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Children play on the beach in Epi island, Vanuatu, an archipelago in the western Pacific which is home to about 300,000 people. — courtesy UNICEF/Jason Chute
Women activists aiming to make history in Vanuatuan politics
VANUATU — The Republic of Vanuatu is one of the few countries in the world without a single woman representative in parliament, but two determined activists are committed to ending that situation, and ensuring that women’s voices are heard by the island nation’s most senior decision-makers.Anthea Arukola, a political advisor to the Vanuatu government, plans to become the country’s first member of parliament since 2008. Georgiilla Worwor, a law student and community activist, wants to go even further, and convince voters to elect her as Vanuatu’s first-ever Prime Minister.As part of an audio series recorded in Vanuatu, focusing on some of the women pioneers fighting for gender equality across society, the UN Office for Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS), brought Arukola and...
March 03, 2021

Women activists aiming to make history in Vanuatuan politics

Malaysian customs officials show a seized illegal shipment of ivory. — courtesy TRAFFIC
Taming the illegal wildlife trafficking trade
GENEVA — Cargo ships have become increasingly favored over the last year as a means for criminal organizations to transport illegal wildlife products, after COVID-19 related restrictions disrupted other forms of transportation.UN agencies are heavily involved in ramped-up efforts to curb sea-bound trafficking, which has, until recently, been a relatively low risk way to criminals to transport illegal products, such as ivory and pangolin scales.Low awareness of wildlife trafficking, weak enforcement capacity, and limited coordination among the main players involved in shipping have all played a role.Now a range of programs supported by the UN Development Program (UNDP) including a maritime trafficking project, is aiming to tame the illegal wildlife trade. — UN News
March 03, 2021

Taming the illegal wildlife trafficking trade

A woman cycles past wind turbines on a country road in Heijningen, The Netherlands. — courtesy Unsplash/Les Corpographes
Guterres urges countries to end ‘deadly addiction’ to coal
NEW YORK — The world still has a “fighting chance” to limit global warming by ending dependence on coal, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told representatives from governments, local authorities and the private sector, meeting online on Tuesday.Addressing members of the Powering Past Coal Alliance, the UN chief stressed that keeping temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is achievable over this decade.“Once upon a time, coal brought cheap electricity to entire regions and vital jobs to communities. Those days are gone,” he said in a video message.“Phasing out coal from the electricity sector is the single most important step to get in line with the 1.5 degree goal.”Ending a ‘deadly addiction’ Guterres underlined action in three areas to...
March 03, 2021

Guterres urges countries to end ‘deadly addiction’ to coal

Disha project to empower women and create livelihoods for women entrepreneurs in India. — courtesy UNDP India
Fighting for women’s financial freedom
GENEVA — Around the world, the opportunities for women to lead successful, financially secure lives are being limited by government legislation, company policies and deep-rooted misogyny. The UN is leading efforts to give women more access to digital financial tools, seen as essential to playing a full part in the global economy.In her role as a senior advisor at the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), which makes public and private finance work for the world’s poorest people, Nandini Harihareswara focuses on ensuring that more women are able to take advantage of digital finance, as a means of lifting them out of poverty.Harihareswara spoke to UN News ahead of an online panel discussion, involving UNCDF, The World Bank and other partners, promoting financial equality for women, and...
March 03, 2021

Fighting for women’s financial freedom

The AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is being manufactured under license in India. — courtesy UNICEF/Dhiraj Singh
Equitable vaccine delivery plan needs more support to succeed: COVAX partners
GENEVA — The equitable coronavirus vaccine delivery initiative COVAX that has delivered its first doses to West Africa and Latin America in the past few days, is a credit to international solidarity, but potential obstacles must be overcome if a fully global rollout is to be achieved, UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.Speaking after Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Colombia received their first round of AstraZeneca(AZ)/Oxford jabs, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the distribution of vaccines “has not been as equitable as we would have liked, but it has certainly been more equitable than it would have been otherwise”.Challenges on the groundThe COVAX collective planned to deliver 11 million doses this week,...
March 03, 2021

