Delegates to the global decision-making body will tackle ways to strengthen emergency response and restructure the agency.
GENEVA (AN) — Congo's spreading Ebola outbreak, universal health coverage and questions about spending and reform topped the World Health Assembly's agenda as its eight-day annual meeting got underway.
Delegates to the World Health Organization's decision-making body on Monday were asked to strengthen the U.N. health agency's response to the outbreak, which has steadily worsened since an expert panel last month advised it was not yet an international public health emergency.
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
This year and next mark the countdown to a 2025 deadline for governments to strengthen their carbon-cutting plans.
The France-based court was created to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights, which took effect in 1953.
Negotiators and officials aim to wrap up so that May's 77th World Health Assembly can consider a proposed text.
The humanitarian nightmare and attacks on civilians in Gaza dominated the U.N. Security Council's quarterly open debate.
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
This year and next mark the countdown to a 2025 deadline for governments to strengthen their carbon-cutting plans.
A new U.N. report shows how prioritizing debt over services like health care and education plagues the developing world.
