File photo The Ministry of Health has prepared a report on polio positive sewage samples. According to sources, 9 sewage samples from 5 cities turned out to be polio positive, the number of polio positive sewage samples this year has reached 64. Sources say that 4 sewage samples from 2 districts of Karachi turned out…
“The 2023 Production Gap report is a startling indictment of runaway climate carelessness,” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message accompanying the landmark report. This hike in fuel extraction comes despite 151 national governments having pledged to achieve net-zero emissions. The latest forecasts suggest that global coal, oil, and gas demand will peak this decade, even without…
The figure represents nearly 10 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the 2023 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) – the agency’s flagship report – which covers 154 countries. Acknowledgment and action It introduces the concept of the hidden costs and benefits of agrifood systems, offering a framework through which…
Clashes intensified on Sunday and continued through the week, significantly impacting northeast and southeast Myanmar and forcing over 48,000 people from their homes, amid rising needs, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). There are also reports that an alliance of three rebel groups seized towns in the country’s north, overrunning…
Tipping points are reached when the systems we rely on stop functioning as designed, amplifying the risk of catastrophic impacts, according to new research published by the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). The Interconnected Disaster Risks report 2023 finds that the world is fast approaching risk tipping points on multiple fronts….
“Our team has mobilized and is currently implementing more than $1 billion in recovery and development initiatives across the country,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday. The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Denise Brown, this week visited some of our recovery initiatives in Invakiv, a town in the Kyiv region. There, the…
It reveals the deadly toll of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukrainian civilians, with almost six people killed and 20 wounded on average every single day between February and July of this year. “In just six months covered by this report more than one thousand civilians died and nearly four thousand were injured,” said Danielle Bell,…
Members of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that they have documented attacks with explosive weapons on residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and medical institutions, as well as torture and sexual and gender-based violence. Rape allegations Commission Chair Erik Møse provided harrowing details on the findings to the…
In Pakistan, 35% of lady doctors are out of hospitals due to which billions of rupees are wasted annually. Photo: The Express Tribune Karachi: Despite a shortage of medical professionals in Pakistan, the world’s fifth largest country by population, a large number of women doctors are not employed, even though the government in the resource-poor…
Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which issued the report, called for “greater ambition and accelerating action”. “I urge governments to carefully study the findings of the report and ultimately understand what it means for them and the ambitious action they must take next. It is the same…
