Category: Global

Aid cuts leave at least one million women and girls without vital support

At least one million women and girls have lost access to critical humanitarian support since January 2025 as unprecedented aid…

Poor Governance Enables Violence Against Women in Cameroon

BLOOMFIELD, United States, July 9 (IPS) – In Cameroon’s Far North region, Adiza, a 57-year-old woman had spent nearly three…

Invasive Prickly Pear Turned into Food, Clean Energy Source

NAIROBI, July 9 (IPS) – An international academic partnership is helping turn one of Laikipia County’s most destructive and invasive…

Feeding Africa: Women Farmers Key to Ending Hunger

UNITED NATIONS, July 9 (IPS) – As FAO coordinates the implementation of the International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026,…

US-Iran war leaves shipping at near-standstill in Hormuz again

Renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran reportedly brought shipping to a near-standstill in the Strait of Hormuz on…

Security Council LIVE: ‘Urgent de-escalation’ needed now amid spike in civilian deaths

The Security Council must use every tool and diplomatic channel to reach an urgent de-escalation, Rosemary DiCarlo, chief of UN…

Use of explosive weapons ‘must stop’ in eastern DR Congo: Türk

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urged the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and…

Roma Need Special Consideration After Ukraine War is Over

BRATISLAVA, July 8 (IPS) – Governments, donors, NGOs, development banks and businesses recently gathered in Gdansk, Poland, to discuss reconstruction…

We Owe Future Generations a Path Out of the Global Debt Crisis

WASHINGTON DC / NEW YORK, July 8 (IPS) – Almost half of the world’s population now lives in countries that…

Restoring dignity: Senegalese surgeon and Burundian foundation win reproductive health awards

A Senegalese surgeon who has dedicated his career to restoring the health and dignity of women living with obstetric fistula,…