Kenyan Domestic Workers Doomed Voyage to the Gulf
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 14 (IPS) – Distress calls from vulnerable Kenyan women in Saudi Arabia experiencing mistreatment and torture at the hands of their...
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Democracy Under Assault
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan 14 (IPS) – There is no doubt that the building the magnificent Women’s Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo 2020 deserves...
WHO recommends two new drugs to treat patients with COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Thursday two new drugs to treat patients with COVID-19, one for patients with critical diseaseand one for non-severe cases. Read the full story, “WHO recommends two new...
About $150 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the largest allocation ever, was released on Thursday to boost underfunded humanitarian...
Iran must halt the looming execution of juvenile offender Hossein Shahbazi, four experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said on Thursday. Read...
COVID-19 pandemic stalls global economic recovery: UN report
The UN’s key report on the global economy, released on Thursday, shows that the rapid spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant has put the...
UN human rights officials have welcomed the “historic” conviction on Thursday by a German court of a former senior Syrian intelligence officer, for crimes...
After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth pandemic wave, which has been mainly driven by the Omicron variant, is flattening, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
UN chief: ‘We are in a race against time to help the Afghan people’
Describing a “nightmare unfolding in Afghanistan”, the United Nations’ Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned on Thursday that the world is “in a race against time to help the Afghan people.”...
Let us now praise brave women and men: The Nobel Peace Prize 2021
STOCKHOLM, Jan 13 (IPS) – In several countries around the globe, telling the truth is according to its rulers and other influential, generally wealthy,...
When Medicine Becomes a Tool for Torture: The Hidden Role of Medical Personnel in Russian Captivity 
Disasters cost $228 billion in housing losses every year 
Ukraine: Residents killed and dozens injured in attacks on Kharkiv and Kyiv 
‘Need for UN has never been greater,’ UN chief says, proposing slimmer $3.3 billion budget for 2027