UN Needs a Sea Change in its Handling of Sexual Exploitation & Abuse (SEA)
NEW YORK, Nov 08 (IPS) – Calling it “so disappointing and disheartening” in social media on 17 October, Dr. Rosie James, a British medical...
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Limits to Growth: Inconvenient Truth of Our Times
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 08 (IPS) – Ahead of the first United Nations environmental summit in Stockholm in 1972, a group of scientists prepared...
Global action to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing has intensified, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Monday, noting that 100 States have now...
Although the global cost-of-living crisis will be an obstacle to eradicating poverty by 2030, countries can still make significant progress towards this Sustainable Development...
‘Gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies’ continue over Syria’s chemical weapons stance, Security Council hears
The top UN disarmament official told the Security Council on Monday that “gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies” identified in Syria’s declaration over its use of...
Greater global solidarity is needed to address the rapidly unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the Horn of Africa, where millions are going hungry due to...
With climate-related disasters displacing more people than conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday unveiled the details of his plan to ensure everyone on...
Mass displacements in eastern DR Congo threaten young lives
The lives of thousands of children in overcrowded, unsanitary camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are...
Lessons from Rome. Weaving Peace Is a Polyphonic Dialogue
ROME, Nov 07 (IPS) – Arms are raised, stretched out towards the sky, holding white cards with the word “peace” written in different languages....
Africa: Will COP27 Deliver or be a Climate Forum of Empty Promises?
Bulawayo, Nov 07 (IPS) – Africa is counting on COP27 to deliver it from climate change. But will it? Read the full story, “Africa:...
Gaza: Children still at risk despite drop in acute hunger 
100 days of Ebola and the race to stop the spread 
South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Violence Slows SDG Goals, Rips Apart Africans’ Free Movement Call 
Global food supply has become ‘collateral damage’ in conflicts: Secretary-General