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Dr. Tsebaot Meles, social entrepreneur and founder of Ngat Reusable Sanitary Solution based in Addis Ababa. Photo: IOM 2024/Yonatan Teffera Mekonen
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28/01/2025
Breaking the Flow of Stigma for Displaced Women and Girls
27/01/2025
A World Where Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer — and Billionaires Rise
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– Perhaps one of the UN’s most ambitious and longstanding projects – the launching of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)– is aimed, among other things, at helping developing nations eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. But that elusive goal has made little or no significant progress.
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Credit: UN Women
And now comes a new report from Oxfam, “Takers Not Makers” which finds that in 2024 alone, billionaires amassed $2 trillion in wealth, and nearly four new billionaires were minted every week.
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25/01/2025
Nearly a Quarter of a Billion Children’s Schooling Disrupted by Climate Crises in 2024 – UNICEF
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Education in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Pakistan and the Philippines most severely affected by heatwaves, cyclones, floods and storms
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NEW YORK (UNICEF)* – At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning crisis, according to a new UNICEF analysis released on 24 January 2025.
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25/01/2025
‘It’s a Long Road to Food Security for Lebanon’
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By World Food Programme*
, WFP Staff – After conflict intensified in Lebanon last September, around 1.2 million people were uprooted.
“While many are now returning home,” said Matthew Hollingworth, Country Director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Beirut, others “face the devastating reality of having no home to return to.”
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25/01/2025
UN Human Rights Express “Grave Concerns over Escalating Violence in the Occupied West Bank, Condemn the Use of “Unlawful Lethal Force” by Israel
(UN News)* — The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday [] expressed grave concerns over escalating violence in the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank, condemning the use of “unlawful lethal force” by Israeli security forces.
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24/01/2025
Gaza: “Children Have Been Killed, Starved, and Frozen to Death…”
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‘We must be there for them now,’ says UN relief chief, highlighting plight of Gaza’s children
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23/01/2025
A Dream Deferred: Why Is Traveling Across Africa So Hard for Africans?
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– Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, carries his frustration as visibly as he carries his passport.
Travelling across Africa is hard for Africans owing to restrictive visas. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
To travel across the continent he calls home, he needs 35 visas—each a bureaucratic hurdle and a reminder of the barriers to free movement and trade in Africa.
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23/01/2025
Nearly a Third of Lebanon’s Population Is Facing Acute Food Insecurity
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(UN News)* — Nearly a third of Lebanon’s population is facing acute food insecurity following the escalation of hostilities in late 2024, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released on Wednesday [].
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23/01/2025
‘Africa Tragically Remains the Epicentre of Global Terrorism’
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(UN News)* — Africa tragically remains the epicentre of global terrorism, and more action is required to implement international commitments to combat this scourge, the UN Deputy Secretary-General told the Security Council on Tuesday [].
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22/01/2025
Food Systems Worsen Diets, Health
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– Corporate-dominated food systems are responsible for widespread but still spreading malnutrition and ill health. Poor diets worsen non-communicable diseases (NCDs), now costing over eight trillion dollars yearly!
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Unhealthy food systems
A recent UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) study of 156 countries found that such food systems account for unsafe food and diet-related NCDs.
FAO estimates related ‘hidden costs’ at about $12 trillion annually, with 70% ($8.1 trillion) due to NCDs such as heart disease, strokes and diabetes. Such costs significantly exceed these food systems’ environmental and social costs.
FAO’s annual State of Food and Agriculture 2024 (SOFA) investigated hidden costs worldwide. These were primarily health-related, followed by environmental degradation, mainly in more ‘industrialised’ agri-food systems in upper-middle and high-income countries.
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