25/04/2018
Economic losses to disasters in Asia and the Pacific could exceed $160 billion annually by 2030, the United Nations development arm in the region warned on 24 April 2018, urging greater innovation in disaster risk financing.
ESCAP Photo | Panic-stricken residents of a suburb of the Thai capital, Bangkok, climbing aboard cars and trucks to evacuate the area.
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The need is all the more pressing given that only eight per cent of region’s losses are insured, said the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (
ESCAP).
“The time for establishing solutions to these complex emerging challenges is now,” underlined Shamshad Akhtar, the Executive Secretary of ESCAP, speaking at an event on financing for disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific at the UN Headquarters, in New York.
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25/04/2018
At the start of World Immunization Week, the United Nations on 24 April 2018 said that while vaccines are protecting more children than ever, more countries need to make immunization a priority, because more than one million children still die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases.
UNICEF/Dejongh | A little girl being vaccinated in the town of Bouaké, in Côte d’Ivoire. Immunization in the country is free for children bellow one year old, but three out of five children do not get vaccinated before their first birthday.
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25/04/2018
With one in four of the world’s 1.2 billion youth affected by some sort of violence or armed conflict, the United Nations on 24 April 2018 launched a project to support new, youth-driven initiatives in education, science, culture and the media to prevent violent extremism in Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia.
UNESCO | UNESCO and the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) launch project on “Prevention of Violent Extremism through Youth Empowerment in Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia” with event at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Vladimir Voronkov, who heads the UN’s counter-terrorism office (
UNOCT) met in Paris with Audrey Azoulay, head of the UN cultural agency, to initiate the
joint project, ‘Preventing Violent Extremism through Youth Empowerment in Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia.’
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24/04/2018
23 April 2018 (Wall Street International)* — In a previous text we have argued that it does not make sense to ask whether a robot can display consciousness. In fact, once consciousness is defined as the subjective experience which can only be “felt” by the experiencer, there is no way for another, external observer, to demonstrate the presence of consciousness in any other person – or machine.
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24/04/2018
Harmony with Nature – living a better quality of life while minimizing the use of toxic materials and preserving natural resources – was the focus of the International Mother Earth Day celebration on 23 April 2018 at the United Nations.
World Meteorological Organization | A woman with an umbrella walks in the rain in a field. To the left is a rainbow. Photo: WMO
“Mother Earth is suffering – and it is our doing,” Miroslav Lajčák, President of the General Assembly, told the Eighth
Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature. Climate change, pollution and a
loss of biodiversity “take a toll on human life and health,” he said. “But they affect, first and foremost, the Earth.”
The sustainable development that is sought by the world community relies upon the three overarching objectives of devising supportable patterns of consumption and production, protecting and managing natural resources and eradicating poverty.
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24/04/2018
23 April 2018 — A photojournalist who has been in jail for nearly five years after being arrested for covering a demonstration in Cairo has been selected to receive this year’s press freedom prize from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
UN Photo/Violaine Martin | Journalists at a press stakeout. Recently, there has been a noticeable increase in harassment of journalists, with women bearing the brunt of online attacks.
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24/04/2018
23 April 2018 — Local people call it “the checkpoint of death”. It is controlled by ISIS and for two years, 900 Palestine refugee students registered with UNRWA risked their lives to pass through it every day to get to school on the other side.
More than 650 Palestine refugee twelfth-grade students and 26 Lebanese and foreign universities, academic institutes and scholarship providers participated in the fifth annual Academic Fair in Lebanon. Hoops Club, Beirut. © 2016 UNRWA Photo by Ali Hashisho
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24/04/2018
The on 23 April 2018 said on that the world today faces similar challenges to the context that gave birth to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and that the threat of use of nuclear weapons is growing.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre | Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs addresses the opening session of the Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in Geneva.
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24/04/2018
Tapping the potential and creativity of young people is indispensable to prevent conflict and build peace, the United Nations youth envoy on 23 April 2018 said, urging governments to create conditions that allow their meaningful participation in civic and political lives.
UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein | Women and girls in Monrovia, Liberia, staged a peaceful sit-in protest against gender-based violence in 2007.
Jayathma Wickramanayake, the UN Secretary-General’s
Envoy on Youth, underlined three critical areas – supporting youth’s peace efforts; prioritizing their political participation; and partnering with them.
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23/04/2018
By Chandra Muzaffar*
23 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — The United States government has once again shamelessly violated international law. There was no legal or moral justification for launching more than a 100 missile strikes against so-called chemical weapons’ sites in Syria on the 14th of April 2018.
Chandra Muzaffar
Unlike the last strike targeting a single airfield in April 2017 which was also in retaliation for President Bashar Assad’s alleged use of sarin gas against civilians, the US was joined in its assault this time by its allies, Britain and France.
The three Western powers claimed that they had strong evidence that the Assad government had again employed chemical weapons in Douma on the 7th of April, killing scores of civilians, including children.
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