A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that urgent climate action is needed if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
When persons living with intellectual disabilities enjoy full access to universal human rights, they can exhibit “genuine physical and mental health.”
That’s the perspective of Javier Vasquez, who observes the achievements and challenges of people with intellectual disabilities first hand, in his role as Vicepresident of Health Programs of Special Olympics.
Some 250 million people in the world live with an intellectual disability, yet their input is often ignored when it comes to their education, legislative decisions, and even their own health.
“Fake news” is an accusation that’s often levelled against broadcasters, but it is a serious challenge to their work and one which needs to be disproved constantly, senior TV professionals said on World TV Day, celebrated annually on 21 November.
Measles cases have spiked by as much as 30 per cent last year in some countries because of poor vaccination coverage, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
New data from the UN health agency indicates that outbreaks in the Americas, the European and eastern Mediterranean regions, contributed to a total of 110,000 deaths from the disease in 2017.
As UNRWA, the UN Agency relief and works agency for Palestinian refugees in the near east, approaches its 70th anniversary, Matthias Schmale, its director of operations in Gaza has appealed for its basic services to continue, for reasons of dignity and justice.
Sharing successful ideas across national borders to help transform developing countries in the southern hemisphere remains a challenge, but it’s “really making a difference”.
That’s according to Jorge Chediek, director of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation, and Envoy of the Secretary-General on the issue, speaking ahead of the annual Global South-South Development Expo taking place back where it all began, at UN Headquarters in New York on Wednesday.
People are “used to the suffering we see in Afghanistan,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation, Dominique Burgeon says, and the country needs urgent support to combat a major crisis in the face of drought and conflict.
Close to half of the country’s rural population is severely food insecure, while people reliant on agriculture for income are unable to meet their needs due to poor harvests.
Renewed violence in Central African Republic (CAR) that has included the torching of displacement camps and set back aid efforts to parts of the embattled country will not diminish the international community’s “duty of hope”, the UN top humanitarian official there has said.
Take-home pay around the world is growing at its slowest rate since the 2008 global financial crisis, the head of the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Monday.
Based on the findings of the Global Wage Report 2018/19, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder warned that salaries are “stagnating” despite rising production, and that they are an “obstacle” to economic growth and better living standards.
While the Asia-Pacific region has made “spectacular success” over the years, pulling almost a billion people out of poverty and making people healthier, the region needs to “vastly accelerate” efforts if it is to meet the ambitious sustainable development agenda by 2030.
The greatest challenge for the region is growing inequality, says Kaveh Zahedi, the Deputy Executive Secretary for Sustainable Development at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
