Profound Reform or Redundancy United Nations’ Quandary?
GENEVA, Apr 13 (IPS) – Three recent developments bring about again the reasoning on the dire need to immediately reform the United Nations (UN)...
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Almost half of women in some 57 countries do not have the power to make choices over their healthcare, contraception, or sex lives, a...
COVID-19 Teaches Us to Better Manage Global Systemic Risks
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 14 (IPS) – The writer is UN Under Secretary-General for Economic & Social AffairsMillions of lives lost. Trillions of dollars in...
Recent elections in Kosovo reflected a strong desire for change, the head of the UN mission there, UNMIK, said in his virtual briefing to...
Faced with alarming and extended closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s museums are of “fundamental importance” to reviving cultural life and preserving...
The UN together with Turkey, and Qatar, announced on Tuesday that a high-level conference aimed at ending decades of conflict in Afghanistan will go ahead beginning...
The rights of refugees and asylum seekers who have fled Burundi for Tanzania must be respected, experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have called for countries to suspend sales of live wild mammals in traditional food markets, also known...
The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, said on Tuesday that it will work closely with Japan which is preparing to release a million tonnes of contaminated...
United Nations independent human rights experts on Monday called for the review of new legal and administrative measures adopted by the Government of Cambodia...
Personalized brain stimulation can ease chronic pain 
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ECUADOR: ‘Criminalisation Serves as a Deterrent, Seeking to Discipline Others’ 
Breaking the silence over sexual violence against men and boys in war