© IPC | Guillaume Junior Atangana, a Cameroonian vision-impaired sprinter, and his guide Donard Ndim Nyamjua, are competing at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. ORIGINAL ARTICLE Eight athletes and one guide runner are set to compete in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games as the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team, the International Paralympic Committee announced on […]
UN-Water Members and Partners gathered at their biannual meeting to discuss how the UN family can “deliver as one” in response to water- and sanitation-related challenges. A particular focus for the first day of the 39th UN-Water Meeting was preparations for conferences on water for sustainable development to be convened in 2026 and 2028, as […]
Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs, attends the opening the High- level General Debate of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly. The Minister was joined by Assistant Minister McAllister, DFAT Secretary Jan Adams, Ambassador James Larsen, Mr Rob Mitchell MP Member for McEwen, Mr Andrew Wallace MP Member for Fisher […]
© UNICEF/Vinay PanjwaniA woman wears a face mask in Rajasthan, India. 30 March 2022Health A third of the world’s population has yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, including a shocking 83 per cent of all Africans, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday. “This is not acceptable to me, and it should […]
BioNTech The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is the first vaccine to be made readily available in some parts of the world. The end of the pandemic is in sight but we must not let our guard down, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as he welcomed the news that the global […]
PAHO/Karen González In Tienditas Health Care Center, the United Nations Population Fund prevents gender-based violence, identifies people at risk, and provides care to survivors. As governments move to secure COVID-19 vaccines for their populations, choosing these treatments should not be viewed as “some kind of nationalistic footrace”, with some countries winning and others losing, a […]