But now, certain parts of the land have been restored. Cultures are starting to flourish and the bees are buzzing once again.

People responsible for this change are a group of melines – former taxi and minors, people who have barely completed high school and some higher education diplomas. The unifying factor? Most have young people on their side.

“” There is life beyond mining [but] We all grew up with the mentality that Diamond is the only solution“Said Sahr Fallah, Chairman of the Kono Youth Council.

More than 44% of 1.3 billion people aged 15 to 24 are employed in agrifood systems. However, this group often does not have the same access to resources as older generations. In addition, they are sidelined in conversations that could change this systemic exclusion.

“” Most of the time, what we see is that young people are included in political processes, but it’s a bit tokenist. They do not have the impression that their voice really counts, “said Lauren Phillips, deputy director of the organization of food and agriculture (Fao).

Decent work = economic growth

THE High -level political forum On sustainable development in New York was summoned this week and next, to discuss progress – or its absence – to the whole agreed world Sustainable development objectives (ODD), one of which guarantees decent work for all.

Despite this commitment, more than half of the world workforce remains in informal employment, according to the secretary general report on the SDGs released Monday. This means that they do not have adequate social or legal protections.

“” Dethered work must be at the heart of macroeconomic planning, climate and diesel transitions and social recovery strategies“Said Sangheon Lee, director of employment policy at the International Labor Organization (Ilo).

Do not ignore young people

Like other vulnerable groups, young people face unique challenges in the food sector. More specifically, they often lack land rights and find it difficult to act collectively to protect their interests.

“If you do not look at the data with an age or sex objective, you actually miss a part of the story,” said Ms. Phillips.

Among these assets are terrestrial titles – which the elderly can be reluctant to transmit due to insufficient social protections. Young people are also less able to access the credit so that they can invest in themselves and their families.

Betty Seray Sam, one of Kono’s young farmers, said her family never came to her when they were going through a crisis – they knew she had no money and a child to support.

But now, thanks to an agricultural job in Kono, she can support her family in times of crisis.

“” This project had a corrugated effect for young people in terms of not only improving their livelihoods, but also means of subsistence of their families“Said Abdul Munu, president of Mabunduku, an organization of community farmer in Kono.

Bee

Providing training to young people in Agrifood systems is absolutely essential to ensure that they can practice sustainable agriculture.

In Chegutu, Zimbabwe,, Fao helped establish schools of bee farmers where young people learn to support the apiaries through practical training activities.

“The idea is that one of the apiaries can be transformed into a classroom where young people from different parts of a neighborhood can come as a school,” said Barnabas Mawire, specialist in natural resources at FAO.

This training has helped support young local beekeepers to go beyond the production of local honey and on a small scale to a full-fledged business model which has the potential not only to fight poverty, but to create local wealth.

Evelyn Mutuda, the young representative of entrepreneurs in Chegutu, aspires to plant jacaranda who, according to her, will improve the quality of bees honey and allow beekeepers to export beyond local markets.

“We want to maximize all the profits so that we can become better and larger,” said Ms. Mutuda.

From Facebook to Tiktok

Being able to train work associations is one of the key factors for decent work. This type of collective action is even more important for young people in Agrifood who often do not have the share capital to adopt a real change in policy.

“Young people are just starting, linking their groups but also with people outside their group. These obligations are important … because there is power in number, “said Ms. Phillips.

She also noted that young people form these links on geographic distances, often using technology. Agricultural influencers on Instagram and Tiktok, for example, are increasingly shaping conversations in the sector.

Ms. Phillips also noted that it was important to consider collective action for youth as intergenerational.

“Although the report focuses on young people, it does not ignore the fact that young people live in families … There are many things that speak of the need for solidarity between generations,” said Ms. Phillips.

Young optimism

The next generation will be the food keepers we eat, so integrating them into this system is now essential for food safety and future sustainability.

“” Many young people integrate tradition into innovation, creating sustainability and community resilience“Said Venio Nala Ardisa, a representative of young people in the Aboriginal peoples in Asia, during an online parallel event during the high -level forum.

Angeline Manhanzva, one of the beekeepers of Chegutu, said that the opportunity to become a beekeeper has changed her life. One day, she dreams of having her own bee farm.

“I will be an elderly person who has so much wealth and who will be able to buy his own large land to keep my hives and treat my own honey.”

The current violence aggravates the country’s food crisis, disturbing local food production in critical areas such as the municipality of Kenscoff and the Artibonite department, often considered as the bread packets of Haiti.

While the UN and its partners respond “everywhere wherever and as far as possible”, the UN spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said on Wednesday that the humanitarian workers could only reach 38% of the population they aim to support.

Several roadblocks

“This is due to the current violence and insecurity, the serious under-funding of the response and the obvious access challenges,” he said.

Halfway, Haiti is the the least funded Among the many humanitarian calls that the UN coordinates – despite the gaps for food security in the country at extreme levels – with just over $ 425 million necessary to date this year.

Myanmar: Conflict intensification obstructs humanitarian aid

Almost four months after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar, the UN is deeply concerned about the fate of civilians caught in the devastating and continuous conflict of the country between the military regime and the country’s armed groups.

As the fighting intensifies, civilians are particularly vulnerable, with increasing attacks against infrastructure.

According to information, an air strike struck a monastery in the canton of Sagan in the sagaing region on July 11, killing 22 people and injuring at least 50 others. The monastery had offered a shelter to displaced people who had fled nearby villages.

A travel camp in the state of North Shan would also have been struck by an air strike during the weekend.

