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Brazil is Breathing Life into Climate Commitments—Human Rights Lawyer
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 13 (IPS) - Binaifer Nowrojee, a human rights lawyer and the president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), has lauded the Brazilian government “for significant steps taken to breathe life into the climate commitments.”
Poor Countries Welcome Loss and Damage Fund’s Call for Requests, Warn It Falls Short of Needs
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, November 13 (IPS) - Least Developed Countries have hailed the debut call for proposals for the Loss and Damage Fund, which was launched on 11 November at the United Nations climate summit known as COP30 in Belem, Brazil.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 2025
- Inter Press Service
Violence against women is a human rights emergency in every country. One in three women worldwide experience physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime.
Public Health Besieged by Industry Interference
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, November 13 (IPS) - The 183 Parties to the global health treaty, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) will convene in Geneva from 17 – 22 November with one objective – to strengthen their efforts to arrest the No.1 preventable cause of disease and 7 million deaths annually – tobacco use.
From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30
- UN News
Floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms are forcing millions from their homes every year. Most never cross a border; they remain internally displaced yet uprooted all the same. But experts warn that in the not-so-distant future, entire nations could disappear beneath rising seas or become uninhabitable through drought.
World News in Brief: Typhoon generation, disability rights in Myanmar, new refugee-led climate fund
- UN News
The strongest typhoon to make landfall this year in the Philippines has impacted a staggering 1.7 million children – and more than five million people overall.
Ending UNWRA services would imperil political way forward: Lazzarini
- UN News
Lack of sufficient funds is jeopardizing the ability of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) to operate, the head of the agency said on Thursday.
Families in Sudan ‘running out of time’ as hunger spreads
- UN News
More than 21 million people in Sudan, 45 per cent of the population, are not getting enough to eat as the war between rival militaries continues, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
Protecting lives in a warming world: Health takes centre stage at COP30
- UN News
Hailed by Brazil as “a crucial moment to demonstrate the strength of the health sector in global climate action,” a blueprint for global health systems to adapt to rising temperatures and extreme weather has been launched at the COP30 UN climate conference.
Ethiopia: UN supports response to potentially deadly virus outbreak
- UN News
The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting Ethiopia as the country faces a suspected viral haemorraghic fever outbreak in the south, the UN agency said on Thursday.
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