Ensuring Older People’s Rights To Healthy and Secure Life
As the number of older people continues to rise, the work remains to build a society for all ages, including ensuring older people’s rights to safety and security to continue living. ... Read More
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Childhood Obesity: Stigma, Impacts, and Interventions
More than 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016. The surging numbers of childhood obesity indicates the urgent need for a collective effort to combat the chronic disease.... Read More
Contributing to Good, Clean, and Fair Local Food Systems with Slow Food
The Italy-based organization Slow Food aims to preserve local food systems and bring back people’s interest in the food they eat. ... Read More
4 Day Week UK: Does It Work?
The results of the trial period for 4 Day Week in the UK are in.... Read More
Towards Climate-Responsive Trade Policies
The Coalition of Trade Ministers on Climate will foster global actions to promote climate-responsive trade policies that can help address climate change through local and global means. ... Read More
Leaving No One Outside: Protecting, Restoring, and Promoting Indigenous Languages
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2022-2032 as the International Decades of Indigenous Languages to emphasize the need to appreciate Indigenous Peoples’ essential roles in protecting the environment, good governance, and peacebuilding.... Read More
Reversing the Backward Progress of Social Justice
The world is facing multiple crises at once; is reversing the backward progress of social justice globally possible?... Read More
Interventions for Consumer Behavior Change to Reduce Food Waste
Interventions are needed to build a more sustainable food system, including changing consumers’ behaviors to reduce food waste.... Read More
Land Gap Report: Are our existing lands enough to address climate change?
The Land Gap Report found a gap between the total land envisioned for carbon removal and realistic land availability and capabilities. ... Read More
Secretary-General Reveals the UN’s Priorities for 2023
In his briefing for the General Assembly, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the UN’s priorities for 2023, ranging from peacebuilding to gender equality.... Read More