04/12/2020
The coronavirus pandemic has swept across a world that was already profoundly unequal. The failure to tackle inequality has left the majority of countries far more vulnerable and unprepared for both the health and economic impacts of the disease.
In the Central African Republic, the Covid-19 represents a health crisis which is added to an already alarming humanitarian crisis. One in two people in need of humanitarian assistance, and about 70% of health services are provided by humanitarian organizations. Photo: Aurelie Godet/Oxfam
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04/12/2020
The UN agency devoted to ending AIDS as a public health threat is calling on top politicians and governments across the world to ensure the right to quality healthcare is upheld, and not just a privilege to be enjoyed by the wealthy.
Patients seeking treatment at the Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Credit: World Bank/Dominic Chavez
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 2 2020 (IPS)* – Wealth begets wealth. This simple concept of privilege has added to growing discontent with inequality that has escalated under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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04/12/2020
(UN News)* — More than 32 million of the world’s poorest people face being pulled back into extreme poverty because of COVID-19, leading UN economists said on Thursday [3 December 2020], highlighting data showing that the pandemic is likely to cause the worst economic crisis in decades among least developed countries (LDCs).
UNICEF/Asselin | An over-reliance on traditional activities such as farming has left all but a handful of least developed countries (LDCs) extremely vulnerable to the economic shock caused by COVID-19. Pictured here, a family farmer in Chad. (file photo)
In a call for urgent investment and support from the wider international community, the UN trade and development agency, UNCTAD, warned that the new coronavirus risked reversing years of “painstaking progress” in poverty reduction, nutrition and education.
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04/12/2020
An additional 207 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty by 2030, due to the severe long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total number to more than a billion, a new study from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has found (*).
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UN News\Vibhu Mishra | A man, carrying a load on his back, in what is generally a busy business district in Kathmandu, Nepal. COVID-19 and the associated lockdown has hit people hard, with many daily-wage earners losing their only source of income.
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According to the study, released on Thursday, [3 December 2020], such a “high damage” scenario would mean a protracted recovery from COVID-19, anticipating that 80 per cent of the pandemic-induced economic crisis would continue over a decade.
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03/12/2020
Extreme weather compounds the impact of COVID-19
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Geneva, 2 December 2020 (WMO)* –– Climate change continued its relentless march in 2020, which is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record. 2011-2020 will be the warmest decade on record, with the warmest six years all being since 2015, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
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03/12/2020
Countries must decrease production of fossil fuels by 6 per cent per year, between 2020 and 2030, if the world is to avert “catastrophic” global temperature rise, a new UN-backed report has found.*
ESCAP Photo/Christian Dohrmann | A new report has urged countries to cut the production of fossil fuels by 6 per cent, per year, to avoid catastrophic global warming. Pictured here, a cargo train, laden with coal, waits at a railway station in India. (file photo)
Released, on Wednesday [2 December 2020], in the shadows of the coronavirus pandemic, the Production Gap Report also revealed that while the pandemic and resulting lockdowns led to “short-term drops” in coal, oil and gas production, pre-COVID plans and post-COVID stimulus measures point to a continuation of increasing fossil fuel production.
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02/12/2020
2 December 2020 (ILO)* – Highlighting the tragic human cost of modern slavery, El Patron tells the real-life story of an illiterate man, called Hermógenes, from the Argentinian countryside who finds himself trapped in forced labour after he goes to work in a butcher’s shop in the capital, Buenos Aires.
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02/12/2020
By UN Secretary-General António Guterres*
2 December 2020 (United Nations)* — This year’s global protests against systemic racism have brought renewed attention to a legacy of injustices all over the world whose roots lie in the dark history of colonialism and slavery.
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Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) approaches the stakeout area to read a statement to journalists concerning allegations of slavery in Libya in 2017. UN Photo /Mark Garten
But slavery is not simply a matter of history.
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02/12/2020
Hundreds of families with young children work and live in these brickyards near Islamabad – often under conditions of bonded labour. PHOTO:ILO / Marcel Crozet
2 December 2020 (United Nations)* — According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. Although modern slavery is not defined in law, it is used as an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking. Essentially, it refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power.
In addition, more than 150 million children are subject to child labour, accounting for almost one in ten children around the world.
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02/12/2020
By Robert J. Burrowes*
Do you like to believe that scientists are studying the evidence – whether in relation to Covid-19 or anything else – and delivering high quality knowledge that can be used to guide public policymaking so that it might better serve the interests of ordinary people?
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It is certainly a comforting idea, isn’t it?
After all, we have long been told that science is an ‘evidence-based approach’ to understanding particular phenomena and thus providing accurate guidance on how to proceed to achieve productive outcomes.
Unfortunately, this claim is just propaganda for the unwary.
In his 2005 study of the validity of published medical research, John P. A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine who also studies scientific research itself, explained why ‘It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false.’ Most? False? Here is what Professor Ioannidis concluded but you can read his entire article, cited below.
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