UN for new equity-based, resilient model for Asia-Pacific megacities
HQ Team April 27, 2025: As the climate crisis pushes many of Asia’s sprawling megacities to their limits, a UN body has called.
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Dire humanitarian crisis engulfs Gaza Strip, displaced people swell: UN
HQ Team April 17, 2025: Escalating hostilities and limited access to medical supplies are exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza depriving.
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Maternal mortality rates may fail UN goal, global aid cuts the main culprit
HQ Team April 9, 2025: The United Nations has warned that “unprecedented” global aid cuts could derail a three-year trend of a 40%.
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Sudan heading for famine as fighting ravages Darfur, UN warns
HQ Team April 2, 2025: Sudan’s humanitarian crisis and security situation remain “dire and worsening,” with a famine looming on the horizon, according.
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Funding cuts ‘severely’ bleeding UN’s child survival, stillbirth programs
HQ Team March 25, 2025: Progress in slowing child mortality and stillbirth deaths has received a severe blow due to global funding cuts.
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UN says 49 bodies of possible migrants found in two Libyan mass graves
Forty-nine bodies, likely of migrants, were found in two mass graves in Libya, according to the UN agency, the International Office of Migration.
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Global warming on backburner; vexed financing deal sees light at COP29
Global representatives at a climate conference signed a $300 billion-a-year deal to finance emissions reductions — a move developing nations say falls way.
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Tax fossil fuel extraction, aviation, shipping: UN chief says at COP29
UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined a three-point plan to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, including new ways to.
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Famine in Gaza Strip is ‘imminent,’ likelihood ‘substantial’: FRC
An international body of technical experts in the field of food security has issued an alert about an “imminent” and “substantial” likelihood of.
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WHO activates emergency health network in mpox-hit nations for first time
The World Health Organization has for the first time activated its emergency health network in eight countries affected by the mpox outbreak, including.