Fierce Urgency Required to Include Children with Disabilities in Education – ECW’s Yasmine Sherif says
Nairobi, Kenya, Feb 16 (IPS) – Unable to walk, see or hear, and without assistance, the multiple barriers between 240 million children with disabilities...
Sunlight helps clean up oil spills in the ocean more than previously thought
Sunlight may have helped remove as much as 17 percent of the oil slicking the surface of the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010...
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan on Wednesday strongly condemned the continued violence across the country, which is affecting the safety of civilians...
‘Strengthened international cooperation’ needed for safe, regular migration
Migration is a “a defining feature of humanity and our world”, the UN chief told the General Assembly on Wednesday, launching his second report...
Guterres opens Global Disability Summit with inclusivity call
The Global Disability Summit began on Wednesday in Oslo, where UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged all countries to do more to put people living with disabilities...
The government of Haiti has organized a pledging conference, in the hope of raising some $2 billion to help with reconstruction, six months after...
A Step Toward Africas First Covid-19 Vaccine of Its Own
NEW YORK, Feb 16 (IPS) – Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.Efforts to combat the vast global inequity in...
Nudge theory’s popularity may block insights into improving society
Imagine removing a branch of the U.S. government, say the Supreme Court. What are the myriad ways that such an upheaval might reshape people’s...
LONDON, Feb 16 (IPS) – Over the past two weeks, a petition signed by almost five million people globally was handed in to governments...
Somalia’s leaders must put aside their differences and urgently conclude a credible election process, the UN’s senior official in the country told the Security...
World News in Brief: Refugee funding, US migration policy triggers ‘cascade’ of rights violations, world forests report, restorative justice in Colombia 
From energy crisis to energy transition: How renewables are reshaping energy security 
Sudan tells UN: No imposed solutions to country’s conflict 
‘Ballot must replace the bullets’, South Sudan tells General Assembly ahead of elections