Tag: WHO

Since its outbreak in China in December 2019 and recognition as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in ...

International consensus on cross-border environmental issues has been difficult to achieve, but the 40-year-old Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air-Pollution (or ...

Can digital life save us from the fear and anxieties of COVID-19, especially when we are put in quarantine, like ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern for a new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in ...

Update (9 March 2020): Ten days after this article was published, Italy has quarantined 16 million people in Northern Italy this ...

In a world traumatized by Trump’s America First agenda, many worry that nuclear conflict is around the corner. As a ...

Non-communicable diseases are the major global health issue that most people have never heard of. Yet it kills nearly 40 ...

When the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) opened its 44th session in Rome on October 9, it wasn’t just ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that climate change will cause 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050. ...

The Issue: Unhygienic Births In 2008 in a village in rural India, a highly-respected midwife was talking to a young ...

As the New Year approaches, numerous columnists and media personalities have been vocal in their lamentations of past year. 'Watch ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY, DR MARGARET CHAN, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. THIS PIECE IS PART OF A ...