First Person: ‘Syrians still have ambition and hope’
As a witness to the impacts of Syria’s internal conflict over the last decade, Bassel Al-Madani, a young engineer and former volunteer with the...
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The World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed operations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, after fighting halted the emergency response last week, although the agency warned...
With the chief of the UN’s gender empowerment agency declaring that women are still “sitting in the corridors when men are inside at the table negotiating peace”, the historic Generation Equality Forum in Paris concluded on Friday with new commitments designed to address that, and...
COVID-19 Delta variant detected in 98 countries, continues to evolve and mutate, warns WHO
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged leaders to push back against daunting new COVID surges through increased vaccination efforts...
Families Search for Loved Ones Gone Missing in Post-War El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 02 (IPS) – The pain that María Estela Guevara feels over the disappearance of her niece Wendy Martínez remains as intense...
If A Nuclear War Must Never Be Fought, Then …
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 02 (IPS) – The writer is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association in Washington DC. After more than a...
Dalit and Muslim Indian Women Leading Change in South Sudan
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 02 (IPS) – Two Indian women, one Muslim and the other Dalit (former untouchables), separated by culture and geography, have...
Leading figures from government, business and civil society are preparing to take part in this year’s High Level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF),...
The UN’s Pause campaign, which encourages social media and other news consumers to stop and check the validity of information they share, received a major endorsement on Thursday...
Although the COVID-19 pandemic had triggered the roll-out of an “unprecedented number” of new and often innovative social protection measures, it was unable to...
Sudan: Drought and war push Darfur and Kordofan towards famine 
Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize Is a Vote of Confidence in a Global Legal Order under Fire 
Scarred blood vessels may be one clue to APOE4’s Alzheimer’s risk 
Rise in poverty is ‘a wake-up call for the world’, UN development chief says