Nearly 62,000 people died from heat-related stress in the summer of 2022 in Europe alone, and, according to a study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, “With further global warming, we can expect an increase in the intensity, frequency, and duration of heatwaves.”
Major relief agencies warn that time is running out for millions of people in Sudan, who are “at imminent risk of famine” because the country’s warring parties are preventing aid from reaching them.
GENEVA—U.N. officials warn medicine and fuel supplies in Gaza are drying up as humanitarian workers struggle to provide life-saving care to an ever-expanding population of sick and wounded.
GENEVA - As U.N. agencies warn of a looming famine in Sudan, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk held separate phone calls with Sudan’s rival generals this week to try to deescalate the conflict.
GENEVA— Conflicts and violence have pushed the number of internally displaced people around the world to a record-breaking high of 75.9 million, with nearly half living in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center.
The U.N. reports heavy rains and floods in East Africa so far have killed more than 400 people and displaced 234,000 more
GENEVA — The World Health Organization says dengue, a mosquito-borne illness, is surging worldwide because of climate change, along with social, environmental and other factors, such as population growth and the globalization of travel, which facilitates the spread of the viral infection.
GENEVA — A senior United Nations refugee official who recently visited Sudan says ongoing hostilities in the nation between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have "turned previously peaceful Sudanese homes into cemeteries."
GENEVA -The World Meteorological Organization warns that climate change is generating a global health crisis but says many of the ill effects can be tempered by adaptation and prevention measures.
GENEVA - The World Health Organization warns that disease outbreaks, malnutrition and non-communicable diseases are rising in war-torn Sudan, with devastating consequences for millions of people.
GENEVA - A senior U.N. official Thursday warned that Sudan's population is living on a knife's edge and risks falling off the cliff if the world does not help address the nation's ongoing conflict.
GENEVA — United Nations agencies warned this week health conditions are deteriorating in Sudan and neighboring countries as growing numbers of people flee escalating fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
GENEVA — Smoking rates are falling, and lives are being saved as more countries implement policies and control measures to curb the global tobacco epidemic, according to a World Health Organization report issued this week that rates country progress in tobacco control.
GENEVA — As World Breastfeeding Week got underway this week, child advocates called for the promotion of mothers’ milk as the best way to get babies off to a healthy start in life and save lives.
An uneven rate with too many children in low-income countries are still missing out on life-saving products, according to joint World Health Organization-UNICEF report
GENEVA — Climate change, the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, have pushed hunger to an unprecedented high of 735 million, dashing hopes of ending the global crises by the end of this decade.
GENEVA — The United Nations' World Food Program says it is scaling up food aid to support 5.9 million people across Sudan over the next six months as hunger rises in the war-torn country.
GENEVA — United Nations agencies are appealing to international donors to scale up support and funding to provide education for Sudanese children fleeing conflict for safety in neighboring countries. The agencies say education will help protect the refugee children from multiple risks and exploitation.
GENEVA — Citing security concerns, the World Food Program (WFP) temporarily suspend its humanitarian operations in Sudan, which already had food shortages before the current conflict erupted two weeks ago. Now the United Nations' hunger program says the conflict risks plunging millions into starvation.
Geneva — Global World Heath Day commemorations took place Friday in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, which health experts credit for upending progress in fighting diseases, while killing 6.8 million people worldwide and sickening over 760 million.
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