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Sudan health crisis at ‘gravely serious’ level warns WHO
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From Afghanistan to Ukraine, the survivors of some of the world’s worst conflicts live in fear of landmines killing them or their children.
The UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) coordinates the Organization’s work to rid the world of mines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices.
Ahead of Mine Action Week beginning 19 June, which brings major demining stakeholders to Geneva, UNMAS Director of Policy Abigail Hartley sat down with UN News’s Dominika Tomaszewska-Mortimer to express sadness at the deaths last week of 27 civilians – most of them minors – killed by unexploded ordnance in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia.
The UN mine action service veteran also shared her optimism that Ukraine will one day be mine-free, too.
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Even if we were to cut all the world’s greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, we would still be left coping with rising temperatures and an unpredictable climate. That’s why adaptation is, literally, a hot topic at COP26.
Nevertheless, the annual $100 billion promised for climate finance in the 2015 Paris Agreement – half of which was to be earmarked to help developing countries to cope with the climate crisis – has yet to materialize.
In today’s Lid Is On podcast from COP26, Conor Lennon and Laura Quiñones talk to UN officials and activists about adaptation and, with the conference past the half-way point, they take stock of week one.
Music: “Within the Earth”, Ketsa, and “Into the Amazon”, Emily Burridge
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Human trafficking takes many forms and can involve forced labour or domestic servitude. But when it comes to misusing technology platforms online, that’s mainly being done by sex traffickers to target and manipulate their victims.
New research conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows how victims are being lured via social media and online dating platforms, where personal information and location details, are readily available.
Tiphanie Crittin, a UNODC Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer spoke to Louise Potterton, and told her about the challenges of trying to shut down sex trafficking networks.
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More than one million people in southern Madagascar are going hungry in what the World Food Programme (WFP) believes could become the first-ever famine brought on by climate change.
Successive years of drought have forced people in rural communities to eat locusts, fruit and cactus leaves because they have been unable to plant or harvest sweet potatoes, tomatoes and other crops.
Alice Rahmoun, WFP Communications Officer in the capital, Antananarivo, was in the region recently. She said families have been selling prized assets, such as cattle, farmland and even homes, to survive.
Ms. Rahmoun spoke to Dianne Penn about the UN agency’s support to some 700,000 people, with plans to reach more, and hopes for the COP26 climate change conference which opens later this month in Glasgow, Scotland.
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty opened for signature 25 years ago this month but hasn’t yet entered into force.
In his first UN News interview, the new head of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) notes that prior to 1996, when the Treaty opened for signature, around 2,000 nuclear tests were conducted, but since then, only three countries have crossed the line – only one of those, this century.
For Robert Floyd, nuclear testing remains an existential threat for humanity, with some 13,400 nuclear weapons still primed for use.
He spoke in New York to UN News’s Alexandre Soares, who started by asking him how CTBTO helps make the world a safer place.
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