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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
March 03, 2021
Taming the illegal wildlife trafficking trade
March 03, 2021
Guterres urges countries to end ‘deadly addiction’ to coal
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
March 03, 2021
Equitable vaccine delivery plan needs more support to succeed: COVAX partners
March 03, 2021
Untreated hearing loss threatens nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide — WHO
March 03, 2021
Rights experts condemn ongoing demolition of Palestinian Bedouin village
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
March 03, 2021
Kuwait's emir issues decree approving new Cabinet
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
