UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 2024 (IPS) - On November 6, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the second round of ...
On the day following the US election, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres issued a brief statement commending the people ...
The Paris Agreement on climate change is a decade old this month. While there has been progress – with new net zero pledges ...
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted in 1995 during the Fourth World Conference on Women, remains a ...
The Arab region is among the most water-scarce regions, as nearly 392 million people live in countries facing water scarcity ...
More durable than bronze, higher than Pharaoh’s pyramids is the monument I have made, a shape that angry wind or hungry rain cannot demolish, nor the innumerable ranks of the years that march in ...
Imagine living with water up to your knees for half of the year, where homes are flooded, and people constantly fear that the ...
Despite earlier income convergence among nations, many low-income countries (LICs) and people are falling further behind. Worse, the number of poor and hungry has been increasing again after declining ...
A small incident in the mounting mayhem of the 2024 elections crystalized the state of the dark art of politics in these ...
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 2 2024 (IPS) - Due to worsening political instability, escalating gang violence, and a lack of basic services, Haiti is in the midst of one of the most severe humanitarian crises ...
The eastern region of Baalbek, Lebanon was believed to be a “safe zone” for residents, and refugees who had been displaced by the increased hostilities across the country. That changed on October 29, ...
To make peace with nature, we must first make peace with ourselves because wars are won at the most devastating impacts of ...