Archive for July 10th, 2025

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10/07/2025

“Do you want kids?”

Human Wrongs Watch

By the United Nations Population Fund*

The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates

A watercolour rendition of a couple in profile, in blue against a pale background; the woman on the right is pregnant
In this year’s flagship State of World Population report, UNFPA surveyed some 14,000 people across 14 countries, and found that around one in five said they won’t be able to have the number of children they would like. © Stina Persson

UNITED NATIONS, New York – “Do you want kids?” Every day, people around the world ask themselves, and others, this question. But it also begs another: “Do you feel able to have children?”

With over 8 billion people in the world, it’s a question that has become arguably more loaded.

For some, this number is unsustainable, unequally distributed and will cause the planet’s demise. Others worry we’re in a “population collapse” – that societies cannot sustain their ageing, slowing demographics.

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10/07/2025

Gaza: ‘Scores of People – Including Medical Staff and Their Families – Have Reportedly Been Killed in the Past Week…’

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United Nations warns of deepening health crisis in Gaza amid mass casualty incidents

People carry sacks of food in Netzarim in central Gaza.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | People carry sacks of food in Netzarim in central Gaza.
 
(UN News)* — As scores of people – including medical staff and their families – have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources.

Across the Gaza Strip, as people desperately search for food, mass casualty incidents are reported almost daily, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, told reporters at his regular briefing in New York.

Hospitals, already under immense strain, are struggling to cope and lack of essential supplies – including fuel and medicines – is placing even greater pressure on overstretched teams.

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10/07/2025

UN Summit Confronts Artificial Intelligence’s Dawn of Wonders and Warnings

Human Wrongs Watch

By Vibhu Mishra, with additional reporting by Elma Okic in Geneva

(UN News)* — The UN’s flagship platform on artificial intelligence opened in Geneva on Tuesday [], launching four days of high-level dialogue, cutting-edge demonstrations and urgent calls for inclusive AI governance. The event comes as autonomous and generative systems evolve faster than regulatory frameworks can keep pace.

The AI for Good Global Summit opened in Geneva on 8 July 2025.
© ITU | The AI for Good Global Summit opened in Geneva on 8 July 2025.

The AI for Good Global Summit 2025 brings together governments, tech leaders, academics, civil society and young people to explore how artificial intelligence can be directed toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – and away from growing risks of inequality, disinformation and environmental strain.

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