Reports reveal women are stepping up, impact on education — Global Issues

Reports reveal women are stepping up, impact on education — Global Issues

The study by UN Women and the international humanitarian organization CARE, is based on surveys and interviews with people in 19 regions in Ukraine, conducted between 2 and 6 April.  After more than two months of war in #Ukraine, women & minorities are facing immense hardship when it comes to…

UN meets to help reverse ‘precipitous drop’ in tourism — Global Issues

UN meets to help reverse ‘precipitous drop’ in tourism — Global Issues

The COVID-19 pandemic ground the entire tourism sector to a halt, dealing a “devastating blow to the global economy,” he told the first-ever High-Level Thematic Debate on Sustainable Tourism. “In 2019, prior to the pandemic, tourism contributed $3.5 trillion to global GDP. The precipitous drop during the pandemic is estimated…

New plan to accelerate clean energy access for millions globally — Global Issues

New plan to accelerate clean energy access for millions globally — Global Issues

The UN-Energy Plan of Action Towards 2025 delivers on commitments made at a high-level meeting in September that laid out a global roadmap for energy access and transition by the end of the decade, while also contributing to net zero emissions by 2050.    The UN-Energy partnership brings together some…

Record profits, while COVID treatment often ‘out of reach’ for the poor — Global Issues

Record profits, while COVID treatment often ‘out of reach’ for the poor — Global Issues

Despite weekly fatalities being at their lowest since March 2020, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists at the weekly briefing in Geneva that “these trends, while welcome, don’t tell the full story.” More sub-variants The South African scientists who identified Omicron late last year have now reported two more…

Better prevention and targeting of root causes needed to combat food crises — Global Issues

Better prevention and targeting of root causes needed to combat food crises — Global Issues

“Acute hunger is soaring to unprecedented levels and the global situation just keeps on getting worse,” said David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP).  The annual report from the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) – an international alliance of the UN, European Union (EU), governmental and…

UN Continues Financial Ties with a Vilified Russia Isolated by the International Community — Global Issues

UN Continues Financial Ties with a Vilified Russia Isolated by the International Community — Global Issues

Credit: United Nations by Thalif Deen (united nations) Wednesday, May 04, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, May 04 (IPS) – The Russian Federation, which invaded Ukraine last February killing scores of civilians and destroying entire cities, has been condemned, vilified and ostracized by the international community. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres…

Breaking Taboos around Menstruation and Leaving No Girl Behind — Global Issues

Breaking Taboos around Menstruation and Leaving No Girl Behind — Global Issues

Hadiza celebrates receiving her Menstrual Hygiene Management Kit. The 14-year-old is a member of a Girls’ Club at Dar es Salam camp. The kits remove a barrier to schooling in Chad – where children already face significant difficulties in accessing education. The JRS – ACRA – CELIAF project is funded…

A refuge from terror in Niger, as UN Chief pledges to be voice for the displaced — Global Issues

A refuge from terror in Niger, as UN Chief pledges to be voice for the displaced — Global Issues

This is Ouallam district one of the hottest places in Niger, in one of the hottest countries in Africa, where rain falls rarely and sparingly but where shattered communities can find a refuge from the increasing acts of violence and terrorist activity which have struck the region. Ouallam and two…

UN signs framework to assist survivors of sexual violence — Global Issues

UN signs framework to assist survivors of sexual violence — Global Issues

Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative working to end rape in war, was speaking at a press conference in the capital, Kyiv.  Wartime rape can no longer be dismissed as an “inevitable byproduct of war”. It must be recognized by all parties as a crime that can be prevented and…