Five Ways to Measure the Effects of a Crisis Like COVID-19 on Women
JOHANNESBURG, May 24 (IPS) – Social issues and crises tend to affect women more severely than men. This is why terms like “gender mainstreaming...
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Why Our Best Defence Against Future Pandemics is Data
EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 24 (IPS) – Although the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mission to discover its origins has proven inconclusive, the Covid-19 pandemic has...
First Person: British UN peacekeeper stays on ‘A-game’ to keep Malians safe
A young soldier from the United Kingdom says he must stay on his “A-game” on patrol with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, to keep himself, colleagues and Malians safe in one of the most dangerous UN postings anywhere...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday that hundreds of children and families in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Goma district are at risk...
Bhutan, the vaccination nation: a UN Resident Coordinator’s blog
The small mountain nation of Bhutan has so far managed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, despite sharing a border with China and India, two...
The UN Security Council on Saturday made it’s first statement on the conflict that erupted between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, calling...
Countries are on track to miss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to environmental protection, two UN entities warn in new report issued on Saturday to coincide...
Renewable tech brings power swarming through the world’s poorest villages
Swarm grids, an innovative technology designed to work with renewable energy sources, are bringing reliable electricity to some of the world’s poorest and remote...
Energy Transition Evolves in Central America and the Caribbean
MEXICO CITY, May 21 (IPS) – The situation of the energy transition in Central America and the Caribbean was the main issue debated this...
Q&A: Reflecting on Five Years of Educating Children in the Throes of Crises, Emergencies and Displacement
UNITED NATIONS, May 22 (IPS) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund that brings teaching and learning to children in emergencies and protracted...
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