U.S. Opposition to Breastfeeding Resolution Stuns the World

Trump took to Twitter on Monday to call the New York Times report “fake news.”

Emma Fiala
بواسطة Emma Fiala
Breastfeeding resolution

Decades of research has revealed time and again that breastfeeding is the healthiest way to feed babies. Years of misleading marketing by formula companies has caused undue harm the world over by providing free samples in-hospital after birth, driving the unintended use of dirty water to mix formula where clean water is scarce and miseducating

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Reuters Vs. UN Cancer Agency: Are Corporate Ties Influencing Science Coverage?

One key weapon in industry’s arsenal has been the reporting of Kate Kelland, a veteran Reuters reporter based in London.

Stacy Malkan | FAIR
بواسطة Stacy Malkan | FAIR

Ever since they classified the world’s most widely used herbicide as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” a team of international scientists at the World Health Organization’s cancer research group has been under withering attack by the agrichemical industry and its surrogates. In a front-page series titled “The Monsanto Papers,” the French

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UN: War, Corporate Profiteering Pushing Over 2 Billion To Lack Safe Drinking Water 

A new UN report has found that two billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water. However, the report covers just a small part of the global population and fails to address the impact that war and corporate profiteering have had on drinking water access.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
In this Saturday, April 16, 2016 photo, A Palestinian boy uses a homemade wagon made from a plastic crate to wheel bottles full of drinking water in front of a water supply station in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. Poor sewage treatment is a feature of life in Gaza, a result of infrastructure damaged during Israel's bombing campaigns and ongoing blockade.

According to a new report issued by the UN World Health Organization, approximately two billion people around the world lack access to safe, clean drinking water. The report, titled “Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene,” found that while some countries have made significant progress in providing access to drinking water for their

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Latin America Calls For New Anti-Drug Strategies At The UN

According to the U.N., despite the resources devoted to the war on drugs, drug production continues to grow while drug users have increased by about 20 percent in the last decade to almost 250 million people.

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An addict prepares shoot up heroin after receiving a kit including a spoon, a rubber tube, cotton, sterilized water and clean syringes distributed by a program sponsored by the Open Society Foundation and government agencies in Dosquebradas, Colombia. (AP/Fernando Vergara)

Several Latin American countries have called on the United Nations to strengthen its anti-drug strategies by focusing on prevention and treatment rather than the long-standing militarized approach. Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico and Uruguay, among others, proposed this change in strategy at the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs on Monday.

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Israel Cutting Palestinians Off From Their Own Water Supply

According to an experienced reporter on Palestine, 50 percent of the water to a city of 40,000 people has been cut off during Ramadan, a time ‘when people need to have access to food and water more than any other time.’

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
Palestinians fill empty bottles of water at the New Gaza Boys United Nations School. Israel controls access to Palestinian aquifers, and has been restricting access to local residents.

JERUSALEM --- Apartheid Israel is limiting access to water in Palestine, a long-standing practice that’s only intensified during the holy month of Ramadan, when access to water becomes even more important than usual. Cuts in water supply are hitting the Occupied West Bank especially hard, Al-Jazeera reported on June 23. “Water shortages and

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Science Proves Birth Defects Linked To Zika, But There’s More To The Story

Recent studies suggest the link between the Zika virus and microcephaly is stronger than previously believed.

Claire Bernish
بواسطة Claire Bernish
Sophia, who is two weeks old and was born with microcephaly, sleeps before her physical therapy session at the Pedro I hospital in Campina Grande, Paraiba state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. The Zika virus, spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is suspected to be linked with occurrences of microcephaly in new born babies, but no link has been proven yet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Despite reports to the contrary over the past few weeks, recent studies suggest the link between the Zika virus and microcephaly is stronger than previously believed. In another new development, the World Health Organization announced the sexual transmission of Zika virus happens with more frequency than was first imagined. Both developments led

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