The executive order of President Trump of January 20 is unfortunate “and we hope that the United States will reconsider,” said WHO general director Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a speech before the organization's executive board.
The WHO head said I would appreciate the opportunity “to preserve and strengthen the historical relationship between who and the United States.”
By going back in the justification established in the executive order, Tedros said that he had implemented the deepest and most broad reforms in his history in the last seven years.
The United States is the largest donor that the agency, which represents about 14 percent of its budget of $ 6.9 billion, according to the latest WHO figures.
When addressing the complaint of the United States that is paying too donors “.
COVID registration
Third, rejected the accusation that had handled the Covid-19 Pandemia:
“From the moment we collected the first signals of 'Viral Pneumonia' in Wuhan, we request more information, we activate our emergency incident management system, we alert the world, we summon global experts and publish a comprehensive guide for countries on how to protect His populations and health systems: all before the first death of this new disease was reported in China on January 11, 2020. ”
Tedros also addressed the accusation that who lacks independence of “inappropriate political influence” by some member states: “Who is impartial and exists to serve all countries and all people,” he said.
“Our Member States ask us many things, and we always try to help as much as we can. But when what they ask for is not supported by scientific evidence or is contrary to our mission of supporting global health, we say no, politely. “
A refuge administered by the government in the Philippines is a safe refuge for girls who have been abused and exploited physically and sexually, even through the sexual tourism industry. (archive)
A third of women experience physical or sexual violence: rights experts
Approximately one in three women is subject to physical or sexual violence, and 800 women and girls continue to death every day due to preventable causes during pregnancy and childbirth, a superior rights panel meeting heard on Monday.
Going to the Committee to Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) at the UN in Geneva, Andrea Ori, of the UN Human Rights Office, Ohchr, said that the world is “far” from achieving the objective of parity gender.
“The global panorama has changed,” he told the Cedaw session.
Reaction against equal rights
“We are witnessing a violent reaction against human rights and gender equality of women, especially against women's sexual and reproductive health rights, with an increase in attacks against abortions, the reduction of civic space for women defenders of human rights and reduced financing. ”
Mr. Ori said that 2025 mark 30 years since the universal adoption of the Beijing Declaration and the platform for action to guarantee women's human rights and achieve gender equality throughout the world.
It remains the case, however, that sexual violence against women and girls continues to be used as a war tactic in numerous conflicts, said UN human rights official, while only 26 percent of parliamentarians in the world are women and only about three in 10 women have management roles at work.
A less for the road: Europe Europe reduces alcohol intake, which warns
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) urged the Nordic countries on Monday to maintain a lid on alcohol sales, or the risk of reverse the positive impact of the strict regulations established years ago.
For decades, governments in Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Faroe Islands have restricted supermarkets and retailers from the sale of stronger alcoholic beverages.
This policy has resulted in some of the lowest alcohol consumption levels in the European Union, which on the contrary is the most drink region worldwide, with drink habits “largely unchanged” for more than 10 years , who said.
Free market pressures
However, the Nordic model is now at risk of legislative initiatives in the region that indicate a potential change towards the privatization of alcohol sales, warned who Dr. Carina Ferreira-Borges is.
In Sweden, for example, a court is listening to a challenge to the exclusive rights of the Government to alcohol online sales, while the proposed laws would allow the sales of alcoholic beverages in agricultural stores.
Dr. Ferreira-Borges explained that alcohol controls in the Nordic countries, which involve increasing taxes and increasing prices, limiting availability and restricting advertising, have reduced alcohol-related damage.
These cover from “liver disease, cancers and cardiovascular conditions, to injuries and drowning,” he insisted.
