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Accelerating Change: Global Call to Action on World Toilet Day to Meet 2030 Sanitation Goals
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, South Africa, Nov 19 (IPS) - World Toilet Day 2023, on 19 November, focusing on ‘Accelerating Change’ - Toilets are a foundation stone of public health and play a critical role in protecting the environment”Celebrated annually on the 19th of November, World Toilet Day aims to inspire concerted efforts in addressing the pressing global sanitation crisis, which currently leaves approximately 3.5 billion people without access to safely managed sanitation.
‘This must stop,’ UN chief says as deaths, displacement ripple across Gaza
- UN News
Spikes in casualties, attacks on schools and shelters, including the death of a UN worker, and crippling fuel shortages blocking aid deliveries rippled across Gaza over the weekend, as the World Health Organization (WHO) helped to evacuate 31 babies in critical condition at the besieged Al-Shifa Hospital and the UN chief called for a humanitarian ceasefire amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine crisis.
From the Field: Transforming lives in Darién jungle
- UN News
A rising number of migrants are attempting the dangerous journey across the Darién jungle spanning the Colombia-Panama border. For Etzaida Rios, 35, the impact of providing hope and help runs deep.
World Toilet Day, flush with innovations for safer sanitation
- UN News
Innovation abounds in the race to broaden access to clean water and sanitation around the world on World Toilet Daymarked on 19 November.
Fuel restrictions curtail Gaza aid efforts amid attacks on UN schools and evacuation plans for Al-Shifa Hospital
- UN News
Fuel restrictions are curtailing aid efforts in Gaza, UN agencies said on Saturday, as the World Health Organization (WHO) led a "very high risk" mission to Al-Shifa Hospital amid reports of fresh attacks on UN schools and rising needs among more than 1.5 million displaced Palestinians in the continuing Israel-Palestine crisis.
The Carnage in Gaza Cries Out for Repudiation & Opposition. Maybe Poetry Can Help.
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Nov 17 (IPS) - Two centuries ago, Percy Shelley wrote that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Yet elite power has routinely vetoed their best measures. Still, the ability of poetry to inspire and nurture is precious, including when governments are on protracted killing sprees.
COP28: Climate Summit in Closed Civic Space
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - The need to act on the climate crisis has never been clearer. In 2023, heat records have been shattered around the world. Seemingly every day brings news of extreme weather, imperilling lives. In July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres grimly announced that ‘the era of global boiling has arrived’.
US has Provided Over 130 Billion Dollars in Aid & Weapons to Israel - the Largest Ever
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (IPS) - As one of America’s closest allies, Israel has remained heavily dependent on the US —politically, economically, and militarily—since its creation in 1948.
US arms supplies, mostly provided gratis, are channeled via US Foreign Military Financing (FMF), Military Assistance Program (MAP) and Excess Defense Articles (EDA).
‘Six days of terror’ in West Darfur: Ethnically-based attacks on the rise
- UN News
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has voiced alarm over reports of another ethnically motivated mass attack in the Darfur region of Sudan, amidst the ongoing conflict between the national army and a rival military known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Humanitarian crisis in Gaza could get far worse, warns UN relief chief
- UN News
Fierce hostilities continue across Gaza from the air, sea, and on the ground, the UN’s top humanitarian official told Member States on Friday, reporting that 41,000 houses have now been destroyed or severely damaged.
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