SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (IPS) – Decades of public health cuts have quietly taken a huge human toll, now even more pronounced...
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A case of Ebola virus has been confirmed in Côte d’Ivoire for the first time since 1994, the country’s Ministry of Health has confirmed....
As desperate Afghans were trying to escape the Taliban and board planes, during chaotic scenes at Kabul airport on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres...
Hundreds of boys and girls have been killed or injured over the past two years amid the deteriorating political and security situation in Afghanistan, according to...
FROM THE FIELD: Human ‘damage’ on the front-line of the climate crisis
The damage to people and livelihoods caused by climate change is happening at a scale that “people on the front lines cannot manage”, according...
Palestine refugees face ‘dire’ humanitarian conditions amid ongoing clashes in southern Syria: UNRWA
Palestine refugees face ‘dire’ humanitarian conditions amid ongoing clashes in southern Syria: UNRWA
Some 30,000 Palestine refugees registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in south Syria...
As Haiti struggles to recover from the devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit over the weekend, killing some 1,300 people, the UN is warning that...
Solar Energy Revitalises Indigenous and Farming Communities in Chile
SANTIAGO, Aug 16 (IPS) – Communities in Arica y Parinacota, the region in the extreme north of Chile, are using solar energy and are...
Indigenous Peoples Need Recognition, Reciprocity & a New Social Contract
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 (IPS) – The coronavirus pandemic has invited the world to reflect on relationships – between people within and across countries...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 (IPS) – As New York city struggles to cope with the widespread outbreak of the deadly new coronavirus Delta variant...
Sudan: Drought and war push Darfur and Kordofan towards famine 
Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize Is a Vote of Confidence in a Global Legal Order under Fire 
Scarred blood vessels may be one clue to APOE4’s Alzheimer’s risk 
Rise in poverty is ‘a wake-up call for the world’, UN development chief says