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...
Education Cannot Wait Secures Future of Children in CAR Conflict Zones
Bangui, Central African Republic, Mar 17 (IPS) – Nine-year-old Marguerite Doumkel sits among other children in a classroom in Paoua, a sub-prefecture of Ouham...
Ethanol Not Enough to Heal Sugarcanes Environmental Legacy in Colombia
BOGOTA, Mar 17 (IPS) – As a visitor drives across the plains of the department of Valle del Cauca in southwestern Colombia, green carpets...
The grass beneath our feet: Why rangelands matter 
Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo 
900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks 
‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes