Moving from punishment to treatment of people who use drugs — Global Issues

A knowledge-based approach to tackling Afghanistan’s drug abuse crisis — Global Issues

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Afghanistan, one of the world’s largest producers of heroin and methamphetamine – most of it smuggled abroad – is home to an estimated 3.5 million drugs users, according to the UN. The worsening crisis has left most of the country’s drug treatment and rehabilitation centers struggling to cope. A walk…

South Sudan President, Education Cannot Wait Jointly Announce Extended Multi-Year Education Response for Crises-Impacted Sudanese Children

South Sudan President, Education Cannot Wait Jointly Announce Extended Multi-Year Education Response for Crises-Impacted Sudanese Children

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ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif launches the Multi-Year Resilience Programme in Yirol, South Sudan. The three-year programme, delivered by Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Finn Church Aid, in close conjunction with the Ministry of General Education and Instruction and other partners, will reach at least 135,000 crisis-affected…

Putin Faces His Most Serious Threat to Power, Even as Wagner Chief Halts March on Moscow

Putin Faces His Most Serious Threat to Power, Even as Wagner Chief Halts March on Moscow

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CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — In a brief address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed not to “allow a civil war,” evoking the Russian Revolution of 1917, while calling the recent moves inside Russia by Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin — and the thousands of mercenaries he leads —…

Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in Brazil — Global Issues

Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in Brazil — Global Issues

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Lucineide Cordeiro loads manure from her two oxen and two calves into the “sertanejo” biodigester that produces biogas for cooking and biofertilizer for her varied crops on the one-hectare agroecological farm she manages on her own in the rural municipality of Afogados da Ingazeira, in the semiarid ecoregion of northeastern…

Moving from punishment to treatment of people who use drugs — Global Issues

OHCHR calls for ‘urgent action’ to end militia attacks on people fleeing El Geneina — Global Issues

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The explosion of ethnic violence in Darfur largely by nomadic “Arab” groups in alliance with the RSF who have been battling national army forces for control of the country since mid-April, has led tens of thousands to flee into neighbouring Chad. ‘Horrifying accounts’ In a statement,OHCHR Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said…

Environmental Crisis Compounds Humanitarian Disaster Following Dam Destruction — Global Issues

Environmental Crisis Compounds Humanitarian Disaster Following Dam Destruction — Global Issues

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The Destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine has left thousands displaced and disastrous impacts on the environment. Credit: Ukraine Red Cross/Twitter by Ed Holt (bratislava) Friday, June 23, 2023 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Jun 23 (IPS) – As well as creating a humanitarian crisis, the destruction of the Nova…

Moving from punishment to treatment of people who use drugs — Global Issues

Forus Civil Society Network Urges that Respect for Human Rights, Climate Justice and Accountability should be at the core of the New Global Financing Pact

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Opinion by Marianne Buenaventura (paris) Friday, June 23, 2023 Inter Press Service PARIS, Jun 23 (IPS) – As the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact unfolds in Paris on 22-23 June, Forus, a global network representing over 22,000 civil society organisations across Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Pacific,…