The United Nations Secretary-General, on Friday, called for a “revolution” in urban planning and urban transport to beat back impacts of climate change and...
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Colombia Gives Nearly 1 Million Venezuelan Migrants Legal Status and Right to Work
Apr 16 (IPS) – Colombia will grant legal status to all Venezuelan migrants who fled there since 2016 to escape their country’s economic collapse...
More than 31 million people across West and Central Africa may not have enough to eat in the coming months as hunger rises due...
The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution which calls for all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and gives the green light for a UN...
Vaccine equity the ‘challenge of our time’, WHO chief declares, as governments call for solidarity, sharing
With the number of new COVID-19 cases nearly doubling over the past two months, approaching the highest infection rate the world has seen during...
A spate of clashes involving Government security forces and insurgent groups in northeast Nigeria has caused mass displacement and threatened humanitarian assistance, as armed...
INTERVIEW: Myanmar military increasing efforts to keep truth from getting out, UN expert says
The crackdown on journalists, cutting off the Internet and disrupting the flow of information across Myanmar, is “not working”, and the world is not...
BENIN CITY, Nigeria, Apr 16 (IPS) – In this video Sam Olukoya interviews a young woman who was trafficked from her home in Nigeria...
World Moving Towards a Devastating Marriage of Artificial Intelligence & Weapons of War
STOCKHOLM, Apr 16 (IPS) – Landmines are among the most insidious and cruel weapons of all, because they do not distinguish between armed soldiers,...
The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to “an even more unequal world”, the Deputy UN chief said on Thursday, speaking at the closing session of...
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