Money migrants send home a ‘critical lifeline’ for one in seven people worldwide

Apr 11, 2017, at 02:12 pm

New York, Apr 11(Just Earth News): Despite the political fire drawn by the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe and beyond, a senior official from the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on Monday highlighted the vital development benefit of the nearly half a trillion dollars that migrants send home each year to poor families and countries.

UN, partners warn 108 million people face severe food insecurity worldwide

Apr 01, 2017, at 05:59 am

New York, Apr 1(Just Earth News): Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people worldwide were severely food insecure in 2016, a dramatic increase compared with 80 million in 2015, according to a United Nations-backed report on food crises that offers benchmark for action needed to avoid catastrophe.

UN health agency reports depression now ‘leading cause of disability worldwide’

Feb 24, 2017, at 02:09 pm

New York, Feb 24 (Just Earth News): Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, the United Nations health agency on Thursday reported, estimating that it affects more than 300 million people worldwide – the majority of them women, young people and the elderly.

Free expression under worldwide assault, UN human rights expert warns in new report

Oct 21, 2016, at 01:47 pm

New York, Oct 21 (Just Earth News): Warning that the freedom of expression is under the widespread assault, a new United Nations human rights report has found that governments worldwide, wielding the tools of censorship, are “treating words as weapons.”

Proper handwashing may save the lives of 800 children a day worldwide – UNICEF

Oct 15, 2016, at 01:37 pm

New York, Oct 15 (Just Earth News): On the eve of Global Handwashing Day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported that more than 300,000 children under the age of five died last year due to diarrhoeal infections linked to a lack of safe drinking water and sanitation – a rate of 800 per day that could have been prevented by proper handwashing.

Record 29 million people drug-dependent worldwide; heroin use up sharply – UN report

Jun 24, 2016, at 04:52 am

New York, June 23 (Just Earth News):The number of people suffering from drug use disorders has increased disproportionally for the first time in six years in 2014, while the number of people who used at least one drug stayed at five per cent of the adult population, according to the annual report prepared by the United Nations.