The top UN humanitarian official in South Sudan has called for law enforcement along roads following the first killing of an aid worker in the...
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Will the UN hold Myanmars Military Accountable for Its Crimes against Children?
SEOUL, May 13 (IPS) – In one particularly bloody day in March, Myanmar’s security forces shot and killed at least ten children, some as...
Russias Sputnik Diplomacy
MADRID, May 13 (IPS) – The writer is a journalist and managing editor of Armando.info, an investigative journalism site.While Western countries were busy with...
First Person: ‘God save us from famine’
The conflict in Yemen forced Asia El-Sayeed Ali and her family from her home in Aden’s Al Tawahi district, where there was active fighting,...
Latin America & the Caribbean Assess Climate Ambition and Action Ahead of COP26
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) – The Dominican Republic opened the 2021 virtual Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week with a pledge to...
De-escalation of the Palestine-Israel conflict is “an absolute must” said the UN Secretary-General on Wednesday, declaring that the mounting death toll, including children, was...
Two senior UN officials on Wednesday, condemned in the strongest terms, a terrorist attack targeting girls and their families outside a high school in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Read the full story, “Afghanistan:...
Over the past year, freedom of expression in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been increasingly curtailed, according to a UN report issued on...
Peace is “the only way” to resolve the crisis in Yemen, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator told the Security Council on Wednesday. Read the full...
Reimagining Education with Imagination
NEW YORK, May 12 (IPS) – Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait To achieve SDG4 on quality inclusive education, we must prioritize...
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