Two more US military planes carrying tons of aid for Pakistan affected by heavy monsoon rains landed in the southern province of Sindh, one of the hardest-hit regions of the impoverished country, on Sunday. Saif Ullah, a spokesman for the country’s Civil
Since the beginning of the year, 168 UN Aid workers have been attacked, resulting in 44 deaths, according to “Humanitarian Outcomes”. “Humanitarian needs have never been higher and aid workers are engaging in increasingly dangerous environments,” Martin Griffiths, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator
About a million species, including some seemingly common ones, are facing extinction, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), an independent intergovernmental body of science and policy supported by the UN. According to the
Today, the world is on the verge of a massive energy crisis, UN experts warn. For the past two years, the energy market has been extremely volatile: during the pandemic, demand fell sharply, and with it, supply; later, when demand arose again, it turned
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are sounding the alarm as new data shows that global vaccination coverage continued to fall in 2021, 25 million infants who have not received the vaccines that could have saved
The world’s coastal population is a significant contributor to the global economy, currently estimated at $1.5 trillion a year and expected to exceed $3 trillion by 2030. Healthy ocean ecosystems, coastal livelihoods and economic growth require targeted support for key sectors of
António Guterres participates in the Ocean Conference in Lisbon, where he lamented that young people will inherit a planet in trouble due to the lack of action of their generation. “We will have to reverse everything: political decisions, economic decisions and individual
Every minute, one more child joins the nearly eight million children under the age of five at risk of dying from severe wasting in 15 countries affected by the hunger crisis that is ravaging them, the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF).
“UN agencies are assessing needs and responding to the aftermath of last night’s earthquake which claimed hundreds of lives,” tweeted Dr Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan. According to the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in that country, search
India’s Ambassador to Bhutan, Ruchira Kamboj, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer from Batch 1987, was appointed as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York on June 21. Kamboj will succeed TS Tirumurti as the Indian ambassador to the
