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ROME — Farmers, especially women and indigenous people, work tirelessly to put food on our tables. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed met on Saturday women producers at a farmers’ market in Circo Massimo, Rome, ahead of the Food Systems Pre-Summit taking place next week.Dozens of stalls were set up in the vicinity of the UN event’s venue, where heads of state and delegates will gather from Monday to discuss ways to transform food systems to tackle hunger, poverty, climate change and inequality.UN and government officials toured the market to meet with farmers before paying tribute to producers, particularly women, for their central role in food systems.“Farmers are the lifeblood of our food systems”, said Mohammed. “Understanding their needs and the challenges they face...
July 26, 2021
Farmers the ‘lifeblood of our food systems’, deputy UN chief highlights
July 26, 2021
Wildfire on Sardinia Island forces evacuation of residents
July 25, 2021
No pathway to reach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C goal without the G20: UN chief
July 25, 2021
UK health secretary sorry for tweet saying
people shouldn't 'cower from' coronavirus
VIENNA — The World Heritage Committee on Saturday inscribed five cultural sites, including one transnational property, in Saudi Arabia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland on UNESCO’s World Heritage List during its 44th session held online and chaired from Fuzhou (China).
The first site is Ḥima Well in Saudi Arabia which contains a substantial collection of rock art images depicting hunting, fauna, flora and lifestyles in a cultural continuity of 7,000 years. The property and its buffer zone are also rich in unexcavated archaeological resources in the form of cairns, stone structures, interments, stone tool scatters and ancient wells.
The second is the transnational site of The Great Spa Towns of Europe which comprises 11...
July 25, 2021
Apart from Hima Well in Najran, 4 other global
sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
July 25, 2021
Germany mulls restrictions for unvaccinated people if COVID-19 cases rise
July 25, 2021
10 killed, 44 injured in bus crash in Croatia
July 24, 2021
Tens of thousands protest against health pass in France
July 23, 2021
European agency clears Moderna vaccine for children 12-17
GENEVA — Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global climate, water-related hazards top the list of natural disasters with the highest human losses in the past 50 years, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970-2019) — which will be published in September — finds that of the 10 disasters causing the most human fatalities in the past five decades, droughts top the list with some 650,000 deaths across the globe.
Storms caused upwards of 577,000 fatalities, floods led to more than 58,000 deaths, and extreme temperatures caused over 55,000 to die.Extreme rainfall events
Excerpts from the report were released as temperatures in parts of North America soar,...
July 23, 2021
Water-related hazards dominate list of 10 most destructive disasters
