Sustainability
The drive for quality education worldwide, faces ‘mammoth challenges’
Partnerships are key Education enhances the “analytical, inventive and critical thinking capacities of human beings”, the Assembly President said, adding...
FROM THE FIELD: Niger supporting the most vulnerable, as crises mount
Eighteen-year-old Cherif was forced to flee his village in northern Nigeria to Niger four years ago. UNOCHA/Eve Sabbagh Currently, around...
Coronavirus: ‘An emergency in China, but not yet a global health emergency’
However, after two days of deliberations, the WHO Emergency Committee, which advises the head of the agency, was divided on...
At Davos, UN chief urges ‘big emitters’ to take climate action
The UN chief observed that while many smaller developing countries and the European Union have committed to achieving carbon neutrality by...
Smokers who quit one month before surgery reap benefits: UN health agency
While tobacco smokers face a significantly higher risk of post-surgical complications, including impaired heart and lung functions, infections and delayed...
UN health agency to gauge global threat, as China confirms coronavirus transmission between humans
In a message released on social media, WHO said that the agency’s Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, will “convene an Emergency Committee...
UN health emergency committee to re-convene on global threat posed by China coronavirus
Members of the WHO Emergency Committee deliberated until late on Wednesday evening, as they continue to study an outbreak of the new respiratory virus first identified in China, as cases continue...
UN chief outlines solutions to defeat ‘four horsemen’ threatening our global future
In a wide-ranging speech to the General Assembly, the UN chief outlined strategies to address what he called the “four horsemen in our midst”, and he urged countries to take...
Rising inequality affecting more than two-thirds of the globe, but it’s not inevitable: new UN report
The World Social Report 2020, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), shows that income inequality...
Healthcare’s a human right, not ‘a privilege for the rich’ UNAIDS argues at Davos
In a press release issued as the World Economic Forum gets fully underway in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, UNAIDS Executive...
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