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All rural workers deserve social protection coverage: New ILO report
- UN News
Social protection for rural workers “remains a dream”, according to a report launched in Geneva on Thursday by the Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), part of the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO).
Convergence of conflicts, COVID and climate crises, jeopardize global goals
- UN News
Intersecting global crises are threatening the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and impacting food supplies, health, education, and security across countries worldwide, according to a new UN report released on Thursday.
Sanctions Are a Boomerang
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Jul 07 (IPS) - Economic sanctions against countries whose behavior is reproached by the West operate as punishment although they fail in their declared political objectives, and in cases such as Venezuela the contrast is clearly on display in the windows of high-end stores that sell imported goods.
Myths Fuel Xenophobic Sentiment in South Africa
- Inter Press Service
Johannesburg, Jul 07 (IPS) - Around the world, from Syria to Libya, from Bangladesh to Ukraine, millions have become refugees in foreign lands due to war, famine, or political and economic instability in their countries.
UN Predicts 68 Percent of World's Population will be Living in Urban Areas by 2050
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 07 (IPS) - When we think of urbanization we often end up referring to the increasing number of megalopolises that are sprawling around the world.
Yet less thoughts are given on the fact that the future patterns of urbanization will be centered on secondary cities or semi urban spaces, now becoming extensions of these gigantic cities.
Sri Lanka's misery should be warning to us all on global food, fuel and finance crisis: UNDP
- UN News
Countries already under pressure from the economic fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk seeing the same economic turmoil and human misery as Sri Lanka, with the war in Ukraine dragging on, unless the international community agrees to radical financial measures to help countries saddled with debt, the UN said on Thursday.
Tap Into Indigenous Knowledge To Preserve Our Forests
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, Jul 06 (IPS) - A few years ago, I found myself in the Baka indigenous sacred forest in Assok, in Cameroon in the course of my work in supporting them to preserve their forest against land grabbers. We were building a forest hut using only leaves and the knowledge of our indigenous partners.
World is moving backwards on eliminating hunger and malnutrition, UN report reveals
- UN News
The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, according to a new UN report that provides fresh evidence that the world is moving in reverse, away from the Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms, by 2030, when the SDGs are supposed to be realized.
Recovering Edible Food from Waste Provides Environmental and Social Solutions in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 06 (IPS) - For 30 years, Tomasa Chávez visited the Central Market of Buenos Aires and rummaged through the tons of fruits and vegetables that the stallholders discarded, in search of food. Today she continues to do so, but there is a difference: since 2021 she has been one of the workers hired to recover food as part of a formal program launched by the Central Market.
UN and UEFA score Sustainable Goals as women’s Euro tournament kicks off
- UN News
On Wednesday, the first day of the Women’s Euro 2022 football tournament, the United Nations launched Football For The Goals (FFTG), an initiative aimed at tapping into the power of the game to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN’s blueprint for a fairer, greener future.
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