30/08/2019
Every year on August 29, at the initiative of Kazakhstan, the UN and its Member States mark the International Day against Nuclear Tests. This year, the Day coincides with the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb test at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan.
UN News travelled to the remote, eerily beautiful region, for this report.
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30/08/2019
30 August 2019 (UN Environment)* —
Khatmah thought the hima was lost forever. Decades ago the water in this dry rangeland surrounding her village in north-west Jordan had started to disappear, and it had become little more than a wasteland.
Photo by UNEP / Lisa Murray
“I thought it was pointless trying to regenerate the hima,” Khatmah says, pouring sweet black tea for her guests.
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30/08/2019
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 29 2019 (IPS)* – The last frontier for utilizing and maybe even exhausting Earth´s natural resources is opening up in the Arctic and some of the world´s wealthiest nations are trying to secure their piece of the cake. Some act openly, others are more secretive – recently one of the competitors entered the game in a remarkably unwieldy manner.
Photo: Annie Spratt/Unspalash
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30/08/2019
29 August 2019 (IGWIA)* — While the international community is focusing its attention on the advancing fires in Brazil, the reality is that the problem transcends the South American giant and is reflected in the nine Amazonian countries.
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Fires in the Monte Verde Indigenous Territory in Bolivia. Photo: Territoria Indígena Monteverde
Beneath the ashes, the fire has shown (once again), a conflict that specialists have long pointed out: the implementation of a development model based on the extraction of natural resources at the expense of nature.
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30/08/2019
27 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Imagine getting endless deliveries that you didn’t order. Imagine a police car pulling into your driveway in the middle of the night, because someone from your mobile number texted and reported a murder or a kidnapping.
Imagine getting unknown phone calls every hour, blocking your flow of work or a peaceful night of sleep. Imagine strangers calling from around the country and come knocking on your door stalking all the time. Imagine losing your job because someone sent a hateful and abusive email to your boss and colleagues
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29/08/2019
28 August 2019 (World Meteorological Organization)* — Fires that are raging in the Amazon rainforest are compounding the stress on the global climate and environment already unleashed by exceptional fires in the Arctic. There are also widespread fires in parts of tropical Africa.
Satellite imagery shows thousands of fires in Brazil, parts of Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay.
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29/08/2019
By Marco Rotunno*
An asylum-seeker allowed to disembark from the Open Arms rescue vessel on the Italian island of Lampedusa recalls the horror of her journey. | Español | Français | عربي
A view of the port of Lampedusa on the Italian island of the same name in the Mediterranean Sea. © UNHCR/Fred Noy
AGRIGENTO, Italy, 23 August 2019 (UNHCR)* – Feven* kept looking at her feet. The 18-year-old’s voice was a whisper amid dozens of asylum seekers at a reception center on the Italian island of Sicily. Memories of her ordeal are still fresh.
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29/08/2019
28 August 2019 (IGWIA)* — Indigenous peoples in the Amazon rainforest are on the front line of defending themselves and their land from the rapidly spreading fires. A majority of the tens of thousands of fires are happening in Brazil, though fires are also raging in Bolivia where 10,000 km2 of forests (an area the size of Lebanon) have burned, as well as large areas in Paraguay and Peru.
Fires in the Monte Verde Indigenous Territory in Bolivia. Photo: Territoria Indígena Monteverde
This potential global emergency is yet another example of the ramifications of systematically ignoring and undermining indigenous peoples’ and their rights.
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29/08/2019
28 August 2019 — At-risk wildlife that is facing a “growing extinction crisis” received a boost on Wednesday, as countries wrapped up a marathon meeting in Geneva, by agreeing to increased protection measures and more sustainable trade in animals and plants across the globe.
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Ryan Harvey | A southern white rhinoceros at Lake Nakuru, Kenya.
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29/08/2019
Smog from air pollution appears in the sky above a business district in Jakarta. © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace
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