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Document - Your Excellency Dr Khalilur Rahman, President of the General Assembly, Your Excellency Amar Bendjama, President of ECOSOC, My sister, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohamed, The Right Honou...

Your Excellency Amar Bendjama, President of ECOSOC, My sister, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohamed, The Right Honourable Helen Clark, Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Soon after my election as Director-General in 2017, I was invited to speak at an event at Columbia University here in New York during the General Assembly. The title was: is the world ready for the next pandemic? My answer was no. Just over two years later, COVID-19 arrived and indeed, the world was not prepared. It became the most severe global health crisis in a century, causing more than 20 million excess deaths, and wiping over US$ 10 trillion from the global economy. The pandemic exposed and exacerbated faultlines in global health security. During the pandemic and since, WHO established 10 initiatives to make the world safer from future epidemics and pandemics, in five key areas. Most of these were recommendations of the panel led by President Ellen Sirleaf and former Prime Minister Helen Clark. To strengthen national capacities, the Pandemic Fund with the World Bank and the Universal Health and Preparedness Review; To strengthen surveillance and early warning, the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin; To improve equitable access to vaccines and...

The State Department is ordering diplomats in its international organizations bureau to use the term “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence” in all communications following President...

El 67,9% de los residentes considera muy beneficioso el turismo para su isla según ECOSOC del ISTAC, casi seis puntos más que en 2024, aunque aumenta la percepción de encarecimiento de vivienda y cost...

SYDNEY, September 21 (IPS) - The UN General Assembly will soon vote – most likely favourably – on Bangladesh’s request to postpone the country’s graduation from the UN’s Least Developed Country (LDC) category, currently scheduled for November this year. The request for a 3-year extension was endorsed by the ECOSOC following the recommendation of the UN’s Committee for Development Policy (CDP).

The UN General Assembly will soon vote – most likely favourably – on Bangladesh’s request to postpone the country’s graduation from the UN’s Least Developed Country (LDC) category, currently scheduled for November this year. The request for a 3-year extension was endorsed by the ECOSOC following the recommendation of the UN’s Committee for Development Policy […]

Carro de combate selecciona algunas iniciativas y propuestas cooperativas para un consumo crítico.

Carro de combate selecciona algunas iniciativas y propuestas cooperativas para un consumo crítico.

A recent post by Mohamad Safa, executive director with diplomatic relations for PVA, Main Representative at UN ECOSOC, and accredited at the United Nations Office at Geneva, illustrates selective appl...