Step up HIV fight, to end AIDS ‘epidemic of inequalities’ by 2030
Although the world has made “great strides” since the first case of AIDS was reported, four decades ago, the UN General Assembly President said...
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Education Cannot Wait Investments Transform Childrens Lives in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Jun 8 2021 (IPS) – Ten-year-old Sabah Abdi from Ali Isse, a small rural village on the Somaliland-Ethiopian border, scored well in her...
Confirmation that Europe has just had its chilliest Spring in years is cold comfort for the planet, amid rising greenhouse gas levels which will...
Ending the “war on nature” must be part of global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday in his...
PARIS, Jun 08 (IPS) – Increasingly, youth are rising up to declare that they’ve had enough of the cyclical exploitation of the environment that...
VIENNA/LONDON, Jun 08 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on women and girls, and the fallout has shown how deeply...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 08 (IPS) – With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge disparities in containing COVID-19 and...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners are working to restore water supply to roughly 200,000 people, including some 100,000 children, affected by the...
Even though COVID-19 cases and deaths have declined in recent weeks, the world is facing a “two-track pandemic”, the UN’s top health official said...
Attacks by armed groups including Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province pose grave threats to Central Africa’s fragile stability, the Secretary-General’s Special...
Ukraine: Attacks on education threaten an entire generation, UNICEF warns 
Back to school in Haiti: ‘Madame, can you stop what the gangs are doing to us?’ 
Ebola responders grapple with widening outbreak in DR Congo 
Escalating conflict drives new displacement in Yemen