The Asia-Pacific region prospered by becoming the source of more than half of global factory output, but another ...

BAKU, Nov 14 2024 (IPS) - Climate change and its impact on public health hasn’t made the top of the agenda even at a forum ...

Three days into the landmark COP29 conference, the co-chairs of the NCQG have arrived at a workable basis for discussion on a new climate finance goal.

The Maasa are among Kenya’s pastoralist communities, particularly vulnerable to trachoma. The dusty environment they inhabit ...

Gang violence has ravaged Haiti, causing thousands of civilian deaths, displacements, and violations of international ...

UNEP's Head of Impact Assessment and Adaptation, Henry Neufeldt, has called for increased climate adaptation funding, ...

On the day following the US election, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres issued a brief statement commending the people ...

Climate change continues to pose an existential threat to humanity. Recent science estimates that we may have less than six ...

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 11 2024 (IPS) - The ongoing, escalating violence in Lebanon forces millions of Lebanese civilians to face daily bombardment, repeated orders of evacuation, routine destruction of ...

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 2024 (IPS) - On November 6, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the second round of polio vaccinations in the Gaza Strip has been completed. A total of 556,744 ...

As the communities of Enga province in Papua New Guinea contend with the landslide that has devastated the residents of Yambani, the United Nations and its partners have been active on the ground ...

With the monsoon in Bangladesh, Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar have emerged as a dengue hotspot, with the mosquito-borne disease continuing to spread among the stateless refugees. "A total of 1 ...