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The money is needed for 54 ongoing emergencies around the world that require an "unprecedented" response from donors to provide aid such as medicines, supplies, and training for health workers, according to U.N. health agency officials.
The global snapshot that Human Rights Watch provides of the past year points to a "litany of human rights crises" but also a silver lining – some "cracks" emerged in authoritarian regimes where brave protesters took great risks demanding freedom.
It's little wonder the World Economic Forum's latest report, based on the insights of more than 1,200 experts, finds the biggest short-term risk to the world economy is today's globalized cost-of-living crisis and widespread social unrest.
Trapped sediment robs dams of storage capacity. Storage loss by 2050 will equal the combined yearly water use of Canada, China, France, India and Indonesia, says a U.N. University report.
If the policies and trends continue the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 values – before the appearance of the ozone hole – by around 2066 over the Antarctic, and by 2045 over the Arctic and 2040 for the rest of the world.
Alarmed at a sharp increase in the use of the racist “N” word on Twitter, the experts said all the major social media corporations must immediately show greater accountability for online hatred spewed at people of African descent.
The United Nations and its allies aren't giving up on efforts to clinch at least some of the 17 anti-poverty Global Goals for 2030 that have been set back by the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine, and other major crises.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Pelé was unique in so many ways: the only player to have won the FIFA World Cup three times; an athlete with incomparable skills and imagination; and the ability to rise above racism and poverty.
Most of the world's 8 billion inhabitants prefer to stay within their nation of birth, but almost 1-in-20 have left that behind.
Negotiators reached the 30% by 2030 or "30 by 30" deal – which would improve on the 17% of land and 10% of water now protected – just as the almost two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, was due to end.
The request is based on "the fundamental importance of the oceans as sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases and the direct relevance of the marine environment to the adverse effects of climate change on small island states."
IFJ says the killings point to an "urgent" need for an international treaty on the safety and independence of journalists and other media professionals.
Proponents said its passage is critical with 339 million people in need of aid and nearly 50 million on the verge of famine.
A sharp increase in threats against women parliamentarians was seen: 137 in 2022, up from 123 last year and almost quadruple the 37 cases just eight years ago.
UNEP's chief describes the summit as an opportunity to 'secure our life-support system, to make peace with nature.'
WTO has long deadlocked over a proposed annual waiver of parts of the 1995 TRIPS Agreement, a major intellectual property agreement, that would allow any nation or company to make a vaccine if it has the recipe and ingredients.
