Myanmar: Three million in urgent need of life-saving assistance, protection
The UN Country Team in Myanmar remains “deeply concerned over the humanitarian impact” of the country’s ongoing crises stemming largely from the military coup...
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The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is supporting the Government of South Sudan in assisting people hit hard by the worst flooding there in decades. Read the full story, “UNHCR responding...
Build consensus or face ‘increasingly desperate reality’, warns Middle East envoy
Political stagnation is “fuelling tensions, instability and a deepening sense of hopelessness”, the top UN official working towards peace in the Middle East warned...
Yemen war reaches ‘shameful milestone’ – 10,000 children now killed or maimed
Another “shameful milestone” has been reached in the conflict in Yemen with 10,000 children killed or maimed since fighting started in March 2015, the UN Children’s...
Guess Whos Behind Paralysis on COVID19 in the UN Committee on World Food Security
ROME, Oct 19 (IPS) – ‘COVID 19 has multiplied hunger and malnutrition challenges. We need transformative action!’ The first speaker at the UN Committee...
Climate change contributed to mounting food insecurity, poverty and displacement in Africa last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and partners said in a...
Turning Carriers of Water into Managers of Water
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Oct 19 (IPS) – Each morning, Langelihle Tshuma checks her taps to confirm the water supply before preparing for the day ahead....
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 (IPS) – The bogey of inflation has been revived. Dubious pre-pandemic economic progress, fiscal constraints and vaccine apartheid...
NEW YORK, Oct 19 (IPS) – Last week’s annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and G20 finance ministers illustrated that...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has urged greater international support for the more than 13 million Syrians who’ve been displaced in the past 10 years. ...
‘Make or bake time’: Guterres urges climate justice pact as leaders gather at COP31 
Lebanon: After 48 years patrolling the Blue Line, UN peacekeepers prepare exit 
Hotter World, Older Population: How Long Can Climate COPs Ignore the Obvious? 
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2026