Global IssuesNews headlines for “Health Issues”, page 2
World Autism Awareness Day 2025: Sustainable Development Must Include Neurodivergent Perspectives
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 03 (IPS) - In 2007, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly designated April 2 as World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD), in an effort to promote inclusion and human rights for autistic individuals. Much work has been done and pushed forward by autistic advocates to bring lived experiences to global discussions.
Make America Great Again? Not by This Administration
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Apr 02 (IPS) - For most voters, to make America great again, as the 47th president has repeatedly pledged, meant to make the United States markedly superior globally. However, the administration’s actions, policies and program cuts will not improve but only worsen the US’s mediocre standing among advanced countries.
Hunger and Heightened Insecurity Pushes Sudan to the Brink of Collapse
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 02 (IPS) - After nearly two years of extended warfare and protracted crises as a result of the Sudanese Civil War, Sudan remains the world’s biggest internal displacement crisis. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), heightened insecurity, widespread famine, economic strife, and climate shocks threaten the lives of approximately 25.6 million people.
Sudan: Sexual violence used as weapon of terror against women and girls
- UN News
Amid alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan, UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, is warning that over 12 million women and girls – and increasingly men and boys – are estimated to be at risk.
Guterres calls for greater equality and inclusion as world marks Autism Awareness Day
- UN News
Although people with autism are making enormous contributions to societies across the globe, they still face significant challenges.
UNICEF Report Warns of Rising Rates of Child Mortality without Proper Funding
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 28 (IPS) - Despite levels of child mortality and stillbirths having significantly decreased since 2000, increasingly unequal and limited access to basic services around the world endangers millions of children around the world, a new report finds.
47 million health workers and advocates call for cleaner air to curb pollution deaths
- UN News
Over 50 countries, cities, and organizations pledged new commitments on Thursday to tackle air pollution, protect public health, and help halve its deadly impacts by 2040 – a goal backed by a petition from 47 million health professionals, patients and advocates demanding clean air be made a public health priority.
How to Turn the Tide: Resisting the Global Assault on Gender Rights
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar 27 (IPS) - This year’s session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), the world’s leading forum for advancing gender equality, confronted unprecedented challenges. With Saudi Arabia in the chair and anti-rights voices growing increasingly influential in the forum, the struggle to hold onto international commitments on gender equality intensified dramatically. On 8 March, International Women’s Day mobilisations also took on added urgency, with demonstrations from Istanbul to Buenos Aires focusing on resisting the multiple manifestations of gender rights regression being felt in communities worldwide.
Malnutrition Not Due to Cash Poverty Alone
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 26 (IPS) - The World Bank set its US ‘dollar-a-day’ poverty line using its 1990 data. Despite many doubts and criticisms, its poverty numbers fell until the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.
Deadly impacts of childhood stunting can be prevented, WFP insists
- UN News
Childhood stunting from malnutrition is a global but preventable problem if adequate investment can be found, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday, amid chronic funding shortages that threaten essential feeding programmes.
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