30/11/2020
Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare, 30 November
By António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General
More than one hundred years after the first large-scale use of chemical weapons in battle, they continue to inflict terror, suffering and death.
Recent years have seen the erosion of the taboo against chemical weapons, threatening the disarmament and non-proliferation regimes.
UNSCOM inspectors take mustard agent samples from 155-mm mustard agent artillery projectiles, which have been wrapped in plastic to minimize contamination, Iraq, 1991. PHOTO:UN Photo/Shankar Kunhambu
The use of chemical weapons anywhere, by anyone, under any circumstances, is intolerable and a serious violation of international law.
Impunity for their use is unacceptable.
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30/11/2020
30 November 2020 (UN News)* — A host of countries have recently announced major commitments to significantly cut their carbon emissions, promising to reach “net zero” in the coming years. The term is becoming a global rallying cry, frequently cited as a necessary step to successfully beat back climate change, and the devastation it is causing.
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Maxime Pontoire | A person carrying a red sun brolly walks through a solar panel farm in France.
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What is net zero and why is it important?
Put simply, net zero means we are not adding new emissions to the atmosphere. Emissions will continue, but will be balanced by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.
Practically every country has joined the Paris Agreement on climate change, which calls for keeping the global temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial era levels. If we continue to pump out the emissions that cause climate change, however, temperatures will continue to rise well beyond 1.5, to levels that threaten the lives and livelihoods of people everywhere.
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30/11/2020
(UN News)* — Hunger is on the rise in southern Madagascar due to consecutive years of drought, affecting half the region’s population, or 1.5 million people, and forcing most families to eat insects, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Friday [27 November 2020].
WFP/Tsiory Andriantsoarana | The combined effects of the drought, COVID-19 and the insecurity upsurge have undermined the already fragile food security and nutrition situation of the population of southern Madagascar.
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The figure is three times the number projected mid-year, with women and children comprising most of those experiencing “crisis” or “emergency” hunger conditions.
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29/11/2020
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The environment is key component to antimicrobial resistance and according to the World Health Organization, we may be entering a post-antibiotic era when simple and previously treatable, bacterial infections will no longer be possible.
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29/11/2020
The body – which is designed to ensure that the
Principles for Responsible Banking remain relevant and that the signatories are accountable to civil society – is the only instance of a sustainable finance initiative having such significant civil society input.
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29/11/2020
Mario Lubetkin is Assistant Director General at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
ROME, Nov 27 2020 (IPS)* – Overcoming the digital gap to face food insecurity with the use of artificial intelligence practices in agriculture is part of a growing debate that seeks to simultaneously safeguard natural resources and address the difficulties generated by climate change and the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Digital technologies are changing agriculture and food systems. It is important to bridge the digital gap in this sector so that family farmers in developing countries are not left behind as food security depends on them. Credit: FAO.
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29/11/2020
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Foreword
United Nations* — This study has been prepared by the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat for, and under the guidance of, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 32/40 B of 2 December 1977.
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The study was published in keeping with the following guiding principles suggested by the Committee:
“The study should place the problem in its historical perspective, emphasizing the national identity and rights of the Palestinian people. It should survey the course of the problem during the period of the League of Nations Mandate and show how it came before the United Nations. It should also cover the period of United Nations involvement in the problem.”
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29/11/2020
29 November 2020 (UN News)* — Commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to explore every opening to “restore hope” for a two-State solution.
UNRWA/Khalil Adwan | Palestine refugee students in a classroom at an UNRWA elementary co-ed school.
In a message, the UN chief cautioned that prospects for a viable two-State solution are becoming “more distant”.
“A host of factors continue to cause great misery, including: the expansion of illegal settlements, a significant spike in the demolition of Palestinian homes and structures, violence and continued militant activity,” said Mr. Guterres.
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28/11/2020
18 November 2020 (UNEP)* — Today, when students file into the lunchroom at Mundika High School in western Kenya, they are greeted by a spread of nutritious local vegetables with exotic-sounding names, like spider plant. But that wasn’t always the case. Just a few years ago, that fare had largely disappeared from Kenyan plates, replaced by cheaper foreign-derived foods, like cabbage and maize meal.
Photo: Aurillia Manjella / 18 Nov 2020
“The first time we introduced indigenous African leafy vegetables in a school meal programme, we didn’t know how the students would respond,” said Aurillia Manjella, an agricultural consultant who helped Mundika high, and several other schools, integrate traditional foods into their menus.
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28/11/2020
By Frederica Barclay*
27 November 2020 (IWGIA)* — In Peru, the Bagua Massacre prompted the adoption of the ILO Convention 169 in response to local demands and international pressure. However, far from respecting the communities’ decision, this has led to simulations of consultations that prevent the Indigenous Peoples from exercising their right to autonomy and self-determination. The consultation process, as outlined by the State, has become a threat.
Prior consultation for lot 192 in 2015. Photo: PUINAMUDTThe obligation of States to conduct processes of free, prior and informed consultation and to obtain the consent of the Indigenous or original peoples is a right established by Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1989 and was one of the major vindications enshrined in this global instrument.
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