Solutions to Food Insecurity Top Agenda in Meeting of Small Island Developing States
CANBERRA, Australia, Aug 23 (IPS) – The urgency of finding solutions to the most pressing development challenges of our times has increased as the...
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Southern African Migrants Excluded as COVID-19 Pandemic Grows
Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug 23 (IPS) – Migrants across the Southern Africa region are massively disadvantaged as they find themselves excluded from vaccine programmes...
Afghanistan: UN agencies sound alarm over emergency aid supply logjam
UN humanitarian agencies are warning that they are unable to bring urgently needed emergency supplies into Afghanistan, and are calling for a “humanitarian airbridge”...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday launched a $15 million appeal to support some 137,000 families affected by the deadly earthquake that...
Salvadoran Migrants Still Look to the U.S. to Lift Themselves Out of Poverty
SAN PABLO TACACHICO, El Salvador, Aug 23 (IPS) – The Joe Biden administration’s call for undocumented Central American migrants not to go to the...
Parliamentarians Determined to Reach ICPD 25 Goals
Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug 23 (IPS) – Politicians from Asia and Africa shared activism anecdotes demonstrating their determination to meet ICPD 25 commitments. They...
GOMA, NORTH KIVU, DRCongo, Aug 23 (IPS) – On May 6, 2021, after a decision by President Félix Tshisekedi, a state of siege was...
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 23 (IPS) – The writer is Chair of the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (CoSAI)A population of more than 9 billion...
Around the world, people are preparing to choke their way through what is called ‘the season of smog’, when farmers burn their fields to...
Around the world, people are preparing to choke their way through what is called ‘the season of smog’, when farmers burn their fields to...
‘Make or bake time’: Guterres urges climate justice pact as leaders gather at COP31 
Lebanon: After 48 years patrolling the Blue Line, UN peacekeepers prepare exit 
Hotter World, Older Population: How Long Can Climate COPs Ignore the Obvious? 
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2026