Amid worsening socioeconomic conditions, rising criminal gang violence and a resurgence of COVID-19, Haiti’s leaders must commit to good-faith dialogue aimed at ending a...
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Sexual violence in conflict “reverberates down generations” and threatens both human and international security, the UN chief said on Thursday in his message for...
New research published by the UN health agency on Thursday revealed that suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide – taking...
Innovative measures to address debt are required to help the world’s more than 100 middle-income countries expand their economies and exit the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Call for Political Belt-tightening to Prevent Drought Becoming the Next Pandemic
BHUBANESWAR, India, Jun 17 (IPS) – June 17 is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. A new report shows that climate change, overuse...
The Caribbean Looks to Research for Answers to COVID-19, NCDs and Climate Change Challenges
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 17 (IPS) – The Caribbean Public Health Agency is banking on high-quality research to inform policy, programming and clinical practice, amid...
Central Sahel: Ground Zero in Tackling Climate Change Through Education
NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) – The climate crisis is amplifying the effects of instability and violence in the world’s poorest countries. Nowhere is...
Apocalypse Now? Christian Fundamentalists and COVID-19
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) – Like most male Swedes of my age I had to enter obligatory military service for almost a...
Prison was Horrible but I Will Still do my Work as a Journalist – Jeffrey Moyo Upon Prison Release
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jun 16 (IPS) – International correspondent Jeffrey Moyo, who was a released from detention today after being arrested for breaching Zimbabwe’s Immigration...
Setting the Stage for Wars During a Global Pandemic
VANCOUVER, Canada, Jun 16 (IPS) – Looking through my emails for the last year, I was struck by how often the adjective “unprecedented” occurred....
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