Women harvesting peas in Haryana, India. Credit: TechnoServe/ Nile Sprague Opinion by William Warshauer, Joao Campari (dubai) Tuesday, December 05, 2023 Inter Press Service DUBAI, Dec 05 (IPS) – Food and…
Opinion by Alon Ben-Meir (new york) Friday, December 01, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Dec 01 (IPS) – Although the dire impact of the Israel-Hamas war has touched many countries…
The crisis began with the start of the deyr rainy season in October and comes six months after the country emerged from a historic drought that brought it to the…
Najat Rochdi, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, told ambassadors at the Security Council that Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus airport this weekend, following several other airstrikes and artillery fire on…
UN Ukraine A landmine warning sign behind a fence of a destroyed house in Posad-Pokrovske in the Kherson region of Ukraine. “Blackberries grew in front of my house and local…
Ropes with young seaweed plants are tethered to underwater stakes on the shallow seabed by one of Wagina Island’s seaweed farming families. These families cling to a precarious existence in…
Such investment is not just practical but transformative, she said in a video message to the official UN commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women,…
In line with this year’s theme of accelerating change, innovators have been part of ongoing efforts to address the needs of some of the world’s 3.5 billion people living without…
José Lonardi stands in his tiny candy and beverage shop in downtown Buenos Aires. Customers, he says, have lost all reference points for the price of products in Argentina and…
5:00 PM: The first UN Security Council meeting on the multi-faceted crisis and conflict centred on the Gaza Strip to take action has ended. Here is a summary of the…