Ghanas Human Trafficking Scourge
Accra, May 10 (IPS) – “It feels like yesterday when I was deceived by one man who claimed to be a travelling agent. He...
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Finance Drives World to Stagflation
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 (IPS) – The world is being pressed by financial interests to raise interest rates, ostensibly to check inflation....
Climate: World getting ‘measurably closer’ to 1.5-degree threshold
There is a 50:50 chance of average global temperature reaching 1.5 degrees Celcius above pre-industrial levels in the next five years, and the likelihood...
NEW YORK, May 10 (IPS) – “Whatever the circle of hell in which we live, I think we are free to break out of...
The UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) welcomed on Monday, Secretary-General António Guterres’ appointment of Jens Wandel as its ad interim chief. Read the full story,...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate deadly armed group attacks in Djugu Territory,...
Guterres expresses solidarity as Moldova grapples with fallout of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Moldova, the most fragile of war-torn Ukraine’s neighbors, needs and deserves massive support to match its generosity as a recipient of nearly half a...
Afghanistan: Nearly 20 million going hungry
Nearly 20 million people in Afghanistan – almost half the population – are facing acute hunger, humanitarians warned in a UN-backed report, published on...
Nicaragua: New law heralds damaging crackdown on civil society, UN warns
Under the guise of preventing money-laundering and cutting off terrorist financing, a new law in Nicaragua further restricts the functioning of civil society, “contrary...
UN joins faith-based initiative for shift towards climate-responsible finance
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) joined religious leaders and others on Monday in signing a landmark joint appeal for climate-responsible finance “as a moral...
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