Global Issues
News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 1094
End of leaded fuel use a ‘milestone for multilateralism’
- UN News
The global phase-out of leaded fuel represents a “milestone for multilateralism”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, marking the end of a 20-year campaign to eliminate a major threat to the health of people and the planet.
Secretary-General calls for bold action to end biodiversity crisis
- UN News
With one million species at risk of extinction, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called for greater leadership and political will to end the biodiversity crisis.
UN health agency secures life-saving medical supplies to Afghanistan
- UN News
Lifesaving medical supplies reached Afghanistan by air on Monday, the first UN shipment to arrive since the Taliban takeover more than a week ago, as UN human rights experts called on the country's new rulers to live up to their promise to fully protect the rights of women and girls in the country.
After Afghanistan, War’s Idealists Must Accept Defeat
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Aug 30 (IPS) - As the Western occupation of Afghanistan has come to an end, TV news is broadcasting harrowing scenes of death and destruction, citizens in fear, allies abandoned, and dreams dashed.
Ensuring the right to a nationality, more pressing than ever: UNHCR
- UN News
Ensuring the right to a nationality and eradicating statelessness is more pressing than ever, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, as it marked the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
COVID jabs needed for educators and kids to keep schools open: WHO, UNICEF
- UN News
As the school year begins for millions of children in Europe and Central Asia, UN health and child experts on Monday issued a series of COVID-19 risk reduction measures to ensure that in-person lessons can go ahead, despite rising infection rates.
On International Day, UN chief calls for action to end enforced disappearances
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to fulfil their obligations to prevent and prosecute cases of enforced disappearance, a “cowardly practice” which the COVID-19 pandemic has made even more difficult to combat.
Afghan children ‘at greater risk than ever’, top UNICEF official warns
- UN News
With the needs of Afghan children greater than ever before, the world “cannot abandon them now”, a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday after concluding a visit to the country.
The ‘energy patriots’ bringing electricity to Indonesia’s remote villages
- UN News
For millions of villagers in Indonesia’s remote areas, a 12-hour-per-day erratic electricity supply is the norm. With students studying by candlelight at night and health centres not running at full capacity, these communities face an uphill struggle to improve their well-being.
Reaffirm commitment to ban nuclear tests, UN chief says in message for International Day
- UN News
Countries which have not yet ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) are urged by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to do so without delay.
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