07/06/2020
7 June 2020 (United Nations)* —
Food safety is the absence — or safe, acceptable levels — of hazards in food that may harm the health of consumers. Food-borne hazards can be microbiological, chemical or physical in nature and are often invisible to the plain eye: bacteria, viruses, or pesticide residues are some examples.
Fruit and vegetables farmers’ market in Budapest, Hungary. ©FAO/G.Agostinucci
Food safety has a critical role in assuring that food stays safe at every stage of the food chain – from production to harvest, processing, storage, distribution, all the way to preparation and consumption.
With an estimated 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses annually, unsafe food is a threat to human health and economies, disproportionally affecting vulnerable and marginalized people, especially women and children, populations affected by conflict, and migrants.
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07/06/2020
7 June 2020 (UN News)* — Eating contaminated food has caused an estimated 600 million people in the world, or almost one-in-ten individuals, to fall ill – 420,000 of whom die every year, two UN specialized agencies highlighted on Sunday [7 June 2020], World Food Safety Day.
© Eric Ganz | Friends visiting Croatia share a fresh pizza in Makarska, illustrating the importance of food safely to tourism and economic prosperity.
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Joining forces, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) flagged that “food safety is a shared responsibility” with a role for everyone to play, from governments, industry and producers to business operators and consumers.
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06/06/2020
Celebrating progress on the international day against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing damages livelihoods, strains marine resources, harms food security and undermines overall efforts to make fisheries sustainable. © FAO/Cristiano Minichiello
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5 June 2020 (FAO)* — Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU). These three adjectives ultimately jeopardize the whole of the fisheries sector. IUU fishing can destroy the livelihoods of fishing communities, harm food security and nutrition, damage fair local and international trade and often give way to unsafe and indecent working conditions, sometimes even crime.
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06/06/2020
FAO technical officers and members of the Peruvian Production Ministry mesuring the size of the fishing nets as they carry out inspections aboard of fishing ships in the port of Callao-Pesquera Diamante S.A. © FAO/Ernesto Benavides
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According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities are responsible for the loss of 11–26 million tonnes of fish each year, which is estimated to have an economic value of US$10–23 billion.
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06/06/2020
(UN News)* — Last month was the warmest May on record and carbon dioxide levels also hit a new high despite the economic slowdown from COVID-19, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday [5 June 2020], in an urgent appeal for Member States to renew their efforts to tackle climate threats.
WMO/Tapio Niemi | Late September sunrise as seen from Paalijärvi observation tower in Alajärvi, Finland. May 2020, was the warmest on record, UN weather
agency WMO has confirmed.
“Governments are going to invest in recovery, and there’s an opportunity to tackle the climate as part of the recovery programme”, said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. He added that if this course of action was taken, “there was an opportunity to start bending the curve (on emissions) in the coming five years”.
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06/06/2020
6 June 2020 (UN News)* — With the climate crisis threatening coral reefs around the world, a researcher in Hawaii is part of a team pioneering new techniques to preserve living coral sperm and larvae, and ultimately save the biodiversity and genetic diversity of coral reefs not just in Hawaii but across the world.
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ILO Photo/John Isaac | The UN estimates that estimates that about 25 to 50 per cent of the world’s coral reefs have been destroyed and another 60 per cent are under threat.
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UN News joined the International Labour Organization on a visit to Hawaii where many people are already living aspects of the goals or contributing to their realization in their everyday work.
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05/06/2020
NEW YORK, Jun 4 2020 (IPS)* – Maliha Masud (25), was promised an affluent life and opportunities for higher education. A bright student studying Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, she wanted to complete her studies and become someone her parents would be proud of. She was promised an opportunity to get her Master’s degree from a good university in the United States but, two years later, was left battered and wounded at the doorstep of a shelter.
Credit: Unsplash / Gabriel Benois
Maliha was 20 years old when she married an immigrant living in the United States, who was completing his Master’s at a renowned university. A marriage arranged by a “reputable marriage medium,” she was promised the freedom to study and work after the nuptials.
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05/06/2020
5 June 2020 (UN News)* — On this year’s World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5, the UN is drawing links between the health of the planet, and human health, and highlighting the importance of protecting biodiversity, the system that supports life.
Unsplash/Habib Dadkhah | A woman poses in a field in Ardabil, Iran.
“At least 70 per cent of emerging infectious diseases” such as
COVID-19, are crossing from the wild, to people, and “transformative actions are urgently required to protect environment and human rights”.
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This was the message from David Boyd, the independent UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, ahead of this year’s Day.
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05/06/2020
Talented artists from across Europe put their art to the service of the environment in a competition held for World Environment Day
Photo by Kari Prestgaard
4 June 2020 (UN Environment)* — Srečko was a young stork that – like hundreds of others – spread its wings and set off to migrate from Slovenia to the warmer African climate a couple of winters ago. Sadly, his journey ended too early.
The bird, whose name ironically means ‘lucky,’ got entangled in one of the five trillion plastic bags our world uses each year, and he passed away en route.
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05/06/2020
(UN News)* — The Indian Government must urgently comply with a Supreme Court order to ensure the wellbeing of more than 100 million migrant workers, after coronavirus measures left them jobless, forcing them to travel long distances home, UN independent human rights experts said on Thursday [4 June 2020].
World Bank/Curt Carnemark | Migrant workers in India cook a meal.
“We are appalled at the disregard shown by the Indian Government towards internal migrant laborers, especially those who belong to marginalized minorities and lower castes”, said the Special Rapporteurs on the right to housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, and on extreme poverty, Olivier De Schutter.
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