Air Pollution Threatens Health and Drives Climate Change

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Smoke from a now-decommissioned factory rising in the air in Bosnian town of Zenica, Bosnia, June, 2, 2017. © 2017 Almir Alic/AP Photo September 7 is the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies. Each year, an estimated seven million people around the world are killed by effects from air pollution, which include cancer, strokes, and heart and lung diseases.Around 99 percent of the world’s population lives in locations with air quality exceeding limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO). Pregnant people, children, older people, people with disabilities,…

Read complete article

~	Kyrgyz Police Go Unpunished for Failing to Protect Women

~	Protect future generations from global decisions made today

~	Chroming, choking and skull-breaking – social media challenges can come with deadly consequences

~	Research nation: whisper it, Europe still sometimes looks to the UK

~	Trump’s abortion flip-flops: Lessons from Ireland on why reasons-based access to abortion doesn’t work

~	In Lebanon, foreign investment soars despite ongoing challenges

~	Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today

~	Marine art deepens our understanding of the oceans – here’s how it has evolved through the centuries

~	Five aspects of Kaos that might or might not be from Greek myth – according to an expert

~	The NHS is in ‘serious trouble’ and needs major reform – here are the pitfalls the government must avoid