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‘Climate crunch time is here,’ new UN report warns
- UN News
Annual greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high, and urgent action must be taken to prevent catastrophic spikes in temperature and avoid the worst impact of climate change, according to a new report released on Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Explainer: How to advance women’s roles in peace and security
- UN News
Ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Haiti, Sudan and Ukraine and beyond reveal that females are disproportionately affected – from gender-based violence to rape used as a tool of war – but the UN chief’s newly released report suggests eight ways for policymakers and interested parties to advance women’s role in peace and security.
With God on Our Side: Netanyahu, Trump, and Putin
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct 23 (IPS) - Bronisław Malinowski (1884 – 1942) did for several years conduct socio-anthropological research in the Trobriand Islands. Returning to England after World War I, he wrote several ground breaking books, among them Magic, Science, and Religion in which he assumed that people's feelings and motives are crucial for understanding the way their society functions. Malinowski considered society to be intimately interlinked with individuality – i.e. an individual's ideas and behaviour are created and formulated within the social circles s/he lives and vice versa. Consequently, an individual's personality might influence an entire society, depending on the leading role s/he is granted.
Hunger Is Ravaging the Bodies of Syrian Children, Stunting Their Growth
- Inter Press Service
IDLIB, Syria, Oct 23 (IPS) - Children in northern Syria are suffering from hunger, illness, and malnutrition as a result of poverty, poor living conditions for most families, and the collapse of purchasing power amid the soaring prices of all essential food commodities. Displacement and a lack of job opportunities make this worse.
85 percent of children affected by polio in 2023 lived in fragile and conflict-affected areas: UNICEF
- UN News
Countries facing conflict, natural disasters and humanitarian crises are struggling to provide routine childhood immunisations leaving many children vulnerable to the resurgence of polio, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned in new report.
Syria facing alarming regional spillover, UN envoy warns
- UN News
The conflict in Gaza and Lebanon is spilling over into Syria, exacerbating an already dire humanitarian situation, the UN Special Envoy for the country warned on Wednesday.
World News in Brief: UNRWA staffer killed in Gaza, Central African Republic update, terror in Türkiye, journalists face financial reprisals
- UN News
A strike in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip has led to death of at least one staff member of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, on Wednesday.
Experts demand answers from Russia over award-winning Ukrainian journalist’s death
- UN News
For more than half a year, the family of award-winning Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna have lived in torment, seeking answers about their daughter’s fate, after she disappeared while reporting from Russian-occupied territory in eastern Ukraine.
Civilians and peacekeepers at risk, amid escalating Lebanon conflict
- UN News
A displacement crisis in unfolding in Lebanon, as Israel’s escalating military offensive in the south and the bombing of Beirut continues to drive both Lebanese civilians as well as third country refugees from their homes and shelters, UN agencies warned on Wednesday.
‘Trauma that echoes across generations’: UN highlights weaponisation of sexual violence
- UN News
The United Nations marked 15 years of its mandate on sexual violence and conflict with a commemoration ceremony held in New York on Wednesday.
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