Up to 90 per cent of the world's electronic or E-waste, worth nearly US$19 billion, is illegally traded or dumped each year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
There are around 700,000 people with disabilities in Cambodia who face obstacles on daily basis that prevent them from fully enjoying their equal rights; that’s according to the UN.
One month after a massive earthquake devastated Nepal, the international community is “running against the clock” to deliver aid to remote communities, the UN has said.
More than 8000 people were killed in the tremor on April 25.
The destruction of a cultural site in Syria would be a war crime and an enormous loss to humanity if it goes ahead, the Director-General of the UN cultural agency, UNESCO has warned.
Landslides following in the wake of two large earthquakes in Nepal are hampering the delivery of relief supplies to affected people according to the UN humanitarian office, OCHA.
A negotiated pause in fighting in Yemen appears to be holding but concerns remain that warring parties cannot be relied upon to allow humanitarian agencies to distribute desperately needed aid.
The warning comes as the humanitarian ceasefire enters its third day.
The destruction of cultural heritage in Nepal following two earthquakes in the country has been “dramatic” according to the UN cultural agency, UNESCO.
Thousands of people died in the tremors and many more were injured.
