Negotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics are underway at the World Health Organization (WHO), with a target date of May 2024 for a legally binding agreement to be adopted by t...
The World Trade Organization's 164 members approved a series of trade agreements that included commitments on fish and pledges on health and food security after more than five gruelling d...
World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala expressed cautious optimism that more than 100 trade ministers meeting in Geneva would achieve one or two global deals in June 202...
U.N. agencies on Tuesday, 1st of March, launched an emergency appeal to respond to the soaring humanitarian needs following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling for $1.7 billion to help ...
Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is "way off track" in capping rising temperatures, the United Nations said on Monday in a stark illustration of the task...
Global governments' plans to cut emissions in the years ahead are not enough to avert catastrophic climate change which would lead to "endless suffering", a U.N. report said on Monday.
The number of disasters, such as floods and heatwaves, driven by climate change have increased fivefold over the past 50 years, killing more than 2 million people and costing $3.64 trilli...
Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on M...
A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of spe...
Roughly one in 10 people may have been infected with the coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world’s population vulnerable to the COVID-19 disease it causes, the World Health Or...
Young people must curb their party instincts to help prevent new outbreaks of the COVID-19 disease, officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) pleaded on August 5th.
Global temperatures will continue to warm over the next five years, and may even temporarily rise to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Or...
El coronavirus que causa el COVID-19 podría volverse endémico como el VIH, dijo el miércoles la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), al tiempo que advirtió contra cualquier intento de ...
La Organización Mundial de la Salud dijo el martes que algunos tratamientos parecen estar limitando la gravedad y prolongación de la infección respiratoria del COVID-19 y dijo que la agen...
Los niños están accediendo a Internet a una edad más temprana, pasando más tiempo en línea y exponiéndose a un mayor riesgo de ciberacoso mientras la pandemia del COVID-19 les obliga a pe...
