13/11/2019
As Australia’s “catastrophic” and deadly wildfire emergency continues, UN weather experts on Tuesday [12 November 2019] echoed Government warnings for people to remain vigilant in the face of the fast-moving threat and tinderbox conditions. *
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services | Firefighters in Queensland, Australia, tackle a blaze which is threatening local communities.
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12/11/2019
11 November 2019 (Wall Street International)* — This is the second in a series of articles about gender. I am one of the founders of the field of gender and have worked in that field nurturing its various crops for many seasons. Thus, I have strong opinions on gender transitioning and I believe that I have earned the right to speak authoritatively on the subject. Although there is much mischief afoot in this regard, including the paradoxical attempt in the academy to silence debate and discussion, there is no progress in ideas or actions without diversity of perspectives and critical thought. We must expose this complex issue to the light of day.
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The rigid and traditional gender system of the Western cultures is only that and not science nor handed down from on high.
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12/11/2019
Global treaty critical for saving disappearing plants amid climate change. FAO calls for greater support for plant genepool and the Fund which support millions of farmers around the world
Farmer from Turkana group working on sorghum crops in Nanyee, Turkana County, Kenya.
ROME (FAO)* — As a public good that benefits the global community, crop diversity must remain a legacy for generations to come, FAO’s Deputy Director-General for Climate and Natural Resources, Maria Helena Semedo, said today [11 November 2019].
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12/11/2019
LONDON/NEW YORK/BARCELONA, November 12, 2019 (UNICEF)* — Pneumonia claimed the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five last year, or one child every 39 seconds, according to a new analysis.
Sounding the alarm about this forgotten epidemic, six leading health and children’s organisations are today launching an appeal for global action. [2]
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12/11/2019
12 November 2019 (UN Environment)* — In July, a 47-year-old woman showed up at the emergency department of her local hospital in Sacramento, California. Her speech was slurred, she couldn’t walk, and she was unable to feel her hands or face. The woman soon fell into a coma, where she remained for several weeks.
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The cause of the woman’s desperate condition, health officials soon discovered, was a skin-lightening ingredient—mercury—that had been illegally mixed into her pot of face cream.
“Mercury poisoning has dangerous and sometimes irreversible effects, and while unborn babies are most vulnerable, anyone can suffer,” said Claudia ten Have, Senior Policy Coordination Officer at the Minamata Convention Secretariat.
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12/11/2019
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 11 November 2019 – The date 11 November is well known and commemorated in many parts of the world because it marks the Armistice ending World War I – ‘the Great War’ – in 1918.
Robert J. Burrowes,
In the evocative words used by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., an atheist humanist, in his novel Breakfast of Champions, the day is remembered thus:
‘When I was a boy … all the people of all the nations which fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was at that minute in nineteen-hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another.
I have talked to old men who were on battlefields at that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.’
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12/11/2019
ODRAMACAKU, Uganda – Christmas is one of the busiest times of the year for beauty salons in this small town in Uganda’s northern Arua District. For 16-year-old Irene Asibazuyo, it means that she will make a little more money.
Ms. Asibazuyo described hairdressing as the “magic” skill that helped her overcome trauma and earn a living. © UNICEF/Adriko
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12/11/2019
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 11 2019 (IPS)* – Every day 830 women die while giving life. At least 33,000 girls are forced into child marriage with 11,000 girls undergoing female genital mutilation.
Gender equality and women empowerment at the heart of ICPD25. Credit: Joyce Chimbi / IPS
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12/11/2019
The UN Deputy Secretary-General has called for gender equality, women’s empowerment and women’s rights to be integrated at the heart of global efforts to achieve a sustainable future for all. *
UNEP/Georgina Jane Smith | UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed (right) meets local school children at the Food4Education innovative partnership in Nairobi, Kenya.
Amina Mohammed was speaking on Monday [11 November 2019] in Nairobi, where countries are meeting this week to mark 25 years since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
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