KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 05 (IPS) – As finance ministers and central bank governors gather next week for the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in...
NEWS
COVID-19 has taken a toll on the mental health of children and young people, and impacts could be felt for many years to come,...
Multilateral Financial Institutions Can Catalyze Public Development Banks (PDB) to Deliver SDGs
NEW DELHI, India, Oct 05 (IPS) – There is broad consensus that realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate...
Haiti facing stalled elections, kidnapping surge, rampant insecurity
Haiti is currently undergoing “one of the most fraught periods of its recent history”, the head of the UN office in the country told...
War crimes and crimes against humanity have likely been committed in Libya by all parties to conflict since 2016 including by external actors, a...
IUCN World Conservation Congress Warns Humanity at Tipping Point
St Davids, Wales, Oct 04 (IPS) – The world’s most influential conservation congress, meeting for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19...
The world currently faces unprecedented catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity, according to UN agencies, and around $6.6 billion is needed urgently, to support 41 million in danger of sliding into famine. ...
For the education system to recover from the COVID pandemic, it requires more investment in the well-being, training, professional development and working conditions of...
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must be sustainable and inclusive, Secretary-General António Guterres said in remarks to a major UN trade conference which opened...
Only around 1 in 5 space industry workers are women
The number of women employed in the international space industry represents just 20-22 percent of the workforce, according to figures released by the UN; roughly the same proportion as 30...
UN chief, Red Cross renew call for rules on lethal autonomous weapons 
Japan’s ‘2050 Weather Forecast’ highlights extreme heat in the future 
Colombia Declares State of Emergency Following Deadly Earthquake 
Retired in Ukraine: One Cheese, Two Chickens and a Dozen Eggs