Wed 04 August 2021: WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on that the World Health Organization (WHO) is asking for a halt on booster COVID-19 vaccination doses until the end of September to ensure equal access to vaccines around the world. He said the move was to enable that at least 10% of the […]
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Mon 02 August 2021: About 83 million people will die from global warming-related deaths in the 21st century without major changes to carbon emissions policies, a recently published study determined. The research was published in the journal Nature Communications on Thursday, and attempts to account for what study author Daniel Bressler termed the “mortality cost […]
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Sun 01 August 2021: In a recent development, two UN agencies warned on Friday that hunger is likely to worsen in 23 global hotspots over the next three months, with the highest alarms for “catastrophic” situations in Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray area, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan, and northern Nigeria. The Food and Agriculture Organization and […]
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Fri 30 July 2021: Vaccinating the world against COVID-19 might be at least five times cheaper if pharmaceutical corporations didn’t profit from their COVID-19 vaccine monopolies, according to campaigners from The People’s Vaccine Alliance. According to a new analysis by the Alliance, Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are charging governments up to $41 billion more than the […]
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Wed 28 July 2021: Electronic cigarettes and similar devices are dangerous to health and must be regulated to curb the tobacco industry’s “criminal” tactics to get young people hooked on nicotine, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. “Nicotine is highly addictive. Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) are harmful, and must be better regulated,” said WHO […]
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Tue 27 July 2021: Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform food systems to speed up sustainable development. Up to […]
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Mon 26 July 2021: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged the Group of 20 developed countries to take the lead on climate action, claiming that without them, there is no way to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree Celsius goal. After the group failed to agree on the phrasing of major climate change pledges […]
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Tue 20 July 2021: Inequalities between women and men in the job market that have been exacerbated due to the COVID-19 pandemic will persist and there will be 13 million fewer women employed in 2021 than in 2019, while men’s employment will have succeeded in recovering, an International Labor Organization (ILO) report projected Monday. “Even […]
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Mon 19 July 2021: An Israeli firm accused of supplying spyware to governments has been linked to a list of 50,000 smartphone numbers, including those of activists, journalists, business executives and politicians around the world, according to reports Sunday. Israel’s NSO Group and its Pegasus malware have been in the headlines since at least 2016, […]
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Sun 18 July 2021: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called for solidarity and unity in his video message for Nelson Mandela International Day (or Mandela Day). The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the “vital importance of human solidarity and unity,” values championed and exemplified by Mandela in his lifelong fight for justice, said Guterres. […]
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