Nairobi, 24 February 2021 (UNEP)* –Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 150 nations on 23 February 2021 concluded a two-day online meeting of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in which the Assembly warned that the world risks new pandemics if we don’t change how we safeguard nature.
New ‘Red Alert’ Scientific Report: Countries Must Redouble Efforts, Submit Stronger Action Plans in 2021, ‘A Make or Break Year’ to Confront the Global Climate Emergency
Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms
Human Wrongs Watch
By Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service*
“The CIA and the media are part of the same criminal conspiracy,” wrote Douglas Valentine in his important book, The CIA As Organized Crime.

Edward Curtin
This is true. The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security state’s ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people, just as they have done the same for an international audience.
We have long been subjected to this “information warfare,” whose purpose is to win the hearts and minds of the American people and pacify them into victims of their own complicity, just as it was practiced long ago by the CIA in Vietnam and by The New York Times, CBS, etc. on the American people then and over the years as the American warfare state waged endless wars, coups, false flag operations, and assassinations at home and abroad.
Another way of putting this is to say for all practical purposes when it comes to matters that bear on important foreign and domestic matters, the CIA and the corporate mainstream media cannot be distinguished.
“There Can Be No Conversation on Climate Change without Including Forests and Deforestation” – The Green Gigaton Challenge
24 February 2021 (UNEP)* — As environmental leaders and change makers meet virtually for the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in February 2021, the issue of deforestation has been central to their discussions.
‘Education for All Refugee Children Is within Reach’
The principle of inclusive education, in this case, opening education up to all refugee children and their inclusion into national education systems can also lead to better services for local communities in host countries.
Millions of Yemenis Facing ‘Death Sentence’ in the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis

Digital Labour Increased Five-Fold in Last Decade, with Challenges Relating to Working Conditions, the Regularity of Work and Income, the Lack of Access to Social Protection…
Human Wrongs Watch
Rapid growth of digital economy calls for coherent policy response. The growth of digital labour platforms is presenting opportunities and challenges for workers and businesses and a need for international policy dialogue.
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GENEVA, 24 February 2021 (ILO)* – Digital labour platforms have increased five-fold worldwide in the last decade according to the ILO’s latest World Employment and Social Outlook 2021 report.
Amid Conflict, Displacement, Pandemic, Syrian Girls See a Future in… Robots
“Like all girls in Syria, I live a difficult childhood,” she told facilitators at the women’s and girls’ safe space where she receives support and services. She is a dedicated student, but since the outbreak of COVID-19, her school has often been closed.
“When I can attend school, I behave politely and work hard,” she described.
Human Rights Experts ‘Appalled’ by Deportation of Migrants to Myanmar, in Defiance of Court Order
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Independent UN human rights experts castigated Malaysia on Wednesday [24 February 2021] over its decision to deport more than1,000 detained migrants back to crisis-ridden Myanmar – despite a court order to suspend their return, pending a judicial review.

In defiance of the Kuala Lumpur High Court’s order, the Malaysian authorities “breached the principle of non-refoulement, a rule of jus cogens, which absolutely prohibits the collective deportation of migrants without an objective risk assessment being conducted in each individual case”, they said.
World Risks ‘Collapse of Everything’ without Strong Climate Action, Attenborough Warns Security Council
