Amid the ongoing civil unrest in Haiti due to gang violence, levels of internal displacement have soared. Mass internal ...

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) has delivered quality education to children in crisis "against all odds," says Executive Director ...

Today, the chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe ...

A cascade of crises endangers our world. Wars conducted without rules, governance devoid of democratic principles, surge in ...

The US has some of the strictest laws against smoking in public, including a 1997 executive order which bans smoking in all government federal buildings. But still, the tobacco industry and its allies ...

The East Sepik river serves as the only ‘road’ into many Sepik villages, with little to no infrastructure, including electricity, shops or other amenities. This isolation has helped preserve the East ...

Climate change and water scarcity pose significant threats to Iraq's stability, prosperity, and the well-being of its people. The environmental challenges facing the nation are complex and ...

As the devastating 11-month-old conflict in Gaza keeps escalating, with over 41,000 mostly civilian killings, and more than ...

After two symbolic African leaders’ summits, Russia’s trading is steadily increasing but significantly in exports of military weapons and equipment. According to Kremlin reports, Russian President ...

UN General Secretary General António Guterres warned of the wide-ranging impacts of climate change on a visit to the Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga. "(Climate change) spells disaster: wide-ranging ...

SYDNEY , Sep 20 2024 (IPS) - Parliamentary representation by women in Pacific Island countries remains stubbornly low at 8.4 percent. Yet women leaders across the region have been meeting every year ...

Overnight, hundreds of people in the rural community of Las Mangas, located in Granma province in eastern Cuba, realised ...