This year’s International Day for Disaster Reduction falls shortly after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia showed yet again the urgency of resilience and risk-awareness.
Disasters have a steep human cost.
Millions of people are displaced every year, losing their homes and jobs because of extreme weather events and earthquakes.
Health encompasses both physical and mental well-being.Yet for too long, mental health has been mostly an afterthought, despite its overwhelming impacts on communities and young people, everywhere.This year’s World Mental Health Day focuses on young people.One in five Continue reading
Audrey Azoulay, Director-General Message on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day 2018
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” These words written by Thomas Jefferson in 1786, when he was fighting for the independence of his country, have a universal scope that transcends the historical moment of the foundation of the United States of America. Any State under the rule of law that respects individual freedoms, and particularly the freedoms of opinion, conscience and expression, relies on a free, independent press that is safe from censorship or coercion.