Russia has a stockpile of cluster munitions and reserves the right to use them if Ukraine does, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with state media published Sunday. His remarks came after President Biden approved the provision of U.S. cluster munitions for Ukraine this month and the Pentagon…
The trial of Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka was the most emblematic, complex case the court in North Kivu province had ever handled, and its proceedings and final judgement in 2020 provide a compelling example of how to bring a war criminal to justice. Ahead of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Day…
Comment on this storyComment BRASÍLIA — When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to Brazil’s presidential palace in January, he was characteristically confident. During his previous presidential term, between 2007 and 2010, the rate at which the Brazilian Amazon was being deforested plunged to record lows. Now in office again…
Comment on this storyComment The small plane that crashed in the Colombian Amazon this spring, killing three adults and leaving four young children to survive 40 days alone in the jungle, had suffered another accident less than two years earlier, records show. In July 2021, the six-seat, single-propeller Cessna 206,…
“For three months now, the people of Sudan have endured unspeakable suffering amid violence that is tearing their country apart,” Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said in a statement. “As the conflict enters its fourth month, the battle lines are hardening, making it ever…
ECW director Yasmine Sherif and other delegates at the “Ensuring Education Continuity: The Roles of Education in Emergencies, Protracted Crises and Building Peace” conference at the UN. Credit: Abigail Van Neely/IPS by Abigail Van Neely (united nations) Friday, July 14, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 (IPS) – As…
Ligoria Felipe dos Santos poses for a photo on her agroecological farm that mixes corn, squash, fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs. She is part of the women’s movement that is trying to prevent the installation of wind farms in the Borborema mountain range, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Paraíba….
A transgender person participates in health services provided by the Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, December 2019. Credit: UNAIDS by Ed Holt (bratislava) Friday, July 14, 2023 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Jul 14 (IPS) – A report released this week has highlighted how continuing criminalisation and marginalisation…
To mitigate the worst climate change impacts, we need to consider implementing climate solutions outside of the free economic market. Opinion by Michael Davies-Venn (amsterdam) Friday, July 14, 2023 Inter Press Service AMSTERDAM, Jul 14 (IPS) – The dangerous state of global climate has reached a new low as a World…
The figure is equivalent to about 11 children dying each week, “far beyond what we hear in news headlines,” Vera Knaus, the agency’s Global Lead on Migration and Displacement, told journalists attending the biweekly UN humanitarian briefing in Geneva. “We cannot continue to ignore what is happening – stand by…
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