CAMBRIDGE, Nov 09 (IPS) – As world leaders wrap up the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, new scientific research shows that there is still...
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GLASGOW, Scotland, Nov 09 (IPS) – As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) is swiftly moving to its conclusion on Friday, climate justice could...
Fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced at least 11,000 people to flee to neighbouring Uganda since Sunday night,...
Indigenous Peoples Want to Move Towards Clean Energy Sovereignty
GLASGOW, Nov 09 (IPS) – In the community of Bella Bella on Turtle Island in the western Canadian province of British Columbia, the indigenous...
West of The Nile and Around The Sudd
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Nov 09 (IPS) – Tensions and hostilities persisted until early 2019, when the regime of Omar al-Bashir – to a...
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...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 09 (IPS) – Addressing global warming requires cutting carbon emissions by almost half by 2030! For the Intergovernmental Panel...
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...
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,...
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 
One million children in Afghanistan face deadly malnutrition