A UN team investigating ISIL atrocities in Iraq has established “clear and convincing evidence” of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority, the Security Council...
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Amidst an “unacceptably high plateau” in COVID-19 cases and deaths globally, the UN health agency chief on Monday shone a light on last week’s...
Free up ‘bottlenecks’ stifling Africa’s agri-food sector, urges FAO chief
The UN agriculture chief warned on Monday that severe underfunding of Africa’s agri-food sector has boosted food insecurity and was hampering the future development of...
NEW YORK, May 10 (IPS) – Data, analysis and information are essential building blocks in our race to save humanity from the clear and...
How to Assess the Willingness of US to Suspend Patent Protection on Vaccines?
BRUSSELS / ROME, May 10 (IPS) – The news of the Biden Administration’s willingness to lift intellectual property rights protections in the case of...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 10 (IPS) – Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under fast growing corporate control....
UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (IPS) – As negotiations for the upcoming election—or re-election– of a UN Secretary-General gather momentum, one undeniable fact looms heavily...
Middle East Envoys express deep concern over East Jerusalem violence
The Envoys of the Middle East Quartet (from the European Union, Russia, the United States, and the United Nations), have expressed deep concern over...
‘I am alive, but I feel like I am dead’: a migrant grieves the drowning of 3 children
Misrah, an undocumented migrant worker, and her family, left their home in Ethiopia hoping for a better life. Instead, her three children are now...
The United Nations remembers the dead of WWII
The Second World War had a profound impact on the international community, and established the conditions for the creation of the United Nations. This...
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