UNITED NATIONS, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The 2023 UN Water Conference, co-hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan, will be held at the UN headquarters in New York from March 22 to 24. In nearly 50 years, this is the first such conference on water at a time when 3.6 billion people lack...
Building on the October 2024 appeal, the funds target Lebanese citizens, refugees, and migrants most affected by the crisis. The conflict, which erupted in October 2023 and escalated in late 2024, killed over 4,000, injured 16,000, and displaced over one million. With 125,000 people still ...
Nature Water volume 1, pages 359–369 (2023)Cite this article 5065 Accesses 11 Citations 113 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has recently made national and international headlines as a major environmental catastrophe, impacting the public health and well...
June 22, 2023 Sustainable Infrastructure and Water Strategies for a Resilient Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Image © Ruben Garcia, Alec Paulson and Sonsoles Vela / Tulane School of Architecture The UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 is an invitation for architects from around the world to meet in...
Polish Royal Opera 2023 / Collaboration between SHL architects and PAX architects. Image © KVANT1 Concert halls, music, and performance venues stand as iconic symbols of cultural vitality within urban landscapes. Through these structures, which often become landmarks of the city, the residents ar...
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, he said, the immediate priority for respondents is access to affordable health care, safe water and sanitation and education, followed by greater international solidarity and increased support to those hardest-hit by the pandemic. Over 87 % of respondents “believe global...
By Kevin O'SullivanTue May 16 2023 - 11:00 Sudan’s fighting sides agree to protect civilians but conflict continues Civilians trapped in Khartoum, as well as hundreds of thousands who have fled their homes, face serious food and water shortages, Red Cross warns By Sally HaydenFri May 12...
With less than 1 percent of the Earth's freshwater being readily accessible, the limited availability of drinkable water sources exacerbates the crisis. However, if no action is taken, it is anticipated that challenges will intensify, leading to a projected 33% rise in global freshwater demand ...
"Extremely critical" acute malnutrition was reported in specific districts of Hodeidah and Taiz provinces between November 2023 and June 2024, marking the first occurrence of this most severe classification in the region. Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative to Yemen, emphasized the gravity of the situ...
More than 100 children have been killed since Oct. 8, 2023, with more than half of the deaths occurring in the past week alone, while more than 300,000 children have been displaced from their homes, the UN body said, citing statistics from the Lebanese Health Ministry. ...