Category: Global

Armed Conflict, Funding Cuts and Supply Chain Pressures Deepen Global Hunger Risks

UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (IPS) – Armed conflict, economic shocks, and climate pressures are driving worsening food insecurity across many…

AI is Already Rewriting Reality for Billions of People– But It is Getting Women Wrong

UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (IPS) – A study of 133 AI systems found that 44 per cent demonstrated gender bias…

Israel continues to commit genocide, atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children, UN independent commission finds

Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide and atrocity crimes in the Gaza Strip…

New Security Council resolution upholds accountability for attacks against peacekeepers

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday that calls for accountability for crimes committed against UN…

Global learning losses threaten an entire generation

Conflict, displacement and climate shocks are disrupting education for an estimated 258 million school-aged children and adolescents worldwide, raising fears…

Ebola in DR Congo: first month of outbreak sees record number of cases – UN humanitarians

Ebola has been spreading at unprecedented speed in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), bringing risk and fear…

Climate crisis: UN chief lays out solutions blueprint for clean energy transition

As a deadly heatwave continued to grip Europe on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued an impassioned appeal for more…

Our Ocean Conference: After Mombasa – Will Africa and the World Make Ocean Promises Real?

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 22 (IPS) – Now that the lights have dimmed in Mombasa and the delegations have gone home,…

Dwindling Humanitarian Aid Devastates the Rohingyas in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp

UNITED NATIONS, June 22 (IPS) – Nearly nine years after the violent persecution of the Rohingya minority population in Myanmar…

Global South Leaders Redesigning International Cooperation

BANGKOK, Thailand, June 22 (IPS) – The fallout from the sudden collapse of the old system of financing international cooperation…