Sustainability
COVID-19 pandemic exposes global ‘frailties and inequalities’: UN deputy chief
Speaking to UN News, Amina Mohammed said that the global crisis unleashed by the virus could and should kickstart efforts...
COVID-19 impact could be ‘disastrously high’ in poverty-stricken Malawi
COVID-19 is known to be particularly dangerous for those with underlying health conditions and, in the African Great Lakes nation,...
Global health experts advise WHO to identify animal source of COVID-19 virus
The recommendation was among the outcomes of the latest meeting of the Emergency Committee on the new disease, established under...
COVID-19 can’t stop the music on International Jazz Day
The artists were originally set to perform in Cape Town, South Africa, but have united for an online concert that...
UN chief calls for ‘solidarity, unity and hope’ in battling COVID-19 pandemic
“We mourn the lives lost – more than 200,000”, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a virtual press conference on Thursday....
FROM THE FIELD: Women act as ‘agents of change’ in climate emergency
A woman in Viet Nam makes environmentally-friendly biomass briquettes, a biofuel substitute to coal and charcoal cooking fuel., by UN...
World health experts will meet Thursday to assess COVID-19 pandemic
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained that the Emergency Committee meeting will mark three months since members agreed that the...
UN leads bid to help 135 countries get vital COVID-19 medical kit, amid severe global shortages
The COVID-19 taskforce initiative follows a direct request to WHO from UN Secretary-General António Guterres to coordinate the Organization’s response...
COVID-19 putting routine childhood immunization in danger: UN health agency
In his latest update on the crisis, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that the pandemic has put polio vaccination...
From bustling streets to lockdown: Bangladesh and the UN mobilize to fight COVID-19: a UN Resident Coordinator blog
The capital city of Bangladesh, Dhaka, where I have been living and working for the past three years, is normally...
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