International Accreditation in Education Can Bring Huge Benefits to the Pacific- If It Is Done Right
SUVA, Fiji, Feb 17 (IPS) – All over the world, students who attend tertiary education do so with the belief that the investment of...
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The Weaponisation of Libyas Elections
TRIPOLI, Libia, Feb 17 (IPS) – Libya was supposed to hold elections early this year. Instead, it now has two rival political administrations —...
Counter-terrorism, Afghanistan, top priorities for UN cooperation with Eurasian security body
Conflict prevention, counter-terrorism and support to Afghanistan, top the list of issues on which the UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization – a Eurasian regional...
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...
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...
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...
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