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Stopping child marriage is key to curbing deadly teen pregnancies: WHO

·April 23, 2025·1 min read

Each year, more than 21 million adolescent girls in low and middle-income countries become pregnant. About half of these pregnancies are unintended. Nine in 10 adolescent births occur among girls who were married before turning 18. “Early pregnancies can have serious physical and psychological consequences for girls and young women,”...

COP29: Digital tech and AI can boost climate action, but curbing the sector’s emissions is key

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·November 17, 2024·2 min read

On the first-ever ‘Digitalisation Day’ for a UN climate conference, the COP29 Declaration on Green Digital Action received endorsements from more than 1,000 governments, companies, civil society organizations, international and regional organizations, and other stakeholders. Pluses and minuses According to the UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which organized today’s digital...

UN publishes new guidance on curbing child abduction and other ‘grave violations’ in war |

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·July 19, 2022·2 min read

Special Representative Virginia Gamba, said the guidelines would aid monitoring and reporting on the abduction of children in armed conflict, and help “address this complex grave violation of children’s rights in times of war.” There are six grave violations identified by the UN which serve as the basis for gathering...