‘Political impasse’ hampering change and reform in Iraq
Political leaders in Iraq must urgently overcome their divisions and work for the good of the people, the top UN official in the country...
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Pandemic Hit Domestic Workers Especially Hard in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 24 (IPS) – “Woman, poor, black and illiterate” – most domestic workers suffer quadruple discrimination in Brazil, which made them...
The United Nations has condemned the killing of eight polio vaccination workers in four locations in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the first such attacks...
Amid reports on Thursday that people were fleeing en masse from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev following Russia’s so-called “special military operation,” UN humanitarians warned of...
Decapitating Terrorist Organisations Won’t End Terror
AMMAN, Jordan, Feb 24 (IPS) – Killing terrorist organisations’ leaders is no effective way of fighting terrorism — as it’s political and economic crises...
Womens Voices Raised Against Hate in India
Lucknow, Feb 24 (IPS) – More and more women from different walks of life and corners of the world are raising their voices against...
“President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine, give peace a chance,” Secretary-General António Guterres urged Wednesday evening at the start of an emergency...
Higher incomes contribute more to environmental degradation than population growth, a report by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has revealed. ...
At dedicated Assembly session on Ukraine, UN chief calls for ‘restraint, reason and de-escalation’
The world is facing “a moment of peril,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told a General Assembly session on Wednesday dedicated to the temporarily occupied...
Development finance institutions must include in investments, ‘right to remedy’
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights launched on Wednesday a ground-breaking new report for development finance institutions to ensure that the projects they...
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