Global Issues
News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 1018
Omicron: Don't panic but prepare for likely spread, says WHO
- UN News
As scientists continue to investigate the Omicron COVID-19 variant, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged countries not to panic but to prepare for its likely spread.
Big Tobacco Industry Rides COVID-19 Pandemic as Countries Grapple for a Response
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 03 (IPS) - Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries in the developing world continue to grapple with basic issues such as securing sufficient vaccines and providing essential medical care for their sick. Many economies are in recovery mode as governments scramble to resuscitate them with recovery packages and build back better plans.
Clean Energy Alone Won’t Uplift Impoverished Nations — We Must Invest in People
- Inter Press Service
Dec 02 (IPS) - Last month, at the COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow, a consortium of philanthropies, led by The Rockefeller Foundation, announced a massive program to fund renewable electricity projects for impoverished people in developing countries.
Disabled and displaced: helping Haiti’s most vulnerable people
- UN News
Disabled people in Haiti who have been driven from one temporary shelter to another as result of an earthquake, fire, and mounting gang violence have been finally able to find a safe home, just ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, marked annually on 3 December.
Croatia: Decades after Balkan wars, UN expert urges new push for justice
- UN News
Following armed conflict from1991 to 1994 in Croatia and the rest of former Yugoslavia, that triggered increased radicalization and hate speech, an independent UN human rights expert urged the authorities on Thursday to redouble efforts towards full justice for victims and survivors.
Violence in Cameroon, impacting over 700,000 children shut out of school
- UN News
Over 700,000 children have been impacted by school closures due to often brutal violence in Cameroon, according to an analysis released by the UN humanitarian arm, OCHA, on Thursday.
Volunteerism: Central to the Creation of a New Social Contract
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec 02 (IPS) - The International Volunteer Day, on December 5, is not just one of the many internationally observed days that the United Nations commemorates annually.
‘Turning point’ reached for survivors of ISIL crimes in Iraq, Security Council hears
- UN News
The international community has reached a “turning point” in pursuing justice for atrocities committed by the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq, the new head of a special UN investigative team told the Security Council in New York on Thursday.
‘Bodyright’ campaign launched, to end rise in gender-based violence online
- UN News
Corporate logos and Intellectual Property (IP) receive “greater protection online than we do as human beings”, the UN’s women’s health agency that works to end gender-based violence, UNFPA, said on Thursday, launching a new bodyright campaign to help shield bodies and minds from cyber violence.
UNHCR chief calls for mechanism to deal with ‘unprecedented’ displacement in Mexico and Central America
- UN News
Lack of opportunities, gangs, organized crime, the ravages of the pandemic and climate change, have triggered the displacement of nearly one million people in Mexico and Central America in recent years.
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