29/06/2021
New York, 27 June 2021 – The Bangladesh government has failed to address widespread allegations of torture and ill-treatment by its security forces, ten rights groups said on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The groups called on the United Nations and concerned governments to take decisive action.
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29/06/2021
(UN News)* — Radical policing reforms are needed to address systemic racism affecting people of African descent around the world, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet on 28 June 2021 said, as her Office published a series of recommendations prompted by the killing of George Floyd.
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UN Photo/Evan Schneider | New York City Police Officers look on as protests are under way against racism and police violence after the death of George Floyd.
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Among the new measures proposed in the High Commissioner’s report on racial justice and equality, authorities are urged to reassess whether officers should continue to be the first responders to individuals with mental health problems.
In these and other police actions, the report found that law enforcement officers were rarely held accountable for human rights violations and crimes against people of African descent.
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29/06/2021
(UN News)* — Migrants smuggled across borders are often subjected to extreme violence, torture, rape and kidnapping, whether in transit or in captivity, but authorities take little action to address these offences, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report published on 28 June 2021.
OIM/Alexander Bee | Djibouti is a favoured destination for migrants and refugees from countries in the region, notably Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia.
The study focusses on transit routes in West and North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and Central America.It also examines the differing types of violence inflicted on men and women, and presents factors and motivations behind abuse committed during smuggling operations.
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28/06/2021
25 June 2021 (UNEP)* — Birds, fish, turtles, marine mammals and even seeds and larvae connect the islands of the Caribbean across the air and the sea.
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Aware that biodiversity knows no borders, the governments of Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic have joined forces in the Caribbean Biological Corridor with the vision to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems across the Greater Antilles.
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28/06/2021
$72.6 billion is how much nine nuclear armed countries spent on their nuclear weapons as the pandemic spread in 2020 and a global treaty banning nuclear weapons took full effect.
The report “Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending” details the spending of these nine countries on their arsenals, the companies that profited, and the lobbyists hired to keep nuclear weapons in business.
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28/06/2021
(Stockholm) Total global military expenditure rose to $1981 billion last year, an increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms from 2019, according to new data published on 29 April 2021 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
World military spending, by region, 1988–2020. Data and graphic: SIPRI
The five biggest spenders in 2020, which together accounted for 62 per cent of global military expenditure, were the United States, China, India, Russia and the United Kingdom. Military spending by China grew for the 26th consecutive year.
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28/06/2021
Investments in renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure are growing, however from January 2020 to March 2021, globally, more money was spent on fossil fuels, which when burned, create the harmful gasses driving climate change.
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26/06/2021
Sewing workshop of a family business in China. PHOTO:Marcel Crozet / ILO
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26/06/2021
(UN News)* — The global climate crisis is “exacerbating and intensifying” water-related disasters, jeopardizing lives and livelihoods, the UN chief on 25 June 2021 said at a major sustainable development symposium.
© UNICEF/Karel Prinsloo | A child stands near a water pump surrounded by floodwaters in Gatumba, located near Bujumbura in Burundi.
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“For decades, natural disasters, [which] have been one of the major causes of worsening poverty, forcing some 26 million people into poverty each year and reversing developmental gains… are almost always connected to water, whether through floods, storms, droughts, tsunamis or landslides”, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Fifth UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters.
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