Global Issues
News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 1040
Act now to stamp out child labour by 2025: FAO chief
- UN News
Effective action and strong leadership are essential to end child labour by 2025, the head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.
Is Asia and the Pacific Ready for the Global Climate Stage?
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 01 (IPS) - As the leaders of Asia and the Pacific prepare to head to Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), they can be sure that our region will be in the spotlight: many of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change are located here; the seven G20 members from this region are responsible for over half of global GHG emissions; and five of the 10 top countries with the greatest historic responsibility for emissions since the beginning of the twentieth century are from Asia.
62 journalists killed in 2020, just for doing their jobs: UNESCO
- UN News
In 2020 alone, according to UN cultural agency UNESCO, which works to protect media workers, 62 journalists were killed just for doing their jobs. Between 2006 and 2020, over 1,200 professionals lost their lives the same way. In nine out of ten cases the killers go unpunished.
Mediation efforts to resolve Sudan crisis underway, UN envoy reports
- UN News
Multiple mediation efforts are underway in Sudan one week after the military seized power, UN Special Representative for the country, Volker Perthes, told journalists in New York on Monday.
Bachelet: right to social security, matter of ‘the utmost urgency’
- UN News
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday that the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, and the changing world of work, makes the right to social security for all, “a matter of the utmost urgency.”
UNAIDS upholds decriminalization, access to services, on International Drug Users’ Day
- UN News
People who use drugs should not be criminalized, the UN agency leading the global fight to stamp out HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) said on Monday, in calling for greater funding for community-led harm reduction programmes.
Risky business: Why Sustainability is now Central to Mitigating Risk
- Inter Press Service
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Nov 01 (IPS) - The Middle East Green Initiative launched in Saudi Arabia last month was hailed by the UN’s deputy chief as a valuable commitment and strategic vision, to transition regional economies away from unsustainable development, to a model “fit for the challenges of the 21st century”The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly caused the largest economic and societal shock the world has experienced this century. Yet it was not unforeseen.
After a 20-Month Lockdown, UN Plans to Return to Near-Normal by Mid-November
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 01 (IPS) - The United Nations, which suffered a pandemic lockdown over the last 20 months-- with most staffers tele-working from their homes-- is expected to return to near-normal, come November 15.
COP26: Enough of ‘treating nature like a toilet’ – Guterres brings stark call for climate action to Glasgow
- UN News
As the World Leaders Summit opened on day two of COP26, UN chief António Guterres sent a stark message to the international community. “We are digging our own graves”, he said, referring to the addiction to fossil fuels which threatens to push humanity and the planet, to the brink, through unsustainable global heating.
Honor five million lives lost to COVID-19 by making vaccine equity a reality, Guterres says
- UN News
As the world on Monday passed yet another sombre pandemic milestone – five million lives lost to COVID-19 – Secretary-General António Guterres called on global leaders to back the UN strategy to make vaccine equity a reality by accelerating efforts and ensuring maximum vigilance to defeat the virus.
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