Climate solutions, changemakers, and celebrities: major UN podcast series launched
The UN launches No Denying It, a new 10-part climate action podcast, on Thursday, featuring interviews with inspiring young activists, and the voices of...
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The next three months will be a critical period for stepping up global collective action against future pandemics, the head of the World Health...
A crisis of incredible proportions is unfolding in Afghanistan as conflict, combined with drought and COVID-19, is pushing Afghans into a humanitarian catastrophe, the...
With just 46 days until Iraq goes to the polls, the UN Assistance Mission for the country (UNAMI) is stepping up its communications to...
The UN and partners on Wednesday launched a $187.3 million appeal to support half a million people affected by the deadly earthquake in southwestern...
Finding solutions based on peace and development is crucial for the future of the nearly seven million forcibly displaced people from Sudan and South...
Haunting Photos of Bangladesh’s COVID Pandemic
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Aug 25 (IPS) – Documentary photographer and filmmaker Mohammad Rakibul Hasan has documented the health crisis in Bangladesh over the past several...
Cuba, a Small Island State Seeking to Manage Its Vulnerability
HAVANA, Aug 25 (IPS) – This article forms part of the special IPS coverage of the Solutions Forum, a high-level conference of Small Island...
The Tragedy of Afghanistan: Is there a Way Forward?
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug 25 (IPS) – The writer is former UNICEF Resident Project Officer in Kabul (1999 –2001) and Resident Project Officer in...
Resilience in a Riskier World
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 25 (IPS) – Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries...
Can restoring land create jobs? These young entrepreneurs are proving it 
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Less sugar early in life might decrease dementia risk 
Gaza: Children still at risk despite drop in acute hunger