Just 25 nations, or 12% of the world, have comprehensive measures in place to protect women against the pandemic, a new U.N. data tracker found.
Just 25 nations, or 12% of the world, have comprehensive measures to protect women against the pandemic's social and economic impacts, according to two U.N. agencies' new data tracker released on Monday.
The new monitoring system, dubbed the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker by U.N. Women and the United Nations Development Program, or UNDP, is an attempt to measure how much governments rely on gender-based considerations in fighting the coronavirus.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
Global cooperation on health, defense, climate change and more would be at risk under a second Trump presidency.
A U.N.-led group says the world won't be able to get to net-zero emissions without first cleaning up the mining business.
