Diversity should be viewed as a powerful benefit, rather than a threat, particularly in countries experiencing conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, during a Security Council debate focused on the...
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Efforts to boost COVID-19 vaccine production should be matched by access to the syringes needed to inject them – and there could even be...
COP26 Adapting to the Climate Crisis
OTTAWA, Canada, Nov 09 (IPS) – Look up any map showing today’s global humanitarian crises and you’ll find it awash in red alerts more...
CAMBRIDGE, Nov 09 (IPS) – As world leaders wrap up the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, new scientific research shows that there is still...
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...
UN report warns of reprisals against those who collaborate in defence of human rights 
Gaza: At least 20 killed in deadly building collapse, search for survivors continues 
Security Council LIVE: ‘Being a woman is a crime in Afghanistan,’ civil society briefer declares 
AI, climate and conflicts top Guterres’s agenda ahead of General Assembly