Qusra siege eases as UN reaches trapped families, but crisis deepens in Gaza
Humanitarian workers have reached Palestinian families who had been trapped for days by Israeli settlers in Qusra village in the northern West Bank, the...
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Impending UNIFIL Exit Pushes Lebanon Toward Uncertainty
UNITED NATIONS, August 18 (IPS) – Since the collapse of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon announced in June, the humanitarian situation in Lebanon...
How Global Aid Cuts are Undermining Women-Led Humanitarian Response in Sudan
UNITED NATIONS, August 17 (IPS) – Women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLOs) in humanitarian settings are collapsing amidst a complicated predicament in which needs...
As Mongolia Hosts COP17, Pastoralists Demand Space to Move, Survive and Restore
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, August 17 (IPS) – After moving more than 6,000 km across Eurasia, the Silk Road Caravan has reached Mongolia with...
International Criminal Court Under Attack
LONDON, August 17 (IPS) – In a recent Wall Street Journal piece, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to ‘dismantle’ the International Criminal...
Western-Led Green Revolution Failing Africa
CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA / KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 17 (IPS) – As AGRA turns 20, a new report exposes its worsening failure to double...
First Person: Syrians lead efforts to clear rubble and rebuild lives
Communities in Syria are clearing rubble and rebuilding neighbourhoods and livelihoods torn down in the more than a decade of conflict and crisis in...
The grass beneath our feet: Why rangelands matter
In northern Kenya, a herder scans the sky for rain that hasn’t come. The grass his animals need is thinning by the day. Read...
Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo
Demobilised former combatants are actively joining the fight against Ebola by participating in public information campaigns in the east of the Democratic Republic of...
900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks
Humanitarians continue to provide life-saving assistance to people across the Occupied Palestinian Territory despite facing obstacles such as checkpoints, instability and access restrictions, the...
COP31: New Research Ties Extreme Weather to Mental Health Challenges in Africa 
The brain’s fear center moonlights as the save button for memories 
Europe’s Hera mission is ready to double down on asteroid science 
Gaza winter aid: ‘No more delay’, Fletcher tells governments stalling on support