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In Kenya, a public-private collaboration provides free sanitary napkins to female students. The sanitary napkins that are dispensed from converted ATMs at school.The goal is to provide sanitary pads to underprivileged children so they won’t have to miss class due to menstruation
Northern Vietnam is affected by flooding and landslides. Philippine Independence Day was observed.BTS’s oldest member, Jin was discharged from the South Korean army. Chinatown in Jakarta combines tradition and modernity.
Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,briefs the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Yemen).
The World Bank says that one of the main causes of household air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa is traditional cooking fuels and technology, which has adverse impacts on the region’s population’s health. Stoves that consume less fuel and charcoal are now being introduced as part of a campaign to encourage climate-friendly cooking in the region and improve air quality.
Prior to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine was an international surrogacy hub.Due to low costs and a favorable legal framework; thousands of babies,many for foreign parents,are born each year into families owing to Ukrainian surrogate mothers. Despite the war and the risks;hopeful foreigners keep coming to Ukraine.
In an attempt to rebrand, Finland’s Lenin Museum—which its director describes as the “most hated” in the country will close its doors at the end of the year. This move comes as Finland’s historically good relations with Russia are deteriorating
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of June, Joonkook Hwang delivers a statement in his capacity as Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations.
Hundreds of thousands of people, including the residents in Kushuhum in the Zaporizhzhia region, are at risk of losing their water supply after the Kakhovka dam destruction in southern Ukraine one year ago [June 2023].Kushuhum officials say that since the region is again under Ukrainian control, residents are going back to their houses, which is worsening the water problems.
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed addresses the opening of 17th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ( COSP17)
Displaced people and doctors in the state of North Darfur in Sudan say that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are targeting camps and hospitals in the state capital of El Fasher.Meanwhile,nonprofits say that while a city supposed to serve as a refuge for people displaced by the war in Sudan is being torn apart,the world is paying little attention to this situation.