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July 03, 2022
Bodies of 3 missing kids, woman found in Minnesota lake
July 03, 2022
Monkeypox cases triple in Europe, WHO says
July 03, 2022
Suriname gives ‘hope and inspiration to the world to save our rainforests’: UN chief
July 02, 2022
Arab FMs mull over food security, Ukraine war
July 02, 2022
Ship sinks in storm off Hong Kong, dozens of crew in danger
July 02, 2022
Rescuers recover 26 dead from mudslide in India’s northeast
July 02, 2022
France weighs return to masks with hospitalizations up
GENEVA — A new UN report has shed fresh light on the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed cascading risks, particularly on vulnerable people, worldwide.From the mangroves of West Bengal to the vast archipelago that makes up Indonesia, and from the bustling port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, to the tropical shores of southern Togo, systemic risks from the COVID-19 pandemic have been exposed in stark human terms.Millions of people who were already struggling to make ends meet, often working in the informal economy in agriculture and surviving below the poverty line, had to contend with a host of new risks that they could not possibly have foreseen.These included joblessness, debt, civil and domestic violence, children’s education derailed, and opportunities severely diminished. In...
July 02, 2022
What COVID-19 taught us about risk in a complex, inter-connected world
July 02, 2022
UN Conference ends with call for greater ambition and global commitment to address dire state of ocean
GENEVA — The situation for women is so desperate in Afghanistan that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two every day, the Human Rights Council has heard.It comes as the top UN rights forum in Geneva agreed to Member States’ request for a rare Urgent Debate on the issue this Friday.Addressing the Council, Fawzia Koofi, former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament, said lack of opportunity and ailing mental health, was taking a terrible toll: "Every day there is at least one or two women who commit suicide for the lack of opportunity, for the mental health, for the pressure they receive.“The fact that girls as young as nine years old are being sold, not only because of economic pressure, but because of the fact that there is no hope for them, for their family, it...
July 02, 2022
In Afghanistan, women take their lives out of desperation, HRC hears
