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Home/News from NPR/U.N. Report: In The Age Of Humans, ‘The Dominant Risk To Our Survival Is Ourselves’ U.N. Report: In The Age Of Humans, ‘The Dominant Risk To Our Survival Is Ourselves’ By Laurel Wamsley  December 15, 2020 “Warning lights — for our societies and the planet — are flashing red.” That’s according to a new report from the United Nations Development Programme. The report notes that COVID-19 has thrived “in the cracks in societies, exploiting and exacerbating m...

Countries still far from achieving sustainable development Reliance on fossil fuels is putting the planet under increasing pressure. Keystone / Larry W. Smith The latest United Nations Human Development Report has found that countries, including Switzerland, still struggle to achieve high levels of human development without straining the planet. This content was published on December 16, 2020 - 11:00 December 16, 2020 - 11:00 Luigi Jorio A journalist from Ticino resident in Bern, I write on sc...

Child marriage in the Sahel Format KEY FACTS on child marriage in the Sahel The Sahel is home to over 20 million child brides, including currently married girls along with women who were first married in childhood Over half of young women in the Sahel married in childhood; levels are highest in central Sahel, where 7 in 10 young women were child brides In countries spanning the Sahel, women living in states or provinces inside the region marry nearly two years earlier than those living outside...

2020-12-16 11:35:56 GMT2020-12-16 19:35:56(Beijing Time) Xinhua English PHNOM PENH, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has moved up on the Human Development Index (HDI) to rank 144th globally in 2019, compared to the 146th ranking in 2018, showed a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report released on Wednesday. Cambodia remained in the "medium human development" category among 189 countries and regions, said the UNDP 2020 Human Development Report. The HDI is designed to reflect the a...

India drops two ranks in Human Development Index Updated: Updated: December 17, 2020 09:58 IST UNDP Resident Representative Shoko Noda said the drop in India’s ranking doesn’t mean “India didn’t do well but other countries did better”. Share Article AAA A boy plays hanging on the vine from a tree at a bricks factory on the outskirts of Jammu on December 11, 2020. The 2020 Human Development Report said indigenous children in India, Cambodia and Thailand show more malnutrition-related ...

File picture The UAE has been ranked first in the Arab world by the Human Development Report 2020 issued by the United Nations Development Programme. Out of a total of 189 countries, the UAE is now placed at 31, a rise of four places from last year’s study. The Human Development Index is a statistic composite of life expectancy, education (Literacy Rate, Gross Enrollment Ratio at different levels and Net Attendance Ratio), and per capita incom...

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By Lynn Juliano / Photos by Matt Gush “I try to treat my patients how I hope my grandmother was treated in her dying hours.” - Roxanne Aguirre, nursing student When Roxanne Aguirre began coughing, she knew she had contracted the virus. She had mild symptoms: a cough, chest pain and a sore throat at first. As the days progressed, she lost her sense of taste and smell. She monitored her vitals daily, but never spiked a fever or experienced desaturation in oxygen levels. Her fears were confirm...

UNICEF/Oliver Asselin | A girl carries a basket of fruits through a flooded street in Cotonou, a large port city in Benin. While the coronavirus pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans “release their grip on nature”, it won’t be the last, the agency said in its latest edition of the Human Development Report, entitled The Next Frontier, released on Tuesday [15 December 2020]. “Humans wield more power over the planet than ever before. In the wake of COVID-19, r...