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Plant health, safe trade and digital technology
The International Day of Plant Health (13 May) urges collective efforts to preserve plant health and ensure food safety and safe trade for sustainable economies. Each year, millions of containers carry plant products and wood packaging materials between countries, facilitating pest transmission. Invasive pests cause global economic losses of around USD 220 billion annually. To protect global plant health, adherence to the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures, and innovations like the electronic phytosanitary certificate, ePhyto, improve trade efficiency and security.
UN teams dispatch aid as deadly flash floods hit northern Afghanistan
12 May 2024 — UN humanitarian teams scrambled to get lifesaving aid to communities devastated by deadly flash floods in northeastern Afghanistan over the weekend.
...Gaza: We must prevent a large-scale offensive in Rafah, UN pleads
12 May 2024 — The Secretary-General and the UN human rights chief said again on Sunday that a large-scale Israeli offensive in Rafah must be prevented at all costs, warning of catastrophic...
UN General Assembly presses Security Council to give ‘favourable consideration’ to full Palestinian membership
10 May 2024 — The UN General Assembly convened again in New York on Friday for an emergency special session on the Gaza crisis and overwhelmingly passed a resolution which upgrades Palestine’s...