Sustainability
Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Development forum focuses on inclusion; monsoons pummel Asia; young children at greater Ebola risk; small islands fight hunger, obesity; Yemen ceasefire for Red Sea port
Inclusion, equality resonate widely at key UN development forum At the opening of the Ministerial Segment of the UN High-Level...
‘Complacency’ a factor in stagnating global vaccination rates, warn UN health chiefs
According to a joint study by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 10 countries accounted for 11.7 of...
Baby foods high in sugar, inappropriately marketed in Europe, reveal two UN studies
The studies from WHO Europe show that a high proportion of baby foods are incorrectly marketed as suitable for infants...
Monday’s Daily Brief: numbers of hungry people rising, millions of children need vaccines, Mali children need more protection
Number of hungry people rising globally More people are going hungry around the world, a new UN report, the State...
‘We won’t get to zero cases of Ebola without a big scale-up in funding,’ UN relief chief warns
Speaking in Geneva, Mr. Lowcock, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, insisted on the need to “be honest with ourselves” on tackling the haemorrhagic disease …unless there’s...
‘No hope’ global development goals can be achieved without women, says UN Assembly President
“This is an obvious point to make, but it is, sadly, one that we cannot repeat enough”, she said, opening...
Global response to poverty and environmental goals ‘not ambitious enough’
In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN...
Now is the time to seize ‘unprecedented opportunity’ of the Sustainable Development Forum, says ECOSOC President
Mr. Rybakov made the case that “antidiscrimination legislature remains an important tool” to help even up gender equality while pointing...
Groundbreaking cancer-fighting drugs now included in updated UN list of essential medicines
More than 150 countries use the UN’s Essential Medicines List, which contains around 460 drugs deemed critical to treat public...
Developing countries should not be liable for emissions ‘accumulated throughout history’, key UN development forum hears
“As a representative of aviation industry, we believe that it is very important to advance the ‘climate action’ of...
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