By Global Issues GENEVA, Dec 01 (IPS) – Nneka Henry is Head of UN Road Safety Fund and Dudley Tarlton is UNDP Programme Specialist-Health and DevelopmentEven as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic it will still face an epidemic on its roads, claiming over one million lives and injuring up to 50 million people […]
By Global Issues KIGALI, Dec 01 (IPS) – With the ongoing national tree-planting campaign, Rwanda seeks to replace its degraded forest resulting from charcoal production and firewood and increase the need for construction materials with new indigenous trees to combat climate change. Read the full story, “Restoring Indigenous Trees: New Mission to Combat Climate Change in Rwanda”, […]
By Global Issues UNITED NATIONS, Nov 30 (IPS) – Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations Remarks to the UN Security Council on the implementation of resolution 2712 on the Middle East, 29 November 2023 Resolution 2712 was approved in a context of widespread death and wholesale destruction unleashed by the conflict in Gaza […]