First Person: Visions of hell, in Haiti
Samuel (not his real name) grew up near the Haitian Capital of Port-au-Prince, and has seen his childhood home descend into lawlessness and gang...
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Commitment will be critical to the success of the two-month truce in Yemen that began on Saturday, the UN Special Envoy for the country,...
Interview: Slave trade reparations ‘essential’, 1619 Project founder tells UN News
New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, best know for the 1619 Project, which frames slavery as one of the core elements of the history...
At the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, Member States adopted a plan of action to tackle disinformation, at the request of Ukraine and with widespread...
Can Legal Action Alone Put an End to Child Marriage?
NEW DELHI, Apr 01 (IPS) – On December 22, 2021, the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which seeks to raise the legal...
War, Displacement & A Global Refugee Crisis: A Wake-Up Call to Increase Refugee Participation
NEW DELHI, India, Apr 01 (IPS) – It has been a month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has now created one of the...
Syria: Rights experts call for humanitarian access to detained children
Humanitarians must have full and unimpeded access to children arbitrarily held in detention centres in northeast Syria, a group of independent UN human rights...
When Is Too Much Autism Awareness Still Not Enough?
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Apr 01 (IPS) – When is too much Autism awareness still not enough? This thought recurs every April as we near World...
UN chief calls for unity to ‘build a peaceful world’, ahead of Ramadan
Highlighting it as a period of compassion and empathy, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday that the holy month of Ramadan is a “time...
Antarctica ‘should not be taken for granted’ scientists declare, amid extreme weather uptick
Antarctica, the world’s coldest, windiest and driest continent, has often been referred to as a stable ‘sleeping giant’, but increasingly extreme temperatures, together with...
UN Secretary General Expresses Sadness Over Lives Lost in Nepal-Tibet Flash Floods 
Security Council LIVE: Rising tensions in Gaza, West Bank 
More health workers, stronger systems: Africa’s new ambitious goal 
Deadly floods cause widespread destruction in China, Nepal