High-level event co-hosted by FAO, Costa Rica, Spain and the Vatican
27 May 2021, Rome - Indigenous peoples and afro-descendants knowledge, innovations and resilience capacities are essential for the transformation to a more sustainable and climate-friendly world and should be included in the policy-making processes, agreed the High-Level Seminar convened today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the governments of Costa Rica, Spain and the Vatican.
Indigenous peoples are major contributors to positive change, yet these valuable contributions are seldom reflected in mitigation strategies and adaptation policies to address climate change, said FAO Director-General QU Dongyu in his opening remarks.
May 25, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: “Building Fraternity, Defending Justice Challenges and Opportunities for Insular Peoples” was the theme of the May 21 conference, organized by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Anglican Centre in Rome.
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24/05/2021
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the ICRC President and global faith, health and humanitarian leaders have issued a joint call for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world. COVID 19 Treatment Centre in Aden, Yemen. (Picture: ICRC)
On the opening day of the World Health Assembly, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have said that global leaders must choose between “vaccine nationalism or human solidarity”.
In a joint Declaration today co-signed by international faith, health and humanitarian leaders, Archbishop Justin Welby and ICRC president Peter Maurer said that equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines is a humanitarian imperative.
Equitable vaccine distribution is a humanitarian imperative
There is a choice. The world of the next 10 years can be one of greater justice, abundance and dignity. Or it can be one of conflict, insecurity and poverty.
We are at a turning point. COVID-19 has been a truly global crisis in which we all have shouldered a burden. In many cases this has caused us to reflect on those longer injustices that have perpetuated in parts of the world where the pandemic is yet another layer of misery, instability and unrest. These inequalities have been exposed and exacerbated by the impact of the pandemic, both between and within countries. The effects will be felt on a global scale for years to come.
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