03/10/2020
Physical decline, deepening economic hardship and isolation make life tougher for older people, who comprise four per cent of the forcibly displaced population worldwide. | Español | Français | عربي
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Despite suffering knee problems and hypertension, 69-year-old Nicaraguan asylum-seeker Esperanza* used to get up at dawn every day to pick coffee to support her family in Costa Rica.
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03/10/2020
(UN News)* — The UN human rights office OHCHR, called on Friday [2 October 2020] for urgent action to address the “unimaginable horrors” faced by migrants attempting to cross the central Mediterranean Sea in search of safety in Europe.
IOM Libya | Migrants who have been returned to shore in Libya after attempting to cross the sea to Europe are supported by aid workers from the IOM.
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OHCHR highlighted what it called a “cycle of violence” whereby people faced deprivation and abuse in Libya, only to be left to drift “for days at sea”.
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03/10/2020
(UN News)* — The elimination of nuclear weapons is vital to the “survival of life on this planet”, the UN chief told the final major event of the General Assembly’s high level week on Friday [2 October 2020].
Unsplash/Burgess Milner | At the height of the Cold War, more fallout shelters were built as the perceived threat from nuclear war increased.
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03/10/2020
2 October 2020 (United Nations)* — The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence.
The “Non-Violence” (or “Knotted Gun”) sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on display at the UN Visitors’ Plaza. PHOTO:UN Photo/Fan Xiao
According to General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271 of 15 June 2007, which established the commemoration, the International Day is an occasion to “disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness”.
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02/10/2020
ILLINOIS, United States, Oct 1 2020 (IPS)* – Recent months have brought all sorts of climate-linked disasters, from raging wildfires in California and Oregon to flooding in Alabama. As we think of the incalculable losses that are associated with these extremities linked to the changing climate, I cannot help but think of the belowground web of life that is burning, being flooded and washed away, affected, or lost.
Soil stores nutrients, carbon and micro-organisms. Credit: Xavi Fernández de Castro/IPS
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02/10/2020
Countries of the Amazon basin are probably underestimating their carbon emissions from deforestation by 37%.
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01/10/2020
30 September 2020 (UN News)* — Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is reckoning with the disproportionate and severe impact that the virus has wrought on the “health…rights and well being” of older persons, the UN chief has said, marking the international day highlighting their issues.
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© UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi | An elderly woman is pictured in Makaising Village in Gorkha District, Nepal.
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IOM is warning of a humanitarian crisis as 350 migrants and refugees were forcibly removed from the IOM-run accommodation in Bira, Bosnia.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 