The role of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in promoting development has become “even more critical” as a way of guiding and informing the COVID-19 pandemic response worldwide, Collen Vixen Kelapile said on Friday, speaking for the first...
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The public water system in Lebanon is “on life support” and could collapse at any moment, putting 71 per cent of the population, or...
Violence Casts Shadow Over South Africas Post-Apartheid Democratic Gains
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, Jul 23 (IPS) – Twenty-seven years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, the country finds itself reflecting on the catalysts of...
Europe’s Catastrophic Flooding Was Forecast Well in Advance – What Went So Wrong?
Jul 22 (IPS) – Almost 200 people dead and many others still missing. Billions of euros’ worth of damage. Communities devastated. Thousands of homes...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 23 (IPS) – Following the Supreme Court’s decision to reinstall the House of Representatives and appoint– after a prolonged and nasty...
Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global climate, water-related hazards top the list of natural disasters with the highest human losses in the...
The head of the UN food relief agency called on the world’s richest nations on Thursday to invest more in sustainable living, to feed...
Nearly half of the 1.7 million children worldwide living with HIV were not on treatment last year, the UN programme leading the global fight against...
Lifesaving assistance arrived for the beleaguered Tigray region of Ethiopia on Thursday as the first UN World Food Programme (WFP) plane carrying humanitarian workers touched down in the capital Mekelle. Read...
COVID-19: Africa ‘third wave’ not yet over, while vaccine inequity threatens all
Although new COVID-19 cases in Africa have slowed following an eight-week surge, this “small step forward” could be short-lived, the Regional Office of the...
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