28 April 2019 — Imagine a world in which practically everyone works in jobs that are helping to transform the global economy, and bring about a world where business can thrive and the needs of the most vulnerable people are met.
ILO/Marcel Crozet | Women in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia work in a greenhouse they built to increase the production capacity of vegetables they sell on the local market. (file 2015)
For the UN, these “green jobs,” play an important role in realising the vision of the future that practically all countries signed up to when they adopted the landmark Paris Agreement in December 2015, an international commitment to combat climate change, and significantly reduce human activity contributing to global warming.
2.2 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua have lost their crops due to rainfall and drought; 1.4 million urgently need food assistance
FAO and WFP are requesting US$72 million from the international community to provide food assistance to more than 700,000 people in the Dry Corridor.
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Panama City (FAO)*– The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on 25 April 2019 warned that prolonged droughts and heavy rain have destroyed more than half of the maize and bean crops of the subsistence farmers along the Central American Dry Corridor, leaving them without food reserves and affecting their food security.
Lula stressed that he sleeps with a clear conscience because he is innocent — he is sure that Mouro and Dallagnol can not do the same.
Free Lula movement demonstration | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.
26 April 2019 (teleSUR)* — The former President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday that the South American nation is governed by a “gang of lunatics,” in reference to the administration of Jair Bolsonaro, and stressed that the population does not deserve that kind of leadership.
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“We are going to make a general self-criticism in this country. It can’t be that (Brazil) is governed by that crazy gang that governs the country. It does not deserve that, and above all the people do not deserve that,” he emphasized.
Earliest 16-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl | Image from Wall Street International.
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And the volcano says:
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And from me, they create fairytales and tell legends; they say that in my hollows the goddess waits silently, like the radiant sap flowing through my lanes, slipping between my walls, my slopes and my plains; because I am an entrance and at the same time an exit… , as every day I offer it to them; to those who love me, to those who live in me..
Winning the race against climate change to keep our planet livable and on a healthy trajectory requires action rooted in sustainable solutions aligned with the Paris Agreement and the UN-driven 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, Secretary-General António Guterres said on 27 April 2019.
UN China/Zhao Yun | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the Leader’s Roundtable on Promoting Green and Sustainable Development to Implement the
2030 Agenda in Beijing, China
“To put it simply, we need green development. We need sustainable development. And we need it now,” the UN chief told world leaders in Beijing, discussing ways to boost green development as part of a conference on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
24 April 2019 (UN Women)* — Durga Sob is a Nepalese activist who founded the Feminist Dalit Organization (FEDO) in 1994, just ahead of the adoption of the visionary Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. She is among the 500 activists meeting in Tunisia from 24-26 April for the Tunis Forum on Gender Equality to take stock of the progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration, nearly 25 years on.
Durga Sob. Photo: UN Women/Emad Karim
“Over a journey of 25 years, we have seen many peaks and plains…
The status of women in Nepal used to be very low. Child marriage was rampant; women were limited to household chores, deprived of education, health and employment opportunities, among others.
There was very limited representation and participation of women in politics.
Worldwide, over 12 million hectares — roughly the surface area of Nicaragua — disappeared during 2018, the WRI said.
An aerial view shows illegal deforestation close to the Amazonia National Park in Brazil May 25, 2012. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.
26 April 2019 (teleSUR)* — Over 12 million hectares — roughly the surface area of Nicaragua — disappeared during 2018, the World Resources Institute (WRI) stated this week, adding that 3.64 million hectares were occupied by virgin forests, fundamental for climate and biodiversity.
26 April 2019 (UN Environment)* — Hundreds of thousands of children across the world took to the streets in March to demand that governments move faster to protect the environment. The unprecedented “youthquake” seemed to signal a new era and world leaders sat up and paid attention.
26 April 2019 (teleSUR)* — The Amazonian Waorani community in Ecuador celebrated a significant legal victory Friday. A court in the Pastaza region ruled that the government had violated their rights when it sought to drill for oil on their land.
“Today, the courts recognize that the Waorani people, and all Indigenous peoples, have rights over our territories that must be respected,” was how the Coordinating Council of the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador Pastaza (CONCONAWEP) summed up the verdict.
When women and girls are empowered with technology, the whole world benefits. That’s one key message from the International Day for girls in the field of information and communications technology, or ICT, marked on Thursday [25 April 2019].
ITU/M.Tewelde | Girls participating in the International Girls in ICT Day organised by ITU, at the African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (25 April 2019).
Celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of April, the Day is an initiative of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and aims to encourage and empower girls and young women to consider entering the growing field of ICT, enabling both girls and technology companies to reap the benefits of greater female participation in the sector.
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