Agreement by countries to launch a process to develop a new global accord on pandemic prevention and response is cause for hope, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in...
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With millions in Afghanistan facing starvation as winter arrives, the World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday urged countries to put politics aside and step...
Burkina Faso facing ‘multitude of challenges’ – human rights chief Bachelet
Concluding a four-day to visit Burkina Faso, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the country faces “a multitude of challenges with...
What Will it Take to Turn Farmers Toward Climate-Resilient Superfood Millet?
Read the full story, “What Will it Take to Turn Farmers Toward Climate-Resilient Superfood Millet?”, on globalissues.org →
Some 2.9 billion people still have never used the internet, and 96 per cent live in developing countries, a new UN report has found. According to the International Telecommunication Union...
Call It Old, Contemporary, Modern or Whatever: It Is Slavery
MADRID, Dec 01 (IPS) – No matter what it is called — it is the abhorrent daily life of a billion enslaved humans. The...
Women and girls at high risk of being pushed into modern slavery
Women and children are at high risk of being pushed into contemporary forms of slavery, UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Women and girls at high...
GENEVA, Dec 01 (IPS) – This week I called out to the world to warn them that inequalities are making us all unsafe. I...
Series of appalling deadly attacks on displaced people in DR Congo
The UN refugee Agency, UNHCR, is “appalled by a series of deadly attacks” on displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),...
The head of the UN health agency has criticized “blunt” and “blanket” measures taken by countries in the past few days to stop the spread of...
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