02/03/2019
1 March 2019 (UN Environment)* — Did you know that the giant manta ray—up to nine metres across—has the largest brain of all the world’s fish? Or that dugongs, sometimes referred to as sea cows due to their shallow water grazing (and perhaps looks), are more closely related to elephants than to whales or dolphins? Or that thresher sharks use their super-long caudal fin to whack shoals of fish, stunning or killing their prey in a process known as tail-smacking?
The manta ray is among the threatened species that are part of the Wild for Life campaign to protect marine life on World Wildlife Day. Photo by UN Environment
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01/03/2019
The UN General Assembly has declared 2021–2030 the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. It offers an unparalleled opportunity for job creation, food security and addressing climate change.
Preparing trees for planting at a nursery in Senegal. The UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems as a proven measure to fight the climate crisis and enhance food security, water supply and biodiversity.
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NEW YORK (FAO)* –– The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, declared today
[1 March 2019] by the UN General Assembly, aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems as a proven measure to fight the climate crisis and enhance food security, water supply and biodiversity.
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01/03/2019
The second meeting of the week on the situation in Venezuela, took place in the UN Security Council on Thursday [28 February 2019], during which competing resolutions produced by the United States and by Russia were presented. Neither text was adopted as the US draft was vetoed and the Russian draft failing to secure enough votes in favor.
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UN Photo/Evan Schneider | A wide view of the Security Council as members vote on a draft resolution related to the situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
It was the third Council meeting seeking solutions to Venezuela’s “protracted crisis” since tensions started escalating in January, when Juan Guaidó, head of the country’s National Assembly, challenged the legitimacy of the sitting President, Nicolás Maduro, who has been in power since 2013 and who was sworn in again for a second term, on 10 January.
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01/03/2019
By Jon Hall, Policy Specialist at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP*
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28 February 2019 (Human Development Report – UNDP)* — Late last year the World Wide Fund for Nature released their Living Planet Report for 2018. WWF’s estimates were stark: populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians have, on average, declined by 60 percent between 1970 and 2014. The Earth is estimated to have lost about half of its shallow water corals in the past 30 years. A fifth of the Amazon has disappeared in just 50 years, and 2018 marked the worst level of deforestation in history.
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01/03/2019
The key role that young people play in determining the future of migration governance around the world is the focus of the session this year of the International Dialogue on Migration at the UN, convened by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Thursday [28 February 2019].
Muse Mohammed/IOM | Accoring to the UN migration agency (IOM), thousands of children are living on the streets of Djibout City. Here. Ethiopian migrant youth wake up on the beach outside the Horn of Africa country’s teeming capital.
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28/02/2019
28 February 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs (they call it ‘investment’).
Nor it is about the four dozens of major and minor wars that the so-called “traditional weapons,” which are being manufactured and exported by civilised, democratic countries, continue to systematically fuel.
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28/02/2019
By Adriana Salvatierra*
27 February 2019 (UN Women)* — Including women’s voices in politics is a starting point of a process to question the privileges and biases that exist, based on gender and social class. It’s a process to break down the patriarchy that frames the construction of this State.
Women account for 53.1 per cent of Parliamentarians in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the third-highest percentage globally. Adriana Salvatierra, a role model to many, became the fourth woman to be elected as the President of the Senate Chambers of Bolivia this year. The 29-year-old is also the youngest to hold this position in the country, and in Latin America. | Adriana Salvatierra. Photo: UN Women/David Villegas
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28/02/2019
“Amid the continued escalation of global challenges, crises that were previously unthinkable are now becoming reality throughout the world” — Daisaku Ikeda
On January 26, 2019, the 37th annual peace proposal by Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist movement, was released, titled “Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach.”
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28/02/2019
In Countries Destroyed by the West, People Should Stop Admiring the U.S. and Europe
It may sound incredible, but it is true: in countries that have been damaged, even totally robbed and destroyed by the West, many people are still enamored with Europe and North America.
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28/02/2019
Migration and sustainable development are “deeply interconnected” and the 2030 Agenda, the UN’s blueprint for a sustainable future for all, will not be achieved if we do not “comprehensively include migrants,” the President of the General Assembly said on Wednesday [27 February 2019].
© UNHCR/Federico Scoppa | A man holding a one-year-old child disembarks from the Dutch-flagged rescue ship Sea Watch in Malta. 9 January 2019.
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