More than six million people have been affected since the unusually heavy monsoon rains began in late June, with nearly 1,000 lives lost – 250 […]
Tag: Poverty
80 million more children benefiting from school meals, WFP reports
The number of children receiving school meals through government-led programmes has gone up by 20 per cent since 2020, found the latest edition of the […]
Despite Taliban ban, over 90 per cent of Afghans support girls’ right to learn
Four years after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the scale and severity of the women’s rights crisis continues to intensify. Afghanistan is the only […]
Latin America and Caribbean: Millions more children could face poverty due to climate change
Even worse, the number could triple if countries do not meet their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to ensure that climate financing […]
Governor Peter Mbah Renews Call for Nnamdi Kanu’s Release
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UN agencies warn of rising heat stress risks for workers worldwide
The new joint report, Climate change and workplace heat stress, underscores the mounting risks as climate change fuels longer, more extreme, and more frequent heatwaves. Stressing […]
Erasure or empowerment? In Africa’s Sahel, women confront a stark choice
Risks to women and girls across this vast region are severe and systemic, as political instability, environmental collapse and a declining international presence take their […]
Afghan women returnees face rising risks, UN warns
UN Women – which champions gender empowerment and equality – alongside the international humanitarian agency CARE International and partners, issued the call in a report […]
Facing rising risks, landlocked nations launch climate alliance at UN summit
Operating within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the group aims to amplify their voices in global climate talks, where their distinct vulnerabilities […]
Landlocked nations ‘invisible to much of the world’: UN trade and development chief
At a major UN conference underway this week in Awaza, Turkmenistan, calls are growing to tackle the high trade costs, investment gaps and growing digital […]
