Commonwealth Climate Finance Hub to Boost Belizes Delivery of Climate Change Projects
Kingston, Apr 13 (IPS) – In September 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK-based Commonwealth Secretariat announced that it had dispatched...
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Colombia’s dynamic peace process – which saw fresh strides with the holding of a largely peaceful parliamentary election last month – will succeed or...
WHO welcomes initiative to combat noncommunicable diseases, responsible for 7 in 10 deaths worldwide
WHO welcomes initiative to combat noncommunicable diseases, responsible for 7 in 10 deaths worldwide
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, welcomed the setting up of a new Heads of State and Government Group to get the world back on track...
A top UN-appointed human rights panel issued an appeal on Tuesday for faster progress towards finding the remains of those who disappeared during deadly...
The threat of famine is very real in Somalia and South Sudan and urgent action is needed now to avoid a catastrophe, UN humanitarians...
Ukraine conflict putting global trade recovery at risk: WTO
The war in Ukraine has created immense human suffering but it is also putting the fragile recovery of global trade at risk, and the...
The fallout from the war in Ukraine could dramatically worsen the economic outlook for developing countries already grappling with debt financing related to the...
US TV Networks Covered the War in Ukraine more than the US Invasion of Iraq
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 12 (IPS) – The evening news programs of the three dominant U.S. television networks devoted more coverage to the war in...
The Asia and Pacific region’s economic recovery from COVID and other global shocks, must be anchored in an inclusive “new social contract”, to protect...
Tackling the Pandemic of Inequality in Asia and the Pacific
BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 12 (IPS) – After two years of human devastation, the world is learning to live with COVID-19 while trying to balance...
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