Food Experts’ Expectations for Global Food Systems Transformation
DOMINICA, Sep 20 (IPS) – Dubbed ‘the People’s Summit, the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) hopes to put the world back on a...
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Call for ‘decisive action now’ to avoid climate catastrophe
Speaking alongside the UK Prime Minister in New York on Monday the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called on world leaders for “decisive action now to avert...
World leaders, BTS, join Guterres in call to get SDGs back on track
The world “is challenged like never before”, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, but the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) still offer a roadmap to get back on track. Read the full story, “World leaders,...
Fundamental Changes Needed at UN Summit to Tackle Global Food Insecurity
BRIGHTON, UK, Sep 20 (IPS) – COVID-19 has exposed numerous fractures in global food systems that leave millions at risk of food insecurity. Like...
Struggling economies, widening inequality and millions vulnerable: the urgent need for vaccine equity
Health leaders agree that a world without COVID-19 will not be possible until everyone has equal access to vaccines. More than 4.6 million people...
UN chief message to world leaders: ‘Wake up, change course, unite’
In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with UN News, Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on world leaders to ‘wake up’, make an immediate course correction at home and abroad, and unite. Read the full story,...
The 11,000 square meters ‘ephemeral fresco’ was created by Swiss artist Saype. It shows two children building the world of the future and represents,...
FROM THE FIELD: Haiti’s gruelling post-quake road to recovery
Thousands of Haitians continue to take refuge in neighbours’ houses, makeshift shelters, chapels or informal displacement sites, a month after a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the west of...
For almost 30 years, Brazilian activist Joenia Wapixana, has been fighting for indigenous land rights and against “institutionalized discrimination” in Brazil. In a special interview with UN News, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, she says...
Indigenous Peoples in Mexico Defend Their Right to Water
LERMA/COYOTEPEC, Mexico, Sep 18 (IPS) – In the San Lorenzo Huitzizilapan Otomí indigenous community, in the state of Mexico –adjacent to the country’s capital–,...
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