Canada braces for Hurricane Fiona after a week of lashing wind and rain in Caribbean
After lashing parts of Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands with 140 kilometres-per-hour winds, Hurricane Fiona is expected to make landfall in Canada late...
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Refugees from Ukraine are eager to work in their host countries but need additional support to do so, and to ensure their inclusion in...
War crimes have been committed in Ukraine conflict, top UN human rights inquiry reveals
Almost seven months to the day since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, UN-appointed independent human rights investigators said that war crimes have indeed been committed...
Cuban Innovator Uses Sunlight to Create a Model Sustainable Space
HAVANA, Sep 23 (IPS) – After making a model for a solar heater, installing solar panels and creating a device to dehydrate food with...
A World of One Billion Empty Plates
MADRID, Sep 23 (IPS) – Have you eaten today – or are sure you will? The answer depends on where you were born and...
UN-appointed independent human rights experts on Friday called on Irish authorities to provide adequate redress for victims of racial discrimination and system racism in Irish...
The situation for Sudan’s most vulnerable children is so desperate that half of the most severely malnourished youngsters are expected to die without urgent...
Women Advocates for Harvesting Rainwater in Salinity-Affected Coastal Bangladesh
KHULNA, Bangladesh, Sep 23 (IPS) – Like many other women in Bangladesh’s salinity-prone coastal region, Lalita Roy had to travel a long distance every...
Collectively, “we must address…the fundamental imbalances in the world we share,” Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said on Thursday, calling for global “climate solidarity”...
LONDON / EDINBURG, Sep 23 (IPS) – As the devastating images of flooding in Pakistan went round the world and the country declared a...
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