Experts call for Improved Protection of African Fisheries
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Nov 11 (IPS) – With subsidies of global fisheries back on the World Trade Organisation’s agenda, experts are calling for African governments...
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Violence, insecurity and climate change drive 84 million people from their homes
As more people flee violence, insecurity and the effects of climate change, the number forcibly displaced now exceeds 84 million globally, according to new...
The global food trade should hit an all-time record high in both volume and value terms, according to a new report released on Thursday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Read the full story,...
Antibiotics? Handle with Care
MADRID, Nov 11 (IPS) – The following information is based on investigations and studies carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the...
COP26: Promises ‘ring hollow’ when fossil fuels still receive trillions in subsidies; UN chief calls on negotiators to pick up the pace
Governments need to show the necessary ambition on mitigation, adaptation, and finance in a balanced way, and they can’t settle for the “lowest common...
Biofuels, the World’s Energy Past and Future
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 11 (IPS) – The number of victims of serious burns, some fatal, has increased in Brazil. Without money to buy...
LONDON, Nov 11 (IPS) – Targeted action in agriculture could have a massive impact on climate change, according to a joint brief by the...
Social Movement Voices Fall on Deaf Ears of Governments at COP26
GLASGOW, Nov 11 (IPS) – One element that runs through all social movement climate summits is their rejection of the official meeting of the...
Landmine casualties ‘exceptionally high’, Syria and Afghanistan worst-hit
Global casualties from anti-personnel landmines were “exceptionally high” last year, with Syrians and Afghans worst-hit, a UN-backed civil society report said on Wednesday Read the full...
The UN Human Rights High Commissioner has urged Belarus and Poland to urgently resolve the burgeoning migrant crisis on their mutual border, where thousands of people have...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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