The catastrophe of the Libyan city of Dernawhere thousands of people have died from floods, is a “sad snapshot” of a world stalked by injustice, warned this Tuesday the secretary general of the UNAntonio Guterres, at the opening of the 78th General Assembly in New York. “Derna is a sad snapshot of the state of […]
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UNESCO: the number of children who do not go to school increased to six million
The number of children and young people who are out of school in the world has increased by six million since 2021, to a total of 250 million, partly due to the “mass exclusion”” of girls and women of the education in Afghanistan, warned today UNESCO. This increase also has to do with the “continued […]
Thousands of people in New York ask to end fossil fuels
With our sights set on the presence of more than 140 world leaders at the General Assembly of the UN In this week that begins, thousands of people asked for Sunday in NY the end of the fossil fuels in the face of the emergency climate change. “Biden, end fossil fuels”, “We can’t eat money”, […]
UN chief: “The world is failing developing nations”
The secretary general of United Nations, Antonio Guterreson Friday praised efforts to achieve a better agreement at the international level for the Global South, as he inaugurated in Havana a summit of the G77 group of developing nations China. The theme of the meetings is the scientific and technological gap between rich and poor countries, […]
China and Venezuela sign agreements on economy, trade and tourism
China and Venezuela They signed several bilateral cooperation documents focusing on areas such as the economy, trade and tourism, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Wednesday. The president of China, Xi Jinping, signed the agreements with the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroafter a meeting in Beijing. Xi noted that the two countries are […]
Sergey Lavrov: the proposal to connect a subsidiary of the Russian agricultural bank to SWIFT is impracticable
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, today described the proposal of the UN to connect a subsidiary of the Russian agricultural bank in Luxembourg to the SWIFT interbank system to reactivate the grain agreement, since it does not have a banking license. In a press conference at the end of the G20 summit, Lavrov explained […]
UN: Heat waves generate “diabolical potion” of pollutants
The heat waves, more intense and frequent due to climate changegenerate a “devil potion” of contaminants that threatens humans and all living beings, warned on Wednesday the UN. The layers of smoke caused by the fires that covered Athens and New York are the most visible part of the air pollution caused by heat waves, […]
Global construction sand extraction nears sustainability limit
The first platform to monitor the global extraction of sand, a resource widely used in sectors such as construction, concluded that humans drain between 40,000 and 80,000 million tons of this material per year, a figure that is growing and could become unsustainable, he warned. Today the UN. The platform, called Marine Sand Watch and […]
Zelensky and Macron seek more security for Ukrainian grain exports
Volodimir Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron They spoke by phone this Sunday about different aspects of the war in Ukraine and agreed on further cooperation to strengthen the security of grain exports, the Elysee reported in a statement. The presidents of Ukraine and France addressed this issue in a phase of the conflict in which Russia […]
The UN expresses its “concern” at the trial on indigenous rights in Brazil
The UN expressed this Wednesday his “worry” in the face of possible reversals of rights natives in Brazil the same day that the Federal Supreme Court resumed a trial on ancestral lands. The representative for South America of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jan Jarab, criticized in a statement […]