‘Wider diagram’

“These incidents are part of a wider scheme of attacks affecting people through Myanmar,” said Dujarric, with frequent reports of people killed, injured or moved by violence.

Such insecurity also has an impact on the ability of humanitarian teams to achieve people in need: with one in three people confronted with acute hunger, and the current monsoon season has caused floods, “the UN urgently calls on all parties to respect human rights and international humanitarian law,” he said.

Bélarus: Rights experts urge Probe on death deaths of opposition activists

Top Human Rights Experts called Belarus Wednesday to launch urgent investigations into the death of several people imprisoned for political dissent.

Experts – who are known as special rapporteurs – have stressed the case of the 61 -year -old businessman Valiantsin Shtermer. He died in May 2025 as he served his sentence in a so-called “correctional colony” in Šklou.

Mr. Shtermer had been imprisoned for having made critical comments on the large -scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Despite his serious state of health, he would have been denied sufficient care in prison.

The fifty -year -old opposition activist, Vitold Ashurak, also died shortly after being placed in isolation in the same prison.

According to special rapporteurs, Ashurak was a member of the Belarusian National Front who was imprisoned for having violated public order during demonstrations linked to the presidential elections disputed in 2020.

We must not ignore these dead

“These deaths should not be ignored,” said the experts, who added that there were solid reasons to believe that they result from abuse or negligence linked to the exercise of fundamental rights.

“It is of the utmost importance to investigate in -depth in the alleged cases of ill -treatment and negligence which led to the death of Shtermer, Ashurak, Puškin and other people designated as political prisoners by human rights defenders”, the defenders “, the defenders”, the defenders “, the defenders”, the defenders “, the defenders”. Human Rights Council The appointed experts stressed.

“There are great reasons to believe that these people have lost their lives in retaliation for having exercised their civil and political rights, including rights to freedom of expression and the Pacific Assembly.”

Independent experts expressed their concern that certain opposition figures had been stigmatized and labeled as “extremists” or even “terrorists”.

Special rapporteurs regularly report to the Human Rights Council. They are not UN staff and do not receive payment for their work.

In the past three months, a third of the Gaza population (714,000 people) has been forced to move once again, separating families and driving local support systems.

Women and girls wear a heavy burden, fearing their lives on the street – at delivery points and overcrowded makeshift shelters that lack intimacy and safety – like many sleep outdoors.

“Women have suffered an immense loss, including the death or imprisonment of parents. In search of water, living without intimacy and constantly worrying – it is exhausting, “said a worker from Unfpa.

Many young girls are also pushed into child labor and have forced marriage in efforts to deal with devastating hunger.

Safe spaces in large demand

In response to this crisis on Wednesday, the UNFPA reported a strong increase in victims asking for help in their safe spaces, which provide shelter and psychological support.

However, according to women who work there – many of whom are also moved, the conditions are extremely difficult, and there are far too few facilities for the number of women and children in need, which makes it difficult to reach the most at risk.

For example, travel commands disturbed the services and have lost essential equipment and files, forcing them to restart operations from zero.

Even if the staff receives mistreatment accounts, incidents remain largely under-declared due to the stigma, fear of reprisals and the collapse of health and justice systems.

“Despite all the difficulties, I continue to support women and abused girls,” Asmaa said, who works in a safe space supported by the UNFPA in Gaza and has been moved ten times since the war.

Severe and fuel fuel intake

Fuel shortages are paralyzing critical infrastructure across Gaza. The UN has warned that humanitarian operations can collapse entirely and that 80% of health establishments should lack fuel in the coming days.

While the UNFPA tries to switch to a remote support, the fuel shortages have sparked telecommunications breakdowns, cut the hotlines of survivor and rendered a largely inaccessible distance assistance.

Since the blockade was imposed on March 7, no agency supply has entered Gaza, leaving essential items such as severely exhausted menstrual hygiene kits.

Due to these shortages, three UNFPA safe spaces have closed, while the other 14 operate at a very limited capacity.

Despite the many challenges, the reproductive health agency and its cases continue to do their best to help women and girls. “We feel the urgent needs of women and recognize the importance of supporting them. A little effort can make a big difference in their lives, ”said a social worker.

At least 24 boys, 11 girls and two pregnant women would have been among the victims of violence, which occurred during the weekend in the communities of the city of Bara, including the villages of Shag Alnom and Hilat Hamid.

Unicef Fear that with dozens of more injured and still very disappeared, the number of victims of children could increase more.

“A complete contempt for human life”

“These attacks are an outrage,” said executive director Catherine Russell a declaration issued Tuesday.

“They represent a terrifying escalation of violence and a complete contempt for human life, international humanitarian law and the most fundamental principles of humanity.”

The former allies have become rivals – the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the paramilitary support forces (RSF) – have been fighting for control of the country since April 2023 and the fights have recently intensified in the Kordofan region which includes three states.

Put an end to violence now

“UNICEF condemns attacks in the strongest possible terms,” said Russell.

It called on all parties to end violence immediately and to maintain their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law, as well as the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution.

The head of UNICEF stressed that civilians – especially children – should never be targeted. In addition, all alleged violations must be the subject of an independent investigation and those responsible for accounting.

“” Impunity cannot be tolerated for violations of international law, especially when children’s life is at stake“She said.

Ms. Russell extended the agency’s largest condolences to the families of the victims and to any person affected by this heinous violence.

“” No child should never live such horrors“She said.” The violence against children is unacceptable and must end now. »»