Jul 04 (IPS) – Few people want to buy products that involve the exploitation or enslavement of the workers who make them – but...
After spending years living in UN-supported camps in Kenya, some 220 former refugees from Somalia now work as farmers in the US state of...
Senior UN officials appealed on Friday for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Tigray – and for an end to deadly attacks on aid workers –...
Some 4.4 million people in Nigeria are facing what the UN humanitarian office, OCHA, is describing as “catastrophic food conditions”. Read the full story,...
As a witness to the impacts of Syria’s internal conflict over the last decade, Bassel Al-Madani, a young engineer and former volunteer with the...
The World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed operations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, after fighting halted the emergency response last week, although the agency warned...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged leaders to push back against daunting new COVID surges through increased vaccination efforts...
With the chief of the UN’s gender empowerment agency declaring that women are still “sitting in the corridors when men are inside at the table negotiating peace”, the historic Generation Equality Forum in Paris concluded on Friday with new commitments designed to address that, and...
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 02 (IPS) – The pain that María Estela Guevara feels over the disappearance of her niece Wendy Martínez remains as intense...
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 02 (IPS) – Two Indian women, one Muslim and the other Dalit (former untouchables), separated by culture and geography, have...