Around 87% of the $540 billion in total annual government support given worldwide to agricultural producers includes measures that are price distorting and that can be harmful to nature and health.
Some 18 years after the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, the head of a team of UN-appointed experts sees little room for optimism, when it comes to ending racist incidents against people of African descent.
The team is called the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, and its current Chair is professor Michal Balcerzak.
Foreign direct investment, which is usually referred to as FDI, is an “accelerator” of the global economy, because it gives countries access to external capital, technology, market access and taxable income.
However, according to a new report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), it has fallen more than 40 per cent in the first half of 2018, compared with the same period last year, with developing economies escaping the worst of the downturn.
“No-one” is observing their human rights obligations in the brutal Syria conflict, UN Commission of Inquiry investigator Karen Abuzayd said on Wednesday, in an appeal to the warring parties - and the governments that support them - to protect civilians from harm.
More people were hungry in 2017 than at any time over the previous decade, according to the latest edition of the annual flagship UN report State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, issued jointly on Tuesday by UN agencies.
Cindy Holleman is a senior economist with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome and one of the lead authors of the study.
She spoke to UN News’ Yasmina Guerda about the key findings of the report.
Algeria’s reluctance to address its violent past has meant that it has “stepped back” on basic human rights, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Thursday, in Geneva.
In its report on the country the panel expressed concern for victims of enforced disappearance during the civil war in the 1990s, the lack of freedom of assembly today and called for action on the reported mass deportation and abandonment of around 13,000 migrants in the Sahara desert since April last year.
Complacency over HIV and AIDS has created a “prevention crisis” that risks destabilizing efforts to reach the key 2020 target of fewer than 500,000 new HIV infections per year, the head of the UN agency in charge of fighting the pandemic warned on Wednesday.
One-in-five people around the world count on forest products for food, income and nutritional diversity – generating more than $88 billion in income, according FAO’s State of the World’s Forests 2018, launched on Friday.
Liz Scaffidi spoke by phone with FAO Forestry Director Eva Mueller about how forests are linked to many other goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Ideologies which define nationality as being determined by ethnicity or bloodline are denying millions of people of their right to citizenship, a UN expert has charged.
Despite international efforts, the number of people killed or injured by landmines and other explosive hazards has risen following years of decline, the Security Council heard on Friday.
