FAO launches emergency plan to combat hunger in Sudan — Global Issues

FAO launches emergency plan to combat hunger in Sudan — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Over the coming year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will distribute seeds, livestock treatment kits and provide veterinary and fisheries support to boost crop production, improve seed diversification and protect animal stock from depleting. The initiative is expected to meet the cereal requirements of up to 19 million people…

FAO launches emergency plan to combat hunger in Sudan — Global Issues

Taking the pulse of the planet as the world gathers at the UN — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Streets around UN HQ in Midtown Manhattan will be cordoned off, roadblocks erected, and security heightened and tightened, as world leaders gather to take the pulse of the planet during a week of high-level events and come together to tackle global challenges. The 78th session of UNGA begins on 6…

FAO launches emergency plan to combat hunger in Sudan — Global Issues

Repel intensifying attacks on schools, urges Guterres — Global Issues

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Marking the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said it was important to defend “havens of education”. “Education is not only a fundamental human right, but a pathway to a better future for every person, and a more peaceful, understanding world,” he underscored. He…

FAO launches emergency plan to combat hunger in Sudan — Global Issues

UN welcomes G20 leaders’ declaration in New Delhi — Global Issues

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World leaders, meeting in the Indian capital for the annual G20 summit, reached agreement by consensus this afternoon on the declaration, which covers issues ranging from climate change and green growth to gender equality and countering terrorism. Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said the UN particularly…

FAO launches emergency plan to combat hunger in Sudan — Global Issues

School occupations condemned as violence grips Palestine refugee camp — Global Issues

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Clashes between rival factions in the Ein el Hilweh camp, the largest in Lebanon, has also displaced thousands of refugees, according to reports. Armed groups have taken over eight schools run by UNRWA, the UN agency providing support to Palestine refugees, preventing around 6,000 children from accessing the classroom as…

FAO launches emergency plan to combat hunger in Sudan — Global Issues

Few worse places to be a child warns UNICEF as twins found boobytrapped — Global Issues

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UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in the country, Grant Leaity, issued the alert on Tuesday, revealing that youngsters in eastern DRC face daily atrocities, including rape, abduction and recruitment by armed groups. “I visited a centre in Beni and North Kivu for children released from armed groups where I met…

FAO launches emergency plan to combat hunger in Sudan — Global Issues

more than 7 million refugee children out of school — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“With the displaced population rising every year, there is a significant and increasing proportion of the world’s children who are missing out on their education,” said Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday that by the end of 2022, the total number…

FAO launches emergency plan to combat hunger in Sudan — Global Issues

Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns — Global Issues

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Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which issued the report, called for “greater ambition and accelerating action”. “I urge governments to carefully study the findings of the report and ultimately understand what it means for them and the ambitious action they must take…