Around 2 million facing food insecurity across Lebanon — Global Issues

Around 2 million facing food insecurity across Lebanon — Global Issues

Lebanon’s first ever Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Food Insecurity Analysis predicts that the situation will deteriorate between January and April this year, with 2.26 million people – 1.46 million Lebanese residents and around 800,000 refugees – expected to be in the “crisis” phase or worse, needing urgent assistance. The…

How Innovative Farming Rescues Crises-Stricken Farmers in This Indian Village — Global Issues

How Innovative Farming Rescues Crises-Stricken Farmers in This Indian Village — Global Issues

Farmers inthe southern state of Karnataka, India, during training sessions for multi-cropfarming. The techniques have meant survival in the face of uncertain weathercaused by climate change. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS by Umar Manzoor Shah (karnataka, india) Thursday, January 19, 2023 Inter Press Service KARNATAKA, INDIA, Jan 19 (IPS) – The South Indian…

Around 2 million facing food insecurity across Lebanon — Global Issues

Ukraine Crisis and No First Use of Nuclear Weapons — Global Issues

Opinion by Daisaku Ikeda (tokyo, japan) Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Inter Press Service TOKYO, Japan, Jan 18 (IPS) – The Ukraine crisis that erupted in February last year continues with no prospect for cessation. The intensified hostilities have inflicted great suffering in population centers and destroyed infrastructure facilities, compelling large numbers…

Around 2 million facing food insecurity across Lebanon — Global Issues

The Value of Strong Multilateral Cooperation in a Fractured World — Global Issues

Opinion by Ulrika Modeer, Tsegaye Lemma (united nations) Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 18 (IPS) – The multilateral system, even in the face of heightened geopolitical tension and big power rivalry, remains the uniquely inclusive vehicle for managing mutual interdependencies in ways that enhance national and…

Around 2 million facing food insecurity across Lebanon — Global Issues

No chance for serious peace negotiations yet, says UN chief — Global Issues

Following that sobering assessment, António Guterres also told the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that he remained committed to alleviating the suffering of Ukrainians and vulnerable people in the wider world, still reeling from the conflict’s “dramatic, devastating impacts” on the global economy. “There will be an end…there…

Around 2 million facing food insecurity across Lebanon — Global Issues

Sri Lanka must ensure compensation for victims of 2019 terrorist attacks — Global Issues

Last week, the Supreme Court ordered the former President and three other senior officials to compensate the families of the victims because they had failed to prevent the tragedy.  More than 270 people were killed in the series of explosions at churches and hotels across the island nation.  A step…

Small island States to accelerate action on preventable diseases, mental health — Global Issues

Small island States to accelerate action on preventable diseases, mental health — Global Issues

This follows a two-day meeting in Barbados hosted by the Government, WHO and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which concluded on Wednesday.  Over half of all people living in small island countries are dying prematurely from preventable diseases and the rate of hypertension is over 30 per cent in…

UN aims to boost aid to frontline areas of Ukraine; Black Sea grain exports near 18 million tonnes — Global Issues

UN aims to boost aid to frontline areas of Ukraine; Black Sea grain exports near 18 million tonnes — Global Issues

The UN humanitarian coordination office, OCHA, said in a press release that a seven-truck convoy had reached Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region – just five kilometres from the Russian border. “This community has been heavily impacted by months of hostilities and the 4,500 people who remain there depend on humanitarian…