Youth want to be “more involved” in environmental decisions
The world’s young people want to be “more involved” in policy decisions which relate to the environment, according to a youth representative from South Africa.
The world’s young people want to be “more involved” in policy decisions which relate to the environment, according to a youth representative from South Africa.
A “modest but meaningful contribution” to peace and security in Syria has been made following the “100 per cent removal” of the country’s chemical weapons material.
The international community is being urged to integrate environmental issues in a “holistic manner” into the Post-2015 development agenda.
Around 1.3 billion people globally are dependent on forests for their livelihood according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The world’s smallest island states can develop sustainably if all sectors of society come together to work on solutions.
That’s the opinion of Wu Hongbo, the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.
The Palestine refugee crisis in the Near East is “unsustainable”, the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned.
Aid agencies say that the humanitarian needs of people who have been forced to flee their homes in Iraq continue to escalate.
The United Nations estimates that there are one million displaced people in the country.
Political solutions need to be found to solve humanitarian crises around the world according to the chief of the UN refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Antonio Guterres was speaking as the agency launched its annual Global Trends report which shows a record number of displaced people in 2013.
A Syrian man who has been granted refugee status in Brazil says his “family has lost everything” in the civil war in the country.
The three-year conflict between the government and rebel forces has caused millions of people to flee.
Crises in Libya, Mali and Nigeria are “destabilizing the broader Sahel region of Africa”, according to the UN Secretary-General’s monthly strategy report on the region.
The report focuses on the five “core” Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Mali and Nigeria.