Why we Need to Build Economies – not Walls – to Stop Migration
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 06 (IPS) – If you speak to farmers in El Salvador, many will tell you about the time they were driven...
Agroecology as the Centrepiece of Sustainable Food Systems
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 06 (IPS) – The world is facing rising hunger and food insecurity, biodiversity loss and the impacts of a changing climate....
Belarus has witnessed an unprecedented human rights crisis over the past year, the independent expert appointed to monitor the country said on Monday, calling...
The UN chief on Monday extended his condolences to the families of those who died in a landslide, which struck the Japanese coastal city...
Threat of Blackouts in Brazil Highlights Climate Crisis
RÃ�O DE JANEIRO, Jul 05 (IPS) – Twenty years after the blackout that prompted nine months of rationing to keep the power grid from...
UN Ready for Breakaway Nations but the Pace Remains Slow
Jul 05 (IPS) – When the United Nations renovated its building at a cost of over $2.1 billion, as part of a seven-year refurbishing...
Flaws in Asia’s Pearl
LONDON, Jul 05 (IPS) – For well over a century Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, has been known to the world as the ‘Pearl of...
Modern Slavery: How Consumers Can Make a Difference
Jul 04 (IPS) – Few people want to buy products that involve the exploitation or enslavement of the workers who make them – but...
First Person: The Somali refugees planting a new life in the United States
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...
400,000 in Tigray cross ‘threshold into famine’, with nearly 2 million on the brink, Security Council told
Senior UN officials appealed on Friday for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Tigray – and for an end to deadly attacks on aid workers –...
Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk 
UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan 
Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’ 
‘Season of fear’: Escalating Israeli attacks on West Bank olive farmers, deadly strikes on Gaza