Where do UN Diplomats Hide During Politically-Sensitive Voting?
NEW YORK, Feb 11 (IPS) – The United Nations, created in 1945 following the devastation caused by World War II, was mandated with one...
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Give us Access to Tigray to Find Missing Refugees — NRC Pleas
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) – The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has called for unimpeded access to all parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray Region, to...
GENEVA, Feb 11 (IPS) – WHO and UNICEF have a long, deep and very special relationship. Neither of us could do what we do...
Food Systems Need to Change to Promote Healthy Choices and Combat Obesity
Feb 10 (IPS) – COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on people with obesity and noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes. The pandemic has underlined...
Forgotten Conflicts 2021: When Will the Crisis in the Central African Republic End?
BANGUI, Central African Republic, Feb 09 (IPS) – Last October, an ICRC medical team helped a woman deliver a baby boy in the bush...
Kim is Waiting for Joe But for How Long?
DUISBURG, Germany, Feb 10 (IPS) – Herbert Wulf was Director of the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), from its beginning in 1994 until...
To Prevent Another Civil War South Sudan Must Create a New, Unique Political System
BONN, Germany, Feb 10 (IPS) – The threat of a full-blown civil war in South Sudan remains unless the country’s leaders can broaden power...
Labour Rights Have Worsened in India Post-Lockdown
NEW DELHI, Feb 09 (IPS) – As the Indian economy officially heads into a recession and news of layoffs and unemployment reaches us with...
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 09 (IPS) – When the 134-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing countries, was trying to strike a...
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Feb 09 (IPS) – Refusal to temporarily suspend several World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property (IP) provisions to enable much...
Gaza winter aid: ‘No more delay’, Fletcher tells governments stalling on support 
Protecting the Climate Means Protecting Territorial Rights 
I Sustain My Accusation 
‘The War Must Stop’: Nobel Peace Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on the Urgent Need to Protect Ukraine’s Women and Children