UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday repeated his call for a global COVID-19 vaccination plan to boost production and reach millions over the coming...
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Equitable global access to vaccines must be at the core of efforts to build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta...
President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday said his country was the victim of a “fierce campaign” of permanent and systematic aggression through economic and financial...
The President of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, lauded the world’s embrace of online services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday, in her high-level...
Millions in Yemen ‘a step away from starvation’
The crisis in Yemen, now in its seventh year of war, continues unabated, with thousands of people displaced and millions “a step away from...
Women Leaders Hailed for COVID-19 Response
DOMINICA, Sep 22 (IPS) – On September 20, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina accepted an award from the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions...
Climate Finance Can Transform Food Systems
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sep 22 (IPS) – September 23, 2021 is the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit, convened to mobilize the highest-priority transformations needed...
COVID-19 has set back progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), undermining decades of development efforts, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture...
There has been little sign of improvement in the diets of the world’s youngest children over the last ten years, the United Nations Children’s...
Afghanistan’s health system is on the brink of collapse, the head of the World Health Organisation, WHO, warned on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Afghanistan’s health care...
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