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WHO backs Regeneron COVID-19 drug cocktail - with equal access and price cut
- UN News
The Regeneron antibody drug cocktail – casirivimab and imdevimab – has been added to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of treatments for COVID-19 patients, the UN agency said on Friday, before underscoring the need for lower prices and equitable distribution.
Scientific Panel’s Scoping Report Instructive for Global Food Systems Transformation
- Inter Press Service
DOMINICA, Sep 24 (IPS) - On September 10th, on a sweltering summer afternoon, three fishers drove a van around the residential community of Castle Comfort in Dominica, blowing forcefully into their conch shells – the traditional call that there is fresh fish for sale in the area.
Deadly ‘invisible shipwrecks’ plague migrants bound for Canary Islands
- UN News
A sharp increase in the deaths and disappearances of migrants at sea heading to Spain’s Canary Islands, along the West African coast, is a cause for “extreme concern” the UN’s migration agency, IOM, said on Friday.
Mexico calls for respect for migrants’ rights, and ‘true international solidarity’
- UN News
In his address to the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Marcelo Ebrard, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, reaffirmed his country’s commitment against discrimination and hate speech and called for more solidarity.
With the World Banks Doing Business Out of Business, What Should Come Next?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 24 (IPS) - Last week the World Bank announced it was “discontinuing” its “Doing Business” report, which ranks countries on the ease of opening and operating a company.
LIVE: World leaders pledge to power humanity with clean energy
- UN News
How can the world come together to radically change the way it produces and uses energy, as part of efforts to hold back climate change and to ultimately give humanity a more secure future on planet earth? That’s the question that over one hundred countries, organizations and businesses will be discussing at the United Nations on Friday at the High-level Dialogue on Energy, the first meeting of its kind in 40 years.
Head of Libyan Presidency Council announces plan to hold international conference
- UN News
The head of Libya's Presidency Council said on Thursday that he will hold an international conference in October to build support for a Libyan-owned and led stability plan, warning that his country faces “serious challenges” that could undermine elections set for December.
Call to action: Prevent gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies
- UN News
Top UN officials met in the margins of the 76th General Assembly on Thursday, with a strong call to action to stamp out gender-based violence (GBV), amid a rise in forced displacement and other humanitarian emergencies around the globe.
With peace restored, Burundi president says poverty is the remaining threat
- UN News
The President of Burundi said on Thursday that, 60 years after the country’s independence, “the restoration of peace, security, stability and social cohesion are a reality” in the African nation.
How Satellite Technologies Can Aid Fiji, Other Pacific Island Nations to Build Climate Resilience
- Inter Press Service
Sydney, Australia, Sep 23 (IPS) - Sepesa Curuki and his community are coming to terms with the prospect of relocation from Cogea village on Fiji’s second-largest island of Vanua Levu. Their village, which lies between two rivers that flow into the Pacific Ocean only 2km away, has been battered by intense and frequent cyclones, flooding and erosion, threatening their very existence.
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