Rohingya Refugees Seeking Safe Haven in Bangladesh Hit by Fresh Disasters
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, August 6 (IPS) – Abdu Rozork awoke suddenly to the sound of children screaming. Heavy monsoon rains had sent a landslide...
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The UN rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday over the sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran since the US-Israeli bombing campaign...
An independent UN human rights expert has welcomed ongoing proceedings in the United States to extradite “manosphere” bloggers Andrew and Tristan Tate to the...
Russian forces hammered Ukraine with ballistic missiles and long-range drones overnight on Tuesday, killing at least 17 civilians – mainly around Kyiv – and...
CHINA: ‘The Ethnic Unity Law Means There Is One Acceptable Way to Be Chinese’
CIVICUS speaks about China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity Law with Gulchehra Hoja, a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and a Uyghur activist and journalist...
World News in Brief: Cambodia human rights, Hormuz invasive species risk, IOM lauds 2025 progress
Concluding his first official visit to Cambodia, UN independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said he was encouraged by the government’s cooperation but remained...
Strengthening El Niño to push 49 million more people into acute hunger
Nearly 50 million more people in highly vulnerable communities globally are set to be pushed into acute hunger because of the strengthening El Niño...
Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors briefed on continuing ISIL terror threat
The Security Council is meeting on Wednesday to examine the persistent threat posed by the terrorist group ISIL, also known as Dae’sh, to international...
New Chickpea Variety to Drive Climate Resilience in Africa
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe , August 5 (IPS) – New chickpea seed research and production have become the new frontier of climate resilience in southern Africa...
Green transition: Pay the Least, Benefit the Most
BANGKOK, Thailand, August 5 (IPS) – Inaction and maintaining the status quo of fossil fuel dependence carry significant costs. The recent closure of the...