The second wave of COVID-19 caused an additional 90 million children to stop going to school in November, up to a total of 320 million, according to data from UNICEF.
The agency warns that we move very quickly “in the wrong direction”And they highlight that, according to a recent analysis of data from 191 countries, no relationship between regular school operation and community transmission rates
The Children’s Fund calls on governments to give priority to reopening classrooms by applying sanitary measures to make them as safe as possible.
“In some cases, the closures are national rather than localized and children continue to suffer the devastating effects this has on their learning, mental and physical well-being and safety,” UNICEF emphasizes.
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The number of people killed annually by tobacco stands at 8 million, according to the WHO.
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The World Health Organization has launched a campaign to get up to 100 million people to try to quit smoking with the help of WhatsApp and other applications.
The year-long campaign, with a particular focus on countries with high numbers of smokers and smoking deaths (the US, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, China and Germany, among others), will promote social media creation from groups of people who are quitting smoking, to support each other and share information.
It also seeks to increase access to tobacco cessation support services and “raise awareness of the tactics used by tobacco companies.”
In the world some 780 million people say they want to quit smoking, but only 30% of them have access to help. The pandemic of COVID-19, a disease with which smokers are at greater risk of presenting serious symptoms and dying, has increased the number of people interested in quitting this habit. “It’s always a good time to quit, but at this time it is the most appropriate to reduce mortality for smoking during COVID, ”said Vinayak Prasad, director of the Organization’s anti-tobacco unit.
UN expert calls on UK to release Julian Assange
Photo: video capture High Commissioner for Human Rights
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spent seven years in asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Photo: video capture High Commissioner for Human Rights
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A UN human rights expert has called on the UK to immediately release Julian Assange who remains in prison awaiting extradition to the United States.
“For more than a decade, Assange’s rights have been seriously violated”Says Nils Melzer, the special rapporteur on torture.
Faced with the expected decision on the extradition of the Wikileaks founder scheduled for January 4, 2021, the expert also reiterates his call to the British authorities not to extradite Assange to the United States due to “serious human rights concerns” .
“Assange He is not a convicted criminal and poses no threat to anyone“, Says the rapporteur, so his prolonged solitary confinement in a maximum security prison” is not proportionate and has no legal basis. Melzer believes that the suffering they are inflicting on him may amount to torture and cruel and degrading treatment and punishment.
Good soil health is good health for everyone, by cultivating without chemicals, through biodiversity, we will be generating a new ecosystem for microorganisms, macro-organisms and pollinators to do their job, generating balance and healthy crops.
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Ecuadorian chef Rodrigo Pacheco has been named a goodwill ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization for the International Year of Plant Health.
Pacheco’s passion for innovative gastronomy has led him to work for the recovery of ecosystems. The chef participates in the development of a “biodiversity corridor” in Ecuador that runs from the Pacific coast to the Chocó Andino.
Its Bocavaldivia restaurant celebrates the ancestral gastronomic heritage of the Valdivian culture using local ingredients produced in sustainable conditions. In addition, he plans to create the largest edible forest in the world.
Pacheco explains that there are many ways to protect plant health, for example by using “growing methods that reduce pests naturally and, with this, minimizing the use of pesticides “or exercising” our power as consumers to buy plants and products grown in a sustainable way.
In January 2021, chef Pacheco will promote a regional campaign and prepare a cookbook of dishes that rescue endemic products.
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