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New environmental report offers solutions for ‘triple planetary crisis’
- UN News
Deadly wildfires, noise pollution and other looming environmental threats could cause widespread ecological damage, and need to be urgently addressed, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new report published on Thursday.
The Weaponisation of Libya's Elections
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Libia, Feb 17 (IPS) - Libya was supposed to hold elections early this year. Instead, it now has two rival political administrations — a return of the divisions of the past.
Child sex abuse in Madagascar ‘widespread and tolerated’
- UN News
In Madagascar, child sex abuse is “widespread and tolerated” in tourist hotspots, UN-appointed rights experts said on Thursday.
Fierce Urgency Required to Include Children with Disabilities in Education – ECW’s Yasmine Sherif says
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Feb 16 (IPS) - Unable to walk, see or hear, and without assistance, the multiple barriers between 240 million children with disabilities and the education system mean nearly half are likely never to have attended school.
A Step Toward Africa's First Covid-19 Vaccine of Its Own
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 16 (IPS) - Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.Efforts to combat the vast global inequity in access to Covid-19 vaccines just got a boost. A Cape Town company claims it successfully made a vaccine that mimics Moderna’s messenger RNA vaccine—without any help from Moderna. This copycat will still need to undergo clinical trials, but the effort could yield Africa’s first Covid-19 vaccine.
Africa’s Sahel region facing ‘horrendous food crisis’
- UN News
As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people on the brink of starvation has “increased almost tenfold” over the past three years and “displacement by nearly 400 per cent”.
Counter-terrorism, Afghanistan, top priorities for UN cooperation with Eurasian security body
- UN News
Conflict prevention, counter-terrorism and support to Afghanistan, top the list of issues on which the UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization – a Eurasian regional grouping comprising Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan – should bolster their cooperation, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Haiti at ‘crossroads’ entering post-earthquake reconstruction
- UN News
Haiti is once more at a ‘crossroads’, six months after a devastating earthquake hit the south-west of the country, according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed.
‘Strengthened international cooperation’ needed for safe, regular migration
- UN News
Migration is a “a defining feature of humanity and our world”, the UN chief told the General Assembly on Wednesday, launching his second report on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
South Sudan: ‘violence against aid workers must stop’, humanitarian coordinator urges
- UN News
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan on Wednesday strongly condemned the continued violence across the country, which is affecting the safety of civilians and humanitarian workers, constraining humanitarian access, and disrupting the delivery of aid and services to thousands of vulnerable people.
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