ILO welcomes first global agreement on professional footballers’ rights
The UN’s labour agency welcomed on Monday, the first ever global agreement on working conditions and rights of professional football players in both the...
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Of the Mexican Joke and the Nuclear Top Guns
MADRID, Sep 26 (IPS) – A Mexican joke goes: “I kill people for money. But you are my best friend, so I will kill...
Global Peace Education Day can Play a Pivotal Role in Transforming Education
NEW YORK, Sep 26 (IPS) – Just a week ago, the international community commemorated the adoption of the United Nations Declaration and Programme of...
Sindhs Faulty Drain Cannot Cope With Climate-Induced Deluge
Karachi, Sep 25 (IPS) – Last week, for at least six days, hundreds of flood-affected villagers from around the outskirts of Pangrio, a sleepy...
Every problem we face is a problem that we created – so it’s a problem we can solve together, declared UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina...
Girls in Afghanistan have been forced out of high school, ever since the Taliban returned to power a year ago. A United Nations-backed initiative...
Escalating gang violence has set off a crisis that is threatening “the very foundations of the rule of law” in Haiti, according to Foreign...
Egypt, which is hosting the 2022 UN Climate Conference this November, is calling on the international community to act on climate pledges made to...
High-level independent panel on security and development in crisis-torn Sahel region launched at UN
UN Secretary-General António Guterres and African leaders have launched a high-level panel to assess the situation in the Sahel and make recommendations on ways...
Authorities in Mali are moving along the path to political transition and institutional reform while combating terrorism and other insecurity, Acting Prime Minister Abdoulaye...
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