With record numbers of people uprooted within their homelands due to conflict, disasters, the climate emergency and other tragedies, more must be done to...
Overturning of Roe v Wade abortion law a ‘huge blow to women’s human rights’ warns Bachelet
Friday’s decision by the US Supreme Court which overturns the 50-year-old Roe v Wade judgement guaranteeing access to abortion across the United States, was...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: UN rights chief urges leaders to ‘turn the page on rhetoric’
Leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina must abandon divisive policies and focus on building an inclusive future for all, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet...
Life-saving relief continues to reach quake-hit eastern Afghanistan
Emergency lifesaving aid relief continued to flow into quake-hit eastern Afghanistan on Friday, as UN humanitarians and partners rushed to help the most vulnerable...
Centering Gender in the Next Biodiversity Agenda: A Long Way to Montreal
Nairobi, Jun 24 (IPS) – “I often hear, ‘What do women have to do with biodiversity?’ And I want to ask them back, ‘What...
Digital Tools Complement Organic Farming at Islamic School in Indonesia
CIWIDEY, West Java, Indonesia, Jun 24 (IPS) – It appears to be business as usual at the Al-Ittifaq pesantren, the local term for an...
5 misunderstandings of pregnancy biology that cloud the abortion debate
On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. By undoing the landmark 1973 decision that protected a person’s right to an...
The dramatic real-life effects of shutdowns of the internet on people’s lives and human rights are vastly underestimated, the UN human rights office warns...
Across Asia and the Pacific, Digitalization of Rural Communities is Leading the Way to a Better Future But the Goal is to Leave No One Behind
BANGKOK, Jun 24 (IPS) – Jong-Jin Kim is Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)It wasn’t that...
Abu Akleh shooting: fatal shot came from Israeli forces, says OHCHR
Israeli forces were behind the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank – not indiscriminate Palestinian firing –...
Displacement on the rise in Yemen as fighting continues 
Guterres: ‘Cracks have become canyons’ as world faces four tests of power 
Millions of children return to schools that still can’t provide clean water or a working toilet 
Time to accept ‘hard truths’ so trust can be rebuilt: General Assembly president