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04/06/2019

How Air Pollution Is Destroying Our Health

Human Wrongs Watch

By World Health Organization* — As the world gets hotter and more crowded, our engines continue to pump out dirty emissions, and half the world has no access to clean fuels or technologies (e.g. stoves, lamps), the very air we breathe is growing dangerously polluted: nine out of ten people now breathe polluted air, which kills 7 million people every year.

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How air pollution is destroying our health | Flickr/Leniners (Photo from WHO).

The health effects of air pollution are serious – one third of deaths from stroke, lung cancer and heart disease are due to air pollution. This is having an equivalent effect to that of smoking tobacco, and much higher than, say, the effects of eating too much salt.

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03/06/2019

The World Has Lost Its Compass

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By Roberto Savio*

3 June 2019 (Other News)* — The terrible feeling I had on waking up and seeing the Italian voting results at the recent European elections was that my country was suddenly full of strangers.

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European national parliaments with representatives from right-wing populist parties in May 2019: Right-wing populists represented in the parliament Right-wing populists providing external support for government Right-wing populists involved in the government Right-wing populists appoint prime minister | Tobias101 | CC BY-SA 4.0

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03/06/2019

Watch Out: Your Money Is Being Used to Destroy the World!

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By Baher Kamal*

How governments spend taxpayers money to subsidise fossil fuels that cause deadly air pollution – A reminder to mark 5 June World Environment Day.

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Perhaps the most direct way to introduce this tough issue is what the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, stated just one week ahead of the 5 June World Environment Day, which focuses this year on air pollution, caused chiefly by the use of fossil fuels both in transport, industry and even household cooking, heating, etc.

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03/06/2019

Each Bank Holiday Saves at Least 100,000 Tonnes of Carbon Emissions

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By Dénes Csala, Lancaster University for The Conversation*

Monday May 27 was a public holiday in the UK, the fourth such “bank holiday” in the past six weeks. On each of these days, people made fewer commutes, they left their computers and machines switched off, and the country generally used less energy.*

Each bank holiday saves at least 100,000 tonnes of carbon emissions
Modern Times, about the dehumanisation of work (Image by United Artists • Public domain, Wikipedia)

In fact, my rough calculations below indicate that, depending on the season, each bank holiday could save more than 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

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03/06/2019

World Not Delivering Quality Maternal Health Care to Poorest Mothers – UNICEF

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Millions of mothers at risk due to prohibitive health care costs, lack of access to services and skilled professionals, and child marriage

A health worker looks on as a new mother holds her baby to her chest, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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NEW YORK/ VANCOUVER (UNICEF)* –  More than 5 million families across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean spend over 40 per cent of their non-food household expenses on maternal health services every year, UNICEF said today [3 June 2019] in a new analysis on maternal health.

Nearly two-thirds of these households, or around 3 million, are in Asia while approximately 1.9 million are in Africa.

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02/06/2019

The Almost Impossible Concert

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By Halvard Haga Raavand (Greenpeace)*

I never thought you’d need a freezer in the Arctic.
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But April 2019 saw average temperatures that were 8 degrees above normal. It meant that this concert, performed entirely on instruments carved from Arctic ice, nearly didn’t happen. It was almost too warm to have an ice concert in the Arctic.
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We brought four musicians and an ice carving artist to the Arctic to give the ice its own voice to sing, as a representation of the fragility of the region and how close it is coming to melting away.  It’s an idea that only Greenpeace could pull off.
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02/06/2019

‘Family Farms Represent over 90% of All Farms Globally, Produce 80% of World’s Food in Value Terms’ – UN Decade of Family Farming

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ROME (FAO)* – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on 29 May 2019 launched the United Nations’ Decade of Family Farming and a Global Action Plan to boost support for family farmers, particularly those in developing countries.

Photo: ©FAO/K. Purevraqchaa

Family farmers are diverse. They are smallholder farmers, families of herders, fishers, mountain and forest people.

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02/06/2019

‘Support Parents to Give Their Children the Best Start in Life’ – UNICEF Urges on Global Day of Parents

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Kicking off on Saturday [1 June 2019] the first-ever global Parenting Month, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is calling on world leaders to invest in family-friendly policies that support parents to give their children “the best start in life”. 

UNICEF/Brian Sokol | Bongani Ngqame holds his 8-month-old son, Khuma, during a portrait shoot at a park near his office at the Department of Health in Cape Town, South Africa.

According to UNICEF, the month of June is a time to focus on raising awareness of the impact that protection, nutrition and stimulation have on brains in the earliest years of life.

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01/06/2019

Extinction and Rebellion

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By Rex Weyler*

(Greenpeace)* — On May 1, the British House of Commons became the world’s first national parliament to declare a “climate emergency.” The motion is not binding and may have no effect on government policy, which appears reminiscent of the Paris emissions promises.

Extinction Rebellion Climate Protests (Photo by Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

Night time road blocks at the Extinction Rebellion environmental activists camp at Marble Arch © Photo by Ollie Millington/Getty Images (Photo from Greenpeace).

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01/06/2019

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Accuses ‘a Group of Democratic States’ of ‘Ganging Up’ on Wikileaks’ Assange to ‘Isolate, Demonize and Abuse’ Him

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After visiting Julian Assange in a London prison, an independent UN human rights expert expressed urgent concern on Friday [31 May 2019], for the Wikileaks co-founder’s well-being, accusing “a group of democratic States” of “ganging up” on the prisoner to “isolate, demonize and abuse” him and warned against extraditing the controversial publisher to the United States.

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Professor Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on torture, at a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York.

“My most urgent concern is that, in the United States, Mr. Assange would be exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights, including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” said Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, in a statement.

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