How Wagner Group, Mercenaries With a Wider Agenda, Impact Civil Society — Global Issues

How Wagner Group, Mercenaries With a Wider Agenda, Impact Civil Society — Global Issues

Founder of Wagner private mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin (here pictured with fighters), claims that Bakhmut is now in Moscow’s control. However his claims are disputed by Ukraine. by Fawzia Moodley (johannesburg) Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, May 24 (IPS) – The Wagner group, a shadowy mercenary group that…

UN and partners seek  billion to prevent catastrophe in the Horn of Africa — Global Issues

UN and partners seek $7 billion to prevent catastrophe in the Horn of Africa — Global Issues

More than 43 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia continue to suffer through one of the worst droughts in recent history, caused by five consecutive seasons of poor rains. Years of conflict and insecurity have sparked mass displacement, while skyrocketing food prices and most recently, the fighting in Sudan,…

Green light for global greenhouse gas tracking network — Global Issues

Green light for global greenhouse gas tracking network — Global Issues

The landmark decision comes as heat-trapping greenhouse gas concentrations are at record levels – “higher than at any time over the last 800,000 years”, WMO warned. Data from Earth and space The new Global Greenhouse Gas Watch will combine observations from Earth and from space with modelling, to fill critical…

Israel-Palestine ceasefire holds, but hunger, tensions mount — Global Issues

Israel-Palestine ceasefire holds, but hunger, tensions mount — Global Issues

“There is no time to spare,” said Tor Wennesland, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. “We must take action, not only to ensure Palestinian well-being and governance, but as an integral part of ending the occupation and restoring a political horizon toward a viable two-State solution,…

Unprecedented joint call to shield children on the move from violence — Global Issues

Unprecedented joint call to shield children on the move from violence — Global Issues

With more than 42 million children displaced worldwide and increasing exposure to multiple forms of violence, the Office of the Special Representative on Violence against Children co-launched a new brief, Protecting the Rights of Children on the Move in Times of Crisis, which draws on past lessons, and outlines key…

Survey reveals war’s ‘immense’ mental health toll on Ukrainian refugee mothers in Poland — Global Issues

Survey reveals war’s ‘immense’ mental health toll on Ukrainian refugee mothers in Poland — Global Issues

The finding is the result of a survey conducted by the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland, which also revealed that 53 per cent had considered getting, or had already accessed, mental health support since arriving in the country. ‘Not a surprise’ “The psychosocial toll of the war in Ukraine…

Survey reveals war’s ‘immense’ mental health toll on Ukrainian refugee mothers in Poland — Global Issues

IAEA warns of ‘increasingly tense military situation’ around Ukraine nuclear plant — Global Issues

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on Friday in a statement, that a location near the town of Enerhodar, home of most of the plant’s staff, reportedly came under artillery fire earlier in the day, “in the latest incident indicating an increasingly tense military situation in the area.” Speculation…

Survey reveals war’s ‘immense’ mental health toll on Ukrainian refugee mothers in Poland — Global Issues

Imperative to ‘explore all options’ to reach civilians – UN relief chief — Global Issues

Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said that it was “imperative that we explore all options to reach civilians”, stressing that all parties to the fighting must allow and facilitate the “rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief”. “I urge the parties to strengthen facilitation efforts so we can reach all…

Survey reveals war’s ‘immense’ mental health toll on Ukrainian refugee mothers in Poland — Global Issues

Keep calm and respect diversity, says UN expert — Global Issues

“I am deeply concerned about increased bias-motivated incidents of harassment, threats, and violence against LGBT people, including a rampant surge in hate crimes in the UK,” said Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the human rights expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, who completed an official…