Coronavirus hitting the Americas hardest says WHO; Brazil death toll passes UK
Zurich/Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present, the World Health Organization said on Friday, with North and South America currently having four of the 10 worst hit countries in the world. The disease was “highly active” in Central and South America, the WHO’s top emergency expert Mike […]
WHO says the Americas are new COVID-19 epicenter as deaths surge in Latin America
Brasilia, BrazilReuters The Americas have emerged as the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said in a Tuesday briefing, as a US study forecast deaths surging in Brazil and other Latin American countries through August. “Now is not the time for countries to ease restrictions,” Carissa Etienne, WHO director for the […]
Sex-based virus lockdowns expose gender divide in Latin America
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation A coronavirus lockdown policy that lets men and women leave the house on alternate days has exposed a gender divide in Bogota within days of being introduced, while Peru has dropped a similar scheme after finding it made women’s days busier. The Colombian capital last week joined two countries in Latin […]
POSTCARDS: SOUTH AMERICA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LOCK DOWN AS CORONAVIRUS TAKES HOLD
ANASTASIA MOLONEY and FABIO TEIXEIRA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
WORLD IN CRISIS: CORONAVIRUS CHASES THE SLUM DWELLERS OF LATIN AMERICA
OSCAR LOPEZ and ANASTASIA MOLONEY, reporting for Thomson Reuters Foundation, look at the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on those living in South America’s slums…
Planned Amazon roads could harm economies not just forests, researchers warn
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation If governments follow through on plans to build thousands of kilometres of roads through the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, it will not only fuel deforestation but bring economic losses too, researchers said on Monday. They examined the potential social, environmental and economic impact of 75 roads, totalling 12,000 kilometres, […]
Amazon emissions lowest from Indigenous and protected lands, scientists say
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Indigenous lands and protected areas in the Amazon rainforest account for just 10 per cent of all carbon emissions from tropical forests spread across the nine countries of the Amazon in South America, researchers said on Monday. The Amazon, as the world’s largest tropical rainforest, is considered key to the fight […]
Australia’s bushfires make massive clouds of pollution
Reuters Smoke from Australia’s bushfires has blanketed its major cities over the past month, turned the sky over New Zealand bright orange and left sooty deposits on its glaciers and drifted across the Pacific to South America. Reuters used readings from NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office showing hourly estimates of the amount of organic […]
World Council of Churches calls for an end to statelessness amid flurry of statements
The World Council of Churches has called for an end to statelessness around the world, noting data showing that more than 75 per cent of the world’s millions of stateless people are from minority groups. The WCC’s executive committee issued a statement this week as it meets in Bossey, Switzerland, in which it pointed out […]
Quick facts – 10 facts on trans murders as world marks second deadliest year
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation With 331 murders, the last year has been the second deadliest for trans people on record, activists said on Wednesday, an annual day of remembrance for homicide victims. The figure is slightly lower than for the previous 12 months, when 369 trans and gender diverse people – who define themselves as […]