West of The Nile and Around The Sudd
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Nov 09 (IPS) – Tensions and hostilities persisted until early 2019, when the regime of Omar al-Bashir – to a...
Radical Relook at Drug Policies Puts Human Rights into Equation
BRATISLAVA, Nov 09 (IPS) – A “radically innovative” new analysis of global drug policies has laid bare the full impact repressive drug laws and...
‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrites 40,000 years of human history
The Dawn of EverythingDavid Graeber and David WengrowFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 Concerns abound about what’s gone wrong in modern societies. Many scholars explain...
Some songbirds now migrate east to west. Climate change may play a role
As the chill of autumn encroaches on Siberia’s grasslands, Richard’s pipits usually begin their southward trek to warmer latitudes. But a growing number of...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 09 (IPS) – Addressing global warming requires cutting carbon emissions by almost half by 2030! For the Intergovernmental Panel...
A group of UN human rights experts appealed on Monday for Singapore to halt the execution of a Malaysian man who has intellectual disabilities. Read the full story, “Rights...
Food processing, packaging, transport, household consumption and waste disposal are pushing the food supply chain to the top of the greenhouse gas emitters list,...
With significant travel restrictions and large portions of personnel working from home in 2020, the UN system generated approximately 25 per cent fewer greenhouse emissions...
A matter of life or death: At COP26, vulnerable countries tell developed nations it’s time to keep their promise on climate finance
Massive floods, devastating wildfires, and rising seas – along with the countless lives they take and livelihoods they upend – are realities many nations...
Myanmar: 3 million in need of humanitarian aid, ‘world is watching’ UN relief chief warns generals
Growing conflict, insecurity, COVID-19, and a failing economy, has rendered some three million Burmese in in need of life-saving humanitarian assistance across Myanmar, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator said on Monday. Read...
Why the UN General Assembly still matters 
UN Crime Congress: Technology is transforming crime – and the response to it 
Surviving the summer 
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak