Nations met to examine how to help pandemic-battered farmers keep supplying food for tens of millions of people.
BANGKOK (AN) — Delegates from 46 nations joined Tuesday's opening of a virtual summit hosted by the Food and Agricultural Organization on how to help pandemic-battered farmers keep supplying food for tens of millions of people.
In a region that is home to more than half of the world's undernourished people, the coronavirus pandemic has hit small farmers particularly hard, threatening the ability of people in rural and urban locales alike to stave off hunger and malnutrition.
The U.N. high commissioner for refugees cites 'many instances of violations of international humanitarian law.'
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts for people in Yemen (US$20 million) and Ethiopia (US$15 million).
As the U.N. honored the Geneva Conventions, the Red Cross chief said non-compliance is a 'serious problem.'
The U.N.'s chief says it will work with Sudanese authorities to use a 'simplified system' for humanitarian aid deliveries.
The U.N. weather agency calls for urgent action to protect water supplies, the ‘canary in the coalmine of climate change.'
The U.N. high commissioner for refugees cites 'many instances of violations of international humanitarian law.'
The E.U.'s top court sided with a transgender man who sued Romania for refusing to accept his gender changes in the U.K.
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