WFP teams up with Uber, in boost for pinpoint aid deliveries — Global Issues

WFP teams up with Uber, in boost for pinpoint aid deliveries — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

With conventional aid trucks or other large vehicles unable to access some of those in need in built up areas, the ridesharing and delivery app has developed a new custom-built version of its online platform, “which allows WFP to better coordinate, dispatch and track a fleet of smaller vehicles delivering relief items from…

Ukraine Showing the World How to Fight Back — Global Issues

UN and Tajikistan reaffirm ‘strong partnership’ in new cooperation agreement — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

The joint UN-Tajikistan document, which was signed on Tuesday by Prime Minister Kokhir Rasulzoda and UN Resident Coordinator Sezin Sinanoglu, sets out national development priorities and goals for the next four years.  “This Cooperation Framework has ambitious aims to improve the lives of people in Tajikistan and create equal opportunities…

Ukraine Showing the World How to Fight Back — Global Issues

Reports of sexual violence in Ukraine rising fast, Security Council hears — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, recalled her recent visit to Ukraine and outlined the elements of a recently signed Framework of Cooperation on the Prevention and Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, which seeks to strengthen accountability and combat those abhorrent crimes. “Too often have the…

Animal Farm, Ukrainian Resistance and Russian Propaganda — Global Issues

Animal Farm, Ukrainian Resistance and Russian Propaganda — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm) Friday, June 03, 2022 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Jun 03 (IPS) – What I have most wanted to do… is to make political writing into an art.                                                                                         George OrwellWarfare and misinformation are intimately connected. The 29th of May was globally observed as The Day of Communication…

Ukraine Showing the World How to Fight Back — Global Issues

‘Any way you look at it, wars are evil’, UN Ukraine Crisis chief — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

UN News: The Russian war in Ukraine has reached a tragic milestone. Are there any hopes that this war will end anytime soon? Amin Awad: “There is optimism that the war will end, because neither Ukraine nor Russia can afford it. Ukraine is suffering from the loss of life, the destruction…

Ukraine Points Up the Threat to Education During War — Global Issues

Ukraine Points Up the Threat to Education During War — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Over 1,600 schools and universities have been damaged or destroyed since Russia’s invasion on February 24, according to Ukraine’s Education Ministry. Credit: UNICEF Opinion by Jerome Marston, Marika Tsolakis (new york) Wednesday, June 01, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jun 01 (IPS) – Conflict has taken a horrific toll on…

Ukrainian refugees arrive in Poland ‘in a state of distress and anxiety’ — Global Issues

Ukrainian refugees arrive in Poland ‘in a state of distress and anxiety’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“Poland remains the main country of arrival for refugees from Ukraine,” UNHCR spokesperson Olga Sarrado told journalists at a regular press briefing in Geneva. And while the pace has slowed in comparison to early March – when over 100,000 people were arriving per day – May has continued to witness around…