Anxiety and depression disorders | Photo from Wall Street International.
03/03/2019
‘Once Lost, Hearing Doesn’t Come Back,’ World Health Organization Warns on World Hearing Day
3 March 2019 – Many people live with unidentified hearing loss, often failing to realize that they are missing out on certain sounds and words. To address this problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging people on this year’s World Hearing Day, held on March 3, to check their hearing.
03/03/2019
‘We Can All Benefit’ – A Dairy Cooperative in Bangladesh Is Helping Change Women’s Lives
Human Wrongs Watch
1 March 2019 (FAO)* — Knocking on closed doors is something Renu Bala is very good at.
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Renu Bala is one of thousands of Bangladeshi farmers befitting from agricultural investment programmes supported by FAO with funding from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP). ©FAO/Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
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First, it was the doors of her neighbours in Panjor Bhanga, her home village in northern Bangladesh. She had an idea for them: what if they formed a milk cooperative?
They didn’t have much to lose. “The women of this village are very poor and raise only local Deshi cattle,” Renu explains. “I thought that if I could start a dairy business, and encourage other women to join, if I could make them aware, then we could all profit.”
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03/03/2019
10 Things You’ve Always Wanted to Ask the Students Skipping School to Fight Climate Change
Youth Climate Strike US co-leader Isra Hirsi. © Adam Iverson | Photo from Greenpeace International.
Isra Hirsi just turned 16 years old. To celebrate, she came home from school and spent three hours on conference calls.
Isra, a student at South High School in Minneapolis, is one of thousands of students around the world planning a massive Youth Climate Strike for March 15. With a few weeks to go, there are already strikes planned for 47 countries and almost all 50 states. Isra is one of three organizers who are bringing the movement — inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s weekly climate strikes — to the United States.
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03/03/2019
Empowering Women Means Taking a Stand for Environmental Rights
Photo by The Samburu Women’s Trust | Photo from UN Environment.
1 Match 2019 (UN Environment)* — The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many of the same challenges as other indigenous communities around the world.
They have few opportunities to influence or manage activities that affect their environment, and insufficient information and understanding of their entitlements and rights when large development and infrastructure projects come to do business on their lands.
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03/03/2019
‘Wild for Life’ Campaign to Fight against Illegal Trade in Wildlife, Protect Nine New Species
1 Match 2019 (UN Environment)* — Wild for Life is UN Environment’s campaign against illegal trade in wildlife. International and national laws protect many species because their populations are at risk. If animals, plants or their parts are taken from the wild or killed, then they are part of the illegal trade.
This trade is not only pushing species to the brink of extinction, it also poses environmental, economic, development and security risks.
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03/03/2019
Ocean Life Faces ‘Onslaught of Threats’ from Human Activity – World Wildlife Day
Human Wrongs Watch
Underwater life is severely impacted by an “onslaught of threats,” but we already have the tools to positively influence ocean conservation, the UN said in a statement marking 2019 World Wildlife Day [3 March] which, this year, is celebrated under the theme “Life Below Water: for people and planet.”
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This is the first time that World Wildlife Day has focused on life below water, the crucial importance of marine species to human development, and how we can continue to save marine biodiversity for future generations.
02/03/2019
That Cooler Heads May Prevail
Human Wrongs Watch
By René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service*
When the drums of war start beating, can cooler heads prevail and negotiations in good faith start?
René Wadlow
Vijay Mehta has written a useful overview of efforts to create a Department of Peace within governments so that there would be an institutionalized official voice proposing other avenues than war. (1)
Such proposals are not new. In 1943, Alexander Wiley, a liberal Republican senator had proposed to President Franklin Roosevelt that he establish a cabinet-level post of Secretary of Peace as there was already a Secretary of War.
The Secretary of War has now been renamed Secretary of Defense, but the function has not radically changed.
A Secretary of Peace in Wiley’s vision would be charged with preempting conflicts before they exploded into violence and proposing peaceful resolutions.
In the U.S.A. after the end of the Second World War, in a “never again” atmosphere, other members of Congress suggested the creation of such a Department of Peace.
However, such a vision was never transformed into a reality.
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02/03/2019
Women’s Activism that Has Shaped the World as You Know It
Human Wrongs Watch
1 March 2019 (UN Women)* — From the women who came together in Seneca Falls for the United States first women’s conference, to the Mirabal sisters who protested dictatorship in the Dominican Republic and everyone who has shared their #MeToo story on social media, the women who’ve risen up to claim their rights and to protect the rights of others, have changed the world as we know.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown | Women have always risen. Women are rising today. Women will always rise.
02/03/2019
Life Below Water: For People and Planet – World Wildlife Day
Human Wrongs Watch
1 March 2019 (United Nations)* — The animals and plants that live in the wild have an intrinsic value and contributes to the ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic aspects of human well-being and sustainable development.
Illustration for the official posters for the celebration of World Wildlife Day 2019. Image: World Wildlife Day/Mohammed Elnour and Patrick George.
World Wildlife Day is an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora and to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that conservation provides to people.
At the same time, the Day reminds us of the urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime and human induced reduction of species, which have wide-ranging economic, environmental and social impacts.
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