Leah Selim

@leahselim

💧🚽🧼 () and climate advocacy . Love food, books, people, art. Tweets are all mine.

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Joined November 2011
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    Apr 13

    More than 6 weeks of conflict in have devastated both water and electricity networks, leaving 1.4 million people without access to piped water in eastern Ukraine and a further 4.6 million people across the country at risk of losing water supply.

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    Apr 8

    Need to reiterate how amazing it is that the Nats have menstrual products at the park. I unexpectedly needed one and didn’t have anything on me. Anywhere else, I would have panicked and it would have ruined my night, but here I didn’t have any issue! Truly means a lot, go Nats

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    Apr 5

    New paper alert! In new analysis we looked at the total emissions from sanitation systems, in a way that has not been done before. For typical cities with mixed (sewerage and feacal sludge) sanitation we may be seriously underestimating emissions.

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    Feb 26

    The UNICEF Moldova team traveled to the Palanca crossing point on the border of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, where the Temporary Refugee Center is located, offering a first batch of humanitarian aid to refugees with children.

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    8 Dec 2021

    A sobering signal from UNICEF on the eve of its 75th birthday Dec. 11: the pandemic is the gravest threat to the gains achieved for children since the agency was created. 'In a year in which we should be looking forward, we are going backward.'

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    19 Nov 2021

    More people in the world have phones 📱 than toilets 🚽, but access to safely managed sanitation is crucial for healthy lives. On Friday's , see how the aim to ensure access to sanitation for all.

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    11 Nov 2021

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres spoke to Youth Advocate Nicki Becker about the urgent need for at . Watch their conversation here:

    Having a talk at with Youth Advocate , I was heartened to hear how deeply young people care about addressing the climate crisis. I'm grateful for the courage & relentlessness of the youth who show us the way.
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    1 Nov 2021

    The climate crisis is a child rights crisis. The decisions at will shape the lives of every child and young person on earth, now and in the future. I urge world leaders to commit and deliver.

    The climate crisis is a child rights crisis
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    26 Oct 2021

    Today , , and placed copies of the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action on the desks of all 193 governments at the . It's time to put the rights of children at the center of climate policy and decision-making.

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  10. 21 Oct 2021

    Love a good explainer

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  11. 8 Sep 2021

    “The science is unequivocal; a global increase of 1.5°C above the preindustrial average and the continued loss of biodiversity risk catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse.”

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    2 Sep 2021

    Good to speak with and about last nights flooding, our bus experience and our incredible driver Rosa and how is making extreme weather events more severe and more frequent.

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    19 Aug 2021

    ‼️‼️Water supply is rapidly approaching the worst case scenario, with the potential to affect 4 million people being cut off from water this week. At this critical point, the power supply should be urgently restored to keep life-saving water services running.

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  14. 19 Aug 2021

    “The fundamental goal of the adults in any society is to protect their young and do everything they can to leave a better world than the one they inherited. The current generation of adults, and those that came before, are failing at a global scale.”

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  15. 10 Aug 2021

    A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us.

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    9 Aug 2021

    4 things you need to know about water and famine

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  17. 2 Jul 2021

    Cyclones, dust storms, droughts, locusts - Madagascar contributes zero to climate change yet suffers the worst impacts

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    1 Jul 2021

    During the pandemic, 3 in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home. Billions of people will lack access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in 2030 unless progress quadruples.

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  19. 24 Jun 2021

    "The way we manage our water is outdated, inefficient, uncoordinated and to a lot of people, unfair."

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    7 Jun 2021

    I commend the Committee on the Rights of the Child for listening to young people and taking this significant step to address the climate and environmental crisis, one of the greatest threats to child rights.

    UN Committee joins millions of children & young people in demanding that governments do more to find immediate and lasting solutions to environmental issues and the global . 👉
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