Equitable vaccine delivery plan needs more support to succeed: COVAX partners

Young woman wears earbuds while working on her laptop. — courtesy UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi
Untreated hearing loss threatens nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide — WHO
GENEVA — By 2050, around one-in-four people will be living with some degree of hearing loss, the UN health agency warned on Tuesday, in its first World Report on Hearing.The World Health Organization’s (WHO) report, launched ahead of World Hearing Day 2021 on Wednesday, says that in less than 30 years, nearly 2.5 billion people globally face the threat of hearing loss — at least 700 million of whom will require ear and hearing care as well as other rehabilitation services, unless action is taken.That figure would mark a significant increase from the current 430 million people worldwide who are experiencing “disabling hearing loss”.“Our ability to hear is precious. Untreated hearing loss can have a devastating impact on people’s ability to communicate, to study and to earn a...
March 03, 2021

Untreated hearing loss threatens nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide — WHO

The Separation Wall in the occupied Palestinian Territory and behind it an Israeli settlements. — courtesy Photo/Ryan Rodrick Beiler
Rights experts condemn ongoing demolition of Palestinian Bedouin village
GENEVA — Two independent UN human rights experts are urging Israel to halt efforts to demolish the Palestinian village of Humsa Al-Bqai'a, fearing it is part of a wider pattern of forcible removals and displacement.Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, and Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, have condemned the move, according to a statement issued on Tuesday.Humsa Al-Bqai'a is a traditional Bedouin village located in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank. The experts said its ongoing destruction by the Israeli army has caused great hardship to the approximately 60 people living there, more than half of whom are children.“Severing the villagers from their lands and...
March 03, 2021

Rights experts condemn ongoing demolition of Palestinian Bedouin village

File photo of factories off the coast of Louisiana, United States. — courtesy Unsplash/Robin Sommer
Environmental racism in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’, must end: UN experts
GENEVA — The further industrialization of so-called “Cancer Alley” in the southern United States, known for its pollution-emitting chemical plants, should be halted according to a large group of independent UN human rights experts, who on Tuesday branded it a form of “environmental racism”.Originally dubbed “Plantation Country”, Cancer Alley, which is located in the southern state of Louisiana along the lower Mississippi River where enslaved Africans were forced to labor, serves as an industrial hub, with nearly 150 oil refineries, plastics plants and chemical facilities. The ever-widening corridor of petrochemical plants has not only polluted the surrounding water and air, but also subjected the mostly African American residents in St. James Parish to cancer, respiratory...
March 03, 2021

Environmental racism in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’, must end: UN experts

Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah issued a decree on Tuesday approving a new Cabinet led by Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. — KUNA file photo
Kuwait's emir issues decree approving new Cabinet
Saudi Gazette reportKUWAIT CITY — Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah issued a decree on Tuesday approving a new Cabinet led by Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.Oil Minister Mohammad Abdulatif Al-Fares, Finance Minister Khalifa Hamade and Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Sabah were reappointed in the new Cabinet, according to the Kuwait News Agency.The Kuwaiti prime minister along with his Cabinet resigned in January following a standoff with parliament and the government ever since had been acting in a caretaker capacity.Following the approval of the new Cabinet, which include Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah as deputy prime minister and minister of defense, Issa Ahmad Mohammad Hassan Al-Kandari as minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Bassel Humoud...
March 03, 2021

Kuwait's emir issues decree approving new Cabinet

 Kuwait's Ministry of Health recorded on Tuesday 1,341 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, marking the highest single-day number since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country. — KUNA file photo
Kuwait breaks daily COVID-19 case record for second day in a row
KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait's Ministry of Health recorded on Tuesday 1,341 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, marking the highest single-day number since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country.The Kuwaiti health ministry also announced seven more deaths caused by complications caused by the infection over the past 24 hours.This brings the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 193,372 and virus-related fatalities to 1,092.According to the ministry’s spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, there are currently 11,161 active cases in the country out of which 160 are receiving treatment in intensive care units.A total of 8,586 swab tests were conducted over the past 24 hours, raising the total number of COVID-19 examinations in the country to 1,800,627, Al-Sanad said.The...
March 02, 2021

Kuwait breaks daily COVID-19 case record for second day in a row

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