DENPASAR, BTNp: WITHOUT proper checks in place, new tools like generative artificial intelligence – or AI – could easily be misused. When powerful tech giants introduce new technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, human rights can be the first casualty. Hereby Mark Garten Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights when opening the 14th…
BALI, BTNp: IN AFRICA, food security and shock response systems support social protection in Mauritania and the Sahel. Humanitarian organizations are improving clean water provision and nutrition through drought anticipation measures in Kenya. In Europe, a mobile app has been developed to provide information on risks of heatwaves and air pollution in urban environments. Real-time…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for wealthier countries to help developing nations purchase Ukrainian grain as supplies begin returning to global markets, in an appeal from the Black Sea port of Odesa on Friday (18/08), World Humanitarian Day. SHIPS carrying grain have been leaving there under a recent UN-brokered agreement, and UB Secretary General,…
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction was a ‘wake-up call’ to improve preventative measures and ‘stop the spiral of increasing disaster impact and risk’. BALI, BTNp: MORE countries must “Think Resilience”, and urgently adopt, improve early warning systems to reduce risk from an increasing number of disasters across the world, a UN forum has concluded. Some…