28/01/2022
(UN News)* — G20 leading industrialized nations must embrace their role as influential leaders against climate change, by aligning development and economic recovery with international nature and climate goals, according to a new UN report, published on Thursday [27 January 2022].
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CIFOR/Axel Fassio | Woman plant peanuts in Yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In its joint report on finance for nature in the G20 countries, the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Economics of Land Degradation Initiative, examined how wealthy nations can better support nature-based solutions (NbS).
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28/01/2022
(UN News)* — Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions – “hunger hotspots”, where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at risk, UN agencies highlighted on Thursday [27 January 2022].
© UNOCHA/Michele Cattani | A young woman carries water in a camp for displaced people in Tillaberi region, Niger.
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According to the
Hunger Hotspots Report from the World Food Programme (
WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (
FAO),
Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen remain the countries of highest concern..
According to the most recent assessments, all four countries had areas where people were experiencing, or projected to experience, starvation and death (
IPC Phase 5), requiring the most urgent attention.
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27/01/2022
A Classic Blunder and Smear against an Outspoken Activist
Emma Watson – UOL
Anyone who has ever been critical of Israeli actions toward the Palestinian people knows what to expect next—an avalanche of pit-bull attacks and smears that their criticisms of Israel are motivated by racism and anti-Semitism.
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25/01/2022
Mark Cutts | The harsh winter continue to make life very difficult for displaced people in camps like this one in Idlib, Syria.
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Speaking by videoconference to journalists in New York, Mark Cutts said humanitarians had seen “some real horror scenes” in the last few days, especially in the northwest, where he said the camps were “bad at the best of times”.
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25/01/2022
Do our “Defense Departments” really defend us? Absolutely not! Their very title is a lie. The military-industrial complex sells itself by claiming to defend civilians. It justifies vast and crippling budgets by this claim; but it is a fraud.
John Scales Avery
For the military-industrial complex, the only goal is money and power. Civilians like us are just hostages. We are expendable. We are pawns in the power game, the money game.
Nations possessing nuclear weapons threaten each other with “Mutually Assured Destruction”, which has the very appropriate acronym MAD. What does this mean? Does it mean that civilians are being protected?
Not at all. Instead they are threatened with complete destruction. Civilians here play the role of hostages in the power games of their leaders.
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25/01/2022
MADRID, Jan 24 2022 (IPS)* – “Unless we take action, the share of children leaving school in developing countries who are unable to read could increase from 53 to 70 percent.”
Credit: Shafiqul Alam Kiron/IPS
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22/01/2022
21 January 2022 (UNEP)* — Last week, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed that in 2021, the US experienced 20 major climate-related disaster events with damage costs exceeding 1 billion. In total, these events caused US$145 billion in damage and claimed at least 688 lives.
Photo: REUTERS/Adrees Latif / 04 Feb 2021
The year was also one of the hottest globally and the fourth-hottest in the US since it started keeping records 127 years ago.
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22/01/2022
(UN News)* — At a time when “the only certainty is more uncertainty”, countries must unite to forge a new, more hopeful and equal path, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the General Assembly on Friday [21 January 2022], laying out his priorities for 2022..
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the UN General Assembly on his priorities for 2022.
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22/01/2022
(UN News)* — Urgent action is required to assist and protect some 400 Vietnamese migrant workers who were allegedly trafficked to Serbia, experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said on Friday [21 January 2022].
© UNSPLASH/Nikola Aleksic | A view on Belgrade, Serbia.
Eight companies, including Vietnamese labour recruitment agencies and Chinese construction firms registered in Serbia, have reportedly been implicated in serious human rights abuses, they said, citing information received.
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22/01/2022
(UN News)* — The UN chief has condemned airstrikes launched early on Friday [21 January 2022] by the Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi rebels in Yemen, that struck a detention centre in the rebel-held city of Saada, which have left at least 60 dead, and more than hundred injured.
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UNICEF/Taha Almahbashi | A woman, carrying her child who suffers from severe malnutrition and health complications, walks to a health centre in Hudaydah governorate, Yemen.
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The Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized Government, has been fighting Houthi militants who control much of the country including the capital Sana’a, since 2015. Conflict escalated this week,
following an attack on coalition partner, the United Arab Emirates by Houthi forces, on Monday.
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