COVID complicates efforts to shut down drug traffickers, boost development
The growing complexities of the world drug problem are hampering efforts to achieve sustainable development by the end of the decade: a situation which...
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The UN Security Council and the New US-China Cold War
NEW YORK, Apr 12 (IPS) – The writer served as Executive Director, Global Policy Forum, from its foundation in late 1993 through the end...
The United Nations is marking the International Day of Human Space Flight on Monday, celebrating the achievements of astronauts who are “stretching the boundaries” of...
The UN Country Team in Myanmar on Monday, reiterated its call for an end to violence against civilians, amid reports of dozens of deaths in the latest...
NEW YORK, Apr 12 (IPS) – Following an extensive scientific review, the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation (BCFN) is preparing to launch...
Farmers in Brazil Benefit as Biogas Replaces Firewood
RÃ￾O DE JANEIRO, Apr 12 (IPS) – “Biogas is worth gold to us, we can no longer live without it,” Claudete Volkswey, a poultry...
The UN and international partners working to support a lasting peace and democratic election process across Somalia, said on Sunday that they were highly concerned...
Living with HIV in Yemen, a country mired in a seemingly interminable conflict, is particularly challenging, with medical supplies hard to come by, and...
FROM THE FIELD: Solar energy powers COVID-19 treatment
In some of the poorest parts of the world, where there is no access to a reliable electricity grid, the UN is equipping hundreds...
A good education is often seen as a route out of poverty, but many disadvantaged children are unable to finish school. In Thailand, a...
Motor neurons don’t just move muscles. They may direct that motion too 
ECUADOR: ‘Criminalisation Serves as a Deterrent, Seeking to Discipline Others’ 
Breaking the silence over sexual violence against men and boys in war 
AI for Good: How the UN uses AI to advance human rights