UN human rights chief Michele Bachelet GENEVA - Highlighting the horrors and risks of the war in Ukraine, the UN human rights chief on Monday warned of global food, fuel, and financial crises that risk plunging millions into food insecurity and poverty. Speaking at the opening session of the 50th Human Rights Council, Michele Bachelet said: "The war in Ukraine continues to destroy the lives of many, causing havoc and destruction. "The horrors inflicted on the civilian population will leave their indelible mark, including on generations to come." She said that the war's social, economic, and political ramifications ripple across the region around Ukraine and globally, "with no end in sight." Bachelet said that 1.2 billion people live in countries severely exposed and vulnerable to all three dimensions of finance, food, and energy, simultaneously. "The World Food Program estimates that the number of severely food insecure people is expected to grow from
The draft attempts to ensure members should not be negotiating against each other but against the unrelenting depletion of global fish stocks vital for livelihoods, food security and healthy planet.
India has rallied developing and underdeveloped nations to back its opposition to the new WTO drafts on agriculture, fishing and vaccine which favours the developed nations.
facing as, the international health crisis, the pandemic, we see the pandemic going down in some countries, but it does not completely over. we now have faxes can help us that, to solve it, although some parts of the world, like africa, still needs to get their vaccination rates up. we need to work on that, otherwise it might be variants more common among us. on food, we need to work together, we need to get the grain out of ukraine, because 20 25,000,000 tonnes of waiting to be exported. we need those to be released on to international markets. above all, our members, we need them not to put on export restrictions and prohibitions for any length of time. on that note, because we are seeing some nations putting up trade
The ministerial conference, which is the highest decision-making body of the WTO, has a four-day window from 12 June to create a convergence between conflicting trade and economic interests.