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Rotting food waste emits 5 times more greenhouse gases than planes
- UN News
Rotting food waste is causing up to 10 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions – five times more than the entire aviation sector, the UN’s environment agency warned this week.
Uganda’s UN-supported wildlife forensics lab turns ivory seizures into convictions
- UN News
The package originated in Entebbe, Uganda, bound for Cairo, containing 10 kilograms of thumb-sized pieces that could have been either bone or elephant ivory.
Renewables, Farmer Aggregation Offer Solutions to Africa’s Post-Harvest Losses
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, October 2 (IPS) - Post-harvest losses, particularly in rural areas, threaten the gains Africa is making in agricultural production and export capacity.
For Pakistan Rising Fistula Cases Make SDG 3 Goal Elusive
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, October 2 (IPS) - “You’re living a life drained of joy,” is how Shehnaz Sher Ali describes her “perpetually wet and stinky” existence. “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy,” says the 35-year-old, who travelled by bus for more than 12 hours with her husband from their village in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, changing diapers whenever possible to keep the smell from reaching the fellow passengers.
SUDAN: ‘It’s Shocking to Be Forced into Silence Simply Because You Are a Refugee’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses life as a refugee with an exiled Sudanese civil society activist who has asked to remain anonymous for security reasons.
The Ingenuity Trap
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, October 2 (IPS) - In the 21st century, getting a pencil into Gaza became international news. In January, after more than two years of restrictions, UNICEF finally brought in learning kits with pencils and exercise books. Textbooks stayed out. By then, the UN had recorded damage to 97.5 per cent of Gaza’s schools.
If We Can Start an Epoch, We Can Start a Farming Revolution
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, October 2 (IPS) - In November 1952, the United States detonated the world’s first thermonuclear device at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test, code-named Ivy Mike, erased the island of Elugelab and scattered a signature of plutonium across the planet that remains in lake beds, ice sheets and ocean sediments today.
‘Money alone won’t get us there’: UN steps up aid for 12 forgotten crises
- UN News
Getting aid to people in the world’s most neglected emergencies takes more than money. It takes open roads, open borders and leaders willing to help it reach those in dire need.
Global life expectancy bounces back to near pre-pandemic levels, WHO says
- UN News
People around the world are living longer again, with global life expectancy almost fully recovered from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Ukraine war ‘a human rights catastrophe’ that must end, says Türk
- UN News
The war in Ukraine is a human rights catastrophe that is “growing and intensifying by the week” and threatening an even greater disaster across the region, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday.
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