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New global system to monitor attacks on health care
According to a new global surveillance system, 105 attacks on health-care facilities, personnel or resources were reported in the first…
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Today’s wars on children devastate the sacred principle of protection
By Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. A few milestones in March 2018…
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Valuing biodiversity and achieving national SDG targets
By Fouad Bergigui Biodiversity is much more than a list of species of microbes, fauna and flora, it is the…
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Unequal protection: Climate change and the acceleration of global inequality
By Kishan Khoday and John Knox Among the various drivers of risk in the world today, two stand out:…
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Confronting climate change as an accelerator of crisis
By Kishan Khoday and Oscar Ekdahl More frequent and severe droughts, millions at risk of famine, the spread of…
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A Recipe to End Hunger: Food Policies that Adapt to Climate Change
By Joan, Josep and Jordi Roca* In our age of conspicuous consumption and excess, it frightens us to know that…
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Strategies for turning developing nations into tourism hotspots
By Sara Jerving* Thirty-one-year-old Omar Muhudin Abdulle is trying to lure tourists to his hometown, Mogadishu. His company, Visit Mogadishu, provides tours…
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Mainstreaming migration for poverty reduction –in diverse country contexts
By Owen Shumba, Team Leader, Livelihoods and Economic Recovery I recently visited a number of countries on a monitoring mission…
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The road from Paris starts and ends with the media
By Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Head of Climate Change Adaptation, Global Environmental Finance Unit, UNDP 132 We live in a world of tenuous…
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Sustainable Development Goals are country-led and country-owned
By Magdy Martínez-Solimán, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support and Oscar Fernández-Taranco, UN Assistant Secretary-General for…
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