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| Subject: Four million people drowned in a decade, as experts push for United Nations' action Thu Oct 10, 2019 6:28 pm | |
| Four million people have fatally drowned in the past decade yet not one of the 26,000 resolutions by the United Nations directly addresses this "silent" killer.
In an impassioned call to the World Conference on Drowning Prevention in Durban on Wednesday, Gemma May, the international advocacy manager from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in Britain called on delegates to support a push for the first United Nations' declaration on drowning.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/four-million-people-drowned-in-a-decade-as-experts-push-for-united-nations-action-20191009-p52z8q.html |
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