What Happens When There Is No Food: Experts Say Severe Malnutrition Could Set in Swiftly in Gaza
Nutrition experts say the progression from hunger to severe malnutrition can be rapid, especially in children. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen Tags: Malnutrition Diet and Nutrition Israel-Gaza War (2023- ) Food Insecurity Shortages Famine Children and Childhood United Nations Children ' s Fund Gaza Strip Source Type: news
South Africa presents genocide case against Israel at ICJ
Semafor Signals With insights from Just Security, CNN, The Mail & Guardian, and The Conversation. The News South Africa accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in its opening arguments at the United Nations International Court of Justice on Thursday. The case brought by…#mailguardian #southafrica #israel #palestinians #gaza #pretoria #hamas #southafricas #icj #hague (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Social Security changes planned if Nikki Haley wins election
During the fifth Republican Party presidential debate of the 2024 election season on Wednesday, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said she would raise the age at which younger Americans would become eligible for Social Security retirement benefits if she wins the presidency. Haley faced…#republicanparty #unitednations #nikkihaley #socialsecurity #haley #florida #rondesantis #drakeuniversity #desmoines #iowa (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley use a few key themes to bludgeon each other in debate
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley tore into each other in Wednesday night’s Republican presidential primary debate in Iowa. The rivals leaned on a few key themes to hit each other throughout the CNN debate, suggesting the other is fundamentally unfit for…#florida #rondesantis #unitednations #nikkihaley #iowa #desantis #nikki #johnkerry #hillaryclinton #southcarolina (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Four Million Ethiopians On the Brink As Food Crises Escalate
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Commission (DRMC) and the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator have released a joint statement urgently addressing the severe humanitarian crisis affecting approximately four million individuals in drought-afflicted areas of Ethiopia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 10, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Food and Agriculture Aid and Assistance East Africa Ethiopia Health and Medicine Nutrition Source Type: news
Why Nikki Haley Is Wrong About a Federal Gas Tax
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has made it one of her campaign promises in the Republican presidential primary. Haley has vowed to end federal gas and diesel taxes if she is elected president. The 18.4-cent per gallon gas tax is a user fee, as is the 24.4-cent per gallon…#highwaytrustfund #donaldtrump #tomjoyce #newbostonpost #massachusetts (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Technology Transfer Critical to Revolutionizing Africa ’s Pharma Industry
BioNTainers, facilities equipped to manufacture a range of mRNA-based vaccines have been inaugurated in Rwanda in December 2023. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPSBy Aimable TwahirwaKIGALI, Jan 8 2024 (IPS) An agreement signed between the Rwandan government and the Africa Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF) gives impetus to Africa’s domestic industry with the hope of helping the continent tackle vaccine inequity and fill the critical gap in vaccine manufacturing.
The agreement to operationalize the foundation was signed in Kigali, Rwanda, in late 2023.
What is important, according to stakeholders, is to focus efforts o...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aimable Twahirwa Tags: Africa COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Rwanda Source Type: news
Reducing disaster risk for the poor in tomorrow's cities with computational science - McCloskey J, Pelling M, Galasso C, Cremen G, Mente şe EY, Hope M, Comelli T, Deshpande T, Guragain R, Barcena A, Gentile R.
Rapid urban expansion presents a major challenge to delivering the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Urban populations are forecast to increase by 2.2 billion by 2050, and business as usual will condemn many of these new citizens to lives domin... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
‘This year is a nightmare’: Gaza’s children face starvation amid dire conditions
Three months ago, Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and kidnapping roughly 240 more. Ever since, Israel has bombarded Gaza with the goal of eliminating Hamas. The United Nations estimates that as many as 40 percent of Palestinians killed in Gaza are children. Jason Lee,…#hamas #israel #gaza #unitednations #palestinians #jasonlee #palestinian #johnyang (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nations with the Highest Civilian Casualties in the 20th Century
Genocide was recognized as a crime in 1946 under international law by the United Nations General Assembly. The intention of outlawing genocide was to prohibit atrocities, like the Holocaust and Nanking, from ever happening again, However, this has not halted the brutalities of genocide, and it has…#holocaust #darfur #chechnya #srilanka #genocidewatch #yemen #myanmar #syria #sudan #rudolphrummel (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Azerbaijan taps former oil industry leader to head this year's climate talks
Azerbaijan has selected its minister of ecology — a former state oil executive — to helm the United Nations climate talks later this year, in a move that stands to fuel debate about the oil and gas industry's role in international negotiations aimed at reducing fossil fuel use. Mukhtar Babayev…#azerbaijan #unitednations #mukhtarbabayev #sultanahmedaljaber #unitedarabemirates #uae #michaelmann #losangelestimes #mann #unfccc (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Where The Sun Shines and The Wind Blows
The United Nations COP28 climate change conference concluded in December 2023 with a statement calling for ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels. However, it stopped short of calling for a full phase out of fossil fuels. Will this be enough to lift the sails of beaten down renewable energy…#unitednations #invesco #solar #tan #fan #icln #kars #nonusexchange #korea #postcovid (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ukrainian scientists tally the grave environmental consequences of the Kakhovka Dam disaster
Kyiv and Odesa, Ukraine—
In the predawn hours of 6 June 2023, a pair of explosions rocked the Kakhovka Dam, a 3-kilometer-long hydropower facility on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine. Waking up that morning to the unfolding catastrophe, “I couldn’t believe it,” recalls Volodymyr Osadchyi, director of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute (UHMI). “I thought it had to be fake news.” But footage captured by a Ukrainian military drone showed water from one of Europe’s largest reservoirs gushing through a gaping breach in the dam.
Over the next 4 days, 18 cubic kilometers of water surged downs...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 4, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
DeSantis and Haley will appear at next week's CNN debate at the same time as Trump's Fox town hall
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are set to appear at next week’s Republican presidential debate on CNN, while former President Donald Trump participates in a Fox News town hall at the same time. Both events will be held at 9 p.m. ET on Jan. 10 in Des…#florida #rondesantis #unitednations #nikkihaley #donaldtrump #desmoines #iowa #jaketapper #danabash #trump (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vietnam pledges human rights reform by year 2099
Vietnam has reportedly given itself 76 years to implement human rights reforms—a commitment that is being questioned by some activists. Hanoi submitted a list of eight commitments—to be reached by December 31, 2099—to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights last month…#vietnam #hanoi #freedomhouse #freedominworldreport #humanrightscouncil #humanrightswatch #philrobertson #myanmar #southeastasia #vietnamese (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
