27 Mar A pinch (less) of salt can save lives, WHO says in new report
Implementing sodium reduction policies could save an estimated seven million lives globally by 2030, WHO said in a new report launched on Thursday....
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27 Mar Cosmic crops poised for harvest on Earth
UN food and atomic energy agencies are readying to reap the rewards of a ground-breaking ‘astrobotany’ investigation, announcing on Monday that seeds sent to space in 2022 are now poised to return to Earth....
27 Mar Reporters’ diary: What women who stay can tell us about migration
Most of the time, to write about migration means telling the stories of people who move: those forced from their homes by natural disasters, conflict, violence, or the effects of climate change, or so fed up with limited economic opportunities, corruption, and bad governance that...
24 Mar Three takeaways from Europe’s emergency aid summit
Where’s the money? An aid summit in Brussels this week circled around a familiar riddle for the cash-strapped humanitarian sector: Who has funding, who gets it, where does it go, and how does it get there. Staged by the European Commission's humanitarian aid department, ECHO, the 20-21...
24 Mar Somalia’s drought deaths, Vanuatu’s climate justice bid, and UN offices in rebel-held Syria?
Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe.On our radarHunger in drought-hit Somalia claimed 43,000 lives in 2022: studyAs many as 43,000 drought-related "excess deaths" may have occurred in Somalia in 2022, according to a new study. Half of...
18 Mar First Person: Starting from zero – Gambian returning migrant counts cost of attempted Europe crossing
Amadou Jobe, like many other Gambians before him, embarked on a perilous journey through northern Africa, in a failed bid to reach Europe. Now, with the support of the UN, he is making a life for himself and his family back home....
17 Mar Engagement and disengagement
Many academic and policy commentators have examined the moral and ethical questions of whether to engage or disengage with the Taliban following its return to power and its exclusion of women from participation in public life beyond the home. Measures by the international community to...
14 Mar Migration in the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities for a Changing Region
This expert conversation reviews migration in nine Caribbean countries, outlining challenges and opportunities for the integration of the migrant population and a successful engagement with diasporas to advance development, along with recommendations to strengthen the region’s capacity to accommodate changing patterns of migration. ...
09 Mar Migración en el Caribe: Desafíos y oportunidades para una región en transformación
En este webinar, expertos del Banco Interamericano (BID) y el Migration Policy Institute (MPI) presentaron las principales conclusiones de su nueva publicación sobre la realidad migratoria de la región y compartieron algunos de los desafíos y oportunidades para la integración de la población migrante y...