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A young child participates in a plant workshop organized by UNDP Peru and FAO in Ayacucho, Peru. Photo: UNDP Peru.By United Nations* — Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering. Australian fires, heat records and the worst locust invasion in Kenya. Now we face COVID -19, a worldwide health pandemic link to the health of our ecosystem.*
Climate change, man-made changes to nature as well as crimes that disrupt biodiversity, such as deforestation, land-use change, intensified agriculture and livestock production or the growing illegal wildlife trade, can increase contact and the transmission of infectious diseases from animals to humans (zoonotic diseases) like COVID-19.
The organization interviewed 20 men from Nepal who were apprehended by Qatari police, alongside hundreds of others, in March.
The police told most of the men that they were going to be tested for COVID-19 and would be returned to their accommodation afterwards. Instead, they were taken to detention centres and held in appalling conditions for several days, before being sent to Nepal.
April 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Everything seems to be always in a process of mixing ingredients and the generation of an intermediate or perhaps final product. An evolution.
In the processes of synthesis, dilution, or amalgamation, two or several factors or elements combine and achieve a different state of being together, in accordance with the energies that each brings to the process. During the combination moment all is very unstable and unsettled.
– The current financial crisis, triggered as a result of withholding or delaying payment of assessed contributions by Member States, is nothing new to the United Nations.
Security Council Members Hold Open videoconference meeting in a locked down UN building. Credit: United Nations
COVID-19 cases are rising daily amid the dense vegetation of the world’s largest rainforest and triggering a growing sense of fear for survival.
With their population now at around 900,000, the coronavirus has reawakened fears of extermination. | Photo: EFE
Nature beckons during a global pandemic
Kishin-en Garden © Alma ReyesThere are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. (Henry David Thoreau)
16 April 2020 (Wall Street International)* — At the time of this writing, the world is trying desperately, and in some levels, chaotically, fighting an incomprehensible contagion, the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
Stockholm, March 2020 (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – SIPRI)* — International transfers of major arms during the five-year period 2015–19 increased by 5.5 per cent compared with 2010–14.
According to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the largest exporters of arms during the past five years were the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China. The new data shows that the flow of arms to the Middle East has increased, with Saudi Arabia clearly being the world’s largest importer.
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