Two-thirds of refugee children might never get to secondary school, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday, as it called for an international...
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Around 90 per cent of people go through their daily lives breathing harmful polluted air, which has been described by the United Nations as...
BERLIN, Sep 06 (IPS) – Vladimir Popov – Principal Researcher, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D.The main contradiction of the...
Migrants are facing “dire conditions” at the European Union-Belarus border, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Monday. Read the full story, “IOM...
Climate change will “wreak havoc” across the Australian economy if coal is not rapidly phased out, a senior UN official warned on Monday. Read...
With extreme weather events increasingly impacting countries across the world, the deputy UN chief on Monday underlined the importance of limiting temperature rise to the internationally agreed goal of 1.5 degrees...
ROME, Sep 06 (IPS) – There are several points of similarity between the war in Afghanistan and the war in Viet Nam. The Taliban,...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sep 06 (IPS) – Headlines in the press, live TV and internet coverage of the chaos at Kabul airport following the...
Despite hopes that by now the pandemic would be under control, the head of the UN’s health agency told the G20 leading industrialized nations...
Women in Afghanistan play a “critical role” in delivering aid, the UN Humanitarian told the leadership of the Taliban in Kabul on Sunday, calling...

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