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Water, a fundamental human right!

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"On 28 July 2010, through Resolution 64/292, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realisation of all human rights" (United Nations, 2010). Therefore, in today's post, access to " clean water and sanitation" are going to be the main topics. The Life Water Organization (2021) exposes that approximately, 1 in 10 people worldwide don't have access to clean water, which represents a number of 784 million people. So, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6, seeks to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” by the year 2030, because there are some critical situations liked to this global affair, like for example: - More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war. - Diarrheal diseases, caused primarily by unsafe water and poor sanitation, kil

Mini garden at home?

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Hello! Today, I want to talk about a shocking situation we're living in this globalized world: consumerism (in the food industry), which has many controversials perspectives due to its relation with climate change and food security. The Food Empowerment Project (2018) mentions that a "wide range of negative social repercussions are related to fast food consumption, like for instance the rapidly rising rates of diet-related disease, worker exploitation, systemic animal abuse, and environmental degradation", since its value chain is focused on massive production, with a main target market ... lower- income consumers. In the other hand, the individual and sociocultural factors together with advertising practices influence consumers’ fast‐food addiction and consumerism, that's why, governments and companies are called to mainly take control and manage through CSR the relationship between fast‐food addiction and consumers behaviour, by implementing publi

Covid 19 and mental health: My brother's experience

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Today, I want to share a personal experience I'm currently living through my brother's mental health confrontation during this pandemic. But, I wanted to start by talking about mental health issues on a global scale, since these are situations that affect a high percentage of the population worldwide, but it hasn't the visibility that I consider it should have. The World Bank (2020), states that at least 10% of the world's population suffer from mental illness, and that 20% of children and adolescents suffer from some type of mental disorder, including depression and anxiety, that can induce to premature mortality and affects functioning and quality of life; which is a global problem since there is inadequate government's funding in proper health care systems, causing a huge increasement of loss productivity at the economic outlook. This is really shocking information since it was announced during the beginning of the pandemic's restrictions governments