PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Jul 08 (IPS) – June 2021 marked the launch of UN Decade on Ecosystem restoration. This effort aims at reversing the...
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Calls to Halt Construction of Massive Oilfield in One of Africas last Wildernesses
BRATISLAVA, Jul 08 (IPS) – Wildlife and environmental campaigners have called for international action as concerns grow over a project to create a massive...
Bangladesh’s Indigenous Forest Dwellers Fear Losing Ancestral Land as Officials Grapple with Land Grabs
TANGAIL, Bangladesh, Jul 07 (IPS) – When the Bangladesh Forest Department felled Basanti Rema’s banana orchard, Rema, a Garo indigenous forest-dweller of Madhupur Forest,...
Investing in Education as Driver for All Our Futures
ISLAMABAD / LAGOS, Jul 07 (IPS) – Never before have so many children been out of school. 1.6 billion children and young people –...
Another Impending Cataclysm in Afghanistan
GENEVA, Jul 08 (IPS) – The Biden administration made a decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan based on the Trump-Taliban agreement. Their last...
The global death toll due to COVID-19 officially passed four million late on Wednesday, marking yet another “grim milestone” and underlining the urgent need...
Perpetrators behind the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse must be brought to justice, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Read the full story,...
A new government action plan in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the potential to reverse the urgent and tragic deterioration in the east of the country, where thousands...
COVID variants ‘winning the race against vaccines’ warns WHO chief
Variants like Delta are “currently winning the race against vaccines” said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday, pinning the blame...
Action must be taken now to halt alarming attacks against children and abductions – including of students – in parts of West and Central...
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