strengthen incomes and livelihoods.
Painting a picture of 60 million pushed into extreme poverty; famine of “historic proportions”; some 1.6 billion people left without livelihoods; and a loss of $8.5 trillion in global output – the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s – he called for a response with “unity and solidarity”.
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29/05/2020
(UN News)* — Some 14 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean could experience severe food insecurity this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to projections released on Thursday [28 May 2020] by the World Food Programme (WFP).
The UN agency estimated that 10 million additional people could join the 3.4 million across the region who were already unable to meet their basic food needs.
WFP/Miller Choles | Take-home rations are given to parents of children in Colombia who are missing out on school meals due to COVID-19 school closures.
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28/05/2020
27 May 2020 (Wall Street International)* — In the ancient days of the golden age of computer nerds, hacking was as much an art as it was a science. It required a special set of skills, capabilities and abilities. Today EVERYBODY can do it, without a doubt: attack services are purchased and sold in Clearnet and Darknet, there are many YouTube tutorials for executing whatever kind of payload or technique, and automated tools are doing a lot of the stuff. This is truly a sad phenomenon that is closing the gap between “skilled digital jedis” and amateurs, while fueling an exponential increase in asymmetric threats.
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28/05/2020
(UN News)* — Innocent civilians trapped in violence now face “a new and deadly threat” from COVID-19, the UN chief told the Security Council on Wednesday [27 May 2020], warning that the pandemic is “amplifying and exploiting the fragilities of our world”.
UN Photo/Hervé Serefio | The protection of civilians is a key mandate for many United Nations peacekeeping operations including in the Central African Republic.
Citing conflict as one of the greatest causes of that fragility, Secretary-General António Guterres told a high-level videoconference on the protection of civilians in armed conflict that the coronavirus is causing “enormous human suffering” and additional stress to vulnerable health systems, economies and communities already been weakened by years of armed conflict.
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28/05/2020
KYIV, Ukraine, 21 May 2020 (UNFPA)* – Oleksandra’s* ex-husband was waging a quiet war against her, she says, one that escalated under quarantine.
Amid a surge in calls for help, counsellors and police are pivoting to new modes of communication. Image courtesy of Ternovyy Viktor
She lives in the same apartment as her ex-husband and their two children. Sharing that space has always been fraught; she faced constant harassment, humiliation and physical abuse, she said.
But after the lockdown, she felt like she had no escape, and she was afraid to seek help, knowing he might eavesdrop on her phone calls.
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