PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) – Tensions over access to clean water are ... Somalia by the UN Population Fund indicates a 200 percent increase in gender-based violence against displaced ...
Increasing global water scarcity is fuelling more conflicts and contributing to instability, the United Nations warns in a new report, which says access to clean water is critical to promoting peace.
The world needs to better manage its freshwater resources but thirsty new technologies touted as solutions could lead to “serious problems” if left unchecked, a UN report warned. Roughly half ...
Climate change and poor planning are causing major water scarcity crises in multiple cities and regions around the world, and the United Nations is warning that tensions over water are worsening ...
Paritosh Kasotia is an International Program Manager at the Iowa Council for International Understanding. She is also President of the United Nations Association-Des Moines Chapter. The ...
The UN labour organization warned Monday that over 70% of the world's workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat ...
Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in 'extreme and immediate danger' as worsening violence advances and threatens to ...
Antonio Guterres says war is being waged on the Sudanese people, warns of escalating unrest in el-Fasher, Darfur.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for “urgent de-escalation” of hostilities in a phone conversation with ...
Britain's Thames Water said on Monday it would spend an extra 1.1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) on tackling sewage spills and ...
The northwest Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has issued a flood alert because of glacial melting and warned of a ...
Nearly all the missiles and drones that Iran and its allies launched at Israel overnight were intercepted. Israel has not ...