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Guterres calls for greater equality and inclusion as world marks Autism Awareness Day

2 weeks ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres calls for greater equality and inclusion as world marks Autism Awareness Day 01 April 2025 © Unsplash/Caleb Woods A boy with autism plays with toy building blocks. Although people with autism are making enormous contributions to societies across the globe, they still face significant challenges.…

Gaza: UN relief chief demands ‘answers and justice’ following killings of first responders

2 weeks 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: UN relief chief demands ‘answers and justice’ following killings of first responders 31 March 2025 人道协调厅 包括联合国工作人员在内的15名人道救援人员在加沙执行救助伤者任务时遭到以色列军队袭击身亡。 The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher on Monday called for “justice and answers” after Israeli forces killed eight Palestinian medics, six civil defence first responders and a UN staff member in an attack in southern Gaza…

Myanmar earthquake tragedy ‘compounds already dire crisis’

2 weeks 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Myanmar earthquake tragedy ‘compounds already dire crisis’ 31 March 2025 PNUD Myanmar Una casa dañada por el terremoto en el estado de Shan (Myanmar). Entire communities in central Myanmar have been devastated and the full scale of the earthquake disaster “remains unclear”, the UN’s top humanitarian coordinator in the country said on Monday…

Myanmar earthquake: Search and rescue efforts continue in race against time

2 weeks 2 days ago Breadcrumb Home Myanmar earthquake: Search and rescue efforts continue in race against time 30 March 2025 © UNICEF People gather in front of collapsed buildings in the Mandalay region of central Myanmar, following the 7.7 magnitude earthquake. The human toll of the earthquake which devastated central Myanmar continues to rise, UN humanitarians warned on Sunday, putting more pressure on nearly 20 million…

Looking beyond GDP to reach the Sustainable Development Goals

2 weeks 3 days ago Breadcrumb Home Looking beyond GDP to reach the Sustainable Development Goals 29 March 2025 Unsplash/Ivan Bandura Countries should start looking at complimentary metrics to GDP as part of the effort to achieve the SDGs by 2030. Countries should consider looking beyond Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the key measure of economic growth to achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN…

Myanmar quake: More than 1,600 reported killed, as UN aid operation supports rescue efforts

2 weeks 3 days ago Breadcrumb Home Myanmar quake: More than 1,600 reported killed, as UN aid operation supports rescue efforts 29 March 2025 © UNICEF Edificios en ruinas en la región de Mandalay, en el centro de Myanmar, tras el devastador terremoto de magnitud 7,7. Latest news reports indicate that over 1,600 have been killed in Myanmar with thousands injured following two powerful earthquakes on Friday which have left…

UN chief strongly condemns killing of Kenyan peacekeeper in Central African Republic

2 weeks 3 days ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief strongly condemns killing of Kenyan peacekeeper in Central African Republic 29 March 2025 Фото МИНУСКА/Л.Гроте Миротворцы ООН патрулируют район на северо-западе ЦАР The UN Secretary-General on Saturday strongly condemned an attack on peacekeepers serving with UN mission MINUSCA in the Central African Republic which left one Kenyan ‘blue helmet’ dead…

Tariffs: Job protectors or trade killers?

2 weeks 4 days ago Breadcrumb Home Tariffs: Job protectors or trade killers? 28 March 2025 © Unsplash Global trade reached a record $33 trillion in 2024 The word “tariff” has been catapulted from the business pages to the headlines over the last few months, as major economies impose or threaten them on other nations. But tariffs are not just a blunt weapon to be used in geopolitical brinkmanship: they can, if used effectively…

Gaza: Acts of war bear hallmarks of atrocity crimes, warn UN humanitarians

2 weeks 4 days ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Acts of war bear hallmarks of atrocity crimes, warn UN humanitarians 28 March 2025 © UNICEF Household possessions are moved by truck in Gaza. Lifesaving supplies in Gaza continue to run dangerously low, nearly four weeks into the total aid blockade and deadly bombardment of the enclave by Israel, UN humanitarians said on Friday…

Extreme weather impacts cascading ‘from the Andes to the Amazon’

2 weeks 4 days ago Breadcrumb Home Extreme weather impacts cascading ‘from the Andes to the Amazon’ 28 March 2025 © Agência Brasil/Gilvan Rocha The city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Extreme weather and climate impacts had a damaging toll on Latin America and the Caribbean last year, resulting in dying glaciers, record-breaking hurricanes, debilitating drought and deadly floods, the World Meteorological…