Cockroach Insult Unleashes Biggest Challenge yet to Modi’s Repressive Rule
LONDON, August 21 (IPS) – India’s strongman leader, Narendra Modi, has just been forced to do the thing he likes least: making concessions in...
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As elections near, South Sudan risks new atrocity crimes, warns rights probe
The under-reported humanitarian crisis in South Sudan risks deepening with the real possibility of further atrocity crimes unless renewed fighting stops, a UN-backed probe...
DR Congo receives 70,000 Ebola vaccine doses as Bundibugyo outbreak spreads
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will receive 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine from the UN’s international vaccine coordination group (ICG) to...
The clean energy transition needs land. Can it help restore it too?
What if the infrastructure needed to fight climate change could also help repair the land beneath it? Read the full story, “The clean energy...
How the Taliban Hunt Women in Afghanistan
ROME, August 20 (IPS) – FIVE years after the Taliban returned to power, Fawzia Koofi, the former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, denounces...
World Humanitarian Day — Protect Aid Workers Against Drones
UNITED NATIONS, August 20 (IPS) – World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and the life-saving services they provide under the most complex and often...
International Criminal Court: New US sanctions ‘a flagrant attack’ against its independence
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday responded to a new round of US sanctions targeting its president and a senior prosecutor, calling them...
Zambia: Arrests and detention of political opponents following election raises concern
In the wake of President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia’s re-election for a second five-year term, UN human rights chief has raised concerns over the...
Raising alarm over new illegal Israeli outposts, UN condemns attacks, incitement against Palestinians
Reports of new illegal Israeli outposts in the occupied West Bank raised alarms at UN Headquarters on Wednesday while the UN rights office called...
Sudan war: 200,000 newly displaced as fighting and floods intensify
Intensifying fighting in Sudan has displaced at least another 200,000 people since late 2025, while destructive seasonal floods are compounding the massive humanitarian emergency...
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