Sustainability
Break taboo around menstruation, act to end ‘disempowering’ discrimination, say UN experts
Break taboo around menstruation, act to end ‘disempowering’ discrimination, say UN experts A group of seven United Nations rights experts...
93 million children with disabilities ‘among the most likely to be left behind’: UN rights chief
Speaking at a Human Rights Council event highlighting how disabled youngsters are more exposed to violence, abuse and neglect, Ms....
UN’s AIDS agency ‘greatly encouraged’ by ‘functionally cured’ patient breakthrough
UN’s AIDS agency ‘greatly encouraged’ by ‘functionally cured’ patient breakthrough The UN agency leading the global effort to end AIDS,...
Air pollution, the ‘silent killer’ that claims seven million lives a year: rights council hears
At the Human Rights Council in Geneva, David Boyd, Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, insisted that air...
‘Once lost, hearing doesn’t come back,’ World Health Organization warns on World Hearing Day
Worldwide, some 466 million people have disabling hearing loss, and the WHO estimates that by 2050 that figure will almost...
Ocean life faces ‘onslaught of threats’ from human activity, but tools exist to save it
This is the first time that World Wildlife Day has focused on life below water, the crucial importance of marine...
Without ‘transformative shifts,’ women will wait two centuries for gender equality
When Lise Kingo, Executive-Director of the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, spoke exclusively to UN News,...
Easing fears and promoting gender equality in Chad’s girls-only classrooms
“We spoke about puberty and periods and looked at a story of a young girl who experienced her period for...
DR Congo: Insecurity and attacks mean Ebola will keep spreading, warns world health agency
In Geneva, spokesperson Christian Lindmeier condemned the “deplorable” targeting of two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) facilities earlier this week in...
‘Comprehensively include migrants’ or sustainable development won’t happen, warns General Assembly President
Mariá Fernanda Espinosa, was speaking to delegates at a meeting on migration held at UN headquarters in New York, anchoring...
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