News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 1200
‘Digital dumpsites’ study highlights growing threat to children: UN health agency
- UN News
The health of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide is at risk from the illegal processing of old electrical or electronic devices, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, in a landmark new report on the toxic threat.
The Marginalisation of Africa
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 15 (IPS) - Is Africa marginalised in contemporary economics and politics, and in contemporary economic and political research?
Impressions gathered over the years and a bit of evidence (much more could be assembled) indicate that it is. I would distinguish three types of marginalisation: objective, objectified and subjective marginalisation.
Domestic workers among hardest hit by COVID crisis, says UN labour agency
- UN News
Domestic workers globally have been among the hardest hit by the COVID crisis, losing more jobs and working hours than other sectors, the UN labour agency ILO said on Tuesday.
Worlds Nuclear Arms on High Operational Alert -- & Ready to Strike
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 15 (IPS) - The world’s nine nuclear armed states have downsized their military arsenals, but made up for their loss by increasing the number of weapons on high operational alert, according to a new report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Powerful States Push Tax Race to the Bottom
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 15 (IPS) - Last week, the largest rich countries, home to most major transnational corporations (TNCs), agreed to a global minimum corporate income tax (GMCIT) rate. But the low rate proposed and other features will deprive developing countries of their just due yet again.
Charcoal Production Risks Future of Zimbabwes Native Forests
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE, Jun 14 (IPS) - Once a week a tonnage of fresh charcoal is dropped off at Sibangani Tshobe's rugged, pit-stop stall by a hired, battered old Bedford lorry. Small, makeshift trolleys — nicknamed Scania's — quickly cart off small loads and disappear into Old Pumula, the oldest suburb in the country’s second-largest city of Bulawayo.
Letter from Rome – Italy at the Crossroads
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 14 (IPS) - Italy, as other countries, has been struggling to balance the health and economic challenges posed by COVID-19. Controlling the spread of the virus implied restrictions on economic activity, on school and college attendance, and on personal movement. It also had to deal with the economic and social implications of a fall of almost 10% in GDP. This has been hard for a country which, even before the pandemic, was one of the slowest growing economies in Europe, with unemployment, especially among young people in the South of the country, at alarming levels.
‘Critical juncture’ for Mali warns UN mission chief, with democratic future at risk
- UN News
Immediate action is required now to initiate critical reforms and lay the groundwork for credible elections in Mali, where the security situation is as worrying as ever, the Head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) told the Security Council on Monday.
Restoring nature ‘the test of our generation’: UN General Assembly President
- UN News
Stepping up global efforts to combat land degradation is the only way to safeguard food and water security, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ward against future threats to health and the environment, the UN General Assembly President told ambassadors meeting in New York on Monday.
More than a million Lebanese in need, top UN humanitarian official there warns
- UN News
As Lebanon endures one of its worst financial and economic crises ever, the UN estimates that over the next eight months around $300 million is needed to provide vital aid to around 1.5 million Lebanese and 400,000 migrant workers living there.
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