Radical Relook at Drug Policies Puts Human Rights into Equation
BRATISLAVA, Nov 09 (IPS) – A “radically innovative” new analysis of global drug policies has laid bare the full impact repressive drug laws and...
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SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 09 (IPS) – Addressing global warming requires cutting carbon emissions by almost half by 2030! For the Intergovernmental Panel...
With significant travel restrictions and large portions of personnel working from home in 2020, the UN system generated approximately 25 per cent fewer greenhouse emissions...
Food processing, packaging, transport, household consumption and waste disposal are pushing the food supply chain to the top of the greenhouse gas emitters list,...
A group of UN human rights experts appealed on Monday for Singapore to halt the execution of a Malaysian man who has intellectual disabilities. Read the full story, “Rights...
A matter of life or death: At COP26, vulnerable countries tell developed nations it’s time to keep their promise on climate finance
Massive floods, devastating wildfires, and rising seas – along with the countless lives they take and livelihoods they upend – are realities many nations...
Myanmar: 3 million in need of humanitarian aid, ‘world is watching’ UN relief chief warns generals
Growing conflict, insecurity, COVID-19, and a failing economy, has rendered some three million Burmese in in need of life-saving humanitarian assistance across Myanmar, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator said on Monday. Read...
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 08 (IPS) – The United Nations has come under heavy fire for continuing a 20-month-long ban on non-governmental organizations (NGOs)– even...
Ethiopia: Future of Tigray and Horn of Africa ‘in grave uncertainty’
A year-long conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has reached “disastrous proportions”, the UN political chief told the Security Council on Monday, warning...
Although governments are prioritizing public health measures to protect their people from climate impacts, many lack the funds to take effective action, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report issued on Monday. Read the full story, “Many...
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