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A Natural Disaster that Has Affected More People Worldwide Than Any Other
- Inter Press Service
BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 14 (IPS) - Here’s a question: Over the past 40 years, what natural disaster has affected more people around the globe than any other?
A historic course correction: how the world’s shipping sector is setting sail for net zero
- UN News
Long overlooked as a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, the shipping industry is now at the forefront of a unique display of international cooperation. The shift signals that even the world’s largest transport sector can be steered toward climate accountability.
8 million teens in world's wealthiest countries functionally illiterate: UNICEF
- UN News
Children in many of the world’s wealthiest countries saw marked declines in their academic performance, mental wellbeing, and physical health as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report published by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday.
Funding cuts in Afghanistan mean ‘lives lost and lives less lived’
- UN News
In a remote village clinic in the Bamyan Province in Afghanistan last week, a group of teenage girls were given potentially life-saving reproductive health advice, excited by the small kit of menstrual supplies they had been given.
‘Politically unacceptable, morally repugnant’: UN chief calls for global ban on 'killer robots'
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has once again called for a global ban on lethal autonomous weapon systems – machines capable of taking human lives without human oversight – describing them as “politically unacceptable” and “morally repugnant.”
UN aid office denounces attacks on Gaza hospital
- UN News
The UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, underlined the need to protect civilians and healthcare facilities in the Gaza Strip in a renewed appeal on Wednesday.
In Berlin, broad backing for UN peacekeeping as global threats mount
- UN News
More than 130 countries and international partners threw their weight behind UN peacekeeping at a high-level ministerial summit in Berlin on Wednesday, pledging military, tech and political support.
US-Houthi ceasefire ‘a welcome opportunity’ to advance peace efforts in Yemen
- UN News
The ceasefire between the United States and Houthi rebels in Yemen provides an opportunity to revitalize the peace process in the Middle Eastern country, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday.
World News in Brief: Sudan refugees, aid for Syrian returnees, MERS alert in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela urged to end secret detentions
- UN News
More than 40,000 Sudanese have fled to eastern Chad in the past month to escape intensifying violence in Darfur.
Hungary's LGBTQI Amendment an Affront to Human Rights, Say Activists
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, May 13 (IPS) - A controversial amendment to Hungary’s constitution has left the country’s LGBTQI community both defiant and fearful, rights groups have said.
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