UN News Today July 2
- Gaza: 250,000 feared displaced in new Khan Younis escalation
- Near-famine conditions only one of Sudan’s problems
- In Haiti, a child a minute is uprooted by gang violence
- And… a 5,000-metre mountain is named in honour of the UN
Cannabis legalization has led to increased use and a drop in drug-related convictions, but there have been negative health consequences.
Intense heatwaves like the one that blasted the US Midwest and northeast recently are likely to be increasingly common because of human-induced climate change, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told UN News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that UN humanitarians remain deeply committed to delivering aid across war-torn Gaza, despite speculation that operations could be suspended due to safety concerns.
The Colombian peace process ended decades of conflict with the FARC, but one unintended consequence may have been an increase in cocaine production.