With record numbers of people uprooted within their homelands due to conflict, disasters, the climate emergency and other tragedies, more must be done to...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: UN rights chief urges leaders to ‘turn the page on rhetoric’
Leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina must abandon divisive policies and focus on building an inclusive future for all, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet...
Overturning of Roe v Wade abortion law a ‘huge blow to women’s human rights’ warns Bachelet
Friday’s decision by the US Supreme Court which overturns the 50-year-old Roe v Wade judgement guaranteeing access to abortion across the United States, was...
Life-saving relief continues to reach quake-hit eastern Afghanistan
Emergency lifesaving aid relief continued to flow into quake-hit eastern Afghanistan on Friday, as UN humanitarians and partners rushed to help the most vulnerable...
Centering Gender in the Next Biodiversity Agenda: A Long Way to Montreal
Nairobi, Jun 24 (IPS) – “I often hear, ‘What do women have to do with biodiversity?’ And I want to ask them back, ‘What...
Digital Tools Complement Organic Farming at Islamic School in Indonesia
CIWIDEY, West Java, Indonesia, Jun 24 (IPS) – It appears to be business as usual at the Al-Ittifaq pesantren, the local term for an...
Across Asia and the Pacific, Digitalization of Rural Communities is Leading the Way to a Better Future But the Goal is to Leave No One Behind
BANGKOK, Jun 24 (IPS) – Jong-Jin Kim is Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)It wasn’t that...
The dramatic real-life effects of shutdowns of the internet on people’s lives and human rights are vastly underestimated, the UN human rights office warns...
Digital Technology Buoys Indonesian Catfish Farmers
INDRAMAYU, Indonesia, Jun 24 (IPS) – For years Indramayu has been known as one of Indonesia’s rice centres. The district in West Java is...
Abu Akleh shooting: fatal shot came from Israeli forces, says OHCHR
Israeli forces were behind the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank – not indiscriminate Palestinian firing –...
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