The United Nations has declared 2022 as the International Year of Glass to shine a light on a traditional, sustainable, and innovative technology. A colorful stained window – one of many uses of glass. © iStockphoto.com/agsandrew UN International Years What Is the Year of Glass? On May...
The United Nations has declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids to raise awareness of the importance of camels and camel-like animals. ©iStockphoto.com/marktucan The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2024 as theInternational Year of Camelids. Many countries take part in the ...
LA County declared a state of emergency over the homeless crisis earlier this year, and the county Board of Supervisors vowed to make a real difference in "getting people off the street and giving the care they need." The declaration brought hope for the homeless, as it used to take as l...
"I'm not saying this was misguided, although it was definitely engineered: The idea that what was needed was to get cheap calories to as many people as possible, as fast as possible, and that led to a kind of processing industry which actually in structure doesn't look very much like a...
"Until and unless we can ensure access to these tools, the pandemic will not go away, and the sense of insecurity of people will only deepen." The ACT-Accelerator was established in April 2020, just weeks after the pandemic was declared, to speed up development and access to COVID-19 te...
In a video message for a Berlin ministerial conference on global food security, Guterres warned that multiple famines could be declared in 2022 and that 2023 could be even worse. The main costs to farmers are fertilizers and energy. Fertilizer prices have risen by more than half in the past ...
On March 17, 2003, the United States and its allies declared an end to negotiations, and on March 20 they launched the first in a series of precision air attacks on targets in Iraq, followed by an invasion of American and British ground forces from Kuwait in the south. As U.S. troops...
President Trump welcomed home three Americans who were freed by North Korea, and declared their release a sign of promise toward his goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. May 10, 2018 Kim Jong Un Agrees To Shut Down Nuclear Test Site, South Korea Says North Korean leader Kim Jong...
On the first day of the General Assembly gathering of world leaders, Bolivian President Luis Arce touted 2022 as “The Year of the Cultural Revolution for Depatriarchalization” for his country, and urged the United Nations to adopt a decade-long effort to do the same. Arce said his ...
elsewhere. An early challenge in their exodus is the perilous Darien Gap, which connects South America to Central America. Earlier this year, two U.N. groups said the number of migrants crossing through the jungle area between Colombia and Panama couldsoar to as man...