The government of Haiti has organized a pledging conference, in the hope of raising some $2 billion to help with reconstruction, six months after...
NEW YORK, Feb 16 (IPS) – Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.Efforts to combat the vast global inequity in...
Imagine removing a branch of the U.S. government, say the Supreme Court. What are the myriad ways that such an upheaval might reshape people’s...
LONDON, Feb 16 (IPS) – Over the past two weeks, a petition signed by almost five million people globally was handed in to governments...
Somalia’s leaders must put aside their differences and urgently conclude a credible election process, the UN’s senior official in the country told the Security...
Independent UN experts expressed deep concern on Tuesday over allegations that human rights defenders have been threatened at the Polish-Belarusian border, including media workers...
Recent attacks on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia indicate how the conflict in Yemen risks spiralling out of control, the chief...
Progress in the overall survival rate for children with cancer is uneven across Europe, with a significant proportion of the thousands diagnosed with cancer...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) top official in Europe on Tuesday called on governments and health authorities to “closely examine” why there is low...
NEW DELHI and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 15 (IPS) – A recent Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) study shows the largest farms cultivate a high...