From Commitments to Action: Centering Lived Experience in NCD Responses
UNITED NATIONS, September 25 (IPS) – On September 21, just prior to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly Debate (UNGA81), the NCD...
UNRWA work and mandate in ‘jeopardy’, Guterres warns
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) continues to operate under “extraordinary pressure”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday. Read...
Haitians can’t wait to return home and vote in elections says Prime Minister
“There is a people. A people who can wait no longer. A people waiting to regain security, to return home to work, to send...
‘Rising seas are sinking futures’
World leaders approved the UN Declaration on Sea Level Rise by consensus on Thursday as the UN chief warned that encroaching waters are already...
Israeli leader at UN: ‘We’re going to win. We have no other choice’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his address to the UN General Assembly to defend Israel’s strikes against Iran as a matter of national survival...
Venezuela seeking rebirth after political crisis and devastating earthquakes, President tells UN
Venezuela is seeking to rebuild after a period of political upheaval and the destruction caused by twin earthquakes earlier this year, Acting President Delcy...
When African Smallholders Access Finance, They’ll Show You What’s Possible
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 24 (IPS) – I was born in Rwanda, but my family soon became refugees in Uganda during the conflict and unrest...
The BBNJ Agreement: From Paper to Protection – The Real Test for Global Ocean Governance
VICTORIA, Seychelles, September 24 (IPS) – After decades in which the high seas were too often treated as a distant frontier—vast, ownerless and beyond...
From Vienna to New York: Nuclear Governance Faces New Tests Ahead of First TPNW Review Conference
VIENNA, September 24 (IPS) – The international nuclear order is facing another test as governments move from an inconclusive review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
Norway’s Development Rethink Should See Ocean Investment as a Strategic Interest
OSLO, Norway, September 24 (IPS) – As Norway undertakes Vendepunkt, or “Turning Point,” its reflection on the future of Norwegian development policy, it is...
WHO calls for urgent health action across the Eastern Mediterranean 
Yemen: WFP warns of potential ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as fighting blocks aid delivery 
Security Council LIVE: Libya in the spotlight amid ‘encouraging progress’ 
Health workers tackle taboos over drinking with new AI tool