Thu 03 June 2021: World food prices extended their rally as they rose in May at their fastest monthly rate in more than a decade, posting a 12th consecutive monthly increase, the United Nations food agency said Thursday. This reaffirmed fears over surging costs as economies struggle with the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, risking […]
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Thu 20 May 2021: Armed conflicts and natural disasters have brought the number of internally displaced persons across the globe to record 55 million in late 2020, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), a part of the humanitarian watchdog Norwegian Refugee Council, said on Thursday. “The total number of people living in internal displacement reached […]
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Tue 18 May 2021: Highlighting the gap of vaccinations between high-income countries and low and lower-middle countries, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said that the world is at risk of ‘vaccine apartheid’. Speaking at the Paris Peace Forum Spring Meeting, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “I think I would go one […]
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Tue 11 May 2021: COVID-19 cases and deaths are falling in most regions, including the worst affected Americas and Europe areas, but the “shocking global disparity” in vaccine access is one of the biggest risks to ending the pandemic, the World Health Organization chief said Monday. “We’re now seeing a plateau in the number of […]
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Thu 06 May 2021: Acute food insecurity has reached a five-year high worldwide as the international community grapples with conflict, the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, a UN-backed report warned on Wednesday. Conflict, the economic fallout from the pandemic and extreme weather “are continuing to push millions of people into acute food insecurity,” according to […]
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Mon 03 May 2021: The Biden administration will reunite four migrant children with their parents this week after they were separated from their families by the Trump administration at the southern border, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced on Monday. “The Family Reunification Task Force has been working day and night, across the Federal […]
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Fri 30 April 2021: International charity Oxfam estimated on Thursday that the past pandemic year resulted in at least $800 billion in lost income for women worldwide, which is more than “the combined GDP of 98 countries.” The NGO noted that the estimate surpasses the 2020 US defense budget, worth $721.5 billion, and Amazon’s $700 […]
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Mon 26 April 2021: Global military spending increased by 2.6% to $1.981 trillion in 2020, with the United States, China, India, Russia and the United Kingdom topping the list, data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) showed on Monday. “The 2.6 per cent increase in world military spending came in a year […]
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Fri 23 April 2021: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg demanded on Thursday that U.S. lawmakers end fossil fuel subsidies before it is too late, and she warned politicians that history will hold them accountable for climate catastrophes. Speaking as world leaders gathered at a climate summit hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, 18-year-old Thunberg warned […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: An estimated 710 million children live in the 45 countries that are at the highest risk of being impacted by flood, droughts, hurricanes and other extreme weather events caused by climate change, Save the Children warned on Monday. In a report released ahead of Thursday’s US-sponsored online Leaders Summit on climate […]
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