Sustainability
Water access critical to beating back COVID-19 spread in slum areas
UN-Habitat said the impacts of the new coronavirus disease could be considerably higher on the urban poor living in slums, where overcrowding also makes it difficult...
New WHO recommendations to prevent tuberculosis aim to save millions of lives
New World Health Organization (WHO) guidance will help countries accelerate efforts to stop people with tuberculosis (TB) infection becoming sick...
World Water Day: Often overlooked, water resources are essential part of solution to climate change
The new global report calls, among others, for concrete efforts to address rising water stress and improve the efficiency of...
UN aid teams work round the clock amid COVID-19 pandemic to ensure humanitarian support to millions
“To stop COVID-19 anywhere, it must be stopped everywhere”, Jens Laerke, Spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of...
FIRST PERSON: The ‘inseparable bond’ between Hawaiian culture and native plants
Mike Demotta is the Curator of Living Collections at Hawaii’s National Tropical Botanical Garden on the island of Kauai. He...
Another ‘tragic milestone’: Reported cases of COVID-19 pass 200,000, says UN health chief
“Every day, COVID-19 seems to reach a new and tragic milestone”, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists, revealing that...
Turn around deforestation in 2020, the ‘Nature Super Year’, says Guterres
The UN chief pointed out that forests, and the global environment in general, are being severely degraded by the unsustainable...
Head of UN economic and social body underscores priority of health, safety during ‘unprecedented’ COVID-19 challenges
In light of this “unpredictable and volatile situation”, Mona Juul tweeted on Thursday that she and the President of the...
UN, an ‘ally’ in Kenya in fight against COVID-19: a UN Resident Coordinator blog
The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to at least five after the Government confirmed...
COVID-19: WHO working on supply pipeline for protective equipment and tests
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking during his regular briefing in Geneva where he highlighted latest developments in the UN agency’s support to countries facing what he described as “an...
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