UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (IPS) – The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF), which is expected to provide retirement, death, disability and related...
Over the past two weeks, at least 70 migrants have gone missing at sea and are presumed dead off the coast of Libya, the...
World must deliver support to Afghans: UN refugee chief
UN Refugee Agency chief Filippo Grandi called on Thursday for sustained international support for Afghanistan’s people, where the country’s humanitarian crisis is worsening. Read...
The vulnerabilities of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) may be different today than they were 50 years ago – when the UN created the category...
Security Council votes to bolster UN priorities in Afghanistan
Seven months after Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban, the Security Council on Thursday renewed the mandate of the UN special political mission in the...
ROME, Mar 17 (IPS) – This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director-General of FAOThe effects of COVID-19 over the past two years,...
Smoke from Australia’s intense fires in 2019 and 2020 damaged the ozone layer
Towers of smoke that rose high into the stratosphere during Australia’s “black summer” fires in 2019 and 2020 destroyed some of Earth’s protective ozone...
How light from black holes is narrowing the search for axions
The search for a hypothetical subatomic particle that could signal new physics just narrowed a bit — thanks to the light swirling around a...
The UN’s top rights official urged the United Kingdom on Friday to reconsider proposed changes to its border policy, warning that suggested reforms would...
Why We Must Remember Afghanistan
KABUL, Mar 17 (IPS) – While all eyes are on Ukraine, Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis has been forgotten. But only with international aid can Afghans...
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