Governments must step up efforts to meet deadline to end hunger, says UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation World governments will need to lift 185,000 people out of hunger each day for the next 12 years in order to meet global goals to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday. The calculation was made by Kostas Stamoulis, assistant director-general of the UN Food and […]
To stop Ebola, Congo targets malaria in outbreak zone
Thomson Reuters Foundation Health workers on Wednesday launched a door-to-door, four-day blitz to control malaria in Democratic Republic of Congo with the aim of cutting suspected Ebola cases in half. “It will make things a lot easier if malaria is taken out of the equation,” Stefan Hoyer of the World Health Organization said by phone […]
New app shows US and Canadian commuters the cleanest, greenest route home
Thomson Reuters Foundation A mobile application launched in dozens of US and Canadian cities on Monday measures the planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions of inner-city travel, its creators said, letting concerned commuters map their so-called carbon footprints. Mapping app Cowlines can suggest the most efficient route as well which uses the least fuel, combining modes of transport such […]
Millions of poor city children worse off than rural peers, says UNICEF
Thomson Reuters Foundation Millions of poor urban children are more likely to die before their fifth birthday than those living in rural areas, according to a UN study out on Tuesday that challenges popular assumptions behind the global urbanisation trend. The UNICEF research found not all children in cities benefited from the so-called urban advantage – the […]
Young Australians believe mental health is the top issue facing the nation – survey
The number of young Australians who say mental health is the top issue facing the country has risen to more than 40 per cent in the past year, according to Mission Australia’s latest Youth Survey. The survey showed that some 43 per cent of the more than 28,000 young people aged between 15 and 19 […]
BIBLE HISTORY: US MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS ‘SLAVE BIBLE’ THAT FOCUSES ON SERVITUDE, LEAVES OUT FREEDOM
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports from Washington, DC, on a special display at the Museum of the Bible which comes ahead of next year’s 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first African slaves to Jamestown, Virginia…
France is most food sustainable country, US and UK faltering – report
Thomson Reuters Foundation France’s aggressive measures to tackle food waste, promote healthy lifestyles and adopt eco-farming techniques helped it top a ranking of nations, published on Tuesday, which assesses their food sustainability. The Netherlands, Canada, Finland and Japan rounded out the top five, and Rwanda scored highest among low-income countries in an index by the […]
ESSAY: JOHN CHAU AND THE DANGERS OF MISSIONARY WORK
In an article first published on Religion News Service, SCOTT HILDRETH, of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in the US, looks at questions raised by the death recently of US Christian John Allen Chau on the remote North Sentinel Island…