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Burkina Faso: Participants in a WFP soil rehabilitation project in Sirighin in March — 2.9 million people will face hunger during the upcoming lean season according to the latest Cadre Harmonisé figures. Photo: WFP/Evelyn Fey At least 155 million people in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2020 — 20 million more than 2019, according to figures from the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises, released today. Published by the Global Network Against Food Crises — an alliance of government agencies and NGOs, including the World Food Programme (WFP), the report highlights the lethal combined...

Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high warns Global Report on Food Crises Conflict, economic shocks – including due to COVID-19, extreme weather – pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020 JOINT EU / FAO / WFP NEWS RELEASE 5 May 2021, Brussels/Rome - The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched today by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) - an international alliance of the UN, the EU, gover...

English News and Press Release on World about Coordination, Protection and Human Rights and Epidemic; published on 03 May 2021 by OCHA

Harare, Zimbabwe – Twenty-three-year-old Gladys Marima has albinism and skin cancer. In December she had to leave her home in Harare, when her family kicked her out. Her cancer, which is linked to her albinism, had caused a deep, septic wound on her cheek that had become infected with maggots and, she says, her family could not tolerate the smell. Now she is staying with relatives in Chipinge, 400km from Harare. But she is unable to receive treatment because the two public hospitals which offer chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment in Zimbabwe – Parirenyatwa General Hospital in Harare a...

Go Inaugural meeting of the High Level Taskforce on mental health and addiction challenges of persons interacting with the criminal justice system You are here: Home Inaugural meeting of the High Level Taskforce on mental health and addiction challenges of persons interacting with the criminal justice system   Ministers of State James Browne, Mary Butler and Frank Feighan attend the first meeting of the High Level Taskforce on mental health and addiction challenges of persons interacting with the criminal justice system     The first meeting of the High Level Taskforce on Mental Health and...