World Pulses Day empowers youth, for sustainable ‘agrifood’ systems
The UN marks World Pulses Day on Thursday, this year celebrating how these nutritious beans, grains and seeds, crucial to so many cuisines worldwide, can empower...
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It Isnt Easy Being a Journalist in Kashmir
Feb 10 (IPS) – My name is Bisma Bhat and I am a journalist in Srinagar, Kashmir. I currently work as a features writer...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 10 (IPS) – The global consensus about an international treaty on pandemic prevention is certainly a milestone towards the creation of...
WHO highlights benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence for older people
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can improve older people’s health and well-being, but only if ageism is eliminated from their design, implementation, and use, said the World...
Battle against Da’esh, a ‘long-term game’, Voronkov tells Security Council
The global fight against the shadowy, ever-morphing threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group – known officially as Da’esh – and its affiliates, remains...
World leaders call for $23 billion to end pandemic this year
The COVID-19 pandemic could be defeated this year but only if vaccines, tests and treatments are made available to all people, UN Secretary-General António...
More than 30 years after the UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) was created to ensure restitution for Kuwait following the Iraqi invasion of 1990, the...
Uganda must pay the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) $325 million in reparations related to the brutal conflict between the two nations from...
On the last day of a five-day trip to Ethiopia, the Deputy Secretary-General said the East African nation is in “a much better place” to resolve the conflict that erupted 15 months...
Pro-rich Policies Buoy Billionaires Rise in India
NEW DELHI, Feb 09 (IPS) – If India ranks among the world’s fastest growing economies it is also where inequity is growing the fastest,...
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Explainer: UN peace operations work to create, preserve peace