As scientists continue to investigate the Omicron COVID-19 variant, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged countries not to panic but to...
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COP26: Convert climate ‘promises to action’, urge UN rights experts
Marking the 35th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, independent UN human rights experts on Friday issued an urgent call to...
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Dec 03 (IPS) – In these times of COVIDisolation, social distance get on the nerves of several of us and the...
Act to Save Children Living Precarious Lives in Cameroons Forgotten and Neglected Conflict
Yaound̩, Cameroon, Dec 03 (IPS) РEducation is under attack in Cameroon. As one of the most complex humanitarian crises in the world unfolds,...
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 03 (IPS) – As the world observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities today, we honour the leadership of persons...
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 03 (IPS) – Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries in the developing world continue to grapple with basic...
The international community has reached a “turning point” in pursuing justice for atrocities committed by the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq, the new head...
Disabled and displaced: helping Haiti’s most vulnerable people
Disabled people in Haiti who have been driven from one temporary shelter to another as result of an earthquake, fire, and mounting gang violence...
Following armed conflict from1991 to 1994 in Croatia and the rest of former Yugoslavia, that triggered increased radicalization and hate speech, an independent UN...
Over 700,000 children have been impacted by school closures due to often brutal violence in Cameroon, according to an analysis released by the UN humanitarian arm, OCHA, on Thursday. Read the full story, “Violence in Cameroon,...
Microbes might get freeze-dried on the moon’s south pole 
Land degradation is costing far more than restoring: UN deputy chief 
Rohingyas in Myanmar suffering ‘heartbreaking’ misery and cruelty 
As wars spread, the global food system unravels