
WHO chief opens assembly with push for 'historic' pandemic treaty
The COVID-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus many of the world's glaring inequalities between rich and poorer nations.
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus many of the world's glaring inequalities between rich and poorer nations.
A new study finds economic sanctions in target countries contribute to increases in mortality, poverty, and inequality, and to declines in per-capita income and human rights.
The annual average near-surface global temperature between 2023 and 2027 will likely be more than 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels for at least one year.
The estimated annual social and environmental costs of plastic pollution range from $300 billion to $1.5 trillion.
More than 4.5 million pregnant women and babies die each year during pregnancy, childbirth or the first few weeks of life – one death every seven seconds.
Though the emergency phase is over, the World Health Organization's pandemic designation still holds.
The onset of a possible El Niño climate event later this year combined with rising greenhouse gases could push global temperatures to a new warming record.
There's a growing industry and more tools for producing and distributing disinformation. Meanwhile, authorities are getting more aggressive and hostile toward journalists.
Public perception of the importance of vaccines for children fell during the pandemic in 52 of 55 countries studied.
Hundreds of accounts of world leaders and their institutions, plus 40 organizations and their leaders, were to be demoted.
Closing the gender gap in productivity and wages would boost global GDP by nearly $1 trillion and reduce the number of food-insecure people by 45 million.
UNCTAD said it expects global growth in 2023 to drop to 2.1% but only if the 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.
The WTO expects trade growth to slow to 1.7% this year due to Russia's war in Ukraine, high inflation, tight monetary policy and market uncertainty.
Russia's status as president of the U.N. Security Council is bound up in a frozen-in-time power structure dating to the end of World War II.
The number of nuclear warheads available to nations for deployment reached 9,576 at the start of 2023, up from 9,440 a year earlier.