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Mental Health Strategic Plan for Bangladesh: An Overview
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Oct 28 (IPS) - Mental health and treating mental health conditions involves not only treating an individual’s ability to manage their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and interactions with others, but also ensuring that the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental conditions are in place through effective national policies, social protections, adequate living standards, working conditions, community social support, and a tiered system of care through a robust network of health services. In Bangladesh, the Mental Health Act 2018 and the National Mental Health Policy 2021 were developed with the above in mind.
World Heritage forests releasing more carbon than they absorb: UNESCO
- UN News
Forests in at least 10 World Heritage sites have become net sources of carbon, due to pressure from human activity and climate change, according to a new report released on Thursday, by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
COP26: Rich Nations Have Not Shown Leadership in Their Fair Share of Emission Cuts
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Malaysia, Oct 28 (IPS) - It is well-known that all the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) added together, even those that have been updated, will not help to place the world on a 1.5 degree C pathway.
Transforming Food Systems To Defeat Hunger
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 27 (IPS) - During October, the World Food Month, there has been a huge increase in the number of qualified voices promoting new ways to transform food systems that would allow to reduce and eliminate hunger, of which more than 811 million people in the world are already victims.
Education Cannot Wait Urges Urgent Action for World's Biggest Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27 (IPS) - Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif urged the world to support their efforts to provide education to children living in Afghanistan – in what she called the “biggest humanitarian crisis” on earth.
Climate Crisis Fuels Exodus to Mexico, Both Waystation and Destination
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 27 2021 (IPS) - In September, 31-year-old Yesenia decided to leave her home on the outskirts of the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, driven out by violence and the lack of water.
Mental Health Achievements in Bangladesh
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Oct 27 (IPS) - Mental health is a state of well-being when both your body and your mind are in balance, and you are able to deal with the difficulties and challenges that come your way and easily find joy, peace, and happiness once the challenge is overcome.
Illegal Immigration: A 21st Century Crisis
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Oct 27 (IPS) - Illegal immigration is a 21st century crisis that will only worsen with the consequences of climate change.
Another Unenviable Annual Record for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Inter Press Service
DOMINICA, Oct 27 (IPS) - A few days before the international community gathers for COP26, widely considered the most important climate conference since the 2015 gathering which resulted in the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is reporting that despite global hits in trade and travel by the COVID-19 pandemic, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new high in 2020.
Pandemic impact on jobs, worse than expected: ILO
- UN News
The jobs recovery is stalled worldwide and disparities between advanced and developing economies threaten the whole global economy, warned the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Wednesday.
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