A two-day series of events, co-hosted by the World Bank and the World Health Organization during the World Bank-International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings, aims to move mental health from the margins to the mainstream of the global development agenda.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited all world leaders to UN HQ in New York on 22 April for a signing ceremony of the Paris climate agreement, agreed in December 2015.
The President of the General Assembly has invited the eight candidates that have been formally presented for the role of UN Secretary-General to participate in informal dialogues from 12 – 14 April.
According to the landmark Barbados Diabetes Reversal Study, a combination of diet and exercise can lead to people with Type 2 Diabetes coming off medication and maintaining low blood sugar, effectively meaning that it could be possible to put Type 2 Diabetes into remission.
For the first time, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights takes up tobacco use as a human rights issue during a hearing on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 in Washington DC.