UN Plea to Save Afghanistan from Full-Blown Humanitarian Crisis
Geneva, Jan 11 (IPS) – UN agencies have asked for a record USD 4.4 billion in aid for Afghanistan to avert a full-blown humanitarian...
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COVID-19 variants, rising debt, threaten global economic growth: World Bank
Global growth will slow down over the next two years in the face of “fresh threats” from COVID-19 variants and rising inflation, debt and...
Afro-descendants in Costa Rica: A Movement for Justice & Equity
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, Jan 11 (IPS) – Jan André is a cheerful and outgoing young man, a superb dancer, and aspiring schoolteacher. Indeed,...
The use of explosives that lie dormant, particularly in populated areas, is “a persistent and growing threat to children and their families”, the UN...
Afghanistan: UN launches largest single country aid appeal ever
The UN and partners launched a more than $5 billion funding appeal for Afghanistan on Tuesday, in the hope of shoring up collapsing basic...
Teams from UN migration agency IOM were mobilized on Sunday after fire swept through a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, home to thousands...
Amid record global displacement, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Monday urged European countries to prioritize the better protection of people fleeing war, conflict...
The Secretary-General, António Guterres, strongly condemned on Monday the “appalling” attacks perpetrated over the weekend in Nigeria’s Zamfara State in which scores of civilians were killed. Read the full story, “Scores of...
A group of independent human rights experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council has condemned the continued operation of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility...
UN top envoy: Resurgence of coups d’état, consequence of being ‘completely out of step’
After a recent wave of attempts and coups d’état in Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and Guinea, The UN Special Representative for the region told the Security Council on Monday this resurgence, particularly in...
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