Guterres urges leaders to invest in peace as conflicts deepen
The UN Secretary-General appealed on Wednesday for world leaders to invest in peace as violence, division and conflict exacerbate suffering worldwide. Read the full...
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UN and Partners Work to Stabilize Health and WASH Systems in Venezuela Following Deadly Earthquakes
UNITED NATIONS, September 9 (IPS) – Two months after devastating twin earthquakes struck northern and central Venezuela on June 24, the humanitarian community has...
Development Goals Falter as Civil Society Is Shut Out
BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, September 9 (IPS) – When the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) ended in New York in...
Record number of attacks on education, global fund warns
While September traditionally marks the start of the school year across the northern hemisphere, a staggering 93 million children are not in class at...
Ships and seafarers increasingly caught in the crossfire of unrelated wars
The global shipping industry is facing a “genuinely unprecedented” convergence of maritime crises, with vessels and seafarers increasingly used as “leverage” in conflicts that...
How Saving Cattle in Zimbabwe is Saving Its Lions
BULAWAYO, September 9 (IPS) – A 12-year-old male lion slipped out of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park one winter morning and killed a 7-year-old boy...
‘This is not 1945’: General Assembly president gavels open new session aimed at restoring global trust
The UN General Assembly gavelled open its 81st session on Tuesday at UN Headquarters as the incoming president pledged to restore public trust in...
Ebola response in eastern DR Congo must include food aid, WFP says
As Ebola sweeps across the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ensuring families meet their basic food needs is crucial to halt the...
AI datacentres pose growing threat to electricity systems worldwide
Use of data-intensive technologies – in particular artificial intelligence (AI) data centres – is growing faster than electricity infrastructure can handle, the UN’s economic...
The USA and Dictatorship – Gödel’s Loophole
ROME, September 9 (IPS) – Observing some of the changes over the last year and a half in the Government of the USA, one...
COP17: The world has a plan to save nature. Is it working? 
Flour sacks turned flood barriers: Gaza faces another winter without safe shelter 
WHO scales up Ebola readiness in 22 countries across three continents 
Ukraine: Civilian casualty rates among ‘deadliest’ in years, as energy attacks intensify