Sustainability
Yemen: New World Bank funds offer lifeline to most vulnerable |
In a country reeling from over six years of incessant conflict, economic disruptions compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, floods and desert...
COVID-19 vaccine shipments boost for Africa | COVID-19
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) nearly four million doses of coronavirus vaccines from the UN-partnered COVAX initiative arrived...
Support mangrove conservation, UNESCO chief says |
Audrey Azoulay, Director General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), made the appeal in her message for...
COVID-19 infections rise, Delta variant spreads to 132 countries |
Latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) showed a “substantial” uptick in the Americas and the Western Pacific, which jumped 30 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively. This contributed to a...
On World Hepatitis Day, WHO calls to eliminate disease by 2030 |
While some progress has been made, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that globally, “access to prevention, testing, and treatment services for viral hepatitis remains...
Child malnutrition expected to quadruple in Southern Madagascar |
The number of acutely malnourished children is likely to “increase fourfold” since the previous assessment conducted last October, including 110,000 in severe condition whose growth and...
Progress on tobacco fight, but new nicotine products pose increasing threat |
Compared with 2007, more than four times as many people -- some 5.3 billion -- are now covered by at...
Outstanding sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List |
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee voted on Sunday to inscribe in its catalogue Quanzhou in China, Kakatiya Rudreshwara Temple in India, Trans-Iranian Railway in Iran, and Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro in Spain. Meeting online in this year’s host city...
Together, we must tackle growing hunger, urges Guterres |
Up to 811 million people faced hunger in 2020 – as many as 161 million more than in 2019 - Mr....
UN climate science talks open amid heatwaves, floods and drought |
The assessment comes as record-breaking heat waves, devasting floods and drought struck across three continents in recent weeks. “This report...
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