First Person: Rising above floods in Viet Nam
Extreme weather between October and November of 2020, highlighted the vulnerability of the inhabitants of the city of Huế in central Viet Nam to flooding. City resident Nguyễn Văn Tia…
Korean Peninsula: Security Council must find unity to calm rising tensions
“Key peace and security issues, such as the situation on the Korean Peninsula, must be an area for cooperation,” she cautioned in a briefing to the 15-member Council on recent…
Japan had its warmest spring this year, with temperatures rising 1.59 degrees
Japan recorded the hottest spring this year. According to the Japan Meteorological Department, the country recorded an average temperature of 1.59 degrees above normal from March to May. This temperature…
UN agencies warn of rising hunger risk in 18 ‘hotspots’
Sudan, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Mali have been elevated to the highest alert level, joining Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Additionally, a likely El Niño – a naturally…
First Person: Rising from disaster
From Hurricane Ivan in Jamaica in 2004 to earthquakes in Peru in 2007 and Haiti in 2010, Raul – chief of the regional office for disaster risk reduction – has…
Earth’s rising temperature
Faith is small Scientists are uncovering current secrets and unveiling new discoveries as well as predicting future changes. Experts believe that due to increased global warming and increased human warming,…
Reflecting on genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Guterres urges all nations to stand firm against rising hate, intolerance
“We mourn the more than one million children, women, and men who perished in one hundred days of horror 29 years ago,” António Guterres said in his annual commemorative message…
Türkiye, Syria quake response continues, food security threat rising
OCHA Spokesperson Jens Laerke, told reporters in Geneva that the current phase was still “a humanitarian emergency where we look at, ‘What do the survivors need? How can we support…
Greater protection needed for Palestinians amid rising violence, annexation threat
“The wave of deadly violence sweeping through the occupied West Bank since the beginning of this year is the inexorable consequence of an acquisitive and repressive occupation with no end…
Haiti: Amid rising hunger levels, ‘world cannot wait for disaster before it acts’, WFP warns
“Haiti can’t wait,” said Jean-Martin Bauer, World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director for the country. “We cannot wait for the scale of the problem to be expressed in deaths before…