Thu 15 July 2021: The number of people who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean nearly doubled in the first half of 2021, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday. At least 1,146 people died attempting to reach Europe by sea in the first six months of 2021, the IOM said in a statement. […]
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Tue 13 July 2021: The number of undernourished people rose to about 768-million in 2020 — equivalent to 10% of the world’s population World hunger and malnutrition levels worsened dramatically last year, mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a multi-agency UN report released on Monday. UN agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization […]
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Fri 09 July 2021: Oxfam, a poverty eradication organization, says 11 people die from hunger every minute, and the number of people around the world facing famine-like situations has increased six-fold from last year. In a report titled “The Starvation Virus Proliferates,” Oxfam said Thursday that famine killed more than Covid-19, which kills about seven […]
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Thu 08 July 2021: Global food commodity prices fell in June for the first time in 12 months, according to a benchmark United Nations report released on Thursday. Following 12 consecutive monthly increases, the FAO Food Price Index slipped 2.5% from May, averaging at 124.6 points this June. The figure was still 33.9% above its […]
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Sun 04 July 2021: The world is in a very “dangerous period” of the coronavirus pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta — first detected in India — which is continuing to evolve and mutate, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned. “In countries with low COVID-19 vaccination coverage, terrible […]
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Wed 30 June 2021: The global economy could loose around $4 trillion due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism industry in 2020 and 2021, a report by the United Nations World Tourism Organization and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report on Wednesday. The report stated […]
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Thu 24 June 2021: The European Parliament on Thursday approved a new climate law, which makes the bloc’s commitments to reach climate neutrality by 2050 binding and sets a higher 2030 target for greenhouse gas emissions reduction. The previous European Green Deal aimed to slash emissions 40% by 2030, compared to 1990 level. “I […]
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Wed 23 June 2021: Some 41 million people in 43 countries are at imminent risk of famine, with nearly 600,000 others in four countries already experiencing famine-like conditions, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. In a statement on Tuesday, the United Nations agency said wars, climate change and economic shocks have been driving the increase […]
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Sat 12 June 2021: World Day Against Child Labour, which aims to spread awareness about the illegal employment practice and also talk about the ways to eradicate it completely, will be observed on Saturday by people across the globe. It was launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO), an agency of the United Nations, in […]
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Thu 10 June 2021: Global plastics production declined in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, only the third time since World War II that output has fallen, an industry body said Thursday. Output has fallen only twice previously, as a result of the oil crisis in 1973 and during the financial crisis in […]
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