News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 1025
Ukraine crisis: Terrified families seek shelter underground in capital
- UN News
Amid reported deadly missile attacks from Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, including the capital Kiev and other cities, terrified families have been forced to seek shelter underground, the UN said on Friday, adding that at least 100,000 people have likely been displaced by the violence.
Women building a sustainable future: the Kenyan engineer fighting for equality
- UN News
Norah Magero, a Mechanical Engineer and Renewable Energy Expert from Kenya, is helping communities adapt to the changing climate, in the face of gender discrimination.
France violated rights of French children detained in Syrian camps
- UN News
France has violated the rights of French children detained for years in camps in northeast Syria by failing to repatriate them, the UN Child Rights Committee said in findings issued on Thursday.
‘Political impasse’ hampering change and reform in Iraq
- UN News
Political leaders in Iraq must urgently overcome their divisions and work for the good of the people, the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Thursday.
Ukraine Crisis: Protecting civilians ‘Priority Number One’; Guterres releases $20M for humanitarian support
- UN News
Russian military operations inside the sovereign territory of Ukraine “on a scale that Europe has not seen in decades, conflict directly with the United Nations Charter,” Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists on Thursday.
Senior UN official meets first person in US vaccinated against COVID
- UN News
The first American to be vaccinated against the COVID virus and a first-responder in New York City, Sandra Lindsay, met with Abdulla Shahid, President of the General Assembly.
UN condemns brutal killing of eight polio workers in Afghanistan
- UN News
The United Nations has condemned the killing of eight polio vaccination workers in four locations in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the first such attacks since nationwide campaigns resumed last November.
Ukraine: Humanitarians fear ‘devastating’ consequences
- UN News
Amid reports on Thursday that people were fleeing en masse from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev following Russia’s so-called “special military operation,” UN humanitarians warned of the “devastating” consequences of military action.
Sugarcane Gas Opens New Horizons for Energy Agriculture - Video
- Inter Press Service
NARANDIBA, Brazil, Feb 23 (IPS) - Nothing is wasted from sugarcane, one can conclude from the biomethane production process at the Cocal plant, a Brazilian company that produces sugar, ethanol, electricity and other by-products from sugarcane agro-industrial waste.
As Security Council meets on Ukraine crisis, Russia announces start of ‘special military operation’
- UN News
"President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine, give peace a chance,” Secretary-General António Guterres urged Wednesday evening at the start of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, the body's second late night session this week.
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