News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 1208
UN hails new anti-corruption network, as ‘important step’ to build trust, promote justice
- UN News
With factors contributing to transnational corruption becoming increasingly complex, the UN launched an initiative on Thursday to “empower all countries” to find practical solutions and better tools to track, investigate and prosecute the scourge.
Agroecology Under Threat
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, Jun 03 (IPS) - This week*, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is expected to endorse recommendations on agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable food systems, after an intense period of negotiation involving governments, UN agencies and institutions, Indigenous People’s organizations, civil society, and the private sector.
Nicaragua must stop attacking and undermining human rights defenders
- UN News
An independent UN expert has deplored a recent spate of attacks against human rights defenders in Nicaragua and called on Thursday for the Government to immediately halt them.
Risk of COVID-19 surge threatens Africa's health facilities
- UN News
Critical health facilities across Africa risk being overwhelmed by surging COVID-19 infections, the UN health agency said on Thursday.
Restoration call for area ‘the size of China’ to protect falling biodiversity and food insecurity
- UN News
An area of land roughly the size of China needs restoring if the planet’s biodiversity and the communities who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on Thursday.
Freedom for all on two (or three) wheels
- UN News
Elderly people often have to give up cycling, due to a fear of injury, but Cycling Without Age, a movement which began in Denmark, is allowing them to regain mobility, and the pleasures of cycling, in safety.
Invasive pest spread another fallout from climate change, UN-backed study finds
- UN News
Climate change is making pests which ravage important agricultural crops even more destructive, heightening threats to global food security and the environment, a UN-backed study published on Wednesday has found.
Staggering health needs emerge in Gaza, following Israel-Hamas conflict
- UN News
Senior UN health agency officials on Wednesday called for unhindered humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, citing growing concerns about urgent health needs there.
We won’t allow corruption to continue unchecked: UN Assembly president
- UN News
The effects of corruption are “detrimental to all of society”, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Wednesday during the first day of a special session convened to galvanize political will to fight the scourge.
Mali: Military must ‘scrupulously’ respect human rights and free civilian leaders
- UN News
A UN independent human rights expert said on Wednesday that Mali’s new military authorities should “scrupulously respect human rights” and release all leaders detained in last week’s coup.
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