The world is waking up to the importance of mangroves, a senior UN official said on Monday, underscoring the need for everyone to support restoration...
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Latin America Sets an Example in Welcoming Displaced Venezuelans
CARACAS, Jul 26 (IPS) – The exodus of more than five million Venezuelans in the last six years has led countries in the developing...
At least half a million children under five in drought-afflicted southern Madagascar are on the verge of acute malnourishment, two UN agencies warned on Monday. Read the...
Outstanding sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List
An ancient temple in India and a “cultural landscape” in Spain have become two of the latest sites to be registered on the UN’s prestigious World Heritage List. Read the full story, “Outstanding...
UNFPA Calls for Protection & Justice for Women & Girls in Tigray
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) – The writer is UNFPA Regional Director for East and Southern Africa.The 2018 Nobel Laureate, Dr. Denis Mukwege, a...
More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any...
Protecting Plants Will Protect People and the Planet
ROME, Jul 26 (IPS) – Back-to-back droughts followed by plagues of locusts have pushed over a million people in southern Madagascar to the brink...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 26 (IPS) – Undoubtedly, the world needs to reform existing food systems to better serve humanity and sustainable development. But...
Is it Time to Create a UN Political Body for Climate Change?
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) – As a wisecracking cynic once remarked: “The sun would never set on the British empire because God wouldn’t...
No pathway to reach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C goal without the G20: UN chief
“The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations”, António Guterres...
Ukraine: Attacks on education threaten an entire generation, UNICEF warns 
Back to school in Haiti: ‘Madame, can you stop what the gangs are doing to us?’ 
Ebola responders grapple with widening outbreak in DR Congo 
Escalating conflict drives new displacement in Yemen