Perpetrators responsible for recent escalating violence in Unity state, South Sudan, must be held accountable, the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS, said in...
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Sri Lanka has taken steps towards legal, institutional and security sector reforms, but more action is still needed, according to a report issued on...
‘Hot conflict’ pushes 12 million Syrians into food insecurity
As the Syrian war has driven poverty and hunger to levels higher than at any previous point, UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen told the Security...
LONDON, Feb 25 (IPS) – It is now clear diplomacy matters little to Vladimir Putin. Despite the efforts of a string of presidents and...
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) – As a new political twist to an old saying goes: the dogs bark but the military caravan moves...
Amid reported deadly missile attacks from Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, including the capital Kiev and other cities, terrified families have been forced to seek shelter underground,...
Women building a sustainable future: the Kenyan engineer fighting for equality
Norah Magero, a Mechanical Engineer and Renewable Energy Expert from Kenya, is helping communities adapt to the changing climate, in the face of gender...
Ukraine Crisis: Protecting civilians ‘Priority Number One’; Guterres releases $20M for humanitarian support
Russian military operations inside the sovereign territory of Ukraine “on a scale that Europe has not seen in decades, conflict directly with the United...
Senior UN official meets first person in US vaccinated against COVID
The first American to be vaccinated against the COVID virus and a first-responder in New York City, Sandra Lindsay, met with Abdulla Shahid, President...
France has violated the rights of French children detained for years in camps in northeast Syria by failing to repatriate them, the UN Child...
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