A sustainable and prosperous planet can only be achieved through working together and in solidarity, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on Wednesday at the...
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Bangladesh: Deadly flooding, landslides devastate Rohingya refugees
Three days of strong winds and heavy monsoon rain on sprawling refugee sites in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar have taken Rohingya refugee lives and wreaked...
SINGAPORE, Jul 28 (IPS) – After almost two decades, Golden Rice was approved last week by the Philippines authorities for use as food. This...
It has never been more urgent to recommit to the spirit and fundamental principles of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday...
To Prevent Teenage Pregnancies in Sub Saharan Africa, It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child
DISSIN, Burkina Faso, Jul 28 (IPS) – Honorine Meda is 23. Cycling through her hometown of Dissin, in Burkina Faso’s verdant southwest, she smiles,...
LISBON, Portugal, Jul 28 (IPS) – The writer is CEO of Sanitation and Water for AllThe water we drink and the air we breathe...
Progress on tobacco fight, but new nicotine products pose increasing threat
While many countries are making progress in the fight against tobacco use, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report shows some are failing to...
Practically all peacekeepers and staff have now left the hybrid UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), in line with its drawdown plan, a senior...
Child Rights Experts Warn that Displaced Children and Young People Risk Being Wiped Out of the Education System
NAIROBI, KENYA, Jul 27 (IPS) – The difficulties in accessing education faced by children and young people forcibly displaced from their homes were today...
The UN independent expert on the human rights situation in Myanmar on Tuesday called for a “COVID ceasefire” for the country, as infections and deaths soar even as the military...
Gaza: Children still at risk despite drop in acute hunger 
100 days of Ebola and the race to stop the spread 
South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Violence Slows SDG Goals, Rips Apart Africans’ Free Movement Call 
Global food supply has become ‘collateral damage’ in conflicts: Secretary-General