Climate and Environment

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, briefs the press in Geneva. (4 September 2019)
UN News/Daniel Johnson

Human rights are everyone’s business, amid relentless crises around world: UN’s Bachelet

4 September 2019

The relentless outbreak of crises around the world – from the fires in the Amazon to “carnage” in Syria and demonstrations in Hong Kong, Russia, Indonesian Papua and elsewhere - risk pushing the world “further and further away from global solutions to global problems”, the UN’s top rights official said on Wednesday.

In drought-stricken regions in Somalia, families are abandoning their homes and heading for cities or enclaves where aid is available. (28 March 2017)
© European Union 2017 (photographer: Anouk Delafortrie)

Somalia: worst harvest since 2011, with more than 2 million expected to go hungry

3 September 2019
Africa

Somalia’s 2019 cereal harvest is the poorest the country has seen since 2011, when famine strained already scarce resources, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), announced on Tuesday, blaming unreliable weather patterns and “climatic shocks”.

A graphic visualization of Hurricane Dorian over the Bahamas.
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UN ‘prioritizing needs’, ramping up aid, as Hurricane Dorian continues to batter the Bahamas

3 September 2019
Americas

Renewed warnings of deadly destruction in the Bahamas caused by Hurricane Dorian have been issued by UN agencies and partners, who said on Tuesday that they’re worried “for every single” person on two of the worst-hit Caribbean islands.

Desertification is threatening Ghana’s subsistence farmers. (file)
SGP Ghana

FROM THE FIELD: Restoring life to Ghana’s land

2 September 2019
Africa

Subsistence farmers in Ghana are learning how to hold back the decline in the fertility of the smallholdings they cultivate while revitalizing their soils as desertification increasingly threatens their land and livelihoods.