A new United Nations health agency report also shows that in Europe in 2023, six in 10 doctors trained outside the region, while the number is even higher for nurses.

In light of these results – and the fact that many Western and northern countries become “strongly dependent” of these foreign workers – the WHO calls for a fairer and more sustainable migration of health workers.

Gaps in terms of home health care

Who is Dr. Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat said that each migrant doctor or nurse leaves “pressure on national families and health systems they have left behind.”

By 2030, Europe should have a deficit of nearly a million health workers, the United Nations agency said.

He noted that Romania has succeeded in reducing the number of doctors leaving the country in recent years, from 1,500 to 461, mainly by offering better conditions of remuneration, training and labor.

“Index index” shows the top of Switzerland, because China does the top 10

Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, the Republic of Korea and Singapore are the most innovative countries in the world.

It is according to the United Nations agency the world intellectual property organization, Wipoof which Global innovation index 2025 shows that the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark are also in the Top 10-with China for the first time.

In other results, WIPO said that the growth in innovation investments slows down, “darken” future forecasts on intellectual property trends.

Middle income climbers

About 80 indicators are used for the United Nations report, ranging from research to research and development, in venture capital agreements, high-tech exports and intellectual property deposits.

The latest WIPO report shows that intermediate income savings led by China, India (38th) and Türkiye (43rd) – have continued to climb the scale of innovation by transforming ideas into reality.

Over the past five years, however, it was Saudi Arabia (46th), Qatar (48th), Brazil (52nd), Maurice (53rd), Bahrain (62nd) and Jordan (65th), who have made the fastest progress.

The report finds that Nigeria has not protected women and girls

Nigeria failed To make it enough to prevent targeted attacks against schools, not having criminalized abduction and marital rape – and on the protection of schoolgirls against kidnapping and stigma, according to a new report Of a key body of independent UN experts who monitor discrimination against women.

Repeated failure “is equivalent to systematic and serious violations”, women and girls’ rights, said the President of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw), Nahla Haidar on Wednesday.

The report was published Wednesday after a mission in the country in December 2023, where the members of the committee met with officials of various departments and agencies, armed forces and police representatives – and victims of kidnapping.

Chibok kidnapping

The mission initially received information on the mass removal Out of 276 girls at the Chibok school by Boko Haram in 2014. Eighty-two escaped, 103 were released in exchange for prisoners, while at least 91 are still in captivity, their fate is unknown.

The CEDAW delegation was the first United Nations organization to have visited the school since the kidnapping, according to school staff.

“The abduction of Chibok’s girls was not an isolated tragedy, but part of a mass kidnapping series targeting schools and communities,” said Haidar.

She added that “at least 1,400 students have been kidnapped from schools since the kidnapping of Chibok”.

The solar screen restored to the essential WHO on essential drugs praised as a life buoy for people with albinism

United Nations independent experts welcomed The Decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) to restore a sunscreen to its lists of models of essential drugs – those who meet the priority health needs of the populations.

They described this decision as “an important development in the long struggle to attract attention and find practical, effective and lasting remedies for unnecessary deaths caused by skin cancer in people with albinism”.

Skin cancer is the main cause of death for people with albinism worldwide – a preventable tragedy, experts have stressed, linked to poor conscience, limited access to sunscreen and slow institutional and government responses.

Rescue

They pointed out that WHO’s decision could “transform the daily life of people with albinism, including life expectancy”, but warned that its impact will depend on the political will of governments and the commitment to integrate sunscreen into national health systems and supply chains.

“Supply and access to sunscreen for people with albinism is not a cosmetic exercise. It is a fundamental human right, ”said experts.

The WHO’s decision also complies with the international obligations of states to prevent foreseeable human rights damage resulting from climate change and to protect the most affected by disproportion.

More than six million people have been affected since unusually heavy monsoon rains began at the end of June, with almost 1,000 lost lives, including 250 children.

About 2.5 million people have been moved, numerous shelters in camps managed by the government or in host families which are already stretched at their limit.

“” On the ground, we only see the tip of the iceberg,»Carlos Geha, head of the United Nations Coordination Office (Ochha) In Pakistan, Islamabad told the UN News.

He added that many inappropriate families have not yet returned home and could find their houses and their livelihoods destroyed when the water levels are finally retreating.

Pakistan’s Breadbasket underwater

Exacerbating the Flood of Mousson, the river floods flooded large parts of the Punjab province – the Pakistani food basket – where more than 4.7 million people were affected after India has released water from the dams upstream, leading to rivers that burst their banks.

The Indian authorities had informed Pakistan before the Liberation, which was launched by massive rains which made rivers over northern rivers.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1.6 million people were affected, while the sudden floods triggered by the overflows of the glacial lakes have devastated parts of the Gilgit-Baltistan, cutting entire valleys. The Sindh province remains on high alert for potential “super floods”.

“The government has done a great job evacuating 2.5 million people, which we have not seen in 2022,” said Mr. Geha, recalling the devastating floods that killed more than 1,700 people and caused around 40 billion dollars in economic losses.

“But when the water levels reach 25 feet, swallowing whole villages, there are only few people can do. »»

Disappeared cultures, lost infrastructure

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reports that more than 8,400 houses, 239 bridges and almost 700 kilometers of roads have been damaged or destroyed.

More than 2.2 million hectares of cultivated land – largely in Punjab – are underwater, destroying harvests and pushing the prices of foodstuffs. The prices of wheat flour alone increased by 25% in the first week of September.

“” These are agricultural families who feed the nation,“Mr. Geha said. Now their land is overwhelmed, their animals have gone and they find themselves nothing. “”

Under tensioning efforts

The UN and its partners find it difficult to match the extent of the disaster. OCHA published $ 5 million from the UN Central emergency intervention fund (Deer), with an additional $ 1.5 million channeled to local NGOs.

Unicef,, Wfp And other agencies are safe water trucks, the supply of health supplies and nutrition and set up temporary learning centers for children.

However, humanitarian workers warn that it is far from sufficient. Many communities remain cut by collapsed bridges and submerged roads, food and drugs reaching them only by boat or by helicopter.

Diseases of water origin like malaria and dengue are already increasing, with fears of cholera outbreaks in the coming weeks.

“Immediate needs are food, health care, refuge, water and sanitation,” said Geha. ” But The next phase will be even more difficult – to help millions of people get back on their feet after losing everything.“”

A call for solidarity

Pakistan has endured repeated climatic disasters in recent years, from records in 2022 to heat and drought waves. Humanitarian workers warn that each shock pushes families who are already vulnerable further in poverty.

“This is not the fault of Pakistan – it is one of the countries most exposed to climate change,” said Geha.

“” The international community must be held with Pakistan not only in an emergency, but also to rebuild resilience and restore long -term livelihoods.“”