Protection for children caught up in war must be at the heart of the international agenda, including COVID-19 response, a senior UN official said...
No end to Yemen civil war on the horizon, senior UN official briefs Security Council
No progress has been made by parties in Yemen to reach a political agreement to settle the civil war, which is now in its...
Solutions to Food Insecurity Top Agenda in Meeting of Small Island Developing States
CANBERRA, Australia, Aug 23 (IPS) – The urgency of finding solutions to the most pressing development challenges of our times has increased as the...
Woman Farmer Shows Way as Small Island Developing State Battles Pandemics Impacts
APIA, Samoa, Aug 23 (IPS) – Keni Lesa works on SIDS Solution Platform Communications for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...
Climate change made Europe’s flash floods in July more likely
Climate change has increased the likelihood of heavy downpours in Western Europe such as the July rains that led to devastating flash floods, researchers...
Afghanistan: UN agencies sound alarm over emergency aid supply logjam
UN humanitarian agencies are warning that they are unable to bring urgently needed emergency supplies into Afghanistan, and are calling for a “humanitarian airbridge”...
Southern African Migrants Excluded as COVID-19 Pandemic Grows
Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug 23 (IPS) – Migrants across the Southern Africa region are massively disadvantaged as they find themselves excluded from vaccine programmes...
A giant tortoise was caught stalking, killing and eating a baby bird
Justin Gerlach thought there must be some sort of misunderstanding. Tortoises don’t hunt. These gentle, lumbering herbivores spend their days leisurely munching on greenery,...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday launched a $15 million appeal to support some 137,000 families affected by the deadly earthquake that...
Salvadoran Migrants Still Look to the U.S. to Lift Themselves Out of Poverty
SAN PABLO TACACHICO, El Salvador, Aug 23 (IPS) – The Joe Biden administration’s call for undocumented Central American migrants not to go to the...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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