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Climate change exposes children to risk in different ways. Rising temperatures and other environmental changes can make diseases more dangerous, droughts more common and can significantly impact children’s growth and development.
The Policy is a milestone in Samoa's anti-corruption journey as part of it commitments under the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), to which it acceded to in 2018.
Women in leadership positions each have their own story of struggle and triumph. While their journeys are unique, they share a common thread: nothing was handed to them; their wins have all been hard fought.
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Keeping the peace isn’t just about laying down weapons, says top analyst’
Around four in 10 countries where conflicts have ended return to a state of war within a decade, which is why investing in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration is crucial to sustaining peace. The UN's Thomas Kontogeorgos, explains.
‘Can oil producers wean themselves off polluting fossil fuels?
The vast majority of small island developing States (SIDS) are heavily dependent on polluting, and expensive, fossil fuels for their energy needs: some spend around a quarter of their national budgets on imported fuel.
“The artwork by Australian artist Fintan Magee is in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and September’s pivotal Summit of the Future."
‘Deep global divisions and conflicts must end to clear a path to tackling world’s two existential threats: climate change and the negative impacts of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, UN chief António Guterres told the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Astana.
Bombing continued overnight into Thursday in Gaza where some of the tens of thousands of people uprooted in response to Israeli evacuation orders have had to turn back after finding nowhere to shelter, UN humanitarians reported.
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