Russia: Human rights experts condemn civil society shutdown
Top UN-appointed independent rights experts have condemned Russia’s “continued and heightened crackdown on civil society groups, human rights defenders and media outlets”. Read the...
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Food Security: We Are Still Going Backwards
ROME, Jul 13 (IPS) – The signs of the last few years indicate a continuous setback towards achieving food security. The Food and Agriculture...
Sustainable Development Goals can be reached ‘despite our grim times’: ECOSOC President
Despite two years of a “surreal struggle” against the COVID-19 pandemic, and amidst rising global challenges, optimism for achieving sustainable development persists, a senior...
Soaring Temperatures in Devastates Kashmir Farmers
Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, Jul 13 (IPS) – The soaring temperatures this year in India’s northern state of Kashmir are proving calamitous for the region’s...
News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
STOCKHOLM, Jul 13 (IPS) – Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. Michel de MontaigneDuring the beginning of the pandemic, people...
Access to information is a human right, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Tuesday, underscoring that for peacekeepers, it can be “a...
“I recall the civil war in Liberia vividly,” says Elfreda Dennice Stewart, a United Nations Police (UNPOL) officer serving with the UN Mission in...
Rising COVID-19 cases are not only putting further pressure on already stretched health systems and workers but also triggering an “increasing trend of deaths”,...
More vaccines must be developed to tackle antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacterial pathogens, and countries must make better use of the ones currently available, the World...
Syria: Security Council extends cross-border aid delivery for six months
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution to extend lifesaving aid deliveries into northwest Syria from Türkiye for a further six months following...
Renewed Hostilities In Yemen Inflame Displacement and Regional Risks 
One Man’s Quest to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Mali 
Ukraine: Attacks on education threaten an entire generation, UNICEF warns 
Back to school in Haiti: ‘Madame, can you stop what the gangs are doing to us?’