Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
As the world is already staring at impending water crisis due to climate change, population increase and pollution, a UN report has predicted that as many as 3.4 billion people will be living in "water-scarce" countries by 2025. It also pointed out that the situation will be deteriorated further in …
Global warming will displace millions of people, trigger falling crop yields, stoke conflict and cost trillions of dollars in lost economic output, a United Nations report will warn. A draft of the report to be finalised later this month by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and obtained by …
They Fall Under Ecological-Sensitive Zone-1 Classified By Gadgil Report Thiruvananthapuram: The state nominated three-member expert committee that reviewed the Kasturirnagan committee report has highlighted the need to protect the ecologically-fragile areas that were overlooked in the Kasturiranagan report. “The Kasturiranagan report had overlooked the grasslands in Vagamon and the rich …
Are violent conflict and socio-political stability associated with changes in climatological variables? We examine 50 rigorous quantitative studies on this question and find consistent support for a causal association between climatological changes and various conflict outcomes, at spatial scales ranging from individual buildings to the entire globe and at temporal …
The quest to secure economic growth, after a financial crisis that raised serious questions about capitalism's ability to protect and sustain the wellbeing of populations in rich and poor countries alike, is the overriding political priority for many governments today. And those prospects for growth seem good. The World Bank …
Effects of climate change are frequently claimed to be responsible for widespread civil violence. Yet, scientists remain divided on this issue, and recent studies suggest that conflict risk increases with higher rainfall, loss of rainfall, higher temperatures or none of the above. Lack of scientific consensus is driven by differences …
Government moves one step closer to expand Camisea project despite concerns about impact on indigenous peoples The Peruvian government is pushing ahead with plans to expand gas operations in a supposedly protected reserve in the Amazon despite calls by the United Nations to suspend them. The company leading the operations, …
World leaders at the third Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands in March 2014 can point to measurable progress toward the goal of reducing and securing the materials needed to build a nuclear bomb. Seven more states have removed all or most of these dangerous materials from their territories since …
Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday informed the Senate that International Court of Arbitration would announce verdict on Kishenganga Hydroelectric project by the end of current month. On behalf of Minister of Water and Power, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in the question hours, said that, the …
Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said on Wednesday that the presence of Indian forces on Siachen glacier is a serious environmental threat to Pakistan. BBC Urdu and DawnNews and other Pakistani TV channels quoted Mr Aziz as saying in a radio interview …
WHO has confi rmed an outbreak of at least ten cases of polio in Syria, where vaccination coverage has dramatically decreased during the civil war. Furthermore, wild-type poliovirus 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from sewage and faeces from asymptomatic carriers in Israel since February, 2013. Tourists and travellers could bring …
Over the last two years, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a private-public partnership that has reduced polio worldwide by 99% since its launch in 1988, has greatly expanded the coverage of polio vaccination in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria—the three countries where polio is still endemic and the success of …
This Analytical Brief serves as a starting point for dialogue on water security in the United Nations system. This Brief offers a working definition of water security developed from contributions made by the broad range of organizations, agencies, programmes and institutions that form UN-Water. Through this Brief, UN-Water aims to …
Using case studies and examples from around the world, the guide answers questions that help assess, address, and adapt to a world of increasing climate risks. What is the value of our rivers, and what do they mean for climate resilience?; What are climate risks to rivers, ecosystem services, dams, …
Using case studies and examples from around the world, the guide answers questions that help assess, address, and adapt to a world of increasing climate risks. What is the value of our rivers, and what do they mean for climate resilience?; What are climate risks to rivers, ecosystem services, dams, …
The findings of the project ”Strengthening of approaches and instruments as well as promotion of processes to reduce the security risks posed by climate change in the context of climate change adaptation“ are summarized in this report. The main objective of the project is to outline the potential contribution of …
Despite the existence of institutions designed to promote peace, interactions between individuals and groups sometimes lead to conflict. Understanding the causes of such conflict is a major project in the social sciences, and researchers in anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology have long debated the extent to …
Since 2008, when rapid increases in the prices for major grains helped to trigger outbreaks of civil unrest in more than 40 countries, scholars and policymakers have paid increased attention to the potential influence of global food prices on social and political instability. Compelling and provocative headlines have suggested that …
As the Congress and the UPA coalition endorsed creation of a separate Telangana state from out of Andhra Pradesh, Down To Earth looks at the big challenges before the new state which are similar to those faced by Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh and Uttarakhand when they were created a decade ago. Telangana …
