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AUDIO: If We Are to Achieve Zero-leprosy by 2030, This Is the Best Time and Opportunity
By Stella PaulDHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 13 2019 – Dr Rahat Chawdhury is the Deputy Program Manager at the National Leprosy Program of Bangladesh. His is the umbrella organization ...
African Development Bank joins forces with international organisations to help developing countries build resilience to extreme weather
By External SourceMADRID, Dec 13 2019 (IPS-Partners)
The African Development Bank has joined forces with 11 other international organizations to assist developing countries to build ...
AUDIO: “We Cannot Achieve Zero-Leprosy by 2030 Without a Vaccine” – WHO Team Leader
By Stella PaulDHAKA, Dec 13 2019 – Dr Erwin Cooreman is the Team Leader of WHO’s Global Leprosy Programme. This week, he is in Dhaka to attend the National Conference ...
Haiti’s Cry for Help as Climate Change is Compared to an Act of Violence against the Island Nation
Haiti’s Environment Minister Joseph Jouthe says that “climate change is a very big terror in Haiti”, and without funds the Caribbean island nation is unable to adapt and mitigate ...
Industrial Energy Efficiency is a Climate Solution
Staff from MCI Santé Animale, one of the 18 companies that have participated in energy management training organized by UNIDO´s Industrial Energy Accelerator in partnership with ...
COP 25: ‘Africa’s future depends on solidarity’ Leaders and development partners rally around climate change goals
Credit: AFDB
By PRESS RELEASEMADRID, Spain, Dec 13 2019 (IPS-Partners)
There was standing room only as ministers, diplomats, activists and journalists gathered at the IFEMA conference ...
The Ignoble Fall of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner
International Court of Justice in The Hague. Credit: United Nations
By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Dec 12 2019 – Appearing before 17 judges of the International Court of Justice ...
Commonwealth: Commit to Limit Global Warming or Face Irreversible Impacts
Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Patricia Scotland said there is urgent need for higher climate ambition to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 ° Celsius – or risk severe ...
Sasakawa Vows to Continue Support for Fighting Leprosy in Bangladesh
Chairman of the Nippon Foundation and Sasakawa Health Foundation in Japan Yohey Sasakawa speaking at the Conference of Organizations of Persons Affected by Leprosy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. ...
