Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track — Global Issues

Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track — Global Issues

Persons with disabilities face a “shocking lack of support” with no progress in the last decade, despite a huge increase in climate disasters worldwide, the new UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) report states, and that lack of progress could be a violation of international law. Persons with disabilities…

Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track — Global Issues

UN-African Union cooperation a must, as landscape of conflict shifts — Global Issues

Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the AU, told ambassadors in New York that the alignment between the two organizations is particularly relevant for current challenges. “The African conflict landscape is evolving, becoming more complex and often intractable,” he said. He referred to the report on cooperation between…

Why Hamas’s Attack Will Change Israel As We Know It

Why Hamas’s Attack Will Change Israel As We Know It

OPINION — Many analysts of global affairs play fast and loose with the term “game changer.” My somewhat curmudgeonly analysis of events like UAE-Israel normalization or the assassination of Iran’s Quds Force Chief Qassem Soleimani argued that the strategic environment, from Israel’s perspective at least, would remain largely unchanged after…

Alarm Raised as Israels Ground Military Invasion, Blockade of Gaza Strip Looms — Global Issues

Alarm Raised as Israels Ground Military Invasion, Blockade of Gaza Strip Looms — Global Issues

Men walk through a heavily damaged area of central Gaza. Credit: UN News/Ziad Taleb by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Wednesday, October 11, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Oct 11 (IPS) – It is a bloodbath and unmitigated mayhem as heavy fighting unfolds between Israeli forces and the Palestinian group Hamas which has…

Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track — Global Issues

Rising death and displacement, including among UN staff — Global Issues

OCHA cited Israeli media, which reported that as of Monday evening, more than 1,000 Israelis, including foreign nationals, were killed and at least 2,806 people were injured, according to the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health in Gaza said at least 830 Palestinians have been killed and 4,250 injured….

Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track — Global Issues

Rights experts ‘dismayed’ over continued imprisonment of Nobel Laureate Mohammadi — Global Issues

Ms. Mohammadi has been arrested multiple times, the first arrest being in 2011 for her advocacy for incarcerated human rights activists and their families. In 2015, she was rearrested and sentenced to additional years. She is currently serving a lengthy jail sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison for “spreading anti-State propaganda”,…

Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track — Global Issues

UN teams ramp up aid after another earthquake strikes Afghanistan — Global Issues

The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Herat at 5:10 AM (00:40 AM GMT) local time, injuring over 100 people, many of whom were taken to hospitals, according to media reports. UN response UN agencies have stepped up support, deploying teams to assess the damage and assist ongoing…

Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities, Afghan quake latest, global aid funding off track — Global Issues

Beware Climate Finance Charade — Global Issues

Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, October 11, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 11 (IPS) – Finance has increased, not reduced, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Meanwhile, funding for mitigation, and especially adaptation, is grossly inadequate, with little for climate losses and damages. Global warming accelerating…