Category: Global

Saudi Arabia Forms Multinational Red Sea Defence Alliance as U.S.-Iran War Threatens Global Shipping

UNITED NATIONS, August 3 (IPS) – As the United States and Iran continue to escalate with military strikes across both…

Female Genital Mutilation: Winning the Argument, Losing the Funding

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, August 3 (IPS) – Last August, a one-month-old girl in The Gambia bled to death after being subjected…

Accepting What It Cannot Control, CARICOM Focuses on What It Can

GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia , August 3 (IPS) – From wars that drive up fuel prices to supply chain disruptions,…

Who picks up the tab for AI’s unbridled genius?

ROME, August 3 (IPS) – For the last few years, Artificial intelligence has been making increasingly intrusive demands for our…

Rohingya Repatriation: A Roadmap Without a Road

VANCOUVER B.C., Canada, August 3 (IPS) – The Rohingya crisis remains one of the most enduring humanitarian and political failures…

Trapped by a Facebook job advert, freed by a stranger in a taxi

Sofia was 27, raising her seven-year-old son alone in Venezuela, and running out of options. For years she had distributed…

Recovery in Ukraine, one life at a time

In classrooms, maternity wards, hospital corridors and local communities across Ukraine, people are rebuilding their lives despite the ongoing war.Read…

East Asia and Pacific Faces a USD 900 Billion Maritime Investment Challenge

UNITED NATIONS, July 31 (IPS) – East Asia and the Pacific’s (EAP) maritime system has powered the region’s rise as…

ARMENIA: ‘Anti-LGBTQI+ Discourse Is Increasingly Tied to Anti-democratic Narratives’

CIVICUS discusses disinformation campaigns targeting the LGBTQI+ community in Armenia with Hripsime Kizogyan, Executive Director of Pink Armenia, a community-based…

US Casualty Figures Keep Fluctuating in War with Iran

UNITED NATIONS, July 31 (IPS) – An age-old axiom in Statistics reads: Figures Cannot Lie, But Liars Can Figure. And…