Researchers Strive for Technological Innovations to Achieve Food Security in Africa
KIGALI, Jun 15 (IPS) – A few years ago, after coming up with a project of launching the first-ever unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in...
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned a weekend attack in Burkina Faso that left dozens of civilians dead and displaced scores more, his Spokesperson...
Assisting At-Risk Youth Becomes Lifes Work for Trafficking Survivor
Stanford, Jun 15 (IPS) – Arien Pauls-Garcia’s journey to working with at-risk youth in California was long and dangerous and started at 19 when...
UN’s Bachelet concerned over Ukraine orphans ‘deported’ to Russia for adoption
The UN’s top rights official expressed her concern on Wednesday at reports that Ukrainian children have been “forcibly deported” from the country’s embattled eastern regions, and...
BRUSSELS, Jun 15 (IPS) – “The illegal military junta provides further evidence to the international community of its disregard for human rights as it...
Food assistance to 1.7 million people in South Sudan has been suspended, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, citing a funding...
Myanmar: Cycle of ‘human rights violations and abuses’ continues, warns Bachelet
Still suffering from the devastating consequences of the February 2021 military coup, the UN rights chief said on Tuesday that the people of Myanmar...
Disabilities convention supports ‘inclusive, accessible, and sustainable world’
We have the tools to end the “systemic marginalization” of persons with disabilities, the UN chief told the 15th Conference of States Parties to...
New funding from governments for fossil fuel exploration or production is simply “delusional” the UN chief warned on Tuesday, adding that it would only “further...
WHO to determine if Monkeypox should be declared ‘Emergency of International Concern’; rights expert warns of COVID ‘vaccine apartheid’
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee has been convened due to the...
Could your brain data be used against you? UN calls for limits on neurotechnology 
Ukraine: Critical health supplies destroyed in ongoing Russian attacks 
AI, green energy and economic transitions risk leaving vulnerable communities behind, UN warns 
Afghanistan faces record hunger levels amid rampant rights violations