Funding Urgently Needed for Children’s Education in Conflict Areas—ECW Director
United Nations, Aug 23 (IPS) – Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) issued a wake-up call for the global community to support...
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Keeping the Promise of Education for Crisis-Impacted Children and Adolescents
United Nations, Aug 23 (IPS) – Syrian refugee children are among the most disadvantaged in Iraq. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 53 percent...
Darfur: Trial of Janjaweed leader must not be ‘a false dawn’ for justice, Security Council hears
The trial of senior Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb – the first prosecution to get underway at the request of the UN Security Council –...
Ebola has resurfaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following confirmation of a case in the restive eastern province of North Kivu,...
Yezidis in Armenia: From Reincarnation to Exodus
ARDASHAR, Armenia, Aug 23 (IPS) – There are those cows watching the fight in the mud of rusty Soviet cars; there are those tethered...
High Cost of Medical Services Puts Immigrants’ Health at Risk in the U.S.
SAN SALVADOR, Aug 23 (IPS) – Getting sick is one of the worst fears facing Jorge, a Salvadoran living in the United States, because...
Africa drought: Some children just ‘one disease away from catastrophe’ UNICEF warns
On Tuesday, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF warned that children in the Horn of Africa and the vast Sahel region “could die in devastating numbers”...
How NOT to Win Friends and Influence People
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 (IPS) – After four years of Trump’s ‘America first’ isolationism, US President Joe Biden announced “America is back”....
Nearly 1,000 boys and girls have been killed or injured in the war in Ukraine, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported...
Stand in ‘firm solidarity’ with victims of violence based on religion or belief, urges UN chief
On the International Day for victims of acts of violence based on religion or belief, commemorated on Monday, the UN chief reiterated his staunch...
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