Health
This November has seen the second edition of the Bonn School on Environment and Health, focused on creating transformative public health leadership in the WHO European Region and at country…
Health
New analysis from WHO/Europe identifies surprising trends in rates of overweight and obesity across the Region An analysis has identified that in some countries of the WHO European Region, rates…
Europe
Statement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe 7 December 2021 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, Last month, we alerted that a further half a…
Europe
On 26 November, WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) designated the B.1.1.529 variant, first reported by South Africa 2 days earlier, as a variant of concern, named…
Europe
Together for Children, a network of Greek civil society organizations (CSOs) that supports people with disabilities, has been helping students with intellectual disabilities who are self-isolating, to get online to…
America
After solar radiation, the yellowish liquid contains lithium. © Marion Esnault/Reporterre Animals, plants, water… In Chile, life is disappearing as a result of lithium mining. One man, from an indigenous people,…
Europe
A new report published by WHO/Europe shows that helplines providing support to women and children experiencing violence saw a spike in calls during the first 9 months of the COVID-19…
News
The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life has commented on what will be Italy’s first legal "medically-assisted suicide" case. Mario” is the pseudonym of a tetraplegic man who has been paralyzed…
News
Dark web: some 150 people arrested in a global sweep. Europol says that actions were carried out "in Australia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and…
News
An investigation has been opened for corruption and breach of trust. The one who had become in late 2017 the youngest elected leader on the planet is swept up in…
