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News Digest | June 2024

World getting a ‘failing grade’ on Global Goals report card UN Photo/Manuel Elías UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted that, by international humanitarian law, safeguarding healthcare institutions is essential. He cautioned that assaults on medical facilities and personnel drastically restrict the medical and psychological assistance provided to survivors, affecting both genders equally. Following sexual assault, women and girls may

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News Digest | May 2024

UN forum in Bahrain endorses declaration on entrepreneurship and innovation for the SDGs UN News/Abdelmonem Makki The importance of innovation in tackling environmental and socioeconomic issues and promoting sustainable development is highlighted in the fifth Manama Declaration, which was released during the 2024 World Entrepreneurship Investment Forum (WEIF) in Bahrain. As delegates prepared for the UN

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The role of healthy rivers for people and planet

As climate change intensifies regional disparities in water distribution, rivers are drying up in many different places of the world. Numerous guises are used to describe climate change. Because everything in the Earth system is interrelated, any change has a wide-ranging impact. The where, when, and how much of rainfall is determined by weather patterns

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Rohingya Refugee Crisis: A Representation of Nature’s Sufferings

By Sumaia Binte Islam Today the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar region are symbols of Bangladesh’s deterrent environmental conditions. On one hand, human beings are being deprived of their basic human rights while nature is also showing symptoms of its dire conditions.   On July 27, 2021 Devastating floods and landslides struck the refugee camps as a result

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