23/04/2019
23 April 2019 (UN Environment)* — Erupting volcanoes, earthquakes, dust storms and meteorites smashing into the Earth’s crust are natural phenomena that can cause climate change and air pollution: dinosaurs may have met their end after a giant meteorite kicked up so much dust that it blocked out the sun for decades, reducing photosynthesis and preventing the growth of plants.
In 2018 activists helped save the remaining part of Hambach forest in northern Germany in the face of plans to chop it down to expand a huge lignite mine. Forests store carbon, promote biodiversity and cleanse the air. Photo Credit: Creative Commons
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22/04/2019
Traditional knowledge is at the core of indigenous identity, culture and heritage around the world, the chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues said at the annual event’s opening day on Monday [22 April 2019], stressing that it “must be protected”.
UN News/Predrag Vasić | Sjisäwishék ‘Keeping the fire strong’, indigenous girls of the Onondaga Nation, Haudenoaunee Confederacy, perform at the eighteenth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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Anne Nuorgam, who is a member of Finland’s Saami Parliament and head of the Saami Council’s Human Rights Unit, described the Forum as an opportunity to share innovations and practices, developed in indigenous communities “over centuries and millennia”.
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22/04/2019
Greta Thunberg’s Speech at Davos, January 2019
Appearing among billionaires, corporate CEO’s and heads of state at the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland, like a new Joan of Arc, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg called on decision-makers to fulfill their responsibilities towards future generations. Here are some excerpts from her speech:
In August 2018, outside the Swedish parliament building, Greta Thunberg started a school strike for the climate. | Anders Hellberg | CC BY-SA 4.0
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22/04/2019
21 April 2019 (Wall Street International)* —
It has never been easy to understand what is happening in Lebanon. Homeland of the Phoenicians and cradle of civilizations crossed by Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, among many others, including Alexander the Great, until the recent military invasions of Syria and Israel.
The country was under the rule of the Turkish Empire for 400 years until the end of the First World War, in 1918. Year in which France declared it its Protectorate until 1943, when it granted independence.
The colonial powers, England and France, defined its borders, naturally responding to their interests after the partition of Palestine in 1948, to create the State of Israel.
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20/04/2019
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The number of countries regarded as safe, where journalists can work in complete security, continues to decline, while authoritarian regimes continue to tighten their grip on the media.
The RSF Index, which evaluates the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories every year,
SEE THE MAPHEREshows that an intense climate of fear has been triggered — one that is prejudicial to a safe reporting environment.
The hostility towards journalists expressed by political leaders in many countries has incited increasingly serious and frequent acts of violence that have fuelled an unprecedented level of fear and danger for journalists.
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20/04/2019
Over 1,000 health facilities destroyed or damaged: UNICEF vaccines cold chain equipment arrives in country
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TEHRAN, 19 April 2019 (UNICEF)* — Devastating flooding in three quarters of Iran’s provinces has affected 10 million people, of whom 2 million are severely impacted and 500,000 displaced – half of them are children.
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Over 1,000 health facilities and 1,000 schools have been destroyed or severely damaged forcing 100,000 children out of school and depriving thousands of essential healthcare.
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19/04/2019
They armed Gadaffi and the forces that ousted him alike – now they’re repeating that profitable trick.
18 April 2019 (openDemocracy)* — In the shadow world of the arms trade there is one business model that outshines all others: selling arms to both sides in the same war.
Ideally it works best when weapons you have sold to one side destroy weapons you have sold to the other.
Thus if one side uses air-launched precision-guided missiles to destroy the other’s aircraft (or tanks, armoured personnel carriers or whatever), then it will need to buy replacement missiles, will need to have your people service its aircraft and, if it ‘wins’ the war it will most likely buy new planes from you as it rearms.
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19/04/2019
The former president says peaceful China “ahead of us in almost every way.”
18 April 2019 (teleSUR)* — The only U.S. president to complete his term without war, military attack or occupation has called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.”
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