News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 275
Global South Address Sustainable Development Challenges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - On Friday, a group of 134 developing nations, known as the Group of 77 (G77), came together for a meeting to address challenges and solutions in achieving sustainable development. In attendance were G-77 Foreign Ministers, the President of the General Assembly, the UN Secretary-General and other UN senior officials.
The Right to Development at 30 Years
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 23 (IPS) - It's had a very useful if sometimes controversial past and it will have great relevance for many more years ahead. That's the sense one has about the Declaration on the Right to Development as it is commemorated 30 years after its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 1986.
UN Refugee Summits Fall Short for Children
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 (IPS) - As Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini opened the floor for US President Barack Obama's leaders' summit on refugees, she embodied a hope unavailable to most child refugees.
Yazidi Survivor of ISIL Appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 (IPS) - Yazidi Nadia Murad - who survived being kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery by ISIL - was honoured by the UN on Friday September 16 for her work to help human trafficking survivors.
UN Refugee Summit: "No Cause for Comfort"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 20 (IPS) - With record numbers of forcibly displaced persons around the world, many were left disappointed by the outcome of a high level UN summit designed to address the issue by bringing together world leaders on the sidelines of the UN's annual General Assembly.
From Where I Stand: Nahimana Fainesi
- Inter Press Service
Caribbean: Rethinking Progress in Sustainable Development Era
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 (IPS) - Caribbean countries make a special case for development. The high and increasing exposure to hazards, combined with very open and trade-dependent economies with limited diversification and competitiveness portray a structurally and environmentally vulnerable region, composed, in the most part, of middle income countries.
In Host Country Lebanon, Refugee and Rural Women Build Entrepreneurship, Cohesion and Future
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 16 (IPS) - "When we were forced to leave our country, I never thought that a community in Lebanon would accept and treat me as an active member, the way I have been at the Kfeir Women's Working Group," says Hiba Kamal, an 18-year-old refugee from Syria who travelled to Lebanon with her family five years ago fleeing instability in her own country.
Building Bridges: Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed of the Emirates at the Vatican
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 15 (IPS) - As the rise of religious racism and Islamophobia sweeps across Europe, the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E) is increasing their emphasis on the message for peaceful tolerance across all nations.
UN Summit Won't Resolve Refugee Resettlement Impasse
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 14 (IPS) - Next week's landmark UN summit on refugees and migrants was supposed to help resettle one in ten refugees, instead UN member states have settled for vague gestures, including a campaign to end xenophobia.
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