Mental Health as a Human Right Left Behind for Children in Fragile and Humanitarian Settings
Copenhagen, Aug 30 (IPS) – Hiding in basements during bombings, fleeing their homes, going hungry, and facing the devastating and life-transformative traumas of losing...
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A Tale of the Spanish Neckties and Other Made-in-Europe Things
MADRID, Aug 30 (IPS) – Shortly before the 25 August approval by the Spanish Parliament of the government’s plan to save energy, the country’s...
A $160 million emergency plan to help Pakistan deal with devastating flooding has been launched by the United Nations, aiming to reach “5.2 million...
Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds With Pakistan in the Eye of Fiercest Climate Change Storm
KARACHI, Aug 30 (IPS) – The heavy and incessant monsoon downpours across Pakistan in the last two months have triggered floods wreaking havoc across...
How France Underdevelops Africa
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 (IPS) – Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed...
UNGA77: 5 key things to know about the upcoming General Assembly session
With just a few weeks to go until the opening of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, the UN diplomatic community, as...
Shaping Our Digital Future
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 30 (IPS) – Asia and the Pacific is the most digitally divided region of the world, and South-East Asia is the...
A peacekeeper from Burkina Faso serving in Mali has been honoured for her work to boost trust between the authorities and local communities, including...
Humanitarians have stayed and delivered in Afghanistan in the year since the Taliban takeover, and it is imperative that the international community continues to...
The UN chief on Monday issued a call for “calm and restraint” in the Iraqi capital Baghdad following a day of reportedly violent protests...
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