Global Vaccine Crisis Sends Ominous Signal for Fighting Climate Change
The gap between rich and poor countries on vaccinations highlights the failure of richer nations to see it in their self-interest to urgently help poorer ones fight a shared crisis.
Health workers prepared a dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Mumbai last month.Credit.Punit Paranjpe/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
May 4, 2021
The stark gap in vaccination rates between the world’s rich and poor countries is emerging as a test for how the world responds to that other global challenge: averting the worst effects of climate change.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violations against children in situations of armed conflict
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New Study on Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children Affected by Conflict Shows Importance of Supporting United Nations and Partners on the Ground
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the UN’s capacity to monitor and verify grave violations against children in armed conflict and hampered ongoing efforts to engage parties to conflict to end and prevent the violence. Available data demonstrate an increase in recruitment and use, sexual violence and ill-treatment in detention, the new study shows.
Based on information gathered by the United Nations on the ground and from partners, the study
Middle EastErdogan says he does not expect results from next UN-led Cyprus talks
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he does not believe a United Nations-led meeting on restarting peace talks for the ethnically split Cyprus will yield results.
On Thursday, the UN and the three guarantor nations in the Mediterranean island failed to bridge disagreements to restart peace talks on Cyprus. UN chief Antonio Guterres said there would be fresh talks in two to three months. read more I don t trust or believe in Greek Cypriots. They have never acted honestly, Erdogan told reporters after Friday prayers in Istanbul. Now it s been pushed back 2-3 months, but I again don t believe any result will be achieved, because they are not honest, he said.
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Men work on a boat in Marina Grande, the main port of the island of Capri, Italy, April 29, 2021. (Reuters
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A school student wearing a protective face mask takes part in a judo lesson amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo. (Reuters)
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30 April 2021, India, Prayagraj - A woman dries vermicelli at a factory during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (dpa)
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Syrian children, orphaned during the civil war, listen to a traditional Hakawati (story teller), in the camp of Al-Aramel for the displaced, on the outskirts of the town of Dana, April 29, 2021. (AFP)
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Men work on a boat in Marina Grande, the main port of the island of Capri, Italy, April 29, 2021. (Reuters