Haiti battles rabies with vaccines and vigilance
Last July, in the remote locality of Butête, in southern Haiti, nine-year-old Jonas* lost his life to rabies. When a…
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India’s Durga Puja, where worship meets social change
Inscribed by the UN cultural agency, UNESCO, in 2021 as an element of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Durga Puja isn’t…
‘Africa’s voice is not heard’: Leaders issue call for equity, justice and courage
The urgency reflects a global reality – that the UN risks losing relevance in the face of today’s polycrisis –…
UN, AU and EU leaders pledge joint push for peace and development in Africa
Meeting at UN Headquarters in New York on the margins of the General Assembly high-level week on Sunday, the leaders…
What is South-South cooperation, and can it be the gateway to a fairer world?
In practical terms, South-South cooperation is a process whereby developing countries – regardless of their actual geographical location – seek…
80 million more children benefiting from school meals, WFP reports
The number of children receiving school meals through government-led programmes has gone up by 20 per cent since 2020, found…
Local leadership powers Indonesia’s climate ambitions
Indonesia’s national climate strategy aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060. A key component of this strategy is for forests to…
‘Our livelihoods have been cut off’, say West Bank farmers ahead of olive harvest
Like thousands of Palestinian farmers, he faces growing restrictions from Israeli forces and settlers, who have made the olive harvest…
UN agencies warn of rising heat stress risks for workers worldwide
The new joint report, Climate change and workplace heat stress, underscores the mounting risks as climate change fuels longer, more extreme,…
Famine in Gaza: ‘a failure of humanity itself,’ says UN chief
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the results of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis were no mystery: “It…