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7 June 2020 (UN News)* — Eating contaminated food has caused an estimated 600 million people in the world, or almost one-in-ten individuals, to fall ill – 420,000 of whom die every year, two UN specialized agencies highlighted on Sunday [7 June 2020], World Food Safety Day.
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Ancient Mayan ruins emerge from the rainforest in Tikal National Park, Guatemala, July 2018. © UNHCR/PABLO PALOMO
Juba, 6 June 2020 (IOM)* – The Humanitarian Hub in Malakal, in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan is reducing its carbon footprint following the successful installation and now fully operational hybrid solar power plant.
Final stages of the solar power plant installation at the Humanitarian Hub in Malakal, South Sudan © IOM 2020 / Omar PatanManaged by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the plant will generate 900MWH of power and meet 80 percent of electricity demands in the Malakal facility, a ‘humanitarian hub’ that is base for 300 humanitarian workers from 34 humanitarian organizations in the area.
– Maliha Masud (25), was promised an affluent life and opportunities for higher education. A bright student studying Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, she wanted to complete her studies and become someone her parents would be proud of. She was promised an opportunity to get her Master’s degree from a good university in the United States but, two years later, was left battered and wounded at the doorstep of a shelter.
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Maliha was 20 years old when she married an immigrant living in the United States, who was completing his Master’s at a renowned university. A marriage arranged by a “reputable marriage medium,” she was promised the freedom to study and work after the nuptials.
5 June 2020 (UN News)* — On this year’s World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5, the UN is drawing links between the health of the planet, and human health, and highlighting the importance of protecting biodiversity, the system that supports life.
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4 June 2020 (UN Environment)* — Srečko was a young stork that – like hundreds of others – spread its wings and set off to migrate from Slovenia to the warmer African climate a couple of winters ago. Sadly, his journey ended too early.
The bird, whose name ironically means ‘lucky,’ got entangled in one of the five trillion plastic bags our world uses each year, and he passed away en route.
(UN News)* — A campaign to eradicate illegal drugs in the Philippines that began in 2016 has led to the killing of at least 8,600 people but the real figure could be three times that number, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Thursday [4 June 2020].
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In a report citing “near-impunity” for the killings, which have continued along with other alleged abuses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN office noted that the High Commissioner for Human Rights stood ready to assist “credible efforts towards accountability”, both nationally and internationally
3 June 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The Age of Reason, or the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas during the 17th to 19th centuries.
On 19 August 1982, at its emergency special session on the question of Palestine, the General Assembly, “appalled at the great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel’s acts of aggression”, decided to commemorate 4 June of each year as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
This country reached 18 consecutive days without having a regular health minister.
Image of Jair Bolsonaro against the background of mass graves in Brazil, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @ptbrasil
3 June 2020 (teleSUR)* — When asked for a word for the relatives of the COVID-19 victims, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro replied that death “is everyone’s destiny” on Tuesday [2 June 2020], a day in which his country recorded new records of infections and deaths.
“I regret all the dead but it is everyone’s destiny,” Bolsonaro told a supporter who, after mentioning passages from the Bible, asked him for a message for the mourners.
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