KABUL, Afghanistan, December 27, 2025 (ENS) – Food insecurity threatening lives and livelihoods is on the rise in Afghanistan as winter closes in. More than 17 million Afghans are starving in freezing temperatures as the scale and severity of hunger and malnutrition deepens, warns the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization. […]
NEW YORK, New York, December 14, 2024 (ENS) – Again this year, as it does every year, the New York-based nonprofit International Rescue Committee has issued an Emergency Watchlist spotlighting […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2023 (ENS) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres aimed a message at the world’s largest polluters Wednesday when he excluded them from his Climate Ambition Summit that took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. His message – you are not taking the climate threat seriously enough. […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 20, 2022 (ENS) – Calling it “the most consequential moment of the last four decades,” Csaba Kőrösi of Hungary, the new president of the United Nations General Assembly, today brought down the ceremonial gavel to open this year’s debate. […]
KABUL, Afghanistan, October 3, 2021 (ENS) – Some 18 million Afghans are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, health services across the country are at risk of collapse and widespread hunger stalks the arid land, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC, is warning… […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, September 22, 2021 (ENS) – Forty-two companies have pledged a promising US$345 million to contribute to ending global hunger as part of a new initiative led by key international organizations. […]
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