” Toxic air is back over large swathes of the United States “, title USA Today on the front page, with the now traditional photo of skyscrapers caught in the smoke, this time they are those of the city of Columbus, in Ohio. ” As record heat attacks the southern United States like a soldering iron, thick smoke from Canada’s wildfires blankets the Great Lakes region “, Write the washington post. According to scientists interviewed by the newspaper, climate change has helped create these conditions, and is putting lives at risk from Mexico to Canada. In the United States, no less than 17 states are on alert for the quality of their air, headlines the Miami Herald. THE New York Times offers a table of air quality in the most affected cities: very unhealthy in Pittsburgh and Chicago, unhealthy in Cincinnati, Detroit, Washington, Philadelphia or Baltimore.
The city of Chicago had this Tuesday “ the worst air quality in the world “, Write the Chicago Grandstandqui specifies that ” the smoke took everyone by surprise, including the weather experts “. The newspaper takes a step back to talk about wildfire issues in the United States this time. Brian Yablonski, head of the NGO Property and Environment Research Center, points out that since the 1970s, the wildfire season has shrunk from five to seven months. Climate change contributes to the phenomenon, but there is also simply not enough wood left in the forests: ” After a century of bad policy that wanted to suppress all fires, America’s forests have been turned into powder kegs, more vulnerable to catastrophic wildfires “. ” Forests need to be restored “implores Brian Yablonski.
In Haiti, William O’Neill pleads for the deployment of an international force
The independent expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti pleads for the deployment of a specialized international force, cis to be read in The National. William O’Neill held a press conference on Wednesday, at the end of a ten-day visit to the country. He spoke of a dire human rights situation », of a « worsening prison situation », and has « drew attention to the lack of control, accountability and sanctions of civil servants in the judiciary “. To adjust ” the multidimensional crisis that is eating away at the country “William O’Neil” think that the solution must be particularly Haitian “, but to restore the freedom of movement of the population, ” the expert, who helped establish the National Police of Haiti in 1995, believes that the deployment of a specialized international force alongside the National Police of Haiti is vital”. But The National think ” that no force will come to get involved in a serious way to try to crush the armed groups which currently constitute the real power in the country. It will be up to the Haitians to show lucidity and courage to face alone the dramatic situation in which they are plunged. “.
William O’Neill’s statements come ahead of the visit to Haiti of United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres this Saturday, to ” see with his own eyes a polaroid of everything he has read for years in the reports of his special correspondents writes Frantz Duval in Le Nouvelliste. For the editorialist, with this visit, ” the UN is doing better than Canada “, while ” the Canadian Prime Minister has not yet made the trip to look in the eyes the friendly country he says he wants to help so much “.
El Salvador would set up a cooperation office in Haiti
El Salvador would set up a cooperation office in Haiti, cin any case, this is what the vice-president of El Salvador announced two days ago, during the 57ᵉ meeting of heads of state and government of the SICA, the Central American Integration System. The vice-president of El Salvador, Félix Ulloa declared “ that the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of his country and of Haiti had signed an agreement in Washington for El Salvador to establish this office on Haitian territory, writes Gazette Haiti : “ This structure will have a humanitarian and assistance function, according to information published on the Twitter account of the Office of the Vice Presidency of El Salvador », complete Juno 7which states that “ in Haiti, the authorities have not yet given any news regarding the signing of a cooperation agreement “.
A Ministry of Equality and Equity for Colombia
In Colombia, the vice-president becomes this Thursday minister of Equality and Equity. Francia Marquez creates at the same time this ministry, which did not exist in the country, it is in One ofThe Spectator. A ministry intended for, according to the vice-president quoted by El Tiempo“ guarantee the right to equality and the elimination of discrimination, focusing particularly on historically marginalized and excluded people, cities, communities and territories “.
The ministry will also work to guarantee the rights of women, the LGBT+ population, people with disabilities, people of African descent, black people, indigenous people, migrants… The list is long. week recalls that this ministry, was ” a promise that President Petro had made to Francia Marquez during his campaign, the key to the role of the vice-president growing “. initiative, esteem The Spectator“ has acquired more and more importance, until it has become a bet, a bet to reduce social gaps and pay more attention to ethnic minorities, the LGBTIQ+ community and young people, among others. »
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights demands that Nicaragua release Monsignor Rolando Alvarez
” The judges consider that the religious is in a serious situation which threatens his life, his health and his personal integrity », Reports Confidential. The Bishop of Matagalpa was arrested last year and sentenced, after refusing to go into exile, to 26 years in prison. For three months, he disappeared in the jails of the Penitentiary System Jorge Navarro, recalls 100% Noticias. The judges demand his immediate release, and that he be guaranteed ” dignified treatment through immediate access to care services “. The Court gives until 7 July to the State of Nicaragua to inform it of the priest’s situation.