Sustainability
Female Genital Mutilation costs $1.4 billion annually: UN health agency
New modelling by the UN agency to coincide with the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, marked...
Slight fall in coronavirus infections ‘nothing to celebrate’, says UN health agency
Dr Michael Ryan, head of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme, was speaking in Geneva after confirmation that there...
2020: the year for action, to ‘rise up’ and safeguard ocean life
With the ocean in deep crisis, members of civil society and philanthropic organisations are urging governments and corporations to take bold action to safeguard the...
$675 million appeal to stop coronavirus in its tracks, as deaths rise
Speaking in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that latest data indicated 24,363 confirmed infections in China and 490 deaths from...
Climate action ‘both a priority and a driver of the decade’: Guterres
Mr. Guterres was addressing the UN Group of Friends on Climate, created by France and Morocco ahead of COP21 in...
FROM THE FIELD: ‘A piece of me’ was taken
Zahra Mohammed Ahmed, pictured with her son and daughter in the Afar region of Ethiopia, is leading community efforts to...
Coronavirus: UN health agency moves fast to tackle ‘infodemic’; Guterres warns against stigmatization
And in the face of concerns that people of Chinese descent are being discriminated against as fears grow over the...
Ocean Conference has potential to be a ‘global game-changer’
“Life under water is essential to life on land”, said Tijjani Muhammad-Bande. The ocean produces “half of the oxygen we...
Coronavirus emergency: here’s what we know so far
At least 361 people have died from the novel coronavirus, which first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in...
‘Spectre of poverty’ hangs over tribes and indigenous groups: UN labour agency
Highlighting new data showing that disproportionate numbers of indigenous people live on less than $1.90 a day – 18.2 per...
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