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,...
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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...
Why We Must Remember Afghanistan
KABUL, Mar 17 (IPS) – While all eyes are on Ukraine, Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis has been forgotten. But only with international aid can Afghans...
Ethanol Not Enough to Heal Sugarcanes Environmental Legacy in Colombia
BOGOTA, Mar 17 (IPS) – As a visitor drives across the plains of the department of Valle del Cauca in southwestern Colombia, green carpets...
Pandemic Pushes SDGs Further out of Reach of Asia and the Pacific
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 17 (IPS) – 2022 marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while an end to the pandemic is in...
Misinformation that Omicron is ‘the last COVID-19 variant’ fuelling uptick worldwide: WHO
A combination of factors, including misinformation that the pandemic is over, the lifting of mask mandates, ending physical distancing – and a more transmissible...
Russia must immediately suspend military operations in Ukraine, the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Wednesday, in The Hague. Read the...
Gender equality ‘fundamental prerequisite’ for peaceful, sustainable world
Gender equality is essentially “a question of power” that for millennia, has, “to the detriment of all”, been mostly in the hands of men,...
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