Cities in Brazil Reap Floods after Hiding Their Rivers Underground
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 07 (IPS) – Acaba Mundo has fallen into oblivion, despite its apocalyptic name – which roughly translates as World’s End...
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Global Community Urged Not to Relent in Final Push to Eliminate Leprosy
Nairobi, Jun 07 (IPS) – leWhen Yohei Sasakawa visited a remote village in South America, he found 23 people living there. It was no...
US Leads Sanctions Killing Millions to No End
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Jun 07 (IPS) – Food crises, economic stagnation and price increases are worsening unevenly, almost everywhere, following the Ukraine war....
The UN chief has called for military authorities in Sudan and civilian representatives and political leaders, to enter direct talks over the future of...
Young people are “disproportionately viewed as the primary perpetrators of crime”, despite often being the most vulnerable, the UN General Assembly President told a...
The annual UN Climate Change Conference in the German city of Bonn began on Monday, designed to lay the groundwork for a successful COP27,...
Reports of sexual violence in Ukraine rising fast, Security Council hears
Allegations of sexual violence by Russian troops in Ukraine are mounting, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Monday, expressing regret over...
A fire and explosion in southeastern Bangladesh over the weekend which left more than 40 dead, has prompted the UN’s labour agency, ILO, to...
Overlapping crises push millions into ‘extreme levels of acute food insecurity’
The war in Ukraine has exacerbated steadily rising global food and energy prices, undermining economic stability across the world, warned in a UN report...
NEW YORK, Jun 06 (IPS) – Any fair analysis of the United Nations strongly suggests that the UN of today is not the same...
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