Africa’s Sahel region facing ‘horrendous food crisis’
As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people...
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A Step Toward Africa’s First Covid-19 Vaccine of Its Own
NEW YORK, Feb 16 (IPS) – Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.Efforts to combat the vast global inequity in...
Haiti at ‘crossroads’ entering post-earthquake reconstruction
Haiti is once more at a ‘crossroads’, six months after a devastating earthquake hit the south-west of the country, according to the UN Deputy...
Fierce Urgency Required to Include Children with Disabilities in Education – ECW’s Yasmine Sherif says
Nairobi, Kenya, Feb 16 (IPS) – Unable to walk, see or hear, and without assistance, the multiple barriers between 240 million children with disabilities...
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan on Wednesday strongly condemned the continued violence across the country, which is affecting the safety of civilians...
‘Strengthened international cooperation’ needed for safe, regular migration
Migration is a “a defining feature of humanity and our world”, the UN chief told the General Assembly on Wednesday, launching his second report...
A Step Toward Africas First Covid-19 Vaccine of Its Own
NEW YORK, Feb 16 (IPS) – Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.Efforts to combat the vast global inequity in...
The government of Haiti has organized a pledging conference, in the hope of raising some $2 billion to help with reconstruction, six months after...
Guterres opens Global Disability Summit with inclusivity call
The Global Disability Summit began on Wednesday in Oslo, where UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged all countries to do more to put people living with disabilities...
LONDON, Feb 16 (IPS) – Over the past two weeks, a petition signed by almost five million people globally was handed in to governments...
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