Some 69 States around the world currently criminalise homosexual relations between consenting adults. This means that in just this one area of human rights...
Camilo Vergara is one of hundreds of young Colombians benefiting from a UN programme aimed at pulling victims of the country’s former conflict out...
The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, Chef de Cabinet Courtenay Rattray told the Special Committee on Decolonization on Friday. ...
GENEVA, Feb 17 (IPS) – When we think about global crises, road safety isn’t one that comes to mind. The reality is that unsafe...
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will be the first countries on the African continent to receive the technology needed to produce...
With tensions continuing to mount over the Ukraine crisis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday that he still believed military conflict in Europe “will not...
Thousands of Eritrean refugees sheltering at a camp in the Ethiopian Afar region, have fled following a deadly attack on the facility earlier this...
Despite some signs of progress in ending the political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has worsened across Haiti since the assassination of its president...
Attacks on kindergartens and schools have been a sad reality for children in eastern Ukraine over the last eight years, the UN Children’s Fund,...
MUMBAI, India, Feb 18 (IPS) – Coal—considered to be one of the most polluting fossil fuels and, therefore, one of the biggest contributors to...