Climate change impacts ‘heading into uncharted territory’, warns UN chief
“Climate science is clear: we are heading in the wrong direction”, declares a major, multi-agency UN climate science report released on Tuesday, with a...
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Two vital objectives of the Black Sea grain deal brokered by the United Nations and Türkiye are already being achieved, a senior UN official...
New UN General Assembly highlights ‘solidarity, sustainability and science’
The 77th session of the UN General Assembly opened on Tuesday with its new president urging world leaders to respond to humanity’s most pressing...
Civilians are in increasing danger, while humanitarian needs across Sudan “are growing exponentially”, the head of the UN mission in Sudan told ambassadors in the Security Council on...
What Must COP27 Deliver?
NEW YORK, Sep 13 (IPS) – With less than two months remaining before the next climate summit—COP27—begins in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Felix Dodds and...
Catastrophic hunger levels in Somalia have left more than 513,000 children at risk of dying, 173,000 more than during the 2011 famine, UN humanitarians...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 13 (IPS) – If we truly want to re-imagine the role education can play in the decades to come, it is...
What Does the African Continental Free Trade Agreement Hold for Women?
NAIROBI, Sep 13 (IPS) – Agnes Opus sells cereals in Busia, the border town between Kenya and Uganda. This is her lifeline through which...
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (IPS) – When the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly sessions begin September 20, the official list of speakers...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 13 (IPS) – After a quarter century of economic stagnation, African economic recovery early in the 21st century was...
Gaza: 340 children killed despite ceasefire agreement – UNICEF 
Security Council LIVE: Sudan’s war spreads as drones and hunger take a deadly toll 
Guterres urges faster action and financing to stop biodiversity loss 
Horned dinosaurs’ weapons evolved to handle the forces of combat