SINGAPORE, Nov 22 (IPS) – It has been said that when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war. The summit of the...
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres is headed to Colombia this week to mark the fifth anniversary of the signing of the peace accords that ended...
Corporate Fear Drives Caribbean Vaccine COVID-19 Mandates
KINGSTON, Nov 22 (IPS) – When face-to-face Cabinet meetings resumed in Jamaica following more than a year of virtual meetings due to COVID-19, Ministers...
WASHINGTON DC/SAN DIEGO, Nov 22 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects across the globe, but the data and evidence show that...
The number of musk deer in Mongolia has plummeted by some 83 per cent since the 1970s, landing them on the country’s red list...
The children of families who were affected by the massive earthquake which devastated large parts of south-west Haiti in August this year are receiving...
Nadya Zafira, an international relations student at Indonesia’s Gadjah Mada University, won a writing competition for her letter to UN chief António Guterres, in...
Afghanistan’s farmers, herders desperate for seed, food and cash
“Catastrophic and famine-like conditions” hang over Afghanistan’s farmers and herders, whose needs continue to worsen with the onset of winter, UN humanitarians said on...
Despite COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, some 650,000 women and girls were provided with gender-based violence services through a joint UN and European Union (EU)...
Worsening drought affects 2.3 million people in Somalia
With about 2.3 million people already suffering with serious water, food and pasture shortages in Somalia, a rapidly worsening drought could lead to an “extreme situation” by April next...
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