Looking back over the first four days of the high-level week, the Ireland’s Prime Minister said a series of alarms have sounded in the Hall of the General Assembly: for conflict, for COVID, for...
South Sudan is “ready to turn a new page” towards greater peace, development and prosperity, Vice-President Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior said in her speech in the UN General Assembly on Friday. Read the...
Replacing Monopolies with Impact Rewards
Sep 24 (IPS) – Impact Funds would make the business of innovation more cost-effective and enable a triple win for the potential beneficiaries of...
Scientific Panel’s Scoping Report Instructive for Global Food Systems Transformation
DOMINICA, Sep 24 (IPS) – On September 10th, on a sweltering summer afternoon, three fishers drove a van around the residential community of Castle...
WHO backs Regeneron COVID-19 drug cocktail – with equal access and price cut
The Regeneron antibody drug cocktail – casirivimab and imdevimab – has been added to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of treatments for COVID-19 patients, the UN agency said on...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday that she continues to be alarmed by “persistent allegations” of “widespread and systematic torture” of protesters...
Cyprus President determined to get negotiation with Turkey process back on track
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades told UN Member States on Friday that he is determined “to set the negotiation process” with Turkey “back on track”, on the basis of the UN framework and the...
‘Building Back Better’: Jordan’s Road to Green Economic Recovery
NEW DELHI, India, Sep 24 (IPS) – For the first time in decades, Jordan’s economy contracted in 2020. COVID-19 took a heavy toll on...
LIVE: World leaders pledge to power humanity with clean energy
How can the world come together to radically change the way it produces and uses energy, as part of efforts to hold back climate...
In his address to the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Marcelo Ebrard, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, reaffirmed his country’s commitment against discrimination and hate speech and called for more...
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