By Fairuz Ahmed NEW YORK, Feb 17 2020 (IPS) - For any riverine country, the state of the water body around big cities and conditions of major rivers hold a leadership position in the overall climate...
By Cora Weiss Cora Weiss is an Honorary Patron of the Committee on Teaching About the UN (CTAUN), the UN Representative of the International Peace Bureau and President of the Hague Appeal for Peace...
Nina Suomalainen is Executive Director, Justice Rapid Response GENEVA, Feb 11 2020 (IPS) - There has been a disturbing increase in violence perpetrated against children in conflicts worldwide,...
Por Samira Sadeque NACIONES UNIDAS, 7 feb 2020 (IPS) - Es necesario centrar la mirada en laolvidada situación de las mujeres y las niñas que viven en áreas en conflicto y en particular apoyarlas con...
By Ignatius Banda Nearly half of Zimbabwe's population -- some 8 million people -- face food insecurity. Yet in food and vegetable markets across the country wastage is high as piles of...
By Craig Dube, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, interviews Tahir Ahmad, head of humanitarian operations at Humanity First HARARE, Zimbabwe, Feb 6 2020 (IPS) - In November 2019, the...
By Julitta Onabanjo, Shoko Arakaki and Sennen Hounton GENEVA / JOHANNESBURG / KINSHASA, Feb 4 2020 (IPS) - Eleven-year-old “Anne” went to a health facility with her mother in the conflict-affected...
By Stella Paul DJIBOUTI CITY, Jan 29 2020 (IPS) - Neema Namdamu, 42, grew up in the village of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where children with disabilities were considered a curse...
By Stella Paul DJIBOUTI CITY, Jan 27 2020 (IPS) - Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh knows that his country is in need of an education system that is, “innovative, based on universal principles...
By Martha Katsi HARARE, Zimbabwe, Jan 27 2020 (IPS) - Steven Seremwe, who is 57 years old, was retrenched from his job as an administrator at Lake Shore Missions in 2012. He decided to focus on...