
Cost of gender inequalities in food and agriculture put at 1% global GDP
Closing the gender gap in productivity and wages would boost GDP by nearly $1 trillion and cut hunger for 45 million people.
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Closing the gender gap in productivity and wages would boost GDP by nearly $1 trillion and cut hunger for 45 million people.
UNCTAD expects global growth in 2023 to drop to 2.1%, but only if financial fallout from higher interest rates is contained.
As WHO celebrated its 75th anniversary – commemorating World Health Day and the day its constitution took effect – the COVID-19 pandemic's lessons were inescapable.
Trade growth is expected to slow to 1.7% due to Russia's war in Ukraine, high inflation, tight monetary policy and uncertainty.
New ICRC guidelines are meant to protect innocent civilians and detainees against violence by non-state armed groups.
Russia's status as U.N. Security Council president is bound up in a frozen-in-time power structure dating to World War II.
Nuclear warheads available to nations for deployment reached 9,576 at the start of 2023, up from 9,440 a year earlier.
The voluntary commitments fall far short of a legally binding agreement like the 2015 Paris Agreement for climate change.
Almost half the world’s population lives in regions highly vulnerable to climate change, where deaths were 15 times higher in the past decade.
The bottled water industry is expected to grow to $500 billion a year in sales but isn't aligned with the U.N.'s Global Goals.
WHO's chief offered three lessons the world must learn to be able to effectively cope with future global health crises.
The head of the U.N. panel of climate experts called for quick action because 'inaction and delays are not listed as options.'
A quarter of all humanity lives today in places that are affected by conflict and usually it's the civilians 'who suffer the most.'
A third of the world, mainly in least developed countries and small island developing states, isn't covered by early warning systems.
The treaty is intended to strengthen marine protections on international waters beyond the 200 nautical mile jurisdiction of coastal nations.
Six nations have gender parity or a women's majority: Rwanda, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico, New Zealand and U.A.E.