The High Commissioner said in a statement that the deaths had occurred, “even after the police had announced they would not use lethal force to disperse the demonstrators.” The protests in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere, marked the third anniversary of the major demonstrations that led to the overthrow of…
The UN women’s rights committee said that the US is one of only seven countries throughout the world that is not party to the international convention that protects women’s human rights, including their right to sexual and reproductive health. “The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) urges the United…
Recognizing the past “collective failure” in the Conference’s final declaration, world leaders called for greater ambition to ensure that the dire state of the ocean is addressed, and admitted frankly to being “deeply alarmed by the global emergency facing the ocean”. At the closing, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs,…
It comes as the top UN rights forum in Geneva agreed to Member States’ request for a rare Urgent Debate on the issue this Friday. Addressing the Council, Fawzia Koofi, former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament, said lack of opportunity and ailing mental health, was taking a terrible toll:…
Conflict is still the biggest driver of hunger, with 60 percent of the world’s hungry living in areas affected by war and violence. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, July 01, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jul 01 (IPS) – While the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit ended…
“The death of twenty people in the Libyan desert yesterday is yet another wake-up call for the whole international community and a reminder that we are very far from achieving the goal of ‘leaving no one behind’, the mantra of the 2030 Agenda,” said Federico Soda, Chief of the International…
Children at the San José Obrero School use the primary school’s computer lab. At their homes in the municipality of Peñalolén, to the east of Santiago de Chile, many do not have computers because 90 percent of them come from poor families. CREDIT: Courtesy of San José Obrero by Orlando…
Since last year, the number of people in urgent need of support has risen by 46 per cent, said the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon and UN Resid ent Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, speaking in Geneva. 2.2 million vulnerable – and counting “Lebanon’s crisis is affecting everyone, everywhere…
Opinion by Marco Ferroni (chicago, usa) Friday, July 01, 2022 Inter Press Service CHICAGO, USA, Jul 01 (IPS) – The writer is Chair of the CGIAR System Board From the worst drought in four decades threatening famine across the Horn of Africa to extreme heat in South Asia, the war in…
River and mountain in the interior of Dominica. IPBES’ collaboration with the private sector funds research and evidence that helps businesses make better-informed decisions to protect biodiversity. Credit: JAK/IPS by Alison Kentish (dominica) Friday, July 01, 2022 Inter Press Service DOMINICA, Jul 01 (IPS) – With the world facing a biodiversity…
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