How Collective Action Can Move the Needle on Gender Equality
NEW YORK, Mar 18 (IPS) – During this year’s sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), we are eager to...
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UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (IPS) – The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF), which is expected to provide retirement, death, disability and related...
The magnitude of civilian casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine cannot be denied, the UN political chief told the Security Council on...
Over the past two weeks, at least 70 migrants have gone missing at sea and are presumed dead off the coast of Libya, the...
The vulnerabilities of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) may be different today than they were 50 years ago – when the UN created the category...
World must deliver support to Afghans: UN refugee chief
UN Refugee Agency chief Filippo Grandi called on Thursday for sustained international support for Afghanistan’s people, where the country’s humanitarian crisis is worsening. Read...
ROME, Mar 17 (IPS) – This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director-General of FAOThe effects of COVID-19 over the past two years,...
Security Council votes to bolster UN priorities in Afghanistan
Seven months after Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban, the Security Council on Thursday renewed the mandate of the UN special political mission in the...
The UN’s top rights official urged the United Kingdom on Friday to reconsider proposed changes to its border policy, warning that suggested reforms would...
Education Cannot Wait Secures Future of Children in CAR Conflict Zones
Bangui, Central African Republic, Mar 17 (IPS) – Nine-year-old Marguerite Doumkel sits among other children in a classroom in Paoua, a sub-prefecture of Ouham...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now