Global IssuesNews headlines
‘The Focus Should Be on Holding Social Media Companies Accountable, Not Punishing Individual Users’
- Inter Press Service
Oct 07 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the recent Twitter/X ban in Brazil with Iná Jost, lawyer and head of research at InternetLab, an independent Brazilian think tank focused on human rights and digital technologies.
A Growing New Battle: Nuclear Weapons vs Conventional Arms
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 07 (IPS) - The warnings from the United Nations and from anti-nuclear activists are increasingly ominous: the world is closer to a nuclear war—by design or by accident—more than ever before.
“Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Oct 07 (IPS) - Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: "A hundred Holocausts."
Empowering Change & Resilience: Social Protection in the Age of Megatrends
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct 07 (IPS) - Social protection systems are essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
However, social protection is insufficient across Asia and the Pacific, and the region is at risk from megatrends: climate change, demographic shifts and digitalization. Tens of millions of people have been pushed into extreme poverty since COVID-19, reversing past gains, and many millions more live precariously just above the poverty line.
Gazans in the north trapped with nowhere to go, as fighting intensifies
- UN News
UN humanitarians have warned that conditions in northern Gaza are deteriorating rapidly, with over 400,000 people facing Israeli evacuation orders amid ongoing airstrikes and ground operations.
Sudan: ‘Children should be safe everywhere’, says UNICEF, as fears grow for El Fasher
- UN News
The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, voiced deep concern on Monday over the siege of El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur, where continued clashes are putting the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the region at risk.
WHO calls for action to halt rise in hearing loss in Africa
- UN News
The number of people in Africa living with hearing loss could rise to 54 million by 2030, up from 40 million today, unless urgent measures are taken, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report published on Monday.
WHO highlights mental health crisis facing Israel’s frontline workers a year after 7 October attack
- UN News
As the world remembers the Hamas-led terror attacks on Israel exactly one year ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) is highlighting how the tragedy triggered a mental health crisis among frontline workers.
UN officials remember brutal 7 October attacks, reiterate need for peace
- UN News
Senior officials from across the UN system underscored the need for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and across the wider region, in statements marking one year since the brutal 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel.
Water is ‘canary in the coalmine’ of climate change: WMO
- UN News
The year 2023 marked the driest year in over three decades for rivers around the world, according to a new report coordinated by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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