World Toilet Day, flush with innovations for safer sanitation — Global Issues

World Toilet Day, flush with innovations for safer sanitation — Global Issues

In line with this year’s theme of accelerating change, innovators have been part of ongoing efforts to address the needs of some of the world’s 3.5 billion people living without safe toilets. From a Nepalese woman who prompted her village to improve hygiene to a fresh game plan launched in…

UN honours 101 staff killed in Gaza conflict — Global Issues

UN honours 101 staff killed in Gaza conflict — Global Issues

The fallen colleagues worked for the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, providing life-saving aid to Gaza’s 2.2 million people, amid constant bombardment and a complete siege of the enclave. They included school principals, teachers, doctors, engineers, guards, and support staff. Many were killed along with their family members….

World Toilet Day, flush with innovations for safer sanitation — Global Issues

‘Outrage’ over Black Sea attack, funding pledge to alleviate El Niño, breast cancer alert — Global Issues

Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown said in a statement that Wednesday’s attack came on the heels of a series of assaults that killed and inured civilians, destroyed grain supplies and damaged the historic Fine Arts Museum in the Ukrainian port city. “I share my condolences with the family of the killed…

World Toilet Day, flush with innovations for safer sanitation — Global Issues

Mali mission latest, starvation alert for ‘hotspots’, inclusive sport for all — Global Issues

In line with the accelerated withdrawal process of the UN’s stabilization mission, MINUSMA, the convoy initially left by road on Tuesday for Gao, and suffered two attacks from improvised explosives on the way that caused vehicle damage and minor injuries to two peacekeepers which were treated on site. Thursday’s incident…

Femicide ‘pandemic’, war crimes appeal to Israeli lawyers, Syria child detainees — Global Issues

Femicide ‘pandemic’, war crimes appeal to Israeli lawyers, Syria child detainees — Global Issues

That’s the message from the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, who said on Monday that perpetrators are mostly, but not exclusively, partners or ex-partners, and often escape accountability “due to a lack of proper investigation”. A 2022 report from the UN Office on Drugs…

Diplomatic stakes ‘could not be higher’ warns senior UN official — Global Issues

Diplomatic stakes ‘could not be higher’ warns senior UN official — Global Issues

“Today the stakes for preventive diplomacy and dialogue could not be higher,” said Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific, in a meeting organized by the Brazilian presidency. Referring to the escalating situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, he warned that in the…