News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 2
New Emergency Care Skills Help Tanzania’s Frontline Doctors Save Lives
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, August 21 (IPS) - The 14-year-old girl arrived at the hospital fighting for her life. After a tragic hit-and-run car accident, she was rushed into the emergency department with serious abdominal injuries. Every passing minute brought her closer to death.
AI for Good: How the UN uses AI to advance human rights
- UN News
For Ari, a six-year-old boy with learning difficulties in Jamaica, artificial intelligence (AI) opened the door to something many children take for granted: reading a book in his own language. Thousands of miles away, gold miners in Ethiopia are being screened more quickly for tuberculosis, while communities around the world are breathing cleaner air thanks to faster detection of methane leaks.
New initiative launched to shield terrorism victims from online harm
- UN News
The UN has launched a new initiative to protect victims of terrorist attacks from online harm and re-traumatisation, drawing on harrowing survivor accounts, from the Nova Music Festival in Israel to an attack on a FIFA World Cup final viewing party in Uganda.
Somalia: Humanitarian aid cuts leave millions of children vulnerable to hunger
- UN News
The global funding crisis for humanitarian work is taking a growing toll on the most vulnerable children in Somalia, where some aid programmes and facilities have been forced to shut down.
DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreading exponentially, UN responders warn
- UN News
As the deadliest Ebola outbreak in DR Congo’s history continued spreading on Friday, UN responders renewed their urgent appeal for immediate international support, with existing funding for lifesaving work critically low.
World Humanitarian Day — Protect Aid Workers Against Drones
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 20 (IPS) - World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and the life-saving services they provide under the most complex and often dangerous conditions.
As elections near, South Sudan risks new atrocity crimes, warns rights probe
- UN News
The under-reported humanitarian crisis in South Sudan risks deepening with the real possibility of further atrocity crimes unless renewed fighting stops, a UN-backed probe said on Thursday.
UN Reiterates its 18-Year-Old Ban on Smoking
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 19 (IPS) - When smoking was common in the corridors of the UN, in the delegate’s lounge and in committee rooms during the 1970s and 90s, the office of the Secretary-General sent a memo that read: “Smoking was Discouraged” in the UN building—sounding far short of a ban.
Remembering Fidel Castro, a Hero of the World’s Oppressed People
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, August 19 (IPS) - The 13th of August marked the 100th birthday of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz – in short Fidel Castro. Amidst an intensified US siege and the threat of invasion, Cubans commemorated their dear leader’s centenary birth anniversary with events that included an International Book Fair, art exhibitions, concerts and gatherings of delegates from left-wing organisations across the continent.
The clean energy transition needs land. Can it help restore it too?
- UN News
What if the infrastructure needed to fight climate change could also help repair the land beneath it?
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