Global community can still shape ‘new reality’ in Afghanistan
While the choices available in Afghanistan are “not comfortable” ones, continued international engagement and unwavering commitment to the country’s people can help steer the...
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Caribbean Under Threat: Report Reveals Enormous Challenges for the Region
Kingston, Sep 09 (IPS) – Less than halfway into the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season, Jamaica and its Caribbean neighbours were already tallying the costs...
UN chief: Dag Hammarskjöld ‘set the highest standard for public service’
The General Assembly this Thursday held a commemorative event to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, where current chief António Guterres, noted that in his...
Hunger spikes in Haiti following deadly earthquake
Around 980,000 Haitians in the four districts most affected by the August 14 earthquake are now living with acute food insecurity, according to new UN food security data released on Thursday. Read the full...
A Tale of Two Internationally Trained Medical Doctors in Canada
NEW DELHI, India, Sep 09 (IPS) – Wagma Saad, is an Internationally Trained Medical Doctor (ITMD) from Kabul Medical University, Afghanistan, currently living in...
In a Watershed Year for Climate Change, the Commonwealth Secretary-General calls for Urgent, Decisive and Sustained Climate Action
London, Sep 08 (IPS) – This November, five years after signing the Paris Agreement and pledging to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius...
Twenty Years After September 11, 2001: Institutions on Decline, But Religion Rising?
NEW YORK, Sep 09 (IPS) – Described as the “worst terrorist attack ever in the United States”, September 11, 2001 is a moment which...
NEW YORK, Sep 09 (IPS) – The Taliban takeover of government in Kabul is just days old, and the eyes of Afghans and the...
Mental health and psychosocial support must be seen as integral to all humanitarian, peacebuilding and development programmes across the UN, the Secretary-General said on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Make mental...
Although UN peacekeeping missions can help put a country on the right track following conflict, only a commitment from national governments can keep it there over the long term,...
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