Category: Global

Climate alarm ‘blaring from every direction’

Climate-driven disasters are reaching “nightmare proportions” due to humanity’s “addiction” to fossil fuels, a top UN official warned on Tuesday.Read…

HIV, hepatitis, STI gains at risk as funding falls, WHO warns

Years of progress in tackling HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are at risk of stalling, leaving millions…

A hijab inspection, a slap, a warning letter: Inside three months of Taliban rule

A woman is stopped for buying groceries alone. The shopkeeper who served her is slapped and hauled in for questioning.…

Forced online scams: IOM warns trafficking networks are booming

A job advert can hide a criminal network, and a single click can lead to a nightmare. Hundreds of thousands…

Security Council LIVE: Updates on Gaza, West Bank amid regional tensions

Regional tensions are mounting as the US-Iran war continues and a rising number of Israeli attacks are threatening Gaza’s fragile…

Sudan’s War Economy: Funded By Gum Arabic And Gold

UNITED NATIONS, July 27 (IPS) – In the three years since the outbreak of the Sudanese Civil War, the humanitarian…

World Hunger Is Falling – We Know How To Keep It That Way

ROME, July 27 (IPS) – Here is a fact that should interrupt the world’s drumbeat of bad news: Hunger fell…

Ongoing Need for Humanitarian Assistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

UNITED NATIONS, July 27 (IPS) – On Monday July 20, a team from the United Nations Office for the Coordination…

U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Agreement Opens Door to Civilian Nuclear Cooperation, with One Major Caveat

UNITED NATIONS, July 27 (IPS) – On Wednesday, July 22, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, and Saudi Arabia’s…

UNHCR: 75 years on, the Refugee Convention Remains a Lifeline for Millions

GENEVA, July 27 (IPS) – Seventy-five years after the Refugee Convention was opened for signature on 28 July 1951, it…