NEW YORK, Oct 27 2026 (IPS) - The selection of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations has reached a critical ...

The message from Just Rights for Children was clear: protecting children must take precedence over customs used to justify their marriage.

The next Secretary-General will preside over a fractious UN facing one of its hardest tests. Russia and the USA, which as ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 27 2026 (IPS) - Much of the world has been bemused by US President Donald Trump’s expectation of the Nobel Peace Prize. While aggressive towards most of the world, friend ...

Classrooms with mouldy walls, riddled with cockroaches and rats, this is how French high school students describe the places where they’re meant to learn.

Less than 100 metres from military positions facing each other across the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, the forest suddenly ...

Businesses also need predictable laws, safe workplaces, fair competition, protection of property and contracts, and respect for the rights of workers, consumers and communities. The important question ...

The word on the street was that if there were one place on earth that could treat Mohammad Lalu’s wife, it would be the Koohi Goth Women’s Hospital in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi.

Nearly 20 years after the landmark U.N. conference on population and development, the countries of Latin America have an opportunity to make headway with a new agenda on these issues, thanks to the ...

Venezuela claims to be importing from the rest of the world roughly as much as it was exporting during those years ...

The international day for the eradication of poverty, commemorated last week, was a grim reminder that the UN will not ...