Vaccines Delayed are Vaccines Denied
Jul 20 (IPS) – “Vaccine equity is the challenge of our time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the...
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Conceptual Advances for United Nations 2.0
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 20 (IPS) – The writer is a Research Analyst at Stimson CenterThe forthcoming UN Secretary-General’s “Our Common Agenda” report, to be...
Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned the “horrific bomb attack targeting civilians” at a busy market in the north-east of the Iraqi capital, just before the Eid al-Adha holiday. Read...
The Centenary of the Disaster of Annual
MIAMI, Jul 20 (IPS) – It would seem that those responsible for the recent immigration crisis in Ceuta and Melilla have coordinated their strategy...
Myanmar Struggles in the Grip of Coup and Covid
Rome, Italy, Jul 20 (IPS) – The third wave of Covid-19 is sweeping through Myanmar, from the high narrow buildings of the commercial capital...
FROM THE FIELD: A genocide timeline; Srebrenica massacre remembered
Survivors of a massacre of mainly Muslims in the former Yugoslavia, and people associated with the perpetrators of what has become known as the...
Chess calms nerves, improves mental health throughout pandemic
Marking World Chess Day on Tuesday, the UN is celebrating the fact that while COVID-19 has forced most sports to scale down, this ancient game of intellect, not brute strength, has demonstrated remarkable resilience and...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 20 (IPS) – Despite facing the world’s worst pandemic of the last century, rich countries in the World Trade...
The UN human rights chief on Monday said the apparent widespread use of Pegasus spy software to illegally undermine the rights of those under surveillance, including journalists and...
Deteriorating economic conditions since 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic have fuelled an increase in domestic violence and forced marriage in Sudan, a UN-backed study has revealed. Read the full story, “Domestic violence, forced marriage,...
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