Northern Ethiopia: A record 9 million now need food assistance
After 15 months of conflict in Ethiopia, almost 40 per cent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food, according to data released by the...
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Team from UN Mission in Colombia attacked, vehicles torched
The UN Mission in Colombia was the target of an attack on Thursday, when three vehicles that were part of a joint expedition travelling through a...
More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN...
A UN envoy will travel to Burkina Faso over the weekend on a “good offices mission” in the wake of the military coup last...
Lebanon crisis robbing young people of their futures: UNICEF
More than four in 10 young Lebanese over just a 12-month period, reduced spending on education to buy basic food, medicine and other essential...
Boys Sold by Trusted Villager Turned Human Trafficker
Lucknow, India, Jan 28 (IPS) – Friends Ajay and Durgesh were lured from the same village in the remote and poverty-stricken countryside of eastern...
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 28 (IPS) – Consider the situation. Faced with growing fiscal stress, the government of an energy exporting country decides to cut...
Boys and girls caught up in intense fighting which raged for six days around a besieged prison in northeast Syria, need protection and assistance,...
Food insecurity soaring across 20 hunger hotspots
Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions – “hunger hotspots”, where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access,...
G20 leading industrialized nations must embrace their role as influential leaders against climate change, by aligning development and economic recovery with international nature and climate goals, according to a new...
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