Lebanon: $3.2 billion plan launched to support local families and refugees
The Lebanese Government, the United Nations and partners on Monday announced a $3.2 billion appeal for the country to address ongoing impacts from the...
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NEW YORK, Jun 20 (IPS) – The Islamic Republic of Iran faces widespread anti-government protests amid an economic crisis while doing little to ease...
The UN World Food Programme, WFP, said on Monday that it will have no choice but to make further food ration cuts soon for...
War in Ukraine Triggers New International Non-Alignment Trend
CARACAS, Jun 20 (IPS) – Numerous countries of the developing South are distancing themselves from the contenders in the war in Ukraine, using the...
Plastic Pollution Will Kill All of Us!
Seoul, Tokyo, Jakarta, Los Angeles, Jun 20 (IPS) – This opinion piece is the second in a series written by learners from middle and...
Who Should Be the Next UN Climate Change Head?
NEW YORK, Jun 20 (IPS) – With Patricia Espinosa due to step down in a few weeks’ time as head of the UN’s climate...
The Secretary-General strongly condemned on Sunday, an attack in Kidal, a city in northern Mali, against a convoy of UN peacekeepers that claimed the...
The Battle for Covid-19 Vaccines: the Rich Prevail Over the Poor
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) – The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of “vaccine apartheid” which has discriminated...
Amidst escalating needs and soaring hunger, refugees caught in the eye of the perfect storm
Further food ration cuts are imminent for refugees as humanitarian needs multiply around the world while funding struggles to keep pace, the UN food...
Guterres visits refugees resettled in NYC, urges world to ‘stand together in solidarity’
Ahead of World Refugee Day, marked annually on 20 June, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday visited refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan now living,...
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