One UN human rights expert’s fight to eliminate ‘conversion therapies’
Some 69 States around the world currently criminalise homosexual relations between consenting adults. This means that in just this one area of human rights...
The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, Chef de Cabinet Courtenay Rattray told the Special Committee on Decolonization on Friday. ...
Global Road Safety Crisis: Three Questions to Ask to Help Solve It
GENEVA, Feb 17 (IPS) – When we think about global crises, road safety isn’t one that comes to mind. The reality is that unsafe...
Time to ‘seriously de-escalate’ tensions over Ukraine, Guterres tells Munich conference
With tensions continuing to mount over the Ukraine crisis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday that he still believed military conflict in Europe “will not...
WHO reveals countries to produce first COVID-busting mRNA vaccines in Africa
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will be the first countries on the African continent to receive the technology needed to produce...
Haiti remains in ‘acute political and institutional crisis’, Security Council hears
Despite some signs of progress in ending the political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has worsened across Haiti since the assassination of its president...
Ethiopia conflict: thousands of Eritrean refugees flee new deadly attack on camp
Thousands of Eritrean refugees sheltering at a camp in the Ethiopian Afar region, have fled following a deadly attack on the facility earlier this...
Renewable Energy vs Coal: Where Does India Stand?
MUMBAI, India, Feb 18 (IPS) – Coal—considered to be one of the most polluting fossil fuels and, therefore, one of the biggest contributors to...
Conflict in Ukraine disrupting entire generation of children, says UNICEF
Attacks on kindergartens and schools have been a sad reality for children in eastern Ukraine over the last eight years, the UN Children’s Fund,...
Renewable Energy vs Coal: Where Does India Stand?
MUMBAI, India, Feb 18 (IPS) – Coal—considered to be one of the most polluting fossil fuels and, therefore, one of the biggest contributors to...
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak 
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible 
Sexual violence against civilians and POW’s in Ukraine widespread and ‘abhorrent’ 
‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons from the Rohingya crisis