by jakeloeffenames | 26 September 2019 | News
Several high-level UN personalities have in recent days warned of the possible horrific consequences of climate change. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called climate change “the defining issue of our time”, while UN High Commissioner for Human...
by jakeloeffenames | 11 November 2017 | News
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), with support from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), have published a brief guide on how to...
by jakeloeffenames | 3 December 2016 | News
In the northeast of the country farmers lost 85% of their livestock as wells dried up and farm animals died. About 10% of the population saw their livelihoods wiped out. During the three-year drought, more than 1.5 million Syrians fled from their farms, migrating to...