Students go back to Haitian school three years after gang attack
Students have returned to the Lycée National de La Saline after it was closed due to gang violence. Read the full story, “Students go...
Women building a sustainable future: fighting back the desert, amid Niger’s refugee and climate crises
Internal displacement, regional instability, and climate change have created a refugee crisis in Niger, but an initiative in the town of Ouallam is showing...
Although child marriage and “bride kidnapping” are illegal in Kyrgyzstan, both practices still exist in parts of the country. An initiative from a UN-backed...
One UN human rights expert’s fight to eliminate ‘conversion therapies’
Some 69 States around the world currently criminalise homosexual relations between consenting adults. This means that in just this one area of human rights...
Training offers a way out of poverty for young victims of Colombian conflict
Camilo Vergara is one of hundreds of young Colombians benefiting from a UN programme aimed at pulling victims of the country’s former conflict out...
The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, Chef de Cabinet Courtenay Rattray told the Special Committee on Decolonization on Friday. ...
Global Road Safety Crisis: Three Questions to Ask to Help Solve It
GENEVA, Feb 17 (IPS) – When we think about global crises, road safety isn’t one that comes to mind. The reality is that unsafe...
WHO reveals countries to produce first COVID-busting mRNA vaccines in Africa
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will be the first countries on the African continent to receive the technology needed to produce...
Time to ‘seriously de-escalate’ tensions over Ukraine, Guterres tells Munich conference
With tensions continuing to mount over the Ukraine crisis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday that he still believed military conflict in Europe “will not...
Ethiopia conflict: thousands of Eritrean refugees flee new deadly attack on camp
Thousands of Eritrean refugees sheltering at a camp in the Ethiopian Afar region, have fled following a deadly attack on the facility earlier this...
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