20/04/2019
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The number of countries regarded as safe, where journalists can work in complete security, continues to decline, while authoritarian regimes continue to tighten their grip on the media.
The RSF Index, which evaluates the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories every year,
SEE THE MAPHEREshows that an intense climate of fear has been triggered — one that is prejudicial to a safe reporting environment.
The hostility towards journalists expressed by political leaders in many countries has incited increasingly serious and frequent acts of violence that have fuelled an unprecedented level of fear and danger for journalists.
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20/04/2019
18 April 2019 (UN Women)* — Milena Zindovic is an urban planner and gender expert and member of the Association of Women Architects in Serbia. Zindovic, with the support of UN Women studied current waste management practices in Serbian households to understand the role of women in both waste creation and management.
Milena Zindovic. Photo: UN Women/Elif Gulec
The study will be used by UN Women to create targeted campaigns to raise awareness of waste management and climate action among women and their communities.
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20/04/2019
UNITED NATIONS, New York (UNFPA)* – Reproductive rights and choices have become a reality for more women than ever, says UNFPA’s flagship report, State of World Population 2019, released on 10 April 2019. Yet despite these gains, vast numbers of women around the world are not empowered to make fundamental decisions about their own bodies.
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Marta Paula, from Guinea-Bissau, was hospitalized when she gave birth at 13. Doctors were worried she might die. Today, she calls for young people to have access to family planning. © UNFPA/I. Barbosa
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20/04/2019
How whole genome sequencing is helping decode the risks to our food
Food trade can improve the availability of nutritious food and compensate for poor harvests or other disruptions in food supply. Yet, with heightened global trade, there are an increasing number of challenges in keeping food safe. ©bee cappy/shutterstock.com | Photo from FAO.
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20 April 2019 (FAO)* — Food is evolving. Meal-replacement beverages, 3-D printed pasta and meat grown in laboratories… These are just some of the paths it is taking. Whatever our take on it, as food changes, so will our need to define its safety.
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19/04/2019
The former president says peaceful China “ahead of us in almost every way.”
18 April 2019 (teleSUR)* — The only U.S. president to complete his term without war, military attack or occupation has called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.”
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18/04/2019
Stress, excessively-long working hours and disease, contribute to the deaths of nearly 2.8 million workers every year, while an additional 374 million people get injured or fall ill because of their jobs, the UN labour agency, ILO, said on Thursday [18 April 2019].
ILO/Deloche P | Syrian workers process tobacco leaf in Lebanon. (file)
In a new report underlining ILO’s message that no paid work should threaten your wellbeing, your safety or your life, the agency identifies several new or existing occupational risks of growing concern, that affect women more than men.
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18/04/2019
18 March 2019 (Wall Street International)* –
In my last essay for the Wall Street International Magazine, I argued that Democrats and Independents need to push now for a single term presidency in the effort to prevent Trump from winning a second, if not third, presidential term1.
Trump is running high with the apparent economic boom in hiring (that is financed by heavy federal debts and tax reductions for the very wealthy), and the (false) belief that he has been “totally exonerated” after accusations of electoral “collusion” with Russia.
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18/04/2019
By Jean Pierre Mora in Upala, Costa Rica*
Since the government suppressed street protests last April, thousands have sought safety in neighbouring Costa Rica, where meeting basic needs remains a challenge. | Español | Français
Manuel and his two children in their new home in Costa Rica as Nicaraguan asylum seekers. | © UNHCR/Flavia Sanchez
16 April 2019 (UNHCR)* — Despite having little interest in politics, Manuel* found himself caught up in the violence and persecution that erupted in Nicaragua a year ago, after the government cracked down on street protests.
“We lived with the anxiety of not knowing when they would break into the house to get us,” the farmer recalls. “We were besieged at night.”
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17/04/2019
Representatives of governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations agree more must be done, and urgently, to manage the millions of tonnes of e-waste produced each year.
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The former Brazilian president was removed from office in proceedings considered a coup by political organizations and analysts / Agência Brasil/Archive 
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