Amid intensifying conflict in Yemen, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is helping nearly 5,000 Ethiopian migrants stranded in the country to return home, the UN agency reported...
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“Time Is A-Wasting”: Making the Case for CEDAW Ratification by the United States
NEW YORK, Sep 07 (IPS) – The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that has yet to ratify the Convention on...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 07 (IPS) – Vaccine costs have pushed many developing countries to the end of the COVID-19 vaccination queue, with...
Belarus Crackdown Leaves Human Rights, Minorities Exposed
BRATISLAVA, Sep 06 (IPS) – There will soon be no one left to defend human rights or help minorities in Belarus as the country’s...
Critical gaps in refugee education, only 34 per cent attend secondary school: UNHCR
Two-thirds of refugee children might never get to secondary school, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday, as it called for an international...
Blue sky thinking: 5 things to know about air pollution
Around 90 per cent of people go through their daily lives breathing harmful polluted air, which has been described by the United Nations as...
BERLIN, Sep 06 (IPS) – Vladimir Popov – Principal Researcher, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D.The main contradiction of the...
Migrants are facing “dire conditions” at the European Union-Belarus border, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Monday. Read the full story, “IOM...
Climate change will “wreak havoc” across the Australian economy if coal is not rapidly phased out, a senior UN official warned on Monday. Read...
With extreme weather events increasingly impacting countries across the world, the deputy UN chief on Monday underlined the importance of limiting temperature rise to the internationally agreed goal of 1.5 degrees...
UN report warns of reprisals against those who collaborate in defence of human rights 
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Security Council LIVE: ‘Being a woman is a crime in Afghanistan,’ civil society briefer declares 
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