Coronavirus COVID-19: don’t panic, says top UN economist
As deaths continue to rise from the coronavirus outbreak, its economic consequences are becoming clearer, too.
As deaths continue to rise from the coronavirus outbreak, its economic consequences are becoming clearer, too.
After more than 240 days, the Australian state of New South Wales is finally free from bushfires, officials there announced last week.
It’s time that humankind realizes “that nature doesn’t exist for us”, the Head of the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) office in New York has said, just ahead of World Wildlife Day.
The recent sentencing of militia members in the Central African Republic for the 2017 killing of civilians and peacekeepers, has sent a strong message that impunity will not be tolerated.
Questioning details and attempting to distort actual history – its chronology or statistics – are just a few examples of Holocaust or genocide denial.
New York City spends far more on its fire, police and the prison system than the entire peacekeeping budget of the United Nations.
This is just one of the startling facts uncovered by hosts, Sinduja Srinivasan and Jason DeWall, in the latest episode of Uncomplicated.
A world without landmines is possible - and sooner than you think.
That’s the message from mine clearance experts helping to make communities safe with the UN Mine Action Service, or UNMAS.
Locust swarms of a magnitude not seen in decades are devastating crops and placing millions at risk of hunger in the Horn of Africa.
The way children and teenagers behave online has profoundly changed, and if societies ignore the need to rethink child safety issues, then “we are sticking our heads in the sand”.
While the Internet has given children access to a world of information, including by providing a platform for their voices to be heard, it has also exposed them to cyberbullying, sexual exploitation, hate speech and other dangers.