Unity among nations, in push for greater space security at UN-led talks
A new UN-led push to prevent an arms race in outer space has received wide-ranging support and participation from civil society and Member States...
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Massive Deforestation in the Congo Basin Will Lead to Poverty
YAOUNDÉ, May 13 (IPS) – Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue is Forest Campaigner with Greenpeace Africa and a 2022 Aspen New Voices Fellow.Growing up amid under...
Humanitarians continue to call for scaling up assistance in the Horn of Africa, where the worst drought in 40 years is affecting some 15...
Ukraine: Amid fresh Russian claims, no trace of secret bioweapons programme
Amid new claims by Moscow of a covert biological weapons programme in Ukraine, the Director of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) affirmed on Friday that the...
One Hundred Years On, Argentine State Acknowledges Indigenous Massacre in Trial
BUENOS AIRES, May 13 (IPS) – It’s a strange trial, with no defendants. The purpose is not to hand down a conviction, but to...
Inequality Tightens Its Grip on the Most Vulnerable
MADRID, May 13 (IPS) – Please do not say you were not aware that the world produces enough food to feed all human beings...
Call to Freedom for Millions of Children Trapped in Child Labour as Global Conference to Comes to Africa
Nairobi, May 13 (IPS) – Children washing clothes in rivers, begging on the streets, hawking, walking for kilometres in search of water and firewood,...
The Time to Support the Global South is Now
BERLIN, May 13 (IPS) – While the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is shaking up the European security order, other parts of the...
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) – The Russian invasion of Ukraine last February has triggered multiple crises in several fronts: the deaths of thousands...
UN-appointed independent human rights experts called on Thursday for Singapore to immediately impose a moratorium on the death penalty, saying the continued use of capital...
UN report warns of reprisals against those who collaborate in defence of human rights 
Gaza: At least 20 killed in deadly building collapse, search for survivors continues 
Security Council LIVE: ‘Being a woman is a crime in Afghanistan,’ civil society briefer declares 
AI, climate and conflicts top Guterres’s agenda ahead of General Assembly