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BUDAPEST (ILO News) – The Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions, launched in September 2021 by the United Nations, signals the UN system’s collective response for addressing …
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#Khalistan, #SFJ, #Europe In recent years, the once-radical fervor of Khalistani separatism, which sought to carve out a Sikh homeland from India, is increasingly finding itself at odds with the Sikh diaspora …
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#ChildObesity, #Europe, #EuropeObesity IBNS-CMEDIA: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased obesity in school-aged children in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) office for the region said in a new report issued on Wednesday, …
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#Smoking, #Drinking, #Europe, #Teenagers IBNS-CMEDIA: Smoking and drinking is on the rise among teenagers in Europe, Central Asia and Canada, and girls now match or even exceed boys when it comes to substance …
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By Sujoy Dhar #SouthernFrance, #Montpellier, #Mediterranean, #Travel, #Europe, #France IBNS-CMEDIA: A staircase of 15 ritual steps through a passageway lit by bulbs led us to an eerie underground water table. The steps were like going …
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#COVID19, #Coronavirus, #TB, #TBDeaths, #Europe IBNS-CMEDIA: There were nearly 7,000 excess deaths from tuberculosis (TB) in the UN World Health Organization’s (WHO) European region during the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, new data …
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#Russia, #UkraineWar, #Strike, #VolodymyrZelenskiy, #Europe Kiyv/IBNS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said that Russia bombed a blood transfusion centre in the Kharkiv region of north-east Ukraine and slammed the deadly strike as “a …
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#Heatwave, #Europe, #EuropeHeatwave New York: Half of all children in Europe and Central Asia, 92 million, are exposed to high heatwave frequency, or double the global average, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) …
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Bank of Canada. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Ottawa/CMEDIA: Canadian banks would be readily guarded from a global financial crisis by the Bank of Canada if the current banking crisis in the U.S. …
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New York: A new UN report presented on Wednesday to the Organization’s highest pan-European environmental policy body, covering 54 countries, is calling for greater action to tackle the triple environmental …
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