Country: Pakistan Source: UN Children’s Fund In the aftermath of the devastating floods, health facilities are reporting alarming levels of severe acute malnutrition among children in affected areas, UNICEF warned today.

Indonesia has halted the sale of all syrup and liquid medicines following the deaths of nearly 100 children and an unexplained spike in cases of acute kidney injuries.

On 7 October 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued two Interim Final Rules (collectively, The Rule) that significantly enhance U.S. export controls as applied to advanced integrated circuit (IC) products, related manufacturing equipment and technology, and supercomputers where the destination or ultimate end use […]

[NNA] Myanmar’s rice production declines… Fertilizer, pesticide, etc. price surge (Nate)  Oct 21, 2022 Oct 22, 2022 pfowlkes Fri, 10/21/2022 – 12:07 [NNA] Myanmar’s rice production declines… Fertilizer, pesticide, etc. price surge (Nate)  [NNA] Myanmar’s rice production declines… Fertilizer, pesticide, etc. price surge (Nate)  Myanmar In the News Agriculture Production […]

Country: South Sudan Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Over 900,000 people have been directly impacted as waters have swept away homes, forced thousands to flee, and inundated large swathes of farmland, worsening an already dire food emergency

Photo: Pixabay/jarmoluk Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent worldwide as the climate changes and we are beginning to feel it right on our skin. Researchers who examined 200 published studies on the impacts of extreme weather events on skin health found that many skin diseases are climate sensitive. Floods, […]

The much anticipated High Court of Australia (High Court) appeal of the full Federal Court of Australia’s decision in Kingdom of Spain v Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.à.r.l. (No 3) [2021] FCAFC 3 will now be heard in November 2022. The appeal has garnered interest from around the globe including from […]

Countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, World Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR remains gravely concerned about multiple reports of refoulement – the forcible return of refugees and asylum seekers – since February 2021 from countries neighbouring Myanmar.