In spite of the challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Abyei with other agencies, continue to provide vital...
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SANTIAGO, Apr 27 (IPS) – Standing on Punta Ventanilla, Carlos Vegas, 65, looks across at the industrial park which has been there most of...
Transparency Offers Pathway to a More Sustainable Earth
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Apr 27 (IPS) – Last week, the world marked Earth Day – an opportunity to put the spotlight on the pressing...
The rights of indigenous people to make decisions about their cultural heritage and traditional way of life is being recognized in a United Nations...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 27 (IPS) – Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under fast growing corporate control....
Q&A: Drawing Attention to the Crisis in the DRCs Education Sector
GOMA, DR Congo, Apr 27 (IPS) – Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), has sounded the alarm on the need for Central...
A recent spike in inter-community violence in the eastern province of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is worsening the plight...
Forests are at the core of our efforts to restore our relationship with the natural world, the deputy UN chief said on Monday at...
In his message for Chernobyl International Remembrance Day on Monday, the UN chief reminded that “disasters know no borders”. Read the full story, “‘Disasters...
The UN Secretary-General on Monday called on Asian and Pacific countries not to base their pandemic recovery strategies on “outdated and unsustainable economic models”,...
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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2026