Sustainability
Four things the UN chief wants world leaders to know, at key COP24 climate conference opening
The two-week 24th conference in Katowice, Poland, of the parties to the UN Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC), technically started on...
UN rights chief welcomes new text to protect rights of peasants and other rural workers
“Globally, peasants feed the world, but their own enjoyment of their human rights is challenged, including their own right to...
CLIMATE CHANGE FOCUS: Profiting from urban waste in Vietnam
UNDP Viet Nam In Hoi An in Viet Nam, biodegradable waste is composted at the household level and then used...
THE COMMITTEES: Setting out to ‘transform the world’ in the General Assembly’s Second Committee
In this, the second in our ongoing series looking at how the headlines generated by the pronouncements of UN officials...
CLIMATE CHANGE FOCUS: Fighting drought with Somalia’s sand dams
UNDP Somalia/Said Isse Sand dams in Puntland, Somalia, can harvest water above and below ground and help to build the...
FROM THE FIELD: Powering up health care in Sub-Saharan Africa
UNDP/Slingshot Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa have partnered with UNDP to launch the Solar for Health initiative to install solar systems...
Uganda’s Ebola preparedness ‘will go a long way’ says WHO chief
With the total number of recorded patients in and around the North Kivu region standing at 608 of whom 368...
On the first day of 2019, over 395,000 babies to be born worldwide: UNICEF
As revelers say ‘hello’ to 2019 with great festivities, the world welcomes its newest residents. In a press release issued...
‘Repeated attacks’ could close down key hospital in eastern Libya, says WHO
Although nobody was reportedly killed, WHO said that there had been panic among patients and health workers inside the hospital,...
In 2019, ‘reasons for hope’ in a world still on ‘red alert’: UN chief Guterres
He reiterated one of his clarion calls during 2018 over climate change, saying that it was still “running faster than...
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