Regional stability still at risk without ‘increased commitment’ to negotiations: UN Kosovo mission chief

PNP DeskApril 27, 2023September 12, 202404 mins

UN Special Representative and head of the UN Interim Administration Mission, Caroline Ziadeh, told ambassadors that the most recent Secretary-General’s report on developments in Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 but is not recognized by Serbia, “included serious challenges as well as an important collective effort to bring Belgrade-Pristina relations nearer to stability and normalisation.”…

WHO launches new pandemic prevention plan, as COVID deaths fall 95 per cent

PNP DeskApril 26, 2023September 12, 202405 mins

The guidance provides a joined-up approach for responding to the threat or arrival of any respiratory pathogen such as flu or the range of coronaviruses, that have the ability to rapidly mutate into different variants. The new Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats Initiative, or PRET, incorporates the latest tools and approaches for shared learning and collective action established…

New report shows 90 per cent of adolescent girls in low-income economies are offline

PNP DeskApril 26, 2023September 12, 202405 mins

“Closing the digital divide between girls and boys is about more than just having access to the internet and technology. It’s about empowering girls to become innovators, creators, and leaders,” said UNICEF Director of Education Robert Jenkins. “If we want to tackle gender gaps in the labour market, especially in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields (or STEM), we must start…

SDG ‘warriors’ open Youth Forum with advice for building better world

PNP DeskApril 25, 2023September 12, 2024013 mins

Their call was answered by top UN officials. “Our world needs you more than ever,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, in a video message for the event. Organized by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the three day forum and its dozens of side events will elaborate on the 2023 theme of…

SDG stimulus could unlock $148 billion in debt savings: UNDP

Guterres urges countries to recommit to achieving SDGs by 2030 deadline

PNP DeskApril 25, 2023September 12, 202408 mins

Launching a special edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) progress report, he warned that their collective promise made in 2015 of a more green, just and equitable global future, is in peril. “Unless we act now, the 2030 Agenda will become an epitaph for a world that might have been,” he said. Rising poverty…

Youth Forum: How change-makers are shaping more sustainable world

PNP DeskApril 24, 2023September 12, 202408 mins

From 25 to 27 April, thousands of youth leaders from around the world are poised to gather at the 2023 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum. In person and online, they are bringing their solutions, recommendations, and initiatives, sharing their ideas for ensuring a sustainable future is possible for all. The three-day event centres…

The United States withdrew diplomatic staff from Sudan: President Joe Biden

PNP DeskApril 23, 2023September 12, 202407 mins

—File photo US President Joe Biden says that the US military has withdrawn its diplomatic staff from Sudan. Through the statement released, the US President has said that the US Army has conducted a special operation to evacuate the diplomatic staff and their families from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. US President Joe Biden also…

The United States, Great Britain, France, and China will evacuate their citizens and diplomatic staff from Sudan

PNP DeskApril 22, 2023September 12, 202402 mins

File photo The Sudanese army says that the United States, Britain, France, and China will withdraw their citizens and diplomatic staff from Sudan. According to the Sudanese army, the Saudi diplomatic mission has withdrawn from Sudan, and Jordan is also ready to withdraw its diplomatic mission from Sudan. Willing to facilitate safe evacuation of foreign…

First Person: Why indigenous peoples can help save the planet

PNP DeskApril 22, 2023September 12, 202405 mins

“For indigenous peoples, the land, the forest, water, is life. We depend on the natural environment, and we care for our surroundings. Managing natural resources is a strong part of our way of life. For example, the way we use rotational farming, avoiding monocultures by planting several different many different types of crops on our…

Human, economic, environmental toll of climate change on the rise: WMO

PNP DeskApril 21, 2023September 12, 2024010 mins

WMO latest State of the Global Climate report shows that the last eight years were the eight warmest on record, and that sea level rise and ocean warming hit new highs. Record levels of greenhouse gases caused “planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean and in the atmosphere”. The organization says its report, released…