As a result of over two weeks of Israeli bombardment, thousands of Palestinian civilians have fled their homes in the north of Gaza and sought refuge in schools run by the UNRWA, the U.N. agency for ...
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 ...
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 2024 (IPS) - The decision of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, to adopt two laws that would severely limit or outright ban UNRWA has the potential to set a dangerous precedent, ...
KAMPALA, Uganda / NEW JERSEY, USA, Nov 5 2024 (IPS) - Africa has had a terrible record dealing with extreme poverty. The late Adebayo Adedeji, the legendary head of the United Nations Economic ...