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Public Health Impact of Climate Change

Health Impacts of Climate Change

“If the temperatures rise as leading scientists have predicted, less freshwater will be available-and already one-third of the world’s population (about 2 billion people) suffer from a shortage of water. Lack of water will keep farmers from growing food. It will also permanently destroy sensitive fish and wildlife habitat. As the ocean levels rise, coastal lands and islands will be flooded and destroyed. Heat waves could kill tens of thousands of people.”

Changing Ecosystems: Effects of Global Warming

Julie Kerr,

O clima mundial está a mudar devido ao aquecimento do planeta, é situação aceite pela comunidade internacional, incluindo a científica e a sociedade civil. Esta mudança pode afectar à saúde humana de diversas formas, como por exemplo, alterando o âmbito geográfico e a variação sazonal de algumas doenças infecciosas, perturbando os ecossistemas de produção de alimentos e aumentando a frequência de fenómenos meteorológicos extremos, como são os ciclones.

 New Documantaries 2015 Super Max Prison Lock Down Prison Documentary

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Human rights foreign policy and the role of the United Nations

The story of the UN's human rights treaties may leave us dissatisfied. Where is the enforcement of these rights? We have a legal framework and reports from non-governmental organizations, but where is the pressure to ensure that these rights are realized in practice? What does it really mean when governments say that their foreign policy is concerned with promoting and protecting human rights? Only very rarely do governments actually use these treaties to bring international complaints against other states. Human rights in foreign policy deserve some exposition.

The idea that governments can legitimately concern themselves with the way in which another state treats its own nationals is a relatively recent innovation in international relations. The concept of non-interference in domestic affairs loomed large for much of the 20th century and was seen to foreclose meaningful human rights foreign policy.

llegal migration flows in the Mediterranean

EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION - Preventing and fighting illegal migration

“Since 2013, the region has witnessed a sharp increase in the numbers of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean. In the first seven months of 2014, over 87,000 people arrived in Italy by sea, with the two largest groups coming from Eritrea and Syria. In an effort to reduce the risks of such journeys, in October 2013 the Italian Government launched the Mare Nostrum Operation, which has rescued over 100,000 people. Increases in arrivals have also been recorded in Greece and Spain.”

UNHCR: Global Appeal 2015 Update

O fracasso absoluto para proteger civis inocentes está demonstrado através dos piores dados de deslocações forçadas, dentro dos seus países, devido a conflitos ou violência, que atingiu trinta e oito milhões de pessoas, numa geração, correspondentes às populações de Londres, Nova Iorque e Pequim. O “Observatório de Deslocamento Interno (IDMC na sigla em língua inglesa) ”, que é parte do “Conselho Norueguês para os Refugiados (NRC na sigla em língua inglesa) ”, apresentou o seu “Relatório Global 2015: Deslocados internos por conflito ou violência”, a 6 de Maio de 2015, em Genebra.

Global Economy MELTDOWN Begins as Central Bank QE Policy a Failure!

Reality Check

“UNEP estimates that up to US$6 trillion a year is needed until 2030 for countries to improve their energy, transport, water and urban infrastructure-the building blocks of sustainable development.”

Our planet: Time for Global Action

United Nations Environment Programme (March 2015)

A “Avaliação Ecossistémica do Milénio (MA na sigla em língua inglesa) ” é um projecto de pesquisas realizado entre 2001 e 2005, por mil e trezentos e sessenta cientistas, de noventa e cinco países, e coordenado pela ONU, com o objectivo de avaliar os impactos das mudanças nos ecossistemas, o uso e desperdício dos recursos naturais do planeta, bem como a qualidade de vida do ser humano, tendente a estabelecer uma base científica que apoiasse as necessárias acções para garantir a conservação e o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas e o bem-estar dos seres humanos.