The UN’s trade and development body has downgraded its global economic growth projection for 2022 to 2.6% from 3.6% due to the Ukraine war and to changes in macroeconomic policies made by countries in recent months. While Russia will experience a deep recession this year, significant slowdowns in growth are …
Health is rarely the topic of discussion at the UN general assembly. But starting September 19, the UN began a high-level meeting to debate a strategy to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This is the second time that the world body is calling a meeting on health. More than a decade …
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Latest Update Date: Sept 21 / 2:40 pm At the BRICS Health Ministers’ Round Table conference was held on 20 September 2011, union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the BRICS countries should have a roadmap to work in close cooperation to implement the political declaration. He stressed that it is …
NEW DELHI, Sep 18 (IANS): Assam has been allocated $2.5 million by a UN body to help improve hygiene in rural areas, stressing on the economic gains that would follow "when people spend less money on preventable sanitation-related diseases". India is among 10 countries - seven African and three Asian …
Rome: The United Nations warned Monday of a possible resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus, saying wild bird migrations had brought it back to previously virus-free countries and that a mutant strain was spreading in Asia. A mutant strain of H5N1, which can apparently sidestep defences of existing vaccines, …
The 2011 World Water Week in Stockholm closed on 26th Aug-2011, supporting a "Stockholm Statement to the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Summit)". This 'Stockholm Statement' calls on leadership at all levels of government that will participate at the Rio+20 Summit (4-6 June …
An international aid agency Oxfam on Thursday warned that the fresh flood could cause more devastation in Pakistan if a disaster reduction mechanism was not implemented, calling on the government to urgently invest a minimum of two percent of its district budgets in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). "The effects of …
PARIS: The world population will reach seven billion later this year, with increases in the number of people in Africa offsetting birth rate drops elsewhere, according to a new French study published on Thursday. Looking much further ahead, the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) predicts a continuing rise in …
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), with support from the Australian government through AusAID, has come to the assistance of 10,000 flood-affected people in Chakoria upazila of Cox's Bazar district. WFP has allocated 6 tonnes of high energy biscuits to 2,000 households in Koiyarbil, Loikkharchar, Kakara, and Boroitoli Unions …
Six districts have reduced infant mortality rate to 28, which is the UN target to be achieved by 2015 A few districts in the eight empowered action group (EAG) States have excelled by achieving the targets set by the United Nations under the millennium development goals (MDGs). The EAG States …
The government will screen five crore people from across the country for hyper-tension and diabetes. Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that these lifestyle diseases pose a huge health risk. Inaugurating a camp to screen slum-dwellers in Delhi for the lifestyle diseases, Mr Azad said,
WHEN asked how he had persuaded Britain’s senior doctors to withdraw their vociferous objections to a National Health Service in the 1940s, Aneurin Bevan, the NHS’s founding minister, replied: “I stuffed their mouths with gold.” Australia’s prime minister, Julia Gillard, born like Bevan in south Wales (the old one), this …
New Delhi: How ambitious are the emission reduction targets rich nations are ready to adopt for 2020? Pretty low, suggests a technical report that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has prepared. The report is based on compiling the offers developed countries made after the Cancun summit last year. …
New Delhi: To lock climate changing carbon dioxide in the growing forests, the government has asked the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to provide a substantial part of the Rs 90 billion needed every year for 10 years. The government has made this recommendation to the climate convention, knowing …
Africa's population rising fastest, might triple in this century Pressure on food, water to grow, other problems are likely The population of the world, long expected to stabilise just above nine billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year …
World efforts to slow deforestation should do more to address underlying causes such as rising demand for crops or biofuels, widening from a U.N. focus on using trees to fight climate change, a study said Monday. It said a series of projects to protect forests had had limited success in …
Natural disasters caused $109 billion in economic damage last year, three times more than in 2009, with Chile and China bearing most of the cost, the United Nations said Monday. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile in February cost $30 billion. Landslides and floods last summer in China caused $18 …
Bangladesh on Wednesday called for billions of dollars to be made available quickly for its fight against climate change, as United Nations' environment talks entered their third day in Mexico. The low-lying country is vulnerable to the catastrophic impact of global warming with natural disasters killing nearly 200,000 people in …
Bangladesh hopes to reach a consensus in the upcoming United Nations (UN) climate change conference in Cancun to disburse money from the climate change fund, said Dr Mihir Kanti Majumder, secretary to the Ministry of Environment and Forests. “The UN climate change fund was formed in the Copenhagen climate change …
