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From Predation to Saving the Lives of All the Earth’s Inhabitants
Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth – M A N I F E S T O 2 0 2 0 From pillage to security. Life for all the inhabitants of the earth Three scourges are devastating the life of…
UN Chief and German Chancellor Call for Rebuilding ‘Our World for the Better’
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN (IDN) – German chancellor Angela Merkel and UN Secretary-General António Guterres have accentuated that any coronavirus recovery programme should have a clear focus on climate targets and rebuilding “our world for the better”. They were addressing…
European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
“In an age of sometimes false, and often too much information, it is difficult for human rights organizations to decide how much time to devote to which of our world’s manifold problems,” writes Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR’s general secretary, in our…
Global Military Expenditure Sees Largest Annual Increase in a Decade, Reaching $1917 Billion in 2019 – SIPRI
Total global military expenditure rose to $1917 billion in 2019, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The total for 2019 represents an increase of 3.6 per cent from 2018 and the largest annual growth…
Forestry industry must improve safety record
New FAO report points to steps to reduce forestry accidents, including safety inspections, and providing education and first-aid training. The forestry industry must take steps to improve its safety record and promote decent rural employment in support of the Sustainable…
Why Did the World Health Organization Wait Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic?
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic. By Vijay Prashad When U.S. President Donald Trump cut off his government’s funding to the…
Universal basic income could improve the nation’s mental health
Many people are talking about universal basic income (UBI) these days. Giving everyone a guaranteed income could be the solution to many economic woes. But one factor that hasn’t been mentioned much in discussions of UBI is how it might…
Military Spending on the Rise while Health Budgets Remain Insufficient in Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
With the release of SIPRI’s newest report, showing global military spending in 2019 at a new high of US$1,917 billion, the International Peace Bureau (IPB) is calling for an end to the military spending pandemic, starting with an annual reduction…
Global Pandemic And Global Warming
By Binu Mathew The COVID-19 has taught us that we are in an emergency. In 2019 a teenager named Greta Thumberg was crying hoarse that we are in an emergency and no one was listening. It’s time for us to…
UN refugee chief calls for solidarity during Ramadan
As holy month begins amid the coronavirus pandemic, Filippo Grandi asks us to remember almost 70 million people forcibly uprooted from their homes. عربي Ramadan wishes during coronavirus pandemic (Vicky Tennant, producer / Alex St-Denis, camera/editor) Assalamualaikum With the Holy Month…
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