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Guiding Disaster Risk-Reduction Investments Through AI-Powered Tools
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, October 13 (IPS) - The theme of this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, “Fund Resilience, Not Disasters,” called for the urgent need to shift from reactive spending on recovery to proactive investment in disaster risk reduction.
Quo Vadis UN @80?
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, October 13 (IPS) - The United Nations turned 80 this year. What should have been a moment of pride and celebration at the high-level session of the UN General Assembly in September 2025 turned instead into an occasion of bitter irony.
Deputy UN chief pays tribute to Beijing’s key role in advancing women’s rights
- UN News
UN Deputy-Secretary General Amina Mohammed has acknowledged the Chinese capital’s enduring association with the fight for women’s rights and gender equality, 30 years on from the adoption of the landmark Beijing Declaration, a foundational international treaty.
UN releases $11 million for Gaza aid as ceasefire, hostage release bring ‘fragile hope’
- UN News
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter – a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall threatening to stall it.
World News in Brief: Record hunger in Haiti, repeated attacks in Sudan’s El Fasher condemned, Maldives medical milestone
- UN News
As the humanitarian crisis continues to escalate in Haiti, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday that women, children and displaced families are disproportionately affected as malnutrition and hunger rise.
The ‘food heroes’ cultivating global change
- UN News
People around the world who are transforming food systems in their local communities are being recognised and supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
DR Congo: UN envoy points to ‘real hope’ for ceasefire and peace in the east
- UN News
There is now “real hope” for a ceasefire which would pave the way for a lasting and definitive settlement of the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Huang Xia, told the Security Council on Monday.
Trade, debt and investment at the heart of upcoming UN meeting, as global unpredictability hits people’s livelihoods
- UN News
The world’s poorest are being squeezed by trade uncertainty, heavy debt burdens and falling investment, the UN trade and development agency UNCTAD warned a week before ministers gather in Geneva for its largest meeting in four years.
Indirect disaster effects cost the world nearly $2 trillion per year, Guterres says on International Day
- UN News
From 1970 until 2000, the costs of disaster averaged $70-$80 billion. Those mainly preventable costs doubled this century to average $180-$200 billion annually, according to a recent report published by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns
- UN News
Common infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – to treat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday, as new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics, endangering millions and straining health systems worldwide.
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