UN’s transgender rights campaign goes global — Global Issues

UN’s transgender rights campaign goes global — Global Issues

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“If we want a healthy world, then it needs to be a kind and welcoming one too,” said Benedict Phillips, the UNAIDS Director of Communications and Global Advocacy. That means ensuring all communities are included, especially marginalized groups, he said. However, in many countries, stigma, discrimination, and criminalization tend to…

‘Long COVID’ may obstruct return to normal life for 36 million Europeans — Global Issues

‘Long COVID’ may obstruct return to normal life for 36 million Europeans — Global Issues

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This summer will be “the first in more than three years that many of us will enjoy without the looming threat of COVID-19”, but the life-threatening virus has not gone away completely, said WHO’s regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told reporters at a virtual press conference from Copenhagen. Each…

A knowledge-based approach to tackling Afghanistan’s drug abuse crisis — Global Issues

A knowledge-based approach to tackling Afghanistan’s drug abuse crisis — Global Issues

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Afghanistan, one of the world’s largest producers of heroin and methamphetamine – most of it smuggled abroad – is home to an estimated 3.5 million drugs users, according to the UN. The worsening crisis has left most of the country’s drug treatment and rehabilitation centers struggling to cope. A walk…

Reducing the harm caused by drugs in Thailand — Global Issues

Reducing the harm caused by drugs in Thailand — Global Issues

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Watcharapol Mahaprom, who goes by the name Paan, accesses services at a clinic in Bangkok run by the UNODC-supported non-governmental organization, Ozone. The organization promotes harm-reduction services which focus on their clients’ needs with the aim of preventing the health and social impacts of drug use. He spoke to UN…

In a dangerous and divided world, yoga yields ‘precious’ benefits — Global Issues

In a dangerous and divided world, yoga yields ‘precious’ benefits — Global Issues

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This year’s observance organized by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN in collaboration with the Secretariat, took place under the theme, Yoga for Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam (“the world is one family”). In his video message for the event, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres reminded everyone that in a dangerous…

Europe warming twice as fast as other continents, warns WMO — Global Issues

Europe warming twice as fast as other continents, warns WMO — Global Issues

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According to a report issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, during 2022, multiple nations in the region had their warmest year on record but the expanded use of renewable energy provides a silver lining. Extreme heat, drought and wildfire, marine heatwaves,…

Making the Impossible Possible, Chronicles of an Ambassadors Lifelong Frontline Battle to End Leprosy — Global Issues

Making the Impossible Possible, Chronicles of an Ambassadors Lifelong Frontline Battle to End Leprosy — Global Issues

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Yohei Sasakawa chronicles his campaign to rid the world of leprosy in his biography Making the Impossible Possible. Credit: Hurst Publishers by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Monday, June 19, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Jun 19 (IPS) – In 1974, Yohei Sasakawa accompanied his father to a leprosy hospital he had funded….