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class="date-display-single">27 August 2024</span></div> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-content"><p>لقد شهدت السنوات الأخيرة زيادة كبيرة في الهجمات التي تستهدف الطلاب والمعلمين والعاملين في مجال التعليم والمدارس في جميع أنحاء العالم - من غزة إلى السودان وميانمار وأوكرانيا وكولومبيا وجمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطية وأماكن أخرى. </p> <p>وما من نزاع إلا ويوقع خسائر بشرية فادحة. ولكن بالنسبة للأطفال والشباب العالقين في جحيم النزاع، فإن التكلفة حجمها لا يُقدر. </p> <p>وهذا اليوم المهم يذكرنا بما توقعه الحرب من أضرار بأجساد المتعلمين الصغار وعقولهم وأرواحهم. فالمخاطر هائلة، إذ تشمل التعرض للإصابات وفقدان الحياة، كما تشمل الاختطاف والتهجير القسري والعنف الجنسي والتجنيد للقتال وضياع الفرص. </p></div> </div></span> </div> <div> <span><div class="bootstrap-grid-item"> <h3 class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2023-10-13/why-israel-must-reconsider-its-gaza-evacuation-order"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2023-10-13/why-israel-must-reconsider-its-gaza-evacuation-order">Why Israel Must Reconsider Its Gaza Evacuation Order</a></a></h3> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-date"><span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2023-10-13T00:00:00-04:00" class="date-display-single">13 October 2023</span></div> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-content"><p>Thursday night’s order by the Israel Defense Forces to Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate their homes within 24 hours was dangerous and deeply troubling. Any demand for a mass evacuation on extremely short notice could have devastating humanitarian consequences.</p></div> <div class="views-field-field-media-outlet">via: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opinion/israel-gaza-united-nations.html" target="_blank">The New York Times</a></div> </div></span> </div> </div> <div class=" col-xs-12 col-lg-6"> <div> <span><div class="bootstrap-grid-item"> <h3 class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-10-13/how-foot-the-bill-urgent-climate-action"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-10-13/how-foot-the-bill-urgent-climate-action">How to Foot the Bill on Urgent Climate Action</a></a></h3> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-date"><span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2022-10-13T00:00:00-04:00" class="date-display-single">13 October 2022</span></div> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-content"><p>Governments need to make certain that multilateral development banks step up to finance the transition to renewable energy, the secretary-general of the UN says.</p> <p>This week’s annual meetings of the World Bank could have important implications for the climate crisis and could help shift the trajectory of global warming. Multilateral development banks can make or break the transition to renewable energy, and governments are their shareholders. It’s time for those governments to step up and make sure the banks are prepared to advance the process. </p></div> <div class="views-field-field-media-outlet">via: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-13/un-chief-urgent-climate-action-is-needed-here-s-who-can-foot-the-bill" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a></div> </div></span> </div> <div> <span><div class="bootstrap-grid-item"> <h3 class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-08-07/my-message-hiroshima"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-08-07/my-message-hiroshima">My Message from Hiroshima</a></a></h3> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-date"><span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2022-08-07T00:00:00-04:00" class="date-display-single">07 August 2022</span></div> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-content"><p>On Saturday, I proudly stood with Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, and the people of Hiroshima in memory of an unprecedented catastrophe.</p> </div> <div class="views-field-field-media-outlet">via: <a href="" target="_blank">Corriere della Sera</a></div> </div></span> </div> </div> <div class=" col-xs-12 col-lg-6"> <div> <span><div class="bootstrap-grid-item"> <h3 class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-04-04/amid-backsliding-climate-the-renewables-effort-now-must-be-tripled"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-04-04/amid-backsliding-climate-the-renewables-effort-now-must-be-tripled">Amid backsliding on climate, the renewables effort now must be tripled</a></a></h3> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-date"><span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2022-04-04T00:00:00-04:00" class="date-display-single">04 April 2022</span></div> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-content"><p>A report released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. Together with the IPCC’s previous two reports on physical science and adaptation in the past year, it reveals the yawning gap between climate pledges and reality. And the reality is that we are speeding toward disastrous global warming of more than double the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, as cited in the Paris agreement of 2016.</p></div> <div class="views-field-field-media-outlet">via: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/04/new-ipcc-climate-report-on-averting-catastrophe/" target="_blank">The Washington Post (USA)</a></div> </div></span> </div> </div> <div class=" col-xs-12 col-lg-6"> <div> <span><div class="bootstrap-grid-item"> <h3 class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-03-08/sustainable-feminist-recovery"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-03-08/sustainable-feminist-recovery">A Sustainable Feminist Recovery</a></a></h3> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-date"><span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2022-03-08T00:00:00-05:00" class="date-display-single">08 March 2022</span></div> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-content"><p>As the world moves ahead to mark International Women’s Day, the clock on women’s rights is moving backwards. All of us are paying the price.</p> </div> <div class="views-field-field-media-outlet">via: <a href="" target="_blank">China Daily</a></div> </div></span> </div> </div> <div class=" col-xs-12 col-lg-6"> <div> <span><div class="bootstrap-grid-item"> <h3 class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-02-09/global-leaders-agree-the-challenges-facing-humanity-%E2%80%93-why-can%E2%80%99t-we-agree-action"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-02-09/global-leaders-agree-the-challenges-facing-humanity-%E2%80%93-why-can%E2%80%99t-we-agree-action">Global leaders agree on the challenges facing humanity – why can’t we agree on action?</a></a></h3> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-date"><span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2022-02-09T00:00:00-05:00" class="date-display-single">09 February 2022</span></div> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-content"><p>As Secretary-General of the United Nations, I spend much of my time speaking with world leaders and taking the pulse of global trends. It’s clear to me that we are at a defining moment in international relations. Global decision making is plagued by gridlock – and a fundamental paradox lies at the heart of it.</p></div> <div class="views-field-field-media-outlet">via: <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/voices/climate-covid-vaccines-global-health-b2011054.html" target="_blank">The Independent (London)</a></div> </div></span> </div> </div> <div class=" col-xs-12 col-lg-6"> <div> <span><div class="bootstrap-grid-item"> <h3 class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-01-04/nuclear-weapons-are-not-yesterday%E2%80%99s-problem-they-remain-today%E2%80%99s-growing-threat"><a href="/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2022-01-04/nuclear-weapons-are-not-yesterday%E2%80%99s-problem-they-remain-today%E2%80%99s-growing-threat">Nuclear weapons are not yesterday’s problem, they remain today’s growing threat</a></a></h3> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-date"><span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2022-01-04T00:00:00-05:00" class="date-display-single">04 January 2022</span></div> <div class="views-field-field-sg-article-content"><p>We live in worrying times. The climate crisis, stark inequalities, bloody conflicts and human rights abuses, and the personal and economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have put our world under greater stress than it has faced in my lifetime.</p> </div> <div class="views-field-field-media-outlet">via: <a href="" target="_blank">Nezavissimaïa Gazeta</a></div> </div></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="text-center"><ul class="pagination"><li class="active"><span>1</span></li> <li><a title="Go to page 2" href="/sg/en/content/sg/press-articles-and-opinion-pieces?page=1">2</a></li> <li><a title="Go to page 3" href="/sg/en/content/sg/press-articles-and-opinion-pieces?page=2">3</a></li> <li><a title="Go to page 4" href="/sg/en/content/sg/press-articles-and-opinion-pieces?page=3">4</a></li> <li><a title="Go to page 5" href="/sg/en/content/sg/press-articles-and-opinion-pieces?page=4">5</a></li> <li class="next"><a title="Go to next page" 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