More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN...
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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...
The UN and its partners need to reach more Syrians with immediate life-saving aid, the UN relief chief warned the Security Council on Thursday,...
“Needs are growing faster than generosity” in the central Sahel, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs told a group of senior officials on Thursday, meeting to discuss...
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...
UN report warns of reprisals against those who collaborate in defence of human rights 
Gaza: At least 20 killed in deadly building collapse, search for survivors continues 
Security Council LIVE: ‘Being a woman is a crime in Afghanistan,’ civil society briefer declares 
AI, climate and conflicts top Guterres’s agenda ahead of General Assembly