Here Is How We Can Keep Women Safe From Sexual Violence
ISLAMABAD, Aug 13 (IPS) – The past weeks have been quite traumatic for the women of Pakistan. Recently, a young woman named Noor Mukadam...
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Afghanistan is on course to witness its highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since records began, the UN refugee...
ACCRA, Ghana, Aug 13 (IPS) – ‘Know your customers’ is arguably the first rule of marketing. By identifying and segmenting customer groups, companies can...
UN health agency urges support for new COVID-19 origins studies
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all countries “to put differences aside” in order to speed up efforts to understand where and how...
Digitisation Boosts Mechanised Farming Among Kenyan Farmers
Nakuru, Kenya, Aug 13 (IPS) – When 33-year-old Kimani Mwaniki, an Irish potato farmer in Elburgon, Nakuru County in Kenya’s Rift Valley, heard about...
Youth must be included in disarmament and non-proliferation
With 40 per cent of the global population under 25, the international community has a special responsibility to ensure young people can share their...
Young people are on the “frontlines of the struggle to build a better future”, the UN chief said on Thursday, International Youth Day. Read...
A group of UN-appointed experts on Thursday called for a moratorium on the sale of surveillance technology, warning against the danger of allowing the...
Top UN envoy points to fresh hope for democratic Somalia
Political strides are breathing new hope into the country’s fragile State-building process, driven by an electoral agreement signed by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble,...
Afghanistan: UN chief following escalation in fighting ‘with deep concern’
With Taliban fighters continuing to gain ground in Afghanistan, the UN Secretary-General is following events “with deep concern” said the UN Spokesperson on Thursday,...
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