Category: International
Currently, 10.3% of women globally live in extreme poverty, and are poorer than men. Progress towards eradicating poverty must be 26 times faster to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of human rights and is an aspiration that benefits all of society, including girls and women. The […]
A clear example of human rights violations described in Pramila Patten’s report is related to the border area between Sudan and South Sudan, where women and girls have been targeted for rape, gang rape and abduction on the basis of their ethnicity. The annual report presented by Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual […]
The World Food Programme’s (WFP) supports governments to ensure that all school-aged children have access to school meals and are healthy and ready to learn Every day, millions of children worldwide attend school on an empty stomach, and hunger significantly impacts their concentration and ability to learn. School meal programmes serve as a multidimensional solution, […]
Global labor markets have experienced an uneven recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. As for Africa, key employment indicators, including unemployment rates, have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels. Global economic growth is expected to slow from an estimated 2.7% in 2023 to 2.4% in 2024, below the 3% growth rate recorded before the pandemic, […]
The report, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), describes the current state of national food systems, providing a baseline that can be used to guide investment, research and policy priorities and assess future progress… Read the report
This year’s conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the Genocide Convention had the theme “A living force in global society: the legacy of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Every 9 December, the Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide marks the adoption of […]
Tuberculosis is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide. In 2016, 2.5 million people contracted this epidemic in Africa, or a quarter of new cases of tuberculosis worldwide, according to the WHO. World leaders attending a high-level meeting on tuberculosis this month endorsed a Political Declaration with ambitious new goals for the next five years […]
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) declares genocide as is the most serious crime known to humankind, emphasizing the commitment of the international community to ensuring prosecution and punishment of its perpetrators. The 62-year-old former Rwandan police officer, Fulgence Kayishema, has been accused of involvement in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide for allegedly ordering the […]
More than 40% of the population in phase 3 or above of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) resides in just five countries (Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, 21 states and the federal capital Nigeria and Yemen), according to the seventh edition of the Global Report on Food Crises. According to a report […]
A woman dies worldwide every two minutes from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, according to a report by UN agencies. Although since 1990 a number of countries have halved the maternal mortality rate, it is observed that in 2020, approximately 70% of all maternal deaths occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa. A woman dies worldwide every […